Music and theatre

Concert
Saturday, January 10, 2009, 8:00 pm
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Concert by the Leipzig University Orchestra

During this anniversary year, the Leipziger Universitätsmusik is organising a series of festival concerts featuring music from the fifteenth to the 21st century. Kicking off the series is a programme dedicated to music of the 20th century.

Conducted by Yuri Lebedev, the Leipzig University Orchestra will be performing Passacaglia Op. 1 by Anton Webern, Bolero by Maurice Ravel and Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 by Jean Sibelius.

Venue

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Großer Saal, Augustusplatz 8, 04109 Leipzig

Contact

Leipziger Universitätsmusik
Goldschmidtstraße 12
04103 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97 30190
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 30198
E-Mail: unimusik@uni-leipzig.de

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Concert
Saturday, February 7, 2009, 7:30 pm
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St. Paul, Oratorio, by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, one of his best-known works will be performed by the Leipzig University Choir, the Mendelssohn Orchestra Leipzig and soloists, conducted by Universitätsmusikdirektor David Timm.

Büste von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is one of the outstanding personalities who left a special mark on music and culture in Leipzig. Both as musical director of the Gewandhaus and the founder of the Leipzig Music Conservatory - the first training establishment for musicians in Germany - he carved a place for himself in the annals of Leipzig's history. The oratorio was first performed in Leipzig on March 16, 1837, conducted by Mendelssohn, in the University church of St. Pauli.

Soloists:
Viktorija Kaminskaite - soprano
Annette Markert - alto
Christoph Genz - tenor
Stephan Genz - baritone

Venue

Thomaskirche zu Leipzig, Thomaskirchhof 18, 04109 Leipzig

Contact

Leipziger Universitätsmusik
Goldschmidtstraße 12
04103 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97 30190
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 30198
E-Mail: unimusik@uni-leipzig.de

Further information
Concert
Saturday, March 14, 2009, 7:30 pm
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Concert by the Leipziger Concert ensemble

The famous Leipziger Concert ensemble, made up of lecturers and graduates of the Ancient Music course at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Drama in Leipzig, invites to you a concert of works from the Baroque period.

In compiling its concert programmes, the Leipziger Concert gives pride of place to works from the rich musical tradition of Saxony and Central Germany. The programme for this concert is Baroque, featuring works by Werner Fabricius (Universitätsmusikdirektor at the University church of St. Pauli from 1656-1679).
Moderator: Dr. Michael Maul, Bach-Archiv

Venue

Museum für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig, Zimeliensaal, Johannisplatz 5 - 11, 04103 Leipzig

Contact

Leipziger Universitätsmusik
Goldschmidtstraße 12
04103 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97 30190
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 30198
E-Mail: unimusik@uni-leipzig.de

Further information
Concert
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 7:00 pm
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St. John Passion, BWV 245, by Johann Sebastian Bach

285 years after the original performance of the St. John Passion in Leipzig, the Leipzig University Choir, accompanied by the Pauliner Baroque Ensemble on period instruments, plays this major choral work by Johann Sebastian Bach on the Tuesday of Holy Wee

Denkmal J. S. Bach

Conducted by: David Timm

Soloists:
Marie Friederike Schröder - soprano
David Erler - altus
Martin Petzold - tenor
Marek Rzepka - Bass (Arias)
Tobias Berndt - Bass (Christ)

Venue

Peterskirche, Schletterstraße 5, 04107 Leipzig

Contact

Leipziger Universitätsmusik
Goldschmidtstraße 12
04103 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97 30190
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 30198
E-Mail: unimusik@uni-leipzig.de

Further information
Opening
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7:00 pm
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Opening concert

When the University's musical director raises his baton in the Gewandhaus on May 9, it will mark the official opening of Universität Leipzig's anniversary year.

Orchester

The Leipziger Universitätsmusik ensembles will be putting the numerous guests of honour in the mood for the anniversary celebrations from May 9 to December 2, 2009, with a musical journey through six hundred years of University history.
The audience will first of all be transported back musically to the period around 1409. Following this, the Leipzig University Choir will perform music from the time of Johann Sebastian Bach, including one cantata from the "Festmusiken zu Leipziger Universitätsfeiern", festival music written for the University by Leipzig's famous composer. To close, the Leipzig University Orchestra invites us to take a foray into the Romantic era, after which the University big band will bring us full circle back to the present day with a programme of modern music.
The opening address delivered by the the vice-chancellor of the Universität Leipzig and speeches by guests of honour, including the vice-chancellor of the Karlsuniversität in Prague will underscore the solemnity of the occasion and the importance of the 600th anniversary of Germany's second-oldest university.

Entry by invitation only.

Venue

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Augustusplatz 8, 04109 Leipzig

Contact

Geschäftsstelle 2009
Ritterstraße 30-36
04109 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97 35035
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 35039
E-Mail: 2009@uni-leipzig.de

Contact

Geschäftsstelle 2009
Tel +49 (0) 341 97-35035
Fax +49 (0) 341 97-35039
Mail 2009@uni-leipzig.de