Podium Zukunft
SAT 25 – MON 27 APRYoung, energetic – and already at the top!
This is what the next generation sounds likeIntroducing: the spirit, the passion, but also the top level of the next generation! Over a long weekend, we will be providing a stage for young international top orchestras and look forward to fresh ideas, creative programmes and the full sound of the orchestra.
From Brazil to Berlin, from South Africa to Frankfurt
Young orchestras from three continentsWe are expecting top young talent from Brazil and South Africa to make their debut at the Alte Oper. We welcome a jazz orchestra from the Netherlands and a Berlin orchestra project for refugees. And we look forward to concerts by orchestras based here in Frankfurt or Hessen.
The programme features works that are as dynamic as the young generation – orchestral music from Brazil and South Africa, classics from the repertoire in a new concert setting, and much more.
A festival to discover and participate in
A weekend full of sound, inspiration and encountersPodium Zukunft is more than just a concert festival: in addition to performances by major orchestras, there is plenty to experience over the course of an entire weekend, including innovative formats, a virtual reality experience and an open instrument workshop. In discussions and discourse formats, experts and the young musicians themselves also have their say: How do they want to shape the concert business of the future? Which traditions do they question, and what new forms of interaction between stage and audience are they considering?
Participation in the supporting programme is free for anyone who has tickets for the main concerts on the respective day.
Podium Zukunft invites you to listen, think and participate – and to get to know the younger generation up close.
NEOJIBA ORCHESTRA
The Brazilian Youth Orchestra will open the festival with its Frankfurt debut.Within the framework of major government programmes designed to introduce young people in South America to music and culture, the orchestra of excellence founded in Brazil in 2007 has made a name for itself internationally. The youth orchestra has already played more than 300 concerts worldwide, and in April it will be able to add another prestigious venue to its list of performance locations: the Alte Oper. The young musicians of Neojiba – around 100 talented performers aged between 13 and 27 – will perform the opening concert of the Youth Orchestra Festival. With the drive of George Gershwin's ‘Cuban Overture’ and their own energy, they will set the tone for the evening and for a festival in which the next generation has the say, or rather the play.
What else you can experience...
Frankfurt School Philharmonic Orchestra & Hessen State Youth Symphony Orchestra
Local and regional orchestras form the cornerstones of the second day of the festival.First, the focus is on Frankfurt's school orchestra scene. Especially for the festival, the school orchestras of the Bettina School, the Elisabeth School, the Wöhlerschule and the Gymnasium Nord have joined forces to form the Frankfurt School Philharmonic Orchestra and have rehearsed a programme over the course of a school semester. In the concert, under the baton of Nicolai Bernstein, the voices come together to form a full project orchestra and perform Jean Sibelius' tone poem ‘Finlandia’ as well as works by Shostakovich and Schubert.
The Hessen State Youth Symphony Orchestra will be staging an experiment during the evening performance. The musicians, aged between 13 and 19, will perform the first half of the concert under the baton of Spanish conductor Roc Fargas I Castells in accordance with the usual conventions of concert performance, while the second half will be innovative, with a production developed especially for the evening. At the end, concertgoers can decide for themselves which traditions and rituals are important to them and which they consider outdated – and how appealing they find new settings and formats. The programme includes Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony as well as works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Manuel de Falla.
What else you can experience...
- 12:00 – 19:00 / Clara Schumann Foyer / Backstage & Beyond
- 12:00 – 19:00 / Hertie Foyer / Beethoven 360°
- 12:30 & 13:30 / Albert Mangelsdorff Foyer / Echo Theory
- 12:30 & 13:30 / Liszt Salon / Podium II – Zusammenspiel als Zukunftsmodell
- 12:30 & 13:30 & 16:30 & 17:30 / Schumann Salon / KI-Labor
- 15:30 / Mozart Saal / Hangarmusik
- 16:30 & 17:30 / Liszt Salon / Podium III – Traditionen auf dem Prüfstand
- 12:00 – 19:00 / Wintergarten / Instrumentenworkshop
MIAGI ORCHESTRA
The festival concludes with an extraordinary orchestral project from South Africa.The MIAGI Orchestra, conducted by David Panzl, is visiting Frankfurt for the first time. ‘Music is a great investment’ is the motto behind the initiative, which was launched in 2001 by South African singer Robert Brooks and Finnish pianist Ingrid Hedlund. Membership in the orchestra thus represents an important opportunity for the future for the nearly 50 young musicians from all social classes and regions of South Africa. The orchestra has already performed throughout Europe on several tours. For its debut at the Alte Oper, the orchestra will perform music by Leonard Bernstein, the ‘bridge builder,’ as well as works by South African composers.
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