Young German Philharmonic

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The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (JDPh) is a German student orchestra . It is organized as an association of orchestral musicians, a full member of the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras and is based in Frankfurt am Main .

history

The orchestra was founded in 1974 by former members of the Federal Youth Orchestra under the name " Federal Student Orchestra ". The aim of the musicians between 18 and 28 years was to implement their own artistic ideas. The basis for this is the self-managing structure of the orchestra.

Conductors and artists such as Rudolf Barshai , George Benjamin , Pierre Boulez , Renaud Capuçon , Péter Eötvös , Julia Fischer , Martin Fröst , Beat Furrer , Sol Gabetta , Heiner Goebbels , Martin Helmchen , Janine Jansen Sergey Khachatryan , Truls Mørk , Christiane Oelze , Enno Poppe , Wolfgang Rihm , José Maria Sánchez-Verdú , Christian Stadelmann , Christian Tetzlaff , Carolin Widmann , Jörg Widmann , Lothar Zagrosek and Hans Zender worked with the orchestra.

Jonathan Nott has been the orchestra's first conductor and artistic advisor since July 2014 .

The ensemble has received several awards: u. a. with first prize in the Herbert von Karajan competition, with the German Record Award as “Artist of the Year”, with the German Critics' Award, the Grand Prix Année Européenne de la Musique, the advancement award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Binding Culture Award 2020.

membership

The ensemble offers students of German music universities the opportunity to gain orchestral experience. Applicants must first qualify in auditions. You can then participate until you reach the age of 28 or the end of your music studies.

The activities of the ensemble are organized during the lecture-free period as a supplement to music studies. The musicians meet regularly at the beginning of the year, in spring and late summer for an approx. 9-day rehearsal phase followed by a tour. The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie is a regular guest at the Alte Oper Frankfurt , the Berlin Philharmonie , the Konzerthaus Berlin , the Philharmonie Cologne , the Philharmonie Essen , the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and the Gewandhaus Leipzig . She also plays at international festivals such as Eight Bridges | Music for Cologne, at the Berlin Music Festival as part of the Berlin Festival , MITO Settembre Musica, Flandern Festival , RuhrTriennale or the Heidelberg Spring . With the biennial FREISPIEL, the ensemble has been organizing an orchestral festival since 2008 with cross-disciplinary, partly experimental event formats.

The Ensemble Modern , the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Ensemble Resonanz , and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra developed from the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie .

Sponsor

The ensemble is funded by the City of Frankfurt, the State of Hesse and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. In her role as Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, State Minister Monika Grütters is also the orchestra's institutional patron. In addition, a board of trustees made up of personalities from business, various sponsors of the projects and the Association of Friends of the Young German Philharmonic support the orchestra.

Discography (selection)

  • Gustav Mahler: Symphonies 5 & 10 by Rudolf Barshai and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie by Brilliant (Joan Records) (audio CD - 2004)
  • Heiner Goebbels: Surrogate Cities by Peter Rundel and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie by ECM Record (Universal) (Audio-CD - 2000)
  • AT THE SAME TIME - A musical journey through time: Enno Poppe “Markt”, Paul Hindemith “Mathis the Painter - Symphony”, Bernd Alois Zimmermann “Nobody knows de trouble I see” by Susanna Mälkki and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Marco Blaauw (trumpet) from Ensemble Modern Medien (Audio CD - 2009)
  • IMPULSE: VIENNA: Alexander Zemlinsky “Sinfonietta, op. 23”, Beat Furrer “Phaos for Orchestra”, Arnold Schönberg “Transfigured Night, op. 4”. Conductor: Peter Rundel. By Ensemble Modern Medien (Audio CD - 2010)
  • Orchestral Works: Igor Stravinsky “Le chant du rossignol”, Claude Debussy “Prelude à l'après-midi d'un Faune”, Béla Bartók “The Miraculous Mandarin”. Conductor: Andrey Boreyko. By OehmsClassic (Audio CD - 2011)
  • RESEARCH - Looking for and finding music: Olivier Messiaen “Un sourir”, George Benjamin “Duet for Piano and Orchestra”, Robin de Raaff “Untangled Tales”, Igor Stravinsky “Le sacre du printemps”. Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek, piano: Martin Helmchen. By Ensemble Modern Medien (Audio CD - 2011)
  • TURANGALÎLA SYMPHONY: Olivier Messiaen "Turangalîla Symphony". Conductor: Kristjan Järvi, piano: Tamara Stefanovich. A production of the Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker (DVD 2012)
  • LAUTMA (H) LEREI: Gustav Mahler “Symphony No. 9 in D major”. Conductor: Jonathan Nott. A production of the Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker (DVD 2013)
  • GUBAIDULINA / BRUCKNER: Sofia Gubaidulina "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra" (Soloist: Antoine Tamestit) and Anton Bruckner "Symphony No. 9 in D minor". Conductor: Jonathan Nott. (Audio CD - 2015)
  • SINGING: Maurice Ravel "Valses nobles et sentimentales" and Dmitri Shostakovich "Symphony No. 15 in A major op. 141". Conductor: Jonathan Nott. A production of the Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker. (Audio CD - 2017)
  • UNDER CONSTRUCTION - 100 years of Bauhaus. New music and slam poetry in dialogue. Conductor: Corinna Niemeyer. A co-production with hr2-kultur. (Audio CD - 2020)

literature

  • Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Ed.): 20 years of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. The orchestral democracy . ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-930079-50-6
  • Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Ed.): German orchestras. Between balance sheet and perspective . ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-932581-66-0

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