SEBASTIAN KNAUER & JOHANNES STRATE - KLASSIK MEETS POP TOUR 2024

Two stars, two worlds, one vision: Sebastian Knauer, one of the most successful classical pianists, and Johannes Strate, lead singer of Revolverheld, can be seen on their first joint "Classical meets Pop Tour 2024" through Germany this fall.

Both have written music history in their respective genres, fill the biggest concert halls and arenas and are acclaimed by their audiences. Johannes Strate and Sebastian Knauer have been friends for a long time, and now they are performing together on stage. They combine their different musical homes of classical music and pop to create an incomparable sound that gets under your skin and delights fans from both universes. Their joint concert debut in the completely sold-out Hamburg Elbphilharmonie last year was crying out for more, so Johannes Strate and Sebastian Knauer will finally be performing throughout Germany in the fall of 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 alongside Revolverheld 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-piece 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:
Born in Bremen, Johannes Strate has been the lead singer of the German pop-rock band Revolverheld since 2002. Since 2005, the band has regularly achieved 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" went 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 for the CD "ÜBERBACH" in 2017. The list of Sebastian Knauer's concerts with world-famous orchestras, conductors and international stars is almost 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 - together with Hannelore Elsner until 2019 - has initiated numerous "Word meets Music" programs, in which a composer always takes center stage. Today, he regularly works with Martina Gedeck, Iris Berben, Katja Riemann, 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 together 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 repeatedly makes 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 International Music Festival 2017 at Bad Berleburg Castle and at the "Ludwig FUN Beethoven" festival 2021 in Aachen.