Two stars, two worlds, one vision: Sebastian Knauer, one of the most successful classical pianists, and Johannes Strate, lead singer of Revolverheld, will be touring Germany in the fall on their first joint "Classic meets Pop Tour 2024". Tickets for the 12 concerts of the unique new crossover duo are available now!
Both have made music history in their respective genres, fill the largest concert halls and arenas and are cheered by their audiences. Johannes Strate and Sebastian Knauer have been friends for a long time, and now they are on stage together. They combine their different musical homelands of classical and pop to create an incomparable sound that gets under your skin and inspires fans from both universes. Their joint concert debut in the completely sold-out Hamburg Elbphilharmonie last year cried out for more, so Johannes Strate and Sebastian Knauer will finally be able to be seen all over Germany in autumn 2024.
The program includes virtuoso interpretations of pieces such as George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," as well as piano works by Eric Satie and Maurice Ravel, right next to Revolverheld's top 10 hits such as "Lass uns gehen," "Ich lass für Dich das Licht an" and songs from Strate's solo album "Die Zeichen stehen auf Sturm." Fabian Richter, arranger and pianist for "The Voice," has arranged the songs, in which the two stars Strate and Knauer are accompanied by a five-person string ensemble, exclusively for this line-up.
The fascination of this special duo lies in its flowing contours: here classical music does not simply begin where pop ends, or vice versa, but it is the musical fusion of both worlds that overwhelms and enchants the audience.
About Johannes Strate:
Johannes Strate, born in Bremen, has been the lead singer of the German pop-rock band Revolverheld since 2002. From 2005 onwards, the band achieved regular chart success with their hits and a total of six studio albums, including number 1 in the German radio charts. Their album "Immer in Bewegung" was awarded double platinum and sold over 500,000 copies. Other albums such as "In Farbe" and "Zimmer mit Blick" achieved gold status and high chart positions. Johannes Strate is also known as a celebrated solo artist and released his first own album "Die Zeichen stehen auf Sturm" in 2011, which he produced together with Philipp Steinke. He was also a coach and jury member in the second and third seasons of the Sat.1 casting show "The Voice Kids", together with Lena Meyer-Landrut, Henning Wehland (2014) and Mark Forster (2015). In 2018 he took part in the fifth season of "Sing meinen Song - Das Tauschkonzert".
About Sebastian Knauer:
Sebastian Knauer's concert career spanning more than 30 years has taken the exceptional pianist to over 50 countries on 4 continents. To date, Knauer has released 15 critically acclaimed albums and was awarded the Klassik Echo in 2017 for the CD "ÜBERBACH". The list of Sebastian Knauer's concerts with world-famous orchestras, conductors and international stars is endless and ranges from the Shanghai Philharmonic to the New York City Opera Orchestra, Thomas Hengelbrock and Simone Young to Sol Gabetta and Jason Marsalis. Since 2001, Sebastian Knauer has initiated numerous "Word meets Music" programs - until 2019 together with Hannelore Elsner - in which a composer is always the focus. Today he works regularly with Martina Gedeck, Iris Berben, Katja Riemann as well as Klaus Maria Brandauer and Ulrich Tukur. In 2016, he co-founded the “Hamburger Piano Sommer” project, where he combines four different genres in one concert with pianists Martin Tingvall, Axel Zwingenberger and Joja Wendt. Through his public commitment to numerous charitable institutions, but also through his great interest in global political events, he is constantly making a name for himself with special projects. In 2012, Sebastian Knauer founded his own festival “mozart@augsburg” and took over the artistic direction there, as well as at the 2017 International Music Festival Week at Bad Berleburg Castle and at the 2021 “Ludwig FUN Beethoven” festival in Aachen.
