Family concert of the Dresden composers' class
Sunday, 10 November, 11 a.m., Concert Hall of the Municipal Music School
On Sunday, 10 November at 11 a.m., a family concert of the Dresden Composers' Classes will take place in the concert hall of the Municipal Music School. Please note that Eckehard Stier will be the musical director of the Klangkollektiv Opus Eins. Admission costs 5 to 10 euros.
New works by 8 to 16-year-old students can be experienced under the title "Mittwoch Mittag in Jessen". How does our town sound - how should it sound? Under the guidance of composers Silke Fraikin, Johannes Korndörfer, Annette Schlünz and Bernd Schumann, the young composers have been working on this question. The discussion concert will open with an overture by the music school ensemble StreichHölzer.
Biography Eckehard Stier
Born and raised in Dresden, Saxony, the conductor considers himself a musical cosmopolitan. From a crucian and first prize winner of the Rudolf Mauersberger Scholarship, his path led him to General Music Director of the city of Görlitz and Chief Conductor of the New Lusatian Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand. Numerous concert engagements have taken him to four continents with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
Musical encounters with important soloists of the concert world such as Alina Ibragimova, Cloë Hanslip, Nicolas Altstaedt, Ragna Schirmer, Natalia Lomeiko, Maxim Rysanow, Gilles Apap, Cédric Tiberghien, Nikolai Demidenko, Andreas Boyde and Per Arne Glorvigen or Raphael Wallfisch usually lead to lasting collaborations.
Eckehard Stier has conducted a broad repertoire of more than 90 stage works and has made a name for himself as an opera conductor. His interpretations of works by Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner in particular have been highly praised by the press and audiences.
He is enthusiastically committed to training the next generation of conductors. This love culminates in his membership of Symphony Services International in Australia as a mentor.
His openness and his anything but conservative approach to music is the credo and reason for his travelling around the musical world. This leads him time and again to inspiring foreign cultures and diverse crossover projects as a conductor and pianist.