Jazz trumpeter Till Brönner, violinist Midori and mandolin player Avi Avital are among the prominent guests in the Dresden Frauenkirche's Year of Music 2024. In the program of more than 100 dates, "we deliberately break down boundaries and draw connecting lines between eras and genres, religions and cultures," said Maria Noth, executive director of the Stiftung Frauenkirche Dresden, at the launch on Friday.
Chamber music and symphony concerts reflect "that music is able to create a kind of third space, a place of encounter," Noth said. There are also offerings for children.
Music director and violinist Daniel Hope said he has involved "more musical friends than ever before." There are artists from Germany, Europe, Asia and America to experience, with whom he has worked for a long time.
So the Japanese Midori with the Prague Philharmonic, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra with pianist Sebastian Knauer and Israeli Avital with works from different eras guest in Dresden. Members of the Berlin Philharmonic will play pieces written on the edge of life on November 9 to commemorate the Pogrom Night.
Hope himself will give a concert with his Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Brönner also plays an evening with the ensemble and also with the young trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris jazz and classical music. The Al Ol Ensemble and l'arte del mondo combine European and Jewish-Arabic night music and the Palestinian choreographer Sahar Damoni brings dance to the Frauenkirche.
A highlight of the program: In a Bach Night, guests can walk "from eight to midnight" throughout the church as Hope and Frauenkirche cantor Matthias Grünert join many artists in intoning works by the famous composer - from the lower church to the Wendel ramp, from the altar square to under the sandstone dome.
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