Young Philharmonic Brandenburg
The Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg - the Brandenburg State Youth Symphony Orchestra - is a youth orchestra with around 170 members between the ages of 13 and 24, most of whom are top young people from the Brandenburg music schools. The association of music and art schools in Brandenburg is responsible for the youth orchestra .
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The Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg is a Brandenburg selection orchestra for which the young musicians qualify through an audition and which meets around two to three times a year for rehearsal phases. Following this, several concert appearances will take place throughout Germany and abroad. During the rehearsal phases, the orchestra works on the program with the help of members of the Berlin concert and opera orchestras as lecturers, under the direction of the respective conductor. Classical and romantic orchestral music as well as contemporary works and world premieres (for example by Albert Pace, Marian Lux, Mark Pogolski) as well as operas and operettas are played. Sebastian Weigle , General Music Director of the Frankfurt Opera , was chief conductor for many years , and Aurélien Bello was the permanent conductor from 2009 to 2018. In 2018, Peter Sommerer became the orchestra's permanent conductor.
The orchestra is supported by the Association of Music and Art Schools Brandenburg e. V. , it is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg and the Friends' Association founded in 1997. rbbKultur accompanies the orchestra as a media partner. The patronage has Dr. Dietmar Woidke, Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg.
history
The Young Philharmonic Brandenburg was founded in 1992 as a state youth symphony orchestra. The orchestra now makes guest appearances worldwide. Concert tours in recent years have led to China, the Middle East, India, South Korea and Central America. The orchestra works time and again with outstanding young musicians from Brandenburg. But international soloists such as Daniel Barenboim , Jochen Kowalski , Marlis Petersen and Claudio Bohorquez have also played with the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg. The Junge Philharmonie also appeared as a festival orchestra, for example at the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera and at the j: opera Festival Jennersdorf in Austria (2006: Fidelio , 2007: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor , 2008: Zar und Zimmermann , 2009: Die Welt auf dem Mond , 2010: The Bartered Bride , 2011: The Abduction from the Seraglio , 2012: Der Wildschütz , 2013: Hansel and Gretel , 2014: The Marriage of Figaro , 2015: Der Freischütz ). Other projects included, among others, the Hebbel am Ufer Theater in Berlin (2008: One Night in Venice , 2009: Oedipus Rex , 2010: The Flood and Abstract Opera by Boris Blacher ) and in cooperation with the LaJJazzO and the Young Voices Brandenburg. In 2018/2019 and 2020/2021, the Israeli-American conductor Yoel Gamzou led the New Year's rehearsal phases followed by New Year's concerts in the Konzerthaus Berlin , among others . Several radio recordings and CD recordings document the artistic development of the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg.
The Komische Oper Berlin has been the sponsor of the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg since September 2007 . The members of the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg are invited to rehearsals, concerts and performances as listeners and observers, individual members of the orchestra of the Komische Oper are available as lecturers during the rehearsal phases, and the opera provides the orchestra with rooms for its auditions and lends instruments and equipment .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of Music and Art Schools Brandenburg eV Accessed on April 9, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Profile. In: Young Philharmonic Brandenburg.
- ^ Artistic direction. In: Young Philharmonic Brandenburg.
- ↑ Schedule archive. In: jOPERA. March 27, 2020, accessed on April 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Young Philharmonic Brandenburg. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .