Concert event: The New Children's Symphony
Music students from Chemnitz perform at the musical spring of Saxon children's orchestras Concert preview of three concerts in Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz
Six works by six international composers will be performed in the three concerts in Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz: Hadas Peery from Israel, Christian FP Kram and Iris ter Schiphorst from Germany, Wu Wei from China, Giorgos Kyriakakis from Greece and Jaqueline Fontyne from Belgium. The performers are "Bach's String Children" and the woodwind ensemble of the Leipzig "Johann Sebastian Bach" Music School under the direction of Marie Smalla and Bernd Bartolomäus, the junior orchestra of the Heinrich-Schütz Conservatory Dresden under the direction of Milko Kersten and the Chemnitz "StreichHölzer", the junior orchestra of the Chemnitz Municipal Music School under the direction of Andreas Winkler.
Contact: The contact person for the concerts of the New Children's Symphony in Chemnitz - also for arranging a conversation with Andreas Winkler - is the director of the Chemnitz Municipal Music School - Nancy Gibson can be contacted on 0371/302289 and by e-mail: musikschule@stadt-chemnitz.de
The project is funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the sponsoring associations of the respective music schools and the Dresden Youth Symphony Orchestra Sponsoring Association, the Ufer Association and numerous helpers and supporters.
Background information: The idea and reason for the performance is that international composers have been considering the question of what a new children's symphony might sound like for some years now. The classical children's symphony, which by the way is now thought not to have been written by Leopold Mozart, uses various percussion instruments, bird calls and rattles in addition to the normal orchestral instruments. Contemporary composers from Greece, Belgium, China, Israel and Germany have now chosen means that expand the sound spectrum of children's orchestras in a marvellous way and will transport players and listeners alike to new worlds: In Iris ter Schiphorst's Kinderrätsel, for example, you can only perceive a "normal" sound, yet there is lively communication on stage. Hadas Peery and Christian FP Kram captivate the audience with their marvellous ideas. Wu Wei from China with his instrument Sheng holds spirited dialogue with the orchestra, and two composers have taken other "great musicians" from nature as a source of inspiration: Jaqueline Fontyne the colourful Indian bird Kalavinka and Giorgos Kyriakakis the much-sung about nightingale.
And so "Bach's String Children" and the woodwind ensemble of the "Johann Sebastian Bach" Music School in Leipzig, the young orchestra of the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory in Dresden and the "StreichHölzer" of the City of Leipzig will perform.StreichHölzer" from the Chemnitz Municipal Music School will join forces to perform the six new movements after the "original" children's symphony. The concert will conclude with a joint performance of one of the most famous works by another great musical inventor - "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky in an arrangement by Milko Kersten. In addition to the innovative joint work of young music students with the composers, this will result in a work that can also be reinterpreted by other children's orchestras time and again and promotes intensive engagement with one of our most important sources of experience and inspiration: music.