Art Program

A symphony orchestra is a prime example of how a group of people with very different ideas, skills and characters can create a great whole.

Even composers have to consider the complexity that their scores create in reality when inventing their symphonies.

In our passion for music, there are many analogies to change processes in companies and in dealing with difficult transitions. Even Beethoven, the master of execution, showed how to artfully combine individual parts and turn two good pieces into one very good one. Every conductor must also ensure that numerous and very different ideas, concepts and characters are brought together. Every conductor, but also every top manager, must master this challenge and be aware of their strengths and shortcomings.

Beethoven created great scores and accomplished masterpieces despite being profoundly deaf. Great entrepreneurs must also anticipate their weaknesses and counter them with effective concepts at an early stage. Top musicians and top managers take a more similar approach than you might initially think. On closer inspection, similar management patterns can be recognized and design strategies can be derived. However, closer investigation also reveals opposing regularities. While change processes in companies usually take a long time, in music they can often be perceived acoustically within seconds.

Together with the musician, doctor and cultural manager Prof. Dr. Stephan Frucht, we will highlight important management elements and provide interdisciplinary application examples for cooperative leadership practices and intercultural skills. In his international workshops, our advisory board member provides practical suggestions for a closer look at musical techniques that are also suitable for optimizing one’s own performance via body language, phonetics and rhetoric in everyday professional life. Prof. Frucht illustrates this in a very practical way through various leadership styles and conducting techniques and regularly demonstrates these in collaboration with renowned orchestras. In specific coaching sessions, we can also open up completely new perspectives for our clients in this way.

We are committed to supporting young artists at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. It is part of our basic understanding of society to promote outstanding young talent in music as well as top young talent in companies, because they all shape our future. As friends and sponsors of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and initiators of the Concert for Humanity, we are thus making a contribution as part of our regional roots and responsibility.