And this is my message: that you think of these people, and that the world finally becomes aware of them again.
– Aeham Ahmad, ARD Tagesschau, 2015
The piano was my friend, it is as if they killed my friend.
– Aeham Ahmad, CNN, 2015
Since his arrival in Germany Aeham Ahmad performed countless concerts in various German cities such as Berlin, Bonn, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, Cologne and Stuttgart and convinced with the intensity and virtuosity of his performances, in which he played besides Beethoven and Mozart mainly original compositions and traditional songs. In Munich he performed on the concert “Stars say thank you” for refugee helpers with Sportfreunde Stiller, Judith Holofernes and Herbert Grönemeyer.
Aeham Ahmads history shows that Beethoven’s desire for freedom and his faith in the power of music have not lost their significance to the present day.
– Ashok Sridharan, Mayor of Bonn, Award Presentation 2016
Many consider him mad, some always thought so. People are hungry, and he plays music. But it’s more than that, it’s the principle, therefore, that he simply refuses this war, the domination of death and violence that he holds on to what man is in his best moments: sensitive to beauty. And for his next of kin. He is an artist in the best sense.
– Sonja Zekri, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2015
Article about Aeham Ahmad in The New York Times, August 6, 2016
Article about Aeham Ahmad on the AFP website, May 20, 2016
TV-Beitrag in News Room Tokyo, 24. November 20, 2018
A documentary about Aeham Ahmad by the Japanese TV station NHK, filmed in Japan and Germany. In April he played a concert in Hiroshima, Japan – where he came across a piano that had been exposed to radiation when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. He felt an immediate connection with the instrument … eventually both shared the experience of making music despite the suffering of the war. This encounter was a turning point for him … In the program we see his efforts to help children with music at a time when the xenophobic mood in Germany is increasing.
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