Helmut Branny

Helmut Branny (* 1957 in the GDR ) is a German conductor , double bass player and professor of chamber music at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . He is a member of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , musical director of the Dresden Kapellsolisten and the Cappella Musica Dresden .

Career

Helmut Branny, born in 1957 in the Saxon Ore Mountains , studied from 1973 to 1979 at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden , majoring in double bass . Subsequently, he was signed to the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden .

Soloists such as Alison Balsom , Albrecht Mayer , Martin Stadtfeld , Matthias Goerne , Gábor Boldoczki , Nils Mönkemeyer , Dorothee Oberlinger , Sergei Nakarjakow and Lise de la Salle have also performed under his direction . In addition to his membership in the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, he has been teaching at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden since 1995 and has been a professor for chamber music since 2003 . His engagement in Dresden led him a. a. to the Frauenkirche , the Dresden Music Festival and the Moritzburg Festival . Helmut Branny and the Dresden Kapellsolisten have had a longstanding artistic relationship with the Dresden Kreuzchor . He is also the musical director of the Cappella Musica Dresden, founded in 1995.

He is also a chamber music partner of the Berlin Academy of Early Music , the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , Central German Baroque Soloists in Leipzig and "Les amis de Philippe" Bremen . Artistic projects connect him u. a. with Peter Schreier and Jan Vogler . In addition to his preoccupation with early music , Helmut Branny also deals with contemporary music . So he brought some works of the composer Rainer Lischka, Takashi Jashimatsu or Berthold Paul for premiere and interpreted Wolfgang Rihm and Kazimierz Serocki.

Various CD recordings with him are available on the recording market .

2010: ECHO Klassik - "Concert Recording of the Year" (Soft Only, Sad Shadows)

Jubilate Deodorant ( VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin , 1988)
Joseph Haydn : Concerto for oboe and orchestra in C major (Sächsische Tonträger, 1995?)
Joseph Haydn: Symphony in G major No. 94 "with the bang" (Günter Voigt, Jan Vogler, 1996)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony in A major KV 134 (Saxon sound carriers, 1997)
With timpani and trumpets (Sächsische Tonträger, 1997)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies and Serenades (BTM, 2004)
With timpani and trumpets (BTM, 2004)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra KV 299 in C major (BTM, 2004)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Famous Wind Concertos (BTM, 2004)
Contemporaries - Music of the Time / 28th Dresden Concerts (Wolfgang Smitmans, 2007)
Jan Vogler : my tunes / 1. ( Sony BMG Music Entertainment , 2007)
Schubert / Mendelssohn / Schumann : Move away, sad shadows ( Sony Music Entertainment , 2009)
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 26, 43 & 83 (Sony Music Entertainment, 2009)
Dennis (Sony Music Entertainment, 2009)
Jan Vogler: my tunes / 2. (Sony Music Entertainment, 2010)
Elin Kolev (Sony Music Entertainment, 2011)
Bach / Corelli / Händel / Telemann / Torelli / Vivaldi : Festive concert (ARS production, 2015) → Concert recording: Villa Hügel (Essen) , December 8, 2013

"A magician in front of his musicians, who he also knows how to set the most sensitive impulses"

"Conductor and double bass player Helmut Branny, whose artistic work is characterized by a wealth of facets"

- Conductor Helmut Branny in conversation with Coswig (February 21, 2011)

"Thoroughbred musician on the conductor's desk and on the double bass"

- Online Merker - The international culture platform

personal data
SURNAME	Branny, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor, double bass player and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	GDR