Dresden Symphony Orchestra

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Dresden Symphony Orchestra

The Dresden Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra for contemporary music. The ensemble , which consists of members from various European orchestras, works exclusively on a project basis. Her repertoire focuses on the music of various regions such as China , Latin America , Central Asia , Turkey and the Middle East . The composers performed and premiered by them include a. John Adams , Frank Zappa , John McLaughlin , Mark-Anthony Turnage or Tan Dun . In addition, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra often integrate elements such as light, video and cross-genre music ( crossover ) into their programs.

history

The orchestra was founded in 1997 by Markus Rindt and Sven Helbig . The Dresden Symphony Orchestra attracted international attention in 2003 with the publication of the song cycle “My Heart Burns” based on texts and music by the band Rammstein . The composer Torsten Rasch gave the rock songs a new sound together with the orchestra. In 2004 the Dresden Symphony Orchestra received the ECHO Klassik for this CD, which was published by Deutsche Grammophon .

In 2004 the Dresden Sinfoniker recorded a new soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin with the Pet Shop Boys for EMI . The accompanying album was released in 2005 under the title Battleship Potemkin . In 2006 they produced the high-rise symphony in which the orchestra played together with the Pet Shop Boys on the balconies of an apartment block on Prager Strasse in Dresden and was conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer from a crane at a height of 35 meters.

In 2008 Michael Helmrath opened the jubilee concert for the 10th anniversary of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra with the “First Remote Conducting in the World”. In the midst of London street musicians, he conducted the overture to Star Wars , while the musicians followed his conduct on canvas from the Kulturpalast in Dresden .

In 2010 the multimedia work "Hasretim - an Anatolian journey" by the German-Turkish composer Marc Sinan had its world premiere in the Hellerau Festival Hall. He used film documents by Anatolian folk musicians as a template, which he had recorded together with Markus Rindt in northeastern Turkey. In 2011, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra and Marc Sinan received the UNESCO special “World Horizon” award.

The end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012 was the occasion for a concert in the Saxon State Library in Dresden, in which the Codex Dresdensis, one of the three surviving Mayan manuscripts, is on display. The Dresden Symphony Orchestra performed works by Silvestre Revueltas and Enrico Chapela under the direction of the Mexican conductor José Areán. The concert was broadcast worldwide by Arte Live Web.

In 2013 the Dresdner Sinfoniker were guests at MaerzMusik, the festival for current music of the Berliner Festspiele.

In April 2016 the orchestra received international attention through the music project "Aghet". The Turkish state asked the EU Commission to stop funding this project. The background is that in "Aghet" the Turkish genocide against the Armenians in 1915 is discussed. Nevertheless, the work was performed on April 30th in the Festspielhaus Hellerau .

The orchestra worked u. a. with the Kronos Quartet , René Pape , Bryn Terfel , Katharina Thalbach , Peter Damm , Andreas Boyde and Peter Bruns . Concert tours led the Dresden Symphony Orchestra a. a. to London, Athens , Madrid and Paris .

In 2000 the ensemble received the Dresden Art Promotion Prize and in 2017 the Saxon Initiative Prize for Art and Culture .

Conductors

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsische Zeitung, April 25, 2016, p. 19.
  2. Initiative award for art and culture . Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Retrieved December 5, 2019.