The Quintet 5 Beaufort of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie – Concert. The Musicians of the wind Quintet 5 Beaufort of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie met for the first time in April 2009 during an Erasmus Exchange at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Success came in November 2009 when this international ensemble won the 3rd prize, and the exceptional prize for the interpretation of a modern piece at the chamber music competition at Leipzig’s Hochschule fur Musik und Theater.
The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie is a talent pool for the orchestra of the future. It unites excellent young musicians from German-language music academies and forms them into a musically demanding ensemble, with the help of renowned conductors and soloists. It is part of the democratic constitution of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie that its musicians serve on numerous committees. Through work in the executive committee, program planning and thematic workshops as well as educational outreach, the orchestra members acquire qualifications that go beyond musical performance. Motion and development are the core goals – for each individual musician as well as the entire orchestra. Cooperation and exchange with professional orchestras, music academies and experts from all cultural fields are par for the course. For many years, Lothar Zagrosek has been the orchestra’s Chief Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor.
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In 1974, when they had just grown out of the Bundesjugendorchester (German Federal Youth Orchestra), a group of young musicians were determined to keep making music together, and so they founded their own orchestra: the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Winning the Karajan Prize in 1976 was its first great success, confirming the basic concept. Gradually, other ensembles grew out of the orchestra, for example Ensemble Modern and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Former members of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie play in every German professional orchestra.
As ambassadors of a new musical culture, music students aged 18 to 28 who have successfully auditioned meet for several rehearsal periods and subsequent international concert tours every year. The orchestra makes regular guest appearances playing symphonic repertoire at the Berliner and Kolner Philharmonie, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Laeiszhalle Hamburg. Its most recent acclaimed concerts took place under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Susanna Malkki and Andres Orozco-Estrada. Soloists such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Christian Tetzlaff and Sol Gabetta completed a rich concert experience for the musicians, as did commissioned works by Enno Poppe, Beat Furrer and Robin de Raaff.
Concerts focusing on key works of the classical era will expand the orchestra’s profile starting in September 2011. Every two years, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie produces and presents the festival FREISPIEL, winning acclaim for its multi-genre and experimental performances in Frankfurt.
