Davidsbündler New Year's Gala Concert, 2026 | "Taste the Music, Hear the Wine"

Looking back on 2025, we see at a truly fantastic year for the Davidsbündler Academy. Thanks to our amazing friends, supporters and concert goers, the academy continues to be a home for musicians and music lovers and continues to grow and blossom. To celebrate this we would like to invite you to join us for a festive evening welcoming the new year, including a unique operatic performance featuring wine maker and tenor Dimitri Dimadis. We hope to see you there!

17:30 Welcome Drinks

18:00 Festive Concert with wine tasting from Poggio Dimadis

20:00 Walking Dinner

21:30 Yankee Swap Game (bring a wrapped gift in the range of €20-30 to join the game)

Musicians:

Daniel Rowland, violin

Floor Le Coultre, violin

Dana Zemtsov, viola

Maja Bogdanovic, cello

Nicholas Schwartz, double bass

Anna Fedorova, piano

Students of the Davidsbündler Academy

Program:

Music and Wines from the opera, "DiVino Amore"

Student Performances

"Life—like good wine—is full of wonderful surprises. They can happen at any moment." Dimitri Dimadis, a talented musician, discovered a passion for the land and good wine and decided to unite these two worlds in a unique musical and winemaking project:

"In 2001, being part Greek, part Dutch, and part Austrian, I never expected to move my family home to the Umbrian hills. And being a professional rock musician made me an unlikely tenant of a winery. I knew Italy was the birthplace of opera, but I didn't realize I'd reached the place where wine and music coexist in perfect harmony. I had found my creative home. Creativity places no limits on its inspiration. I decided to try something new, and the vineyard became my obsession. It took years to master the traditions and harness modern innovation. But despite the distractions of planting, pruning, harvesting, and pressing, I began to hear music about love lost and found. My passion and care paid off. The wine sang to me, opera rather than rock, endless, poignant arias. The Umbrian hills literally came alive with the music, inspiring me to write. A work about wine and love, the music before you. I humbly invite you to taste the double fruit of my labors, to experience the fusion of my two great passions: wine and music. It's a moment of surprise: savoring the music and listening to the wine. Cheers!"

- Dimitri Dimadis

Our beautiful Steinway is on loan from the National Musical Instrument Fund (NMF)