Richard Wagner | Parsifal
Musikalische Leitung
Patrick Hahn
Conductor
Conductor, composer and pianist Patrick Hahn was born in 1995 in Graz, Austria and has already established himself as one of the most promising artists of his generation. Patrick’s international presence has grown exponentially in recent seasons in both the concert hall and opera house, with important engagements including dates with the Münchner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra London, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker and Bayerische Staatsoper. From the season 2021/22 he has taken up the position of General Music Director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH, becoming the youngest GMD in Germany.
As conductor, he has performed with major orchestras and opera houses including the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich, Camerata Salzburg, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, as well as Dutch National Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich, and Frankfurt Opera. Within the field of contemporary music he has a close relationship with Klangforum Wien.
As a pianist, he performed with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg or as a Lied accompanist in the Vienna Musikverein.
Next to his studies in piano and conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, he was invited to master classes with Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, and as a Conducting Fellow to the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Patrick’s first composition was an opera, Die Frittatensuppe, which he premiered in 2008. In 2013 he was awarded the 2nd prize from 170 submissions worldwide for his composition Ameraustrica at the 2013 Penfield Music Commission Project Contest (New York, USA). As a composer and arranger he has published music with Tierolff Muziekcentrale (Roosendaal, The Netherlands) as well as Helbling (Innsbruck, Austria).
Aside from his work in classical music, Patrick has a keen interest in both cabaret-songs, by the Austrian satirist and composer Georg Kreisler, as well as in jazz music, having received awards as a pianist at jazz festivals such as Chicago, and the ‘Outstanding Soloist Award’ from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as the best jazz pianist of the 37th Annual Jazz Festival.
Patrick received his vocal training and musical experience from a young age in various opera houses throughout Austria. He studied piano with Maria Zgubic and orchestral conducting with Martin Sieghart, Wolfgang Bozic and Johannes Prinz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria.
photo: Peter Purgar
Chor
Christian Günther
Associate Chorus Master
Birthplace:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Studies:
Conducting at University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, conducting lessons with Neeme Järvi, Jorma Panula and Gianluigi Gelmetti
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Assistant Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Career stages:
Assistant of the Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera (2008-2019), regular guest appearances at NDR-Chorus (since 2018), Guest Chorus Master at Zürich Opera House (2018), Assistant of Eberhard Friedrich with the Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival (2017), Guest engagements at Music Festival Bremen, at Festival der Projektgruppe Neue Musik Bremen as well as at Oh Ton-Ensemble Oldenburg, Leader of the Ensemble “Atelier Neue Musik”, Lectureship at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (since 2007), Associate Chorus Master and Leader of the children's chorus at Theater Bremen (2002-2007), 2nd Capellmeister at Theater Bremen (2005-2007), Conductor of the Ensemble “piano possible” Munich (1996-2007), Guest répétiteur at Stuttgart State Theater, Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and at the Biennale in Munich
Cooperation with choruses:
Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, NDR Chorus, Children's chorus of Theater Bremen, et al.
Amfortas
Christoph Pohl
Birthplace:
Hanover, Germany
Studies:
Opera singing studies at University of Music and Drama Hanover in Hanover at Prof. Carol Richardson-Smith, member of International Opera Studio of Staatsoper Hamburg (2003–2005)
Master class:
with Prof. Klesy Kelly (Cologne), Anna Tomowa -Sintow, Piotr Beczala, Neal Shicoff
Prizes:
prizewinner of Bundeswettbewerb Gesang, prizewinner of Deutscher Musikrat-Wettbewerb, Schumann-Liedwettbewerbs (2008), Christel-Goltz-Preis der Semperoperstiftung (2008)
Important parts:
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Marcello (La Bohème), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Graf Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Olivier und Graf (Capriccio), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt ), Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Danilo (Die lustige Witwe), Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Valentin (Faust), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Sevillia), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Schwanda (Svanda dudak), Heerrufer (Lohengrin), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Sharpless (Butterfly), Germont (La Traviata), Posa (Don Carlo), Guillaume Tell (Guillaume Tell), Spielmann (Königskinder), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Amfortas (Parsifal), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde)
Stages:
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Oper Leipzig, Theater Erfurt, Oper Frankfurt, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Wigmore Hall, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro La Fenice, Bregenzer Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, Peter Konwitschny, Stefan Herheim, Robert Carsen, Graham Vick, Andreas Homoki, Hans Neuenfels, Calixto Bieito, Damiano Michieletto, Jetzke Mijnssen, Lydia Steyer, Torsten Fischer, Elisabeth Stöppler, Axel Köhler, Markus Bothe
Cooperation with conductors:
Peter Schneider, Christian Thielemann, Donald Runnicles, Michael Boder, Axel Kober, Ivor Bolton, Nicola Luisotti, Giorgio Morandi, Cornelius Meister, Omer Meier Wellber, Sebastian Weigle
Titurel
Han Kim
Bass
Birthplace:
Pohang, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor, Seoul National University with Kwangchul Youn; Master Vocal performance, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Christian Elsner; Soloist’s Diploma Vocal performance, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Christian Elsner
Master class:
with Ann Murray, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (2019), with David Selig, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (2019)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2023/24 season
Was Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera 2021/22 and 2022/23
Important parts:
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello/Masetto (Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Il conte Rodolfo (La sonambula), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Colline (La Bohème), Zuniga (Carmen)
Stages:
Theater Heidelberg
Cooperation with directors:
Sonja Trebes
Cooperation with conductors:
Dietger Holm
photo: Johannes Xaver Zepplin
Gurnemanz
Kwangchul Youn
Bass
Birthplace:
Cheongju, South Korea
Important parts:
Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Hunding (Die Walküre), Conte des Grieux (Manon), Ramfis (Aida), et al.
Stages:
Vienna State Opera, Opéra de Paris, Berlin State Opera, Bayreuth Festival, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg Easter Festival, Metropolitan Opera New York, Tongyeong Festival, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Harry Kupfer, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Daniel Barenboim, René Jacobs, Bertrand de Billy, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, et al.
photo: Kwangchul Youn
Parsifal
Benjamin Bruns
Tenor
Birthplace:
Hanover, Germany
Studies:
University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg
Prizes:
Winner of the International Singing Competition of the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera (2002), 2nd prize in the German National Singing Competition (2002), Kurt Hübner Prize of the Bremen Theater (2008), Young Talent Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (2009)
Important parts:
Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serial), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tito (La Clemenza di Tito), Max (Der Freischütz), Alwa (Lulu), Loge (Das Rheingold), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Lohengrin (Lohengrin), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), Narraboth (Salome), Matteo (Arabella), Kaiser (Frau ohne Schatten), Herodes (Salome), Parsifal (Parsifal), Siegmund (Walküre)
Stages:
Vienna State Opera, State Opera Unter den Linden, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Teatro Real Madrid, Bayreuth Festival, Cologne Opera, Saxon State Opera Dresden, Bavarian State Opera, Zurich Opera House, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Colón, Opéra national du Rhin, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Salzburg Easter Festival, Gran Teatre del Liceu, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Robert Wilson, Hellmuth Matiasek, Rosamund Gilmore, Jan Philipp Gloger, Barrie Kosky, Andrea Moses, Christof Loy, Katharina Thoma, David McVicar, Philipp Himmelmann, Mariame Clément, Michael Sturminger, Josef Ernst Köpplinger, Roland Schwab, Adrian Noble, La Fura dels Baus, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Christian Thielemann, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Simone Young, Gerd Albrecht, Christoph Eschenbach, Karen Kamensek, Adam Fischer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Yannick Nezét-Séguin, Franz Welser-Möst, Ivor Bolton, Marc Minkowski, Daniel Harding, Laurence Équilbey, Pablo Heras-Casado, Cornelius Meister, Masaaki Suzuki, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Manfred Honneck, Alain Altinoglu, Andris Nelsons, Julia Jones, et al.
Cooperations with orchestras:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Kammerorchester Basel, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Bach Collegium Japan, et al.
photo: Sara Schöngen
Klingsor
Mark Stone
Baritone
Studies:
Singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Prizes:
Decca Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards (1998)
Important parts:
Wotan (Die Walküre), Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Alberich (Das Rheingold), White Knight (Alice’s Adventures Underground), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Balstrode (Peter Grimes), Protector (Written on Skin), Ford (Falstaff), Germont Pere (La Traviata), Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), et al.
Stages:
Grand Théâtre de Genève, Longborough Festival, Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, Valencia Palau de les Arts, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Queensland Opera, Mariisnky Theatre St Petersburg, Philadelphia Opera, Santa Fe Opera, et al.
photo: Simon Fowler
Kundry
Iréne Theorin
Birthplace:
Södra Hestra, Sweden
Studies:
Vocal performance at the Music Academy and Royal Opera School in Copenhagen
Prizes:
Singer of the Year in Spain for Brünnhilde in “Die Walküre” in Barcelona 2014
Order of the Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe ll of Denmark
Important parts:
Brünnhilde (Die Walküre), Brünnhilde (Götterdämmerung), Turandot (Turandot), Valencia (Elektra), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Färberin (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Gioconda (La Gioconda), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Berliner Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera de Paris, Semperoper Dresden, Bayreuth Festival, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Royal Swedish Opera, The New National Theatre Tokyo, Dutch National Opera, Opera Vlaanderen, Teatro Real Madrid, Oper Leipzig, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Wagner Festival in Budapest, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Oper Stuttgart, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Arena di Verona, The Royal Danish Theatre, The Mikhailovsky Theatre et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Fura del Baus, Katie Mitchell et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Daniel Barenboim, Mikko Franck, David Alden, Sir Simon Rattle, Marek Janwoski et al.
photo: Chris Gloag
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2. Gralsritter
David Minseok Kang
Bass
Origin:
Korea
Studies:
Kyunghee University in Seoul with Alfred Kim, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart Master class Oper with Ulrike Sonntag (2018-2022)
Master classes:
With Jenny Anvelt, Bo Skovhus, Kwangchul Youn, Margreet Honig, Gundula Schneider
Important parts:
Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Colline (La Bohème), Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Colline (La Bohème), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Ettlinger Schlossfestspiele, Theater Kiel, Oper Zürich
Relation to the State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio from 2019/2020 to 2021/2022
Ensemble member since 2022/2023
Cooperations with directors:
Blanka Radoczy, Solvejg Bauer, Bernd Schmitt
Cooperations with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Nicolas Andre, Matteo Beltrami, Paolo Arrivabeni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Francesco Ivan Ciampa
photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg
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Blumenmädchen I, 1
Yeonjoo Katharina Jang
Soprano
Birthplace:
Pohang, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor’s degree in singing at the Seoul National University with Heion Seo, Master’s degree in singing at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Marietta Zumbült owning a DAAD scholarship
Prizes:
First prize at the Piero Boni international singing contest (2020), second prize at the Anton Rubinstein internhational music competition (2019), first prize at the Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso international music competition (2019), special award at the international music competition Paris (2019), second prize at the korean singing competition (2016), first prize at the international singing competition of the korean singing club (2015), third prize at the Dong-A music competition (2015), u. a.
Refernce to the Staatsoper:
Member of the international opera studio at the Staatsoper Hamburg since the 2022/23 season
Master classes:
with Samuel Yoon (2021), Edda Moser (2019)
Important parts:
Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Königin der Nacht / Erste Dame / Papagena (Die Zauberflöte),
Gilda (Rigoletto), Olympia (Les Contes d‘Hoffmann), Ida (Die Fledermaus)
Stages:
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Daegu Opernhaus, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Christian Weise, Roman Hovenbitzer, Stephanie Koch, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Stefan Lano, Joongbae Jee,et al.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Blumenmädchen I, 2
Hellen Kwon
Soprano
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Köln with Dietger Jacob (1979-1984)
Prizes:
First prize in the Novara International Singing Competition (1984), winner of the Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Preis (1987), Rolf-Mares-Preis in the category “Exceptional Performances of an Actresses” for her interpretation of “Frau” in Wolfgang Rihm’s “Das Gehege” (2010), Grammy Award Nomination for the recording of Walter von Braunfels’ “Die Vögel” conducted by Lothar Zagrosek, honored with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” by the Hamburg Senate (2011), “Order of Civil” by the Korean Government for exceptional artistic achievements (2013), “Star of Ewha” Prize (2018)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1987/88
Important parts:
The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Zdenka (Arabella), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Blonde/Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Anna/Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Despina/Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Elettra (Idomeneo), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Musetta/Mimì (La Bohème), Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Liú (Turandot), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Micaëla (Carmen), Norina (Don Pasquale), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Adele/Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Minni (La Fanciulla del West), Frau (Das Gehege), Salome/Herodias (Salome), Chrysothemis (Elektra), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Oper Leipzig, Oper Stuttgart, Oper Köln, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburger Festspiele, Opernhaus Zürich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, Opéra Comique de Paris, Glyndebourne Festival, Den Norske Opera, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro Filarmonico Verona, The Israeli Opera, Jerusalem Opera Festival, New National Theatere Tokio, Korean National Opera, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Peter Konwitschny, Johannes Schaaf, Günther Krämer, Marco Marelli, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Peter Sellars, John Dew, Adolf Dresen, Nikolas Brieger, Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Horst Stein, Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Jeffrey Tate, Marcello Viotti, Simone Young, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, et al.
photo: Martina Cyman
Blumenmädchen I, 3
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Blumenmädchen II, 1
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Stimme aus der Höhe
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Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
photo: Foto: Felix Broede