Setting the Stage for Joyful Anticipation! YOUNG EURO CLASSIC 2021 Konzerthaus Berlin Young Euro Classic Tickets go on Sale on June 3 30. Juli bis 15. August 2021 Festival from July 30 – August 15, 2021 at Konzerthaus Berlin
PROGRAMM & TICKETS www.young-euro-classic.de Finally, live concerts return: Young Euro Classic is delighted to present young orchestral musicians where they belong – on stage. From July 30 to August 15, 2021 a selection of outstanding youth orchestras and ensembles makes the Gesamtleitung: Dr. Gabriele Minz GmbH Konzerthaus Berlin resound. Internationale Kulturprojekte Künstlerische Leitung: Programming Challenges Prof. Dr. Dieter Rexroth
Plummeting incident rates, new opening measures: after months of uncertainty, there are now sufficient reasons for hope. Therefore, the VERANSTALTER presenter rises to the challenge of presenting a typical Young Euro Classic Deutscher Freundeskreis europäischer programme at short notice. Jugendorchester e.V. Meierottostraße 6 ∙ 10719 Berlin “It is an adventure, given that the government is still ‘flying by sight’. We, Tel.: +49 – (0)30 – 88 47 13 90 Fax.: +49 – (0)30 – 88 47 13 92 however, are moved by the need of the audience and the young musicians to E-Mail: [email protected] be reunited with culture, so we are determined to offer a programme,” says Dr.
Gabriele Minz, general manager of Young Euro Classic. 1. Vorsitzender: Dr. Willi Steul In close cooperation with the Konzerthaus Berlin, Young Euro Classic is 2. Vorsitzender: Ulrich Deppendorf preparing to implement the Berlin Senate’s pandemic-related regulations. As during the 2020 festival edition, all concerts and participatory events will be KÜNSTLERISCHER BEIRAT held according to the hygiene concept approved by the authorities: the plan is Daniel Barenboim to present approximately 60 musicians on stage at the Main Auditorium, Iván Fischer Gidon Kremer performing programmes lasting no more than 70 minutes without intervals. Patrick Lange Together with the artistic director, the orchestras have engaged with these Kent Nagano Wolfgang Rihm conditions, rethinking the presentation of large-scale orchestral repertoire. A Michael Sanderling shift towards music of the classical and romantic era is easily discerned – a Maxim Vengerov welcome opportunity to offer the audience treasures beyond Stravinsky and Mahler.
Germany, France and the World The opening and closing concerts emphasize the value of encounters: the former revives the festival’s tradition of binational orchestras. Led by the conductor Marzena Diakun, a Polish resident of France, the Young Euro Classic Orchestra Germany-France, uniting members of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany and its French counterpart, the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, plays works from both nations, building a bridge between Paris and Berlin with music by Rameau, Gossec, Mendelssohn and C.P.E. Bach. Franco-German friendship also inspired the exchange project of the German-French Youth
Academy, part of the education programme “Next Generation”. The festive finale will be performed by the only non-European orchestra, the Havana
Lyceum Orchestra, which appears with the horn player Sarah Willis and lends the general atmosphere of renewal and new beginnings a global note, MEDIENARBEIT performing a programme of European music and contemporary Latin American ARTEFAKT Kulturkonzepte Marienburger Str. 16, 10405 Berlin works entitled “Mozart y Mambo”. [email protected] Tel.: 030 440 10 687 / -688 Rising Talents and World Stars Fax: 030 440 10 684
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Three orchestras from southern and south-eastern Europe – regular, beloved YOUNG EURO CLASSIC 2021 festival friends – form one focus of the festival: the National Youth Orchestras Konzerthaus Berlin of Portugal, Spain and Romania. Geographically, the Greek Youth Symphony 30. Juli bis 15. August 2021
Orchestra also belongs to this group – for its festival debut, it plays Beethoven’s “Eroica” to commemorate the Greek revolution of 1821. From PROGRAMM & TICKETS www.young-euro-classic.de Russia, the Chelyabinsk Symphony Orchestra makes its own festival debut with star pianist Denis Matsuev.
Gesamtleitung: Another long-time friend of the festival is the Bundesjugendorchester (National Dr. Gabriele Minz GmbH Internationale Kulturprojekte Youth Orchestra of Germany), led this time by Elias Grandy in Beethoven’s Künstlerische Leitung: Leonore Overture No. 3 and other works. The Wiener Jeunesse Orchester, which Prof. Dr. Dieter Rexroth also has a long festival history, offers a Viennese and Russian programme. Three other orchestras unite international players: the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra of cellist Jan Vogler, which offers Beethoven’s rarely-performed Triple VERANSTALTER Deutscher Freundeskreis europäischer Concerto this year. Founded by Leonard Bernstein, the Schleswig-Holstein Jugendorchester e.V. Festival Orchestra remains true to its own traditions, playing Franz Schubert / Meierottostraße 6 ∙ 10719 Berlin Tel.: +49 – (0)30 – 88 47 13 90 Luciano Berio and Tchaikovsky. Another festival debut awaits with the LGT Fax.: +49 – (0)30 – 88 47 13 92 Young Soloists, founded in 2013 by violinist Alexander Gilman. The ensemble of E-Mail: [email protected] high-carat young string soloists has caused quite a stir since its founding. The
Swedish ensemble O/Modernt shines a light on heroines of music – its leader Hugo Ticciati has assembled a programme entitled “Un/Sung Heroines” that 1. Vorsitzender: Dr. Willi Steul 2. Vorsitzender: Ulrich Deppendorf ranges from Hildegard von Bingen to María de Buenos Aires.
Across Genre Boundaries KÜNSTLERISCHER BEIRAT Daniel Barenboim Once again, Young Euro Classic offers more than music in 2021: the National Iván Fischer Gidon Kremer Youth Ballet presents a Bach-themed evening. Jong Metropole, an offshoot of Patrick Lange the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, brings big band sounds to Kent Nagano Berlin. The popular series “Classic meets Jazz” also continues – led for the first Wolfgang Rihm Michael Sanderling time by a woman, the Berlin-based jazz pianist, vocalist and composer Clara Maxim Vengerov Haberkamp. Her own trio as well as the vocal ensemble In June meet the Pacific
Quintet, first heard at Young Euro Classic in 2020.
Next Generation and Family Day
The festival rings in better times for young people as well: during the Next Generation summer workshop week from August 2 to 6, children and teenagers aged 6 to 18 can embark upon journeys of discovery. European fairy-tales are explored through music, dance and theatre. A multimedia workshop demonstrates how film music is written and videos are shot. The Young Euro
Classic Reporters get a head start on their peers, accompanying festival events and creating a festival blog in texts, images and soundbites. Participants may register at: www.yecl.de/nextgeneration
The Young Euro Classic Family Day on August 8 offers an exciting programme for children and families. The German-French Junior Academy, a cooperation MEDIENARBEIT between the Music School Paul Hindemith in Berlin-Neukölln and the OBBP – El ARTEFAKT Kulturkonzepte Camino, performs music by Paul Hindemith, Georges Bizet, works from Game Marienburger Str. 16, 10405 Berlin [email protected] of Thrones and James Bond and others for children aged 6 and up. The Tel.: 030 440 10 687 / -688 performance Intergalactic Fun with IO by the Berlin Puppet Philharmonic takes Fax: 030 440 10 684 a playful approach to classical music, beyond all conventions, for children aged Pressedownloads unter: 2 www.artefakt-berlin.de
4 and up. Presentations of the Next Generation workshop results and other YOUNG EURO CLASSIC 2021 events round out the Family Day – all depending on the development of the Konzerthaus Berlin pandemic. 30. Juli bis 15. August 2021
The event Europe – My Home? My Future? continues the cooperation with PROGRAMM & TICKETS secondary school students from Berlin. In essays and poems, they explore www.young-euro-classic.de
European questions: what do they think about Europe? Do they see boundless travel – or perhaps their future after all? Does it symbolize peace, democracy Gesamtleitung: and cooperation, or bureaucracy and administrative chaos? The actor Boris Dr. Gabriele Minz GmbH Aljinovic reads from the students’ impressive works on August 15. Internationale Kulturprojekte Künstlerische Leitung: Prof. Dr. Dieter Rexroth Enabling the Joy of Performance Without the support and trust of the festival’s long-standing partners, planning this edition of Young Euro Classic would have been unthinkable. The presenter VERANSTALTER thanks the Federal Government, the State of Berlin and the Deutscher Freundeskreis europäischer Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the KfW Bankengruppe as well as the Volksbanken und Jugendorchester e.V. Meierottostraße 6 ∙ 10719 Berlin Raiffeisenbanken, the Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk, the GVL, its media Tel.: +49 – (0)30 – 88 47 13 90 partners and donors. Fax.: +49 – (0)30 – 88 47 13 92 E-Mail: [email protected]
Young Euro Classic takes place in close cooperation with the Konzerthaus Berlin, which provides the necessary framework for healthy and safe 1. Vorsitzender: Dr. Willi Steul concertgoing with its hygiene plan. It remains to be seen how the various levels 2. Vorsitzender: Ulrich Deppendorf of Berlin’s Pandemic Prevention Regulations will be implemented during the coming weeks. Current information is always available on the Young Euro Classic website. KÜNSTLERISCHER BEIRAT Daniel Barenboim Iván Fischer Gidon Kremer Tomorrow’s Musicians Today! Patrick Lange Young Euro Classic. Festival of the World’s Best Youth Orchestras Kent Nagano Wolfgang Rihm July 30 – August 15, 2021 at Konzerthaus Berlin Michael Sanderling For complete information, current programmes, tickets and hygiene rules: Maxim Vengerov www.young-euro-classic.de Tickets cost 20/32 Euro
Limited contingent for individual tickets Tickets to the Family Day cost 5 Euro per event; children under 10 free
One-time workshop fee: 5 Euros
NEW: Unlike usual years, advance ticket sales take place exclusively via the festival’s website, its Ticket Hotline and Interklassik Konzertkasse.
Ticket Hotline: +49 30 – 8410 8909, Monday to Sunday from 10 am – 4 pm
Ticket Sales Point: Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus: Interklassik GmbH
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Wednesday: 1 – 6 pm
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