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Dresdner Sinfoniker are amongst the leading symphony orchestras for contemporary music. The ensemble, which is made up of members of almost all of Europe’s most important orchestras, works together entirely on a project basis. Along their way, the Dresdner Sinfoniker have managed to bring together unexpected connections between the different genres of modern music. The orchestra can look back on a number of international concert tours and successful collaborations with renowned solo artists and conductors, such as the Kronos Quartet, René Pape, Bryn Terfel, Katharina Thalbach, Andreas Boyde, Peter Bruns and Jonathan Nott. Amongst the challenges of the future, the Dresdner Sinfoniker aim to continue to make multimedia and intercultural dialogue an integral part of their musical creativity: The message of projects like "Hasretim" (2010), "Cinema Jenin - A Symphony" (2011) and „Dede Korkut“ (planned in 2013) is an inspiring and experimental guided debate between different cultures.
In 2003, the Dresdner Sinfoniker attracted a great deal of international attention with the song cycle « My Heart Burns» by Torsten Rasch which was inspired by the music and lyrics of the German rock band, Rammstein. The orchestra‘s recording of this work was presented the Echo-Klassik 2004 award. In collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, they recorded a new soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film, «Battleship Potemkin» on EMI in 2004, with a further collaboration producing the much acclaimed « High-rise Symphony» in 2006. A great deal of attention attracted the «World’s first remote conducting» in 2008. In a live satellite link-up with Dresden, conductor Michael Helmrath conducted the orchestra live from London. The multimedia concert collage « Hasretim – A trip to Anatolia» in 2010 (Dresdner Sinfoniker with turkish and armenian guests) was awarded a special prize for its outstanding intercultural horizon by the german UNESCO commission. «Cinema Jenin – A Symphony» (2011) is a transcultural project with Kayhan Kalhor (Iran) and musicians from Egypt, Israel, Westbank and USA.
The Dresdner Sinfoniker contribute to the Network in Germany by creating music projects with an intercultural approach to support a human and social dialogue among people of different cultures and beliefs.
The main focus of our recent projects is a cross cultural dialogue, which is exactly in line with the purpose of the ALF Network: International music projects of the Dresdner Sinfoniker like „Hasretim“, „Cinema Jenin“ or „Dede Korkut“ want to communicate between artists and cultural groups from across the Mediterranean to improve mutual respect between cultures. The musical creativity of the orchestra supports a mutual understanding, a human and social dialogue. Our culturel work as a non-profit organisation relies on additional financial support of foundations like the Anna Lindh Foundation.