With Chancellor Angela Merkel at the ceremony for the 50th anniversary of Saarland, a German federated state, on 1 January 2007
At the premiere of his opera Kullervo with Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen and wife on 4 March 2007 in Saarbrücken
On the occasion of a dance project performed by students with music from Igor Stravinsky's Firebird: encountering Josef Eder and Royston Maldoom on 28 April 2007 in Saarbrücken
The composers Theo Brandmüller and Anton Safronov with Constantin Trinks in Rome on 10 August 2007
In front of the legendary Grand Hotel Europe, St. Petersburg, Russia on 10 November 2007
A visit at the great Richard Trimborn in Munich, August 2008
Tan Dun, Berthold Schneider and Constantin Trinks at the European premiere of The First Emperor in Saarbrücken on 4 October 2008
Welcoming the fabulous German actor Joachim Król on 30 June 2009 in Saarbrücken
At a performance of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin in Luxembourg with Olafur Sigurdarson and Peter Seiffert on 14 November 2009
The Herbert von Karajan-Platz in Tokyo, Japan, on 21 May 2010
A little hillwalk at the Hafelekar near Innsbruck, Austria, in June 2010
Conducting Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony at the Staatstheater Darmstadt in June 2010
The grandson of composer Richard Strauss, Dr. Christian Strauss, with his wife after a performance of Der Rosenkavalier in Dresden's magnificent Semperoper on 21 August 2010