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The New Jewish Chamber Philharmonic Dresden's principal aim is to present to our audience works by Jewish composers, or composers of Jewish descent, who were persecuted, banned from performance, exiled or murdered in the camps by the Nazis. This forgotten cultural heritage contains many musical riches, works entirely neglected or at best very rarely performed on German concert stages. We wish to preserve these compositions and prevent their being completely forgotten.

Upcoming concerts:

On April 8 the ensemble will be playing a gala concert at the opening of the 6th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes. The venue for this invitation-only event will be the great hall of Dresden’s International Congress Center. In addition to physicians from around the world, a number of cultural, political and corporate representatives will be in attendance. The program includes works by Lavry, Schreker, Zeisl and Mendelssohn.

Recent concerts

2009

„Music memorial“

Tuesday, November 10, at the Saxon State Chancellory's venue in Berlin, the "Representation of the Freestate of Saxony to the Federation."

Felix Mendelssohn: Sinfonia for Strings in D major
Erica Muhl: "Trucco" for string orchestra (Berlin premiere)
Marc Lavry: Al Naharot Bavel (On the banks of Babylon) (Berlin premiere)
Eric Zeisl: Variations on a Slovak Folksong (Berlin premiere)

„Banned and Forgotten“

Saturday, Sept. 12, at the concert hall of Dresdens University of Music

Felix Mendelssohn: Sinfonia for Strings in C major
Eric Zeisl: Andante for String Orchestra (arr. Hurshell)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Lento religioso from the Symphonic Serenade
Franz Schubert: Allegro from Death and the Maiden
Franz Waxman: Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani

Gala concerts „60th Anniversary German Constitution“

Sunday, May 17 at the Jewish Community Center, Chemnitz
Monday, May 18 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn Hall

Sir William Herschel: Sinfonia 2 in D major, Sinfonia 4 d minor (Saxon premiere)
Miklos Rózsa: Andante for Strings
Marc Lavry: Al Naharot Bavel „On the Banks of Babylon“ (European premiere)
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Strings in D minor
Soloist: Ilya Konovalov, Israel

The orchestra has a mission unique among ensembles in Germany. No other orchestra focuses on this repertoire.

Since the founding of the board on November 1, 2007, the orchestra has presented 16 concerts. The programs, performed as a concert series at the New Synagogue in Dresden have also been presented in Leipzig, Chemnitz, Görlitz and Berlin.

So far, performances have included a number of Saxon concert premieres, several German concert premieres, as well as a number of world concert premieres. The programs featured, among others, works by Bloch, Haas, Korngold, Rózsa, Schreker, Schulhoff, Waxman and Zeisl. A special feature is a continuing cycle of lesser known works by Mendelssohn.