Elbland Philharmonic Saxony
The Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen is a symphony orchestra based in Riesa . Since August 1, 2012, the orchestra has united the musicians of the former New Elbland Philharmonic and the former orchestra of the State Theaters of Saxony . Ekkehard Klemm has been the chief conductor since 2017 .
history
The Neue Elbland Philharmonie was founded after the end of the war in 1945 as the Riesa City Orchestra and at that time covered a spectrum from dance music to symphony concerts. Over the decades, the orchestra changed its name to Städtisches Orchester Riesa (1950–1953), Kreiskulturorchester Riesa (1953–1955), Staatliches Kulturorchester Riesa (1955–1963), Staatliches Orchester Riesa from 1963 and from 1990 Riesa Symphony Orchestra . The Dresden General Music Director Rudolf Neuhaus was on the podium as a guest conductor and orchestra sponsor for decades. In 2002 the orchestra was merged with the Pirna Symphony Orchestra, in which Andreas Grohmann had been music director since 2000. After the merger, Christoph Dittrich directed the orchestra's business from 2002 to 2013 under the name of the Neue Elbland Philharmonie .
Fusion with the orchestra of the Landesbühnen Sachsen
The Landesbühnen orchestra was founded in Dresden in 1945. Its development as an opera orchestra began with the move to the Landesbühne in Radebeul in autumn 1950. From 1958 , Klaus Tennstedt shaped the ensemble as general music director. Hans-Christoph Rademann made his debut here as an opera conductor in 1997 with Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio . On June 30, 2012 the operations of the orchestra members of the Orchestra of the State Theaters of Saxony were transferred to the Neue Elbland Philharmonie. Since this transfer of operations, the orchestra has been called Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen.
On June 15, 2012, a company collective agreement for the musicians of the Neue Elbland Philharmonie Riesa and the orchestra of the Landesbühnen Sachsen was signed by the German Stage Association and the German Orchestra Association . The collective bargaining parties paved the way for the merger of the two ensembles. For the musicians covered by the collective agreement, this meant a wage waiver, combined with compensation for leisure time. Initially a kind of “part-time orchestra” was created; in the long term, the orchestra should shrink to 72 full-time positions through retirement or changes in engagement of musicians. Since the merger, the orchestra has been available to both the concert and theater operations of the Sachsen Landesbühnen, which has been converted into a GmbH. With the merger, the requirements of the Saxon Cultural Areas Act for the reorganization of the Saxon theater and orchestra landscape were implemented.
Since the 2006/2007 season, Christian Voss has held the office of General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Neue Elbland Philharmonie and from August 2012 of the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen. Carola Gotthardt has been the managing director since 2013. In 2016 the orchestra chose Ekkehard Klemm as its new chief conductor, who took up his post in the summer of 2017 at the start of the 2017/18 season.
Performance locations
The Elbland Philharmonic Saxony regularly gives concerts in the entire cultural area of Meissen-Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains and plays in the theaters, town halls, churches and cultural centers around the state capital Dresden. Along the Saxon Wine Route , the Meissen Theater and the Meissen Cathedral are just as much part of the orchestra's venues as the Marienkirche Pirna , the Stadthalle stern in Riesa, the Großenhainer Marienkirche and the Saxony State Theaters in their headquarters in Radebeul and in the Felsenbühne Rathen .
Guest performances have already taken the musicians to numerous places in Germany , as well as Belgium , Poland , Switzerland and Austria . The highlights of the orchestra's work are concerts in the Berlin Philharmonic , the Semperoper Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Tonhalle Zurich .
game schedule
The core of the program with over 100 concerts annually are two series of entitlements with demanding or entertaining symphonic music and the performances with the state theaters of Saxony. There are also diverse forms of school and chamber music concerts, oratorio performances together with the regional church choirs to contemporary music projects or special concerts with Katrin Weber and the Zwinger Trio .
Projects and guests
The Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen performs a variety of events with engagements by well-known soloists and conductors. The orchestra, or previously the Neue Elbland Philharmonie, was conducted by Reto Parolari and Ludwig Güttler , among others ; the orchestra worked together with the pianists Peter Rösel , Ragna Schirmer and Andreas Boyde as well as with Isang Enders and Peter Bruns ( violoncello ), Theo Adam , Anna Maria Kaufmann and José Cura (vocals) and the organist Michael Schönheit .
Projects of the Neue Elbland Philharmonie were the collaboration with students from the Stage School Hamburg, the arrangement of the arena- sasing 2009 in the Riesa natural gas arena and the Meißner Burgfestspiele from 17. – 23. August 2009 at the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meißen.
Conductors
Conductors of the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen and their predecessors were:
- MD Max Hartmann (1947–1954)
- Rolf Gilek (1954–1955)
- MD Otto Backer (1955–1959)
- MD Paul Diener (1959–1967)
- MD Volker Erben (1967–1971)
- Christia Eckhardt (1971–1981)
- Gotthardt Lienicke (1972–1974)
- MD Jürgen Wirrmann (1974–1981)
- MD Gottfried Hellmundt (1981–1987)
- GMD Peter Fanger (1987-2006)
- GMD Christian Voss (2006-2017)
- Ekkehard Klemm (since summer 2017)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard Klemm new chief conductor of the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen. In: Music Today. October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Kerstin Leiße: The new season of the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen begins on July 23rd. In: Dresdner Latest News . 18th July 2017 .