The Dresden Festival Orchestra will play a free concert, ideal for discovering the workings of an orchestra and the intricacies of a symphony. Attendees will get to know the instruments, the dynamics between the musicians and the conductor, as well as the structure and emotional impact that a symphony produces.
Designed for audiences of all ages, this event is a perfect opportunity for both classical music lovers and those looking to be initiated in the genre. A unique, enriching experience!
Interpreters
Dresdner Festspielorchester
Bearing the message of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele throughout the world has been the mission of the Dresdner Festspielorchester (Dresden Festival Orchestra) since its founding in 2012.
The orchestra is dedicated to original sound and unites leading experts in historically informed performance practice, mostly members of Europe’s pre-eminent early-music ensembles, and has focused during recent years mainly on the romantic repertoire.
Under the baton of its chief conductor Ivor Bolton and various guest conductors – including Daniele Gatti, David Robertson and Jean-Christophe Spinosi – the Festspielorchester has tackled famous works by Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms and Hector Berlioz, coaxing unexpected sound colors from its historical instruments from the time of the works’ genesis, thereby contributing to a new manner of hearing romantic works in the musical city of Dresden.
The culmination of this musical research is the project »The Wagner Cycles«, during which the Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln under the baton Kent Nagano began in 2023 with a series featuring one part of Richard Wagner’s »Der Ring des Nibelungen« per year, recreating the historical sound of Wagner’s own era.
Celebrated appearances on tour in Bogotá, Paris, Ravello, Prague, Amsterdam, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Lucerne Festival have allowed the Festspielorchester to export the unique Dresden Festival atmosphere to some of the world’s leading concert halls.
JOSEP CABALLÉ DOMENECH
Josep Caballé Domenech is considered one of Spain's most renowned and established conductors. Since 2018, he has been the chief conductor of the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra. Recently, he concluded his twelve-year tenure as Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, where he became the first conductor in the orchestra's 98-year history to receive the title of "Laureate Conductor." From 2013 to 2018, he served as General Music Director of the Opera Halle and the Staatskapelle Halle. In 2018, he was Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá and, between 2005 and 2007, Principal Guest Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.
Caballé Domenech has conducted a wide range of prestigious orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic, with which he recorded Respighi's Roman Trilogy for Onyx Classics, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Munich Radio Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, WDR Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Czech Philharmonic, RSO Vienna, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Sichuan. In Spain, he has collaborated with the National Orchestra of Spain, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Barcelona, Euskadi, Bilbao, Navarra, Galicia, Castilla y León, Tenerife, the City of Granada Orchestra, and the Extremadura Orchestra.
Caballé Domenech made his opera debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and has conducted productions at the Savonlinna Festival, La Fenice in Venice, and various prestigious venues such as the Berlin, Hamburg, and Stuttgart State Operas, the Semperoper Dresden, Theater an der Wien, Vienna Volksoper, Komische Oper Berlin, Aalto Theater Essen, Capitole de Toulouse, Theatre Royal de Versailles, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, ABAO in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, and the São Carlos in Lisbon.
Recent highlights include Wagner's Ring Cycle, The Flying Dutchman, Aida, Tosca, and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Opera Halle; La Fanciulla del West, Pagliacci, and Cavalleria Rusticana at the Hamburg State Opera; as well as Salome and Der Rosenkavalier at the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá. He has conducted concerts at Teatro Real Madrid with Bryn Terfel, the Palau de les Arts Orchestra in Valencia with Lang Lang, and has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman in Colorado Springs.
The recent seasons took him to the Dresden Festival Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Kulturpalast Dresden with the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, as well as to the Niederrheinische Symphoniker, Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, Memphis and Portland Symphony Orchestras, Asturias Symphony Orchestra in Oviedo, RTVE Madrid, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Szczecin Philharmonic, and to concerts with Plácido Domingo in Madrid and Mérida. He also conducted Carmen in Puerto Rico, Ariadne auf Naxos in Bogotá and Lohengrin in Dortmund
Born into a musical family in Barcelona, Josep Caballé Domenech studied piano, percussion, singing, and violin, and completed conducting studies in Vienna, Sweden, and Aspen. His mentors include Sergiu Comissiona, Jorma Panula, David Zinman, and Sir Colin Davis. He was a prizewinner at the 1st Young Conductors’ Competition of the Symphony Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias (2000) and the 13th Nicolai Malko International Conductors’ Competition (2001). Additionally, he was awarded the Aspen Prize by the American Academy of Conducting at the AMFS and was selected as a "Protégé" in the inaugural cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2002–03) under the mentorship of Sir Colin Davis.
