THE DRESDEN PHILHARMONIC PRINCIPAL CONDUCTORS Upon being founded in 1870, the Dresden Philharmonic brought a new spirit DRESDNER STADTKAPELLE to the city’s public music culture with its performances at the »Gewerbehaus- Moritz Erdmann Puffholdt saal«. The orchestra remains true to this tradition today. As the city’s orchestra, 1871 – 1885 Hermann G. Mannsfeldt the Dresden Philharmonic is conscious of its obligation to a diverse audience. 1885 – 1886 Michael Zimmermann In addition to its classical-romantic core repertoire, the Dresden Philharmonic 1886 – 1890 Ernst Stahl has always been open to performing contemporary compositions. The orchestra 1890 – 1903 August Trenkler continues this trend today with recently commissioned works from Sofia 1903 – 1915 Henrik Willy Olsen Gubaidulina, Rodion Schtschedrin, Gija Kancheli, and Michael Nyman. 1915 – 1923 Edwin Lindner Noteworthy conductors and soloists regularly gave guest performances with the Dresden Philharmonic: Johannes Brahms, Peter Tchaikovsky, Antonín DRESDNER PHILHARMONISCHES Dvorákˇ and Richard Strauss came to conduct their own works. In later years ORCHESTER this included artists like Hermann Abendroth, Eduard van Beinum, Fritz Busch, 1923 – 1924 Joseph Gustav Mraczek Eugen Jochum, Joseph Keilberth, Erich Kleiber, Hans Knappertsbusch, Franz 1924 – 1929 Eduard Mörike Konwitschny or Arthur Nikisch. In recent times the orchestra has worked with guest conductors such as Marc DRESDNER PHILHARMONIE E.V. Albrecht, Dennis Russell Davies, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Kristjan Järvi, Michail 1929 – 1932 Paul Scheinpflug Jurowski, Dmitri Kitajenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Sir Neville Marriner, Wayne 1932 – 1934 Werner Ladwig Marshall, Kurt Masur, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, Markus Poschner, 1934 – 1942 Paul van Kempen André Previn, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Yuri Temirkanow, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sebastian Weigle, DRESDNER PHILHARMONIE Simone Young and Lothar Zagrosek. Regular guest appearances by soloists 1942 – 1944 Carl Schuricht First Guest Conductor; such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Julia Fischer, Kirill Gerstein, Matthias Goerne, since 1944 Principal Conductor Vadim Gluzman, Martin Grubinger, Håkan Hardenberger, Michaela Kaune, 1945 – 1946 Gerhard Wiesenhütter Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniel Müller-Schott, Fazil Say, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet 1947 – 1964 Heinz Bongartz have also enriched the orchestra’s repertoire. 1964 – 1966 Horst Förster 1967 – 1972 Kurt Masur In 1909 the Dresden Philharmonic became one of the first German orchestras 1972 – 1977 Günther Herbig to perform a concert tour in the United States. Since then concert tours have 1977 – 1985 Herbert Kegel taken the Dresden Philharmonic to the major music centers of Europe, the 1986 – 1993 Jörg-Peter Weigle Americas and Asia. 1993 – 1999 Michel Plasson Michael Sanderling, Principal Conductor since 2011 | 2012, will lead the 1999 – 2000 without a Principal Conductor Dresden Philharmonic this season on tours to the United States und Japan 2000 – 2004 Marek Janowski and to the leading Central European music centers including Cologne, Munich 2004 – 2011 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Vienna. Since 2011 Michael Sanderling.