Welcome to musica vivendi®

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We are delighted to welcome you to our website. In addition to offering a choice selection of orchestral performances, we also present “collages” between music and literature, carefully compiled in close collaboration with dramaturges, musicians and actors. As well as traditional concerts, we also strive to provide a space for other art forms, such as literature, film and photography, always closely associated with classical music.

Since January 2007 we have owned a share in the Solo Musica label. This has given us an opportunity to support our projects commercially through the production of high-quality CDs and DVDs. On the other side of the coin, we are involved in the organisation – both planning and procurement – of the renowned Herrenchiemsee Festival.

As a result of our assorted responsibilities and the associated time investment, we are unfortunately no longer able to represent individual artistes. However, we continue to collaborate closely with various individual artists in all our projects.

The overall philosophy of Musica Vivendi is to give new life to the performance of classical music, in order to reach and inspire a wide audience.

Sonja Appelhans Sonja Appelhans was born in Zürich and grew up in Switzerland and in Germany (in Hessen and Bavaria). She studied law in Munich and Lausanne and specialised in music copyright law at the Max Planck Institute in Munich for competition, copyright and patent law. From March 1997 to the end of 2000, she worked in the orchestra department at Konzertdirektion Hans Ulrich Schmid in Hannover. In October 2001 she founded musica vivendi GmbH & Co. KG. 
sa@ musicavivendi.de

Gunnar Schmidt Gunnar Schmidt, born in 1959 in Greifswald, studied German and literature in Leipzig. After his flight from East Germany, he completed a programme in Business Administration at the VDP in Hannover from November 1989 to October 1991. Between October 1991 and April 2002 he worked in the orchestra department at Konzertdirektion Hans Ulrich Schmid in Hannover. In August 2002 he joined musica vivendi GmbH & Co. KG as a managing partner. 
gs@ musicavivendi.de