Retrospect

Chronology | The Artists 1993–2009

Chronology

Located in Saxony’s unspoiled rural landscape, the Moritzburg Castle welcomes today one of the world’s most prestigious chamber music festivals.

The Moritzburg Festival under the artistic direction of internationally renowned and ECHO awarded cellist Jan Vogler was founded in 1993 by Kai Vogler, Peter Bruns and Jan Vogler. All three artists had been participants in the famous Marlboro Festival in the USA several times and were looking for an opportunity to establish a similar concept in the German federal state of Saxony—Moritzburg Castle near Dresden appeared to be the ideal setting to carry out this ambitious project.

Owing to the presence of internationally renowned soloists and to the unique atmosphere of Moritzburg Castle the festival has quickly developed a unique spirit defined by highest musical standards and enthusiasm of the participating artists. Moritzburg has thus become a workshop of intense exchange of musical ideas, as far as the artists are concerned, and for the audience a top class music event which attracts visitors both from Germany and from abroad. Last but not least, the special dynamics of the concerts is created by the encounter between young, distinguished musicians and artists of international acclaim.

The festival takes place every year in August. During two weeks soloists from all over the world concentrate on works of chamber music and perform them in concerts at the end. The number of artists amounts to 25 every year, from countries like USA, Japan, China, Canada, Israel, England, Russia, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.

Covering the whole range of chamber music literature, the programmes of the festival deal with contemporary music on an extensive scale as well. Thus, since 1997 the festival awards the position of the Composer-in-Residence, which in the past years was held by composers like Wolfgang Rihm, Thomas Adès, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steven Stucky, Gustavo Beytelmann, Jörg Widmann, Helmut Oehring, Iris ter Schiphorst, Steffen Schleiermacher, Chen Yi and Zhou Long.

Since 2006 the newly founded Moritzburg Festival Academy gives young talented music students the opportunity to prepare chamber orchestra as well as chamber music works for performance within the Festival. Every year 40 young music students have the opportunity to work together with established and renowned concert artists of the international music scene.

The tour project with “Moritzburg Festival on Tour”, initiated in 2001, leads to important music centers of Germany, Europe and the USA.

The Artists 1993–2009

Violin

Ulrike Anima-Mathé, Germany
Lidia Baich, Russia
Yehonatan Berick, Israel
Renaud Capuçon, France
Robert Chen, USA
Mirijam Contzen, Germany
Ariadne Daskalakis, USA
James Ehnes, Canada
Isabelle Faust, Germany
Mila Georgieva, Bulgaria
Karen Gomyo, USA
Ilya Gringolts, Russia
Viviane Hagner, Germany
Ulf Hoelscher, Germany
Alina Ibragimova, Russia
Colin Jacobsen, USA
Sophia Jaffé, Germany
Janine Jansen, Netherlands
Lara St. John, Canada
Scott St. John, Canada
Barnabás Kelemen, Hungary
Soovin Kim, USA
Young Uck Kim, USA
Pekka Kuusisto, Finland
Rachel Lee, USA
Wolfgang Marschner, Germany
Florian Mayer, Germany
Robert McDuffie, USA
Anne Akiko Meyers, Japan
Julian Rachlin, Austria
Marco Rizzi, Italy
Linus Roth, Germany
Benjamin Schmid, Austria
Wolfgang Schröder, Germany
Mikhail Simonyan, Russia
Baiba Skride, Latvia
Mark Steinberg, USA
Axel Strauß, Germany
Kai Vogler, Germany
Mira Wang, China
Hanna Weinmeister, Austria
Carolin Anne Widmann, Germany

Viola

Maurycy Banaszek, Poland
Guy Ben-Ziony, Israel
Lise Berthaud, France
Choong-Jin Chang, Korea
Isabel Charisius, Germany
Nicholas Cords, USA
Carrie Dennis, USA
Roberto Diaz, USA
Ulrich Eichenauer, Germany
Stefan Fehlandt, Germany
Andrei Gridchuk, Russia
Hsin-Yun Huang, Taiwan
Friedemann Jähnig, Germany
Dorothea Jende, Germany
Thomas Kakuska, Austria
Rainer J. Kimstedt, Germany
Teng Li, China
Tatjana Masurenko, Russia
Annemarie Moorcroft, Canada
Philipp Naegele, USA
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, USA
Paul Pesthy, USA
Diemut Poppen, Germany
Benjamin Rivinius, Germany
Hartmut Rohde, Germany
Maxim Rysanov, Ukraine
Felix Schwartz, Germany
Naoko Shimizu, Japan
Antoine Tamestit, France
Lars Anders Tomter, Norway

Double Bass

Helmut Branny, Germany
Timothy Cobb, USA
Alexandra Scott, England
Werner Zeibig, Germany

Harp

Astrid von Brück, Germany
Sarah Christ, Germany
Cornelia Smaczny, Germany

Cello

Julie Albers, USA
Peter Bruns, Germany
Gautier Capuçon, France
Thomas Carroll, England
Natalie Clein, England
Henri Demarquette, France
Sol Gabetta, France
Ramon Jaffé, Germany
Guy Johnston, England
Sebastian Klinger, Germany
Rebekka Markowski, Germany
Johannes Moser, Germany
Daniel Müller-Schott, Germany
Miklós Perényi, Hungary
Christian Poltéra, Switzerland
Gustav Rivinius, Germany
Heinrich Schiff, Austria
Quirine Viersen, Netherlands
Jan Vogler, Germany
Alisa Weilerstein, USA
Wen-Sinn Yang, Switzerland

Flute

Marina Piccinini, USA

Oboe

Albrecht Mayer, Germany
Martine Värnik, Australia

Clarinet

Eduard Brunner, Switzerland
Wenzel Fuchs, Austria
Paul Meyer, France
Wolfgang Meyer, Germany
Charles Neidich, USA
David Orlowsky, Germany
Ayako Oshima, Japan
Håkan Rosengren, Sweden
Jörg Widmann, Germany

Bassoon

Sergio Azzolini, Italy
Steven Dibner, USA
Henrik Rabien , Germany
Matthias Racz , Germany

French Horn

Christine Chapman, USA
Klaus Gayer , Germany
Xiao-Ming Han, China
Sybille Mahni, Sweden
Marie-Luise Neunecker, Germany

Trumpet

Alison Balsom, England

Trombone

Frederic Belli, Germany

Saxophone

John-Edward Kelly, USA

Guitar

Ismo Eskelinen, Finland
Bandoneon
- Victor Hugo Villena, Argentina

Pipa

Yang Jing, China

Sheng

Wu Wei, China

Correpetition

Helmut Deutsch, Austria
Ulrich Eisenlohr, Germany

Pianoforte

Zvi Meniker, Israel

Piano

Rieko Aizawa, Japan
Igor Ardasev, Czech Republic
Silke Avenhaus, Germany
Gustavo Beytelmann, Argentina
Bruno Canino, Italy
Boris Giltburg, Russia
Hélène Grimaud, France
Andreas Groethuysen, Germany
Andreas Haefliger, Switzerland
Ariane Haering, Austria
Roglit Ishay, Israel
Matthias Kirschnereit, Germany
Ewa Kupiec, Poland
Polina Leschenko, Russia
Louis Lortie, Canada
Andrea Lucchesini, Italy
Siegfried Mauser, Germany
Péter Nagy, Hungary
Adam Neiman, USA
Enrico Pace, Italy
Vanessa Perez, Venezuela
Alfredo Perl, Chile
Steffen Schleiermacher, Germany
Antti Siirala, Finland
Lauma Skride, Latvia
Martin Stadtfeld, Germany
Yaara Tal, Israel
Saule Tatubaeva, Kazakhstan
Oliver Triendl, Germany

Drums

Colin Currie, England
Christian Langner, Germany
Thomas Meixner, Germany

Voices

Olaf Bär, Germany
Stefan Genz, Germany
Maria Husmann, Germany
Stefanie Irányi, Germany
Salome Kammer, Germany
Lydia Teuscher, Germany
Marcus Ullmann, Germany
Anke Vondung, Germany

Composer-in-Residence

Thomas Adès, England
Gustavo Beytelmann, Argentina
Chen Yi, China
John Harbison, USA
Olli Mustonen, Finland
Helmut Oehring, Germany
Wolfgang Rihm, Germany
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finland
Iris ter Schiphorst, Germany
Steffen Schleiermacher, Germany
Steven Stucky, USA
Mark-Anthony Turnage, England
Jörg Widmann, Germany
Zhou Long, China

Recitation

Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge, Germany
Josephine Hoppe, Germany

Jazz

Georg Breinschmid (Double Bass), Austria
Stian Carstensen (Accordion), Norway

Chamber Orchestra

Camerata Bern, Switzerland
Franz Liszt Kammerorchester Budapest, Hungary

Conductor

Hermann Bäumer, Germany
James Gaffigan, USA
Tomas Hanus, Czech Republic
Grant Llewellyn, England