Dresden Days of Contemporary Music

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The Dresden Days of Contemporary Music are an international festival for new music held in Dresden . The festival endeavors to show and establish the connections between contemporary music and other arts, such as theater and music theater , dance , performance , installations , new media , video and film art .

history

The Dresden Days of Contemporary Music were brought into being in 1987 by the composer and conductor Udo Zimmermann and are one of the most important festivals in Europe in this field. The festival was initially organized by the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music (DZzM) , which was also founded in 1986 by Udo Zimmermann and has been headed since then , which moved to the Hellerau festival grounds on July 1, 2002 , which brought about a new orientation not only in terms of space but also in terms of concept.

On December 11, 2003, the Dresden City Council decided to develop the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music (DZzM) into an institute for contemporary arts at the Hellerau Festival Hall with effect from January 1, 2004, and with reference to the history of the Hellerau Festival Hall to be renamed HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts . With this transformation of the DZzM under the direction of Intendant Udo Zimmermann were u. a. linked to the following objectives: establishment of an institute for production and presentation in the field of contemporary arts; Bundling of human, financial and other resources for the operation of the Hellerau Festival Hall; Creation of professional framework conditions for artistic and structural cooperation.

With the beginning of the artistic director Dieter Jaenicke 2009, the festival took on a new concept, initially called TonLagen from 2010 pitches . It has been taking place biennially since 2012, in October each year until 2016, and in spring from the 2018/2019 season. In 2019 the festival took place for the first time under the new management of Moritz Lobeck and has been called TONLAGEN - Dresden Days of Contemporary Music since then . The next edition is planned from April 15 to May 2, 2021, it will then be the 30th edition of the festival, which was first held in 1987.

Performers

In the past, conductors were u. a. Krzysztof Penderecki , Mauricio Kagel , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Herbert Kegel , Cristóbal Halffter and Friedrich Goldmann . Several chamber music ensembles, among them the Ensemble Modern , Leipziger Consort and the Neue Musik Hanns Eisler group , gave concerts in Dresden. Radio orchestras such as the MDR Symphony Orchestra , the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg also gave guest performances .

World premieres (selection)

literature

  • Marion Demuth, Udo Zimmermann (ed.): Sound - space - movement. 10 years Dresden Center for Contemporary Music. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-7651-0331-4 .
  • Marion Demuth, Frank Geißler (Ed.): Music - Power - Abuse . Colloquium of the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music, 6. – 8. October 1995 as part of the 9th Dresden Days of Contemporary Music, Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-08-3 .
  • Frank Geissler, Sylvia Freydank (Hrsg.): Art and artificiality: the relationship between technology and artistic creativity . Colloquium of the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music, 4th – 5th October 2001 as part of the 15th Dresden Days of Contemporary Music, contributions by Rudolf Frisius, Barbara Barthelmes, Sabine Breitsameter, Detlev Schneider, Golo Föllmer u. a., Pfau Verlag, Friedberg 2003, ISBN 3-89727-249-0 .
  • Henriette Zehme: Contemporary music and its audience. A sociological investigation as part of the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music. ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-932581-51-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TONLAGEN - Dresden Days of Contemporary Music
  2. ↑ European Center for Contemporary Arts in the Festspielhaus Hellerau. Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum / Deutscher Musikrat, May 22, 2003, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  3. ^ Dresden Center for Contemporary Music (DZzM) becomes the sponsor of the Festspielhaus site in Hellerau. Press release City of Dresden, December 15, 2003, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ A European from Dresden breaks free - Udo Zimmermann retired? Unthinkable! nmz - neue musikzeitung, January 2009, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Intoxicating new locations in Hellerau. nmz - neue musikzeitung, November 2009, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ TonLagen Festival 2009 | Federal Cultural Foundation. 2009, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Festspielhaus Hellerau cuts the program despite the record number of visitors. nmz - neue musikzeitung, January 2013, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Festival TonLagen 2019 - East German voices in music. Deutschlandfunk, April 2019, accessed on July 29, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ TONES 2021 | Federal Cultural Foundation. 2020, accessed on July 29, 2020 .

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