German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is an international orchestra. It is based in Bremen and organized as a company (gGmbH). The Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi has been the artistic director since 2004 .
history
Founded in 1980 as the “Chamber Orchestra of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie”, for the first three years the orchestra was a grassroots association of music students organized by the founders. After performing at the UN in New York in 1983, he was invited to Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in 1984 and 1985.
In 1987 it was institutionalized as a professional chamber orchestra in the form of a GbR under the name "Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie" in Frankfurt / Main. This was followed by the first subscription concerts in the Mozart Hall of the Alte Oper as well as worldwide tours and recordings with internationally active soloists. In 1990, musicians from the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie formed the wind soloists of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , a permanent wind ensemble that has since dedicated itself to chamber wind music. The ensemble has recorded numerous CDs. A recording with original compositions by Carl Maria von Weber and Andreas Tarkmann's adaptation of Mendelssohn's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” was awarded the Echo Klassik Prize. In 1991, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie went on their first tour of Japan with Gidon Kremer . Also with Gidon Kremer, the orchestra made its debut in New York's Carnegie Hall as part of a US tour .
The orchestra has been based in Bremen since 1992, and since then has been called “Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen”. In 1995 the open-air festival "Summer in Lesmona" took place in Knoops Park in Bremen-Nord for the first time. The orchestra has had a permanent place at the Bremen Music Festival since 1998. In 1999 Daniel Harding took over the musical direction of the orchestra. This was followed by CD recordings with works by Beethoven, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and Milhaud, as well as international concert tours.
In 1999 Albert Schmitt, up to then a double bass player in the orchestra, took up his position as managing director and restructured the orchestra into an orchestra company. Since then, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been organized as a non-profit company. Paavo Järvi has been the orchestra's artistic director since 2004. In 2005 the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen became “Orchestra in Residence” for ten years at the international Beethoven Festival in Bonn.
In 2007 the orchestra moved into rehearsal rooms in the comprehensive school Bremen-Ost in Osterholz-Tenever. The “future laboratory” was brought into being, from which - together with the school and the district - regular musical and social projects such as the stage show “Melody of Life”, the “District Opera” and the latest project “Club 443 Hz” emerged . In 2010, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen became the residence orchestra of the Elbphilharmonie Concerts in Hamburg.
In 2015, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen founded an academy for young musicians.
In 2016 the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen became the first "Orchestra of the Year" at Deutschlandfunk Kultur and since 2017 the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been the festival orchestra of the Kissingen summer .
Guest conductors and artistic directors
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been working with changing guest conductors since 1988 in order to be able to work out the respective epochs optimally. In addition, until 1999 the orchestra did not have a permanent chief conductor in order to minimize the influence of individual artistic personalities. In the chamber music tradition, the orchestra continues to play regularly without a conductor to this day.
- 1988–1990 Mario Venzago : With the Swiss Venzago there was for the first time a "permanent first guest conductor". With him, the Kammerphilharmonie immersed itself primarily in the works of the Second Vienna School.
- 1990–1992 Heinrich Schiff : The cellist and conductor Schiff had a decisive influence on the artistic development of the Kammerphilharmonie in his role as “first guest conductor”. Together with the renowned instrumentalist, the orchestra increasingly approached the classical repertoire. The first two CDs with Beethoven symphonies resulted from the collaboration with Schiff.
- 1993–1994 Jiří Bělohlávek : Bělohlávek, specialist for the Czech masters as well as for the epochs of Romanticism and Impressionism, worked with the orchestra as the “first conductor”.
- 1995–1999 Thomas Hengelbrock : The baroque violinist and conductor became the first "artistic director" of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie. With him, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen deepened and differentiated its stylistic approach by playing on the respective instruments of different epochs.
- 1999–2003 Daniel Harding: The conductor, who became Sir Simon Rattle's assistant in 1993 at the age of 17 , became the orchestra's first “musical director”. The highlight of the collaboration with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen was a concert at the BBC Proms in 2003 , which was selected for recording by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) along with only five other concerts by renowned orchestras and was the only one actually broadcast on television.
- Since 2004 Paavo Järvi: The Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner took over the artistic direction in January 2004. Working in projects is characteristic of the cooperation between the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Järvi. The first focus of the joint work is the reinterpretation and performance of all nine Beethoven symphonies, followed by the symphonies of the composers Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms .
present
The German Chamber Philharmonic is considered to be a "world-class ensemble". and as "one of the leading orchestras in the world" it played in concert halls such as the Wiener Musikverein , the Concertgebouw Amsterdam or the Carnegie Hall in New York. The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been a guest at the BBC Proms, at festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival or the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival several times . The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen played at Bellevue Palace in 2014 and 2019 at the invitation of the Federal President and goes on tours abroad every year, for example to Japan, China, South and North America.
The Beethoven project, the reinterpretation and recording of the orchestral works by Ludwig van Beethoven with Paavo Järvi, received special recognition from international critics. The weekly newspaper Die Zeit described it as “by far the most exciting Beethoven recording of the 21st century”. The entire cycle of all nine symphonies was performed in Tokyo and Yokohama (Japan), Lanaudière (Canada), Strasbourg, Paris, at the Salzburg Festival, at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, in Warsaw, in São Paolo and in the Forbidden City (China). The feature section of the time recommends the recordings of the Beethoven symphonies of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie as one of the most important of all.
Following the Beethoven project (2011), the orchestra and Paavo Järvi examined the symphonic works of Robert Schumann. Both cycles have been documented on CD, DVD and for television ( Deutsche Welle , Arte , Radio Bremen , Unitel ). The focus has been on the symphonic work of the composer Johannes Brahms since 2015 . All four Brahms symphonies have already been released on CD. The highlight of the Brahms project will be the performance of the Requiem on April 10, 2018, exactly 150 years after the premiere in Bremen Cathedral . Another result of the Brahms project is the music documentation “The Brahms Code” (Deutsche Welle / Unitel).
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen works with international soloists and conductors, including Christian Tetzlaff , Maria João Pires , Viktoria Mullova , Hélène Grimaud , Janine Jansen , Lang Lang , Igor Levit , David Fray , Hilary Hahn , Pekka Kuusisto , Martin Grubinger , Trevor Pinnock , Anna Netrebko and Sir Roger Norrington . The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been a regular guest there since the Elbphilharmonie opened in 2017. It was the first orchestra to be “Orchestra of the Year 2016” at Deutschlandfunk Kultur , has been the Kissinger Summer Festival Orchestra since 2017 and was the first “Orchestra in Residence” at the Rheingau Music Festival in 2019 .
In Bremen, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen currently organizes four subscription series annually in the concert hall “ Die Glocke (Bremen) ” as well as special concerts such as B. a benefit concert with the Federal President, a chamber music series and once a year the open-air festival "Summer in Lesmona", which is frequented by several thousand visitors.
Organization as a company and a 5-second model
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is organized as a company in which all musicians are shareholders. The musicians are not only responsible for the musical but also for the economic success of the orchestra. The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is currently financed 72% from self-generated funds (fees and sponsoring) and 28% from public funds. A German orchestra is usually financed to around 80% from public funds. The economic and artistic development of the orchestra was the starting point for a collaboration with Christian Scholz, former professor of business administration at Saarbrücken University. The so-called 5-second model was developed from the results, a management training model for high-performance teams. This training method and its development are documented in a book. The 5-second model has now been implemented by various companies.
Future laboratory
The move in 2007 to the premises of the Bremen-Ost comprehensive school in Osterholz-Tenever, a district with special development needs, was decisive for the further development of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Due to the close proximity to school operations, the “future laboratory” was created, in which the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen promotes individual personal growth through music through projects. The rehearsal room also offers ideal conditions for orchestra rehearsals and CD productions.
In 2009, Minister of State Bernd Neumann named the "Future Laboratory" of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as a model project.
In 2012, the future laboratory received the Echo Klassik in the category "Promotion of young talent".
In 2014 the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen was awarded the Würth Prize of the Jeunnesses Musicales for its work in the “Future Laboratory”. In the laudatory speech at the award ceremony it was said: “The orchestra acts as a catalyst for processes of social change through excellent neighborhood and youth projects in the 'Future Laboratory' initiative. The Kammerphilharmonie thus shows the topicality and relevance of orchestras in the midst of modern society. "
In 2017 the future laboratory developed the Future Lab Tunisia in cooperation with the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, based on the model of the Bremen future laboratory.
academy
In September 2015, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen founded the Orchestra Academy, a training facility for outstanding young musicians. The aim of the training is to prepare the graduates for a professional music career with the special and entrepreneurial challenges of the current cultural scene.
Every year, four academics are selected to work closely with the orchestra for two years and to play concerts with soloists at home and abroad under the direction of Paavo Järvi.
Awards
2018: Category Symphonic Recording of the Year (19th Century), Paavo Järvi and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Tragic Overture and Academic Festival Overture
2012: for the “future laboratory” for the promotion of young talent
2010: Category Conductor of the Year, Paavo Järvi and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonies 2 & 6 "Pastorale"
2010: Category Concert Recording of the Year, Janine Jansen and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Ludwig van Beethoven & Benjamin Britten, Violin Concertos
2009: Category Concert Recording of the Year (18th Century, Piano), Piotr Andrzejewski and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bagatelles op. 126 / Piano Concerto No. 1
2009: Category Concert Recording of the Year (18th century, trumpet), Alison Balsom and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Joseph Haydn & Johann Nepomuk Hummel, trumpet concerts
2009: Category Instrumentalist of the Year (piano), David Fray and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Johann Sebastian Bach, piano concerts
Diapason d´Or
2015: Paavo Järvi and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Schumann Symphony No. 4, Overture, Scherzo & Finale, concert piece for 4 horns
2015: Paavo Järvi and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Beethoven overtures
2009: Frieder Bernius and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Franz Schubert: Sakontala
2003: Frieder Bernius and the wind soloists of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Kammerchor Stuttgart, Johannes Brahms: Why is the light given?
2014: Best list 2014, Frieder Bernius, Kammerchor Stuttgart and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Louis Spohr's oratorio "The Last Things"
2010: Best list 1/2010, Janine Jansen and Paavo Järvi, Beethoven & Britten, Violin Concertos
2007: Annual Prize 2007, Paavo Järvi and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Beethoven, Symphonies 3 and 8
Special prices
2010: Honorary Prize of the German Record Critics' Prize for the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
2007: German Founder Award , special award for special entrepreneurial achievements
2007: Zukunftsaward, special prize for special entrepreneurial achievements
Further prices
2019: Rheingau Music Prize for the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen with its artistic director Paavo Järvi
2019: Prize of the Gunter and Juliane Ribke Foundation for the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for their social commitment as part of the "Future Laboratory"
2016: “Orchestra of the Year”, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
2013: Vision Award for the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for the music promotion of schoolchildren in the future laboratory
Mozart Medal from the City of Frankfurt for the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for outstanding musical achievements
repertoire
The orchestra's repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. The orchestra is also interested in crossover projects. The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen prefers to work with specialists in their genre. In historically informed performance practice, these are in particular Sir Roger Norrington, Trevor Pinnock and Reinhard Goebel. New music has already been developed together with Matthias Pintscher, Kristjan Järvi and George Benjamin. The classical-romantic repertoire is currently the focus of the collaboration with the artistic director Paavo Järvi.
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has recorded CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, BMG, Virgin Classics, Decca Records, Berlin Classics, PentaTone and Sony.
Filmography
"The Brahms Code", a music documentary with Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in cooperation with Deutsche Welle, 2019
“Schumann at Pier 2”, concert film by Christian Berger, 2012
“The Beethoven Project”, a music documentary with Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, 2010
“Beethoven, rap and dreams. The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - between Tenever and New York ”, a film by Marianne Strauch, 2009
Web links
- Homepage
- Trailer The Beethoven Project, Deutsche Welle
- Trailer The Brahms Code, Deutsche Welle
- Future laboratory
- Future Lab Tunisia
literature
- Julia Baier: in tune - variations on an orchestra. Peperoni Books, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-941825-85-7 .
- Albert Schmitt, Christian Scholz: High performance needs dissonance , Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-527-50560-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Academy. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
- ↑ The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is named Orchestra of the Year 2016. Accessed on January 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Der Spiegel, Klaus-Peter Kerbusk, October 20, 2003
- ↑ BBC 1, August 2003
- ^ Die Zeit, Wolfram Goertz, December 14, 2006
- ↑ Joy, beautiful sound of gods. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ In search of the Brahms Code. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Cf. “Orchester 2030 - Municipal and State Orchestra in Germany, Structures, Financing and Development Options”, Deutsche Orchestervereinigung, 2015
- ↑ Albert Schmitt / Prof. Christian Scholz: "High performance needs dissonance" . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2011.
- ↑ ECHO Klassik award winner named for the promotion of young talent. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Laudation for the award of the Würth Prize of the Jeunnesses Musicales, 2014
- ^ Future Lab Tunisia. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .