Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg
The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Symphony Orchestra of the city and province of Salzburg.
The ensemble has its roots in 1841 founded " Cathedral Music Society and the Mozarteum " and was launched with the assistance of Constanze Mozart to life. It was originally the Orchestra of the students of the music school and later Academy Mozarteum. It carries since 1908 the present name.
In 1939, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg sparked by the former Academy and became the orchestra of selected professional musicians and independent institution. In 1958 it was extended to the symphony of the city and province of Salzburg and is now one of the leading symphony orchestras in Austria. Principal Conductor since 2004 Ivor Bolton. From October 2009 to January 2014 led Vera van Hazebrouck as executive director the fortunes of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
The Mozarteum Orchestra is the organizer of two separate concerts: Sunday matinees at the Grosses Festspielhaus offer great symphonic music from the classical period to the present. The Thursday concerts are a thematic focus, the concert series that seeks a balance between famous orchestral music and lesser known works. In the artistic focus is on the music of the Viennese Classical era.
The Mozarteum Orchestra plays each year, the Mozart Matinees at the Salzburg Festival (since 1972) and several concerts at the Salzburg Mozart Week. On his international tours, the Mozarteum Orchestra represents the city and province of Salzburg and occurs as a musical ambassador.
The stylistic range of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg arises from the diverse tasks. In addition to the music of the Viennese classics in their own concert series, it plays at the Salzburg Festival and in major opera productions (2009 Haydn's Armida, 2008 and 2010 Gounod's Roméo et Juliette under Yannick Nézet -Séguin and with Anna Netrebko, also Mozart's C minor Mass and the final concert of the Young Singers Project ). For the Salzburg State Theatre, the orchestra music theater performances of great plays opera to operetta, ballet and musicals, great for the Salzburg Cultural Association symphonic repertoire.
The orchestra includes 91 musicians and was led by international guest conductors such as Trevor Pinnock, Hans Graf, Robin Ticciati, Marc Minkowski, Yannick Nézet -Séguin, Mark Elder, Frans Brüggen, Andris Nelsons, Mark Wigglesworth and Thomas Dausgaard.
One concern of the Mozarteum Orchestra is working with young people. Thus, the Mozarteum Orchestra in 2008 brought in the context of his youth project, 2 ORCHESTRAS ' his first commissioned work for the combination of professional and youth orchestras premiered. The project was continued in the season 2010/2011 with a work by the composer Toshio Hosokawa. Accompanying music workshops, concerts and a musical school sponsorship are other initiatives in the field of youth work.
The work of the Mozarteum Orchestra is also documented on recordings. The CD releases at Oehms Classics include, inter alia, numerous works by Mozart, Haydn's oratorio The Seasons and The Creation, Berlioz's L' Enfance du Christ and started a cycle of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. On DVD include, without limitation Gounod's Roméo et Juliette with Rolando Villazon and zarzuela appeared with Placido Domingo.
The home of the orchestra is located in the so-called orchestra house next to the old Petersbrunnhof in Nonntal. Official main sponsors of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg are Mercedes- Benz Austria and the Leica Camera AG.