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Chronology | The Artists 1993–2011
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.
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The Artists 1993–2011
Violin
- Ulrike Anima-Mathé, Germany
- Lidia Baich, Russia
- Nicola Benedetti, Great Britain
- 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
- Chun-Wen Huang, Taiwan
- 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
- Philippe Quint, Russia
- Julian Rachlin, Austria
- Marco Rizzi, Italy
- Linus Roth, Germany
- Benjamin Schmid, Austria
- Wolfgang Schröder, Germany
- Mikhail Simonyan, Russia
- Baiba Skride, Latvia
- Valeriy Sokolov, Ukraine
- Friederike Starkloff, Germany
- Mark Steinberg, USA
- Axel Strauß, Germany
- Arnaud Sussmann, France
- Kai Vogler, Germany
- Mira Wang, China
- Hanna Weinmeister, Austria
- Carolin Anne Widmann, Germany
- Frank Peter Zimmermann, Germany
- Serge Zimmermann, Germany
Viola
- Kyle Armbrust, USA
- Maurycy Banaszek, Poland
- Guy Ben-Ziony, Israel
- Lise Berthaud, France
- David Aaron Carpenter, USA
- 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
- Max Mandel, USA
- Tatjana Masurenko, Russia
- Nils Mönkemeyer, Germany
- 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
- Janne Saksala, Finland
- Alexandra Scott, Great Britain
- Werner Zeibig, Germany
Cello
- Julie Albers, USA
- Nicolas Altstaedt, Germany
- Peter Bruns, Germany
- Gautier Capuçon, France
- Thomas Carroll, England
- Natalie Clein, England
- Henri Demarquette, France
- Sol Gabetta, France
- Eric Han, Korea
- Danjulo Ishizaka, Germany/Japan
- 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
- Li-Wei Qin, China
- Gustav Rivinius, Germany
- Heinrich Schiff, Austria
- Julian Steckel, Germany
- Quirine Viersen, Netherlands
- Jan Vogler, Germany
- Alisa Weilerstein, USA
- Wen-Sinn Yang, Switzerland
Harp
- Astrid von Brück, Germany
- Sarah Christ, Germany
- Cornelia Smaczny, Germany
Flute
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
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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
Trombone
Saxophone
- John-Edward Kelly, USA
- Daniel Schnyder, Switzerland
Guitar
Bandoneon
- Victor Hugo Villena, Argentina
Pipa
Sheng
Correpetition
- Helmut Deutsch, Austria
- Ulrich Eisenlohr, Germany
Pianoforte
Piano
- Rieko Aizawa, Japan
- Igor Ardasev, Czech Republic
- Silke Avenhaus, Germany
- Gustavo Beytelmann, Argentina
- Bruno Canino, Italy
- Lise de la Salle, France
- Boris Giltburg, Russia
- Hélène Grimaud, France
- Andreas Groethuysen, Germany
- Andreas Haefliger, Switzerland
- Ariane Haering, Austria
- Nicole Hagner, Germany
- 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
- Alice Sara Ott, Germany
- 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
- Christiane Iven, Germany
- Salome Kammer, Germany
- Lydia Teuscher, Germany
- Marcus Ullmann, Germany
- Anke Vondung, Germany
- Andrew Watts, Great Britain
- Ruth Ziesak, Germany
Composer-in-Residence
- Thomas Adès, England
- Gustavo Beytelmann, Argentina
- Chen Yi, China
- John Harbison, USA
- Olli Mustonen, Finland
- Helmut Oehring, Germany
- Torsten Rasch, Germany
- Wolfgang Rihm, Germany
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finland
- Iris ter Schiphorst, Germany
- Steffen Schleiermacher, Germany
- Daniel Schnyder, Switzerland
- Steven Stucky, USA
- Mark-Anthony Turnage, England
- Jörg Widmann, Germany
- Zhou Long, China
Recitation
- Josephine Hoppe, Germany
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge, Germany
- Doreen Kähler, Germany
- Robby Langer, Germany
- Carsten Linke, Germany
- Tom Quaas, 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
- Alondra de la Parra, Mexico
- James Gaffigan, USA
- Tomas Hanus, Czech Republic
- Grant Llewellyn, England
- Anu Tali, Estonia
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