[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet on the End of Time" was performed on the 83rd anniversary of its premiere in the Stalag VIII A Görlitz prisoner of war camp, now the Stalag VIII A memorial. The concert was originally intended...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 5 December 2023, pupils from the state music schools in Jelenia Góra traditionally performed at the Silesian Christmas Market in Görlitz. The young musicians from the "Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna I stopnia im. J. Garści" and the "Państwowa...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Friday, June 17, shortly before leaving the office for a well-deserved weekend, we were unexpectedly visited by Raphaël Sévère. The young clarinetist from Paris had just performed as soloist at the 7th Concert of the New Lusatian...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Tuesday, May 31, we were visited in Görlitz-Zgorzelec by Juan Muñoz, a young composer from Colombia who is currently studying at the University of Music in Dresden. Our partner orchestra, Sinfonietta Dresden, has commissioned him to write...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Music knows no borders, music unites and constantly reminds us how important peace is. Children and young people from Germany, Poland and Ukraine, who met at the European Center for Remembrance, Education, Culture in Zgorzelec in the spring,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="14733" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On March 26, traditionally with the beginning of spring, we hosted our partner orchestra Sinfonietta Dresden at the Kulturforum Görlitzer Synagoge. The concert evening, "Beethoven | Intersection Points...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="14698" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On March 26, as a prelude to the Dresden Sinfonietta's concert "Beethoven | Intersection Points 5, a music workshop was held for children from Ukraine, Poland and Germany....
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="14379" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Despite the very unlucky pandemic-forced cancellation of our International Messiaen Days 2022, we have managed in organizing a symbolic makeshift program on January 15th and we’re very glad...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]INTERNATIONAL MESSIAEN DAYS GÖRLITZ-ZGORZELEC: "FEAR AND HOPE" APRIL 29 - MAY 2, 2021 The festival will create a space where we will have the opportunity to once again try to understand the fears and hopes accompanying the prisoners of Stalag VIII...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] International Messiaen Days Görlitz-Zgorzelec announce competition - prize winners play at the place of the premiere - encounters with star musicians [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="14201" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Performance...
From 11.01. until 15.01.2019 the International Messiaen-Days in Görlitz Zgorzelec will take place again. You can expect a varied program, a successful mixture of different concerts and historical lectures. This time the festival concentrates on the main questions: Who are we? Where do we come from?...
On Saturday, June 9th we are going to have an extraordinary opportunity to eavesdrop on practice of Staatskapelle Dresden Orchestra. It will be a chance to take a look at everyday work of word-class musicians at the beautiful opera house the Semperoper. In the...