Events in Heek

Concert Hall at the Music Centre

Established jazz greats, Germany’s finest up-and-coming talents and innovative sound architects from the young scene will come together as equals at the Landesmusikakademie NRW from 14 to 19 September 2026 to explore new forms of performance, create unexpected soundscapes and demonstrate together what jazz can be in the 21st century: bold, free and full of energy. It’ll be grooving from the first note to the last, with fantastic solos and plenty of good cheer guaranteed.

The NDR Big Band is one of Europe’s leading jazz orchestras. It captivates audiences with its stylistic diversity, international appeal and exciting projects featuring renowned artists from the global jazz scene. Following the WDR Big Band, it is the second radio big band with which Bujazzo has the privilege of collaborating.

As TOYTOY, Silvan Strauß, drummer of the Hamburg-based electro-jazz quartet TOYTOY, bassist Daniel Stritzke, percussionist Samuel Wootton and guitarist Alex Eckert, working to break down the boundaries between hip-hop and electronically influenced, urban groove music, as well as the virtuosic improvisational music of jazz.

The Bundesjazzorchester is Germany’s leading young jazz orchestra. Since 1988, the German Music Council has been dedicated to promoting the next generation of German jazz musicians through this ensemble. The Bujazzo is regarded as a valuable link between training and professional practice, as well as a talent incubator for the successful jazz musicians of tomorrow.

Concert Hall at the Music Centre

To mark the start of her masterclass from 4–7 October 2026, pianist Konstanze Eickhorst will be gracing the stage with a piano soirée on the Steinway D concert grand piano at the State Music Academy of North Rhine-Westphalia.

A public matinee concert will bring the piano masterclass with Konstanze Eickhorst to a close.

Concert Hall at the Music Centre

On 30 October 2026, Lissi & Herr Timpe will be performing at the Sport- und Kulturhalle in Heek.

Two hours of pure joie de vivre and positive, life-affirming hits from the 1920s to the 1970s, presented in a colourful and lavish production, featuring magic and dance interludes, numerous choreographed routines and the humorous interludes for which these two exceptional entertainers have been a favourite with audiences for over ten years.

In their show, Lissi & Herr Timpe, together with their ‘Guten Morgen Orchester’, not only perform the timeless classics from Marlene Dietrich and Heinz Rühmann to Marianne Rosenberg and Udo Jürgens, but also venture into exciting experiments: What would Nena’s ‘99 Luftballons’ sound like, for example, if she’d sung it alongside Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas?

With a glass of ‘Chianti wine’, the ‘Badewannentango’ is struck up even when, in the ‘honourable house’, the ‘handsome, poor gigolo’ cries out: ‘There’s one thing nobody can take from me, and that’s the sheer joy of life!’ – ‘The Most Beautiful Schlager Songs of All Time’ is a wonderfully entertaining evening, not just for schlager fans! For reminiscing, laughing and singing along…

Concert Hall at the Music Centre

​​To round off the intensive rehearsal days organised by the North Rhine-Westphalia Regional Association of Amateur Orchestras in Heek , the participants in the symphony orchestra seminar will perform Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich, one of his most dramatic and profound works. The symphony, which was largely excluded from concert life in the USSR, is today regarded as one of the most significant symphonic works of the 20th century.