Once a year, the German Music Publishers Association awards a prize for the »Best Concert Program« of the current season. This year, the Bamberg Symphony were honored out of 130 German professional orchestras. Also Minister of Arts Prof. dr. Marion Kiechle congratulated on this special award, which has been awarded annually since 1991. The press release of the association can be found here!
June 2018, it’s a beautiful summer day in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bamberg and that’s where they stand: Over 100 musicians from Bamberg Symphony are gathering on the forecourt of the Neue Residenz in their city for a mission: a new orchestra photo! How photographer Andreas Herzau constructs such a picture and which logistics are necessary for it? The making-of video by Michael Wende gives a glimpse behind the scenes! And the new photo summarizes our claim in one picture: Extraordinary city – extraordinary orchestra!
The 50th CD recording of Bamberg Symphony’s collaboration with Tudor and Bayerischer Rundfunk is also the first of a new cycle with its Chief Conductor Jakub Hrůša: The last four symphonies by Antonín Dvořák are juxtaposed with the four masterworks by Johannes Brahms. This four-part series kicks off with the last symphonies of each of the two composers: Brahms’ Fourth and Dvořák’s Ninth symphony (“From the New Word“).
