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abgeFRACKt: Cello Flow

Classical music on four strings
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05/22

Friday | 05/22/2026
7:30 pm Start of Concert
Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

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from €10 for young people under 30
from 7 € for Dresden-Pass and SB from GdB 80
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About the Concert

He played at one of the most spectacular weddings of recent years: for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The bride herself had called the then 19-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and asked him to play during the church service at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle - and half the world watched him. Now he is our guest and fits perfectly into our unconventional concert with his artistic excellence. On the program is nothing less than a premiere! The cello concerto by Edmund Finnis will be heard for the first time in Europe on this evening - and you can be there. At our abgeFRACKt concerts, some things are different: the orchestra does not wear tailcoats on stage. Also, no one has to worry about clapping at the wrong time. If you want to learn more about the music, download the free Wolfgang app to your smartphone and get explanations about the work live during the concert. Afterwards, we invite you to stay and enjoy the abgeFRACKt cocktail (also non-alcoholic), a glass of wine or beer at the "Tutti" café, relax, chat, or look out at the city from the balcony.

Programme

Edmund Finnis
“Hymn” (after William Byrd) (2023) for string orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach
Selection from the Suites for Solo Cello

William Lawes
Fantasy in G minor arranged for strings, harp, and percussion by Andrew Manze

Edmund Finnis
Cello Concerto (European premiere)

Artists

Andrew Manze
Conductor
Konstanze Pietschmann
Cello
Dresdner Philharmonie

Biographies

Andrew Manze

The multi-award-winning conductor Andrew Manze not only brings boundless energy, deep musicality and warmth to the stage, but also extensive academic knowledge and years of experience as a violinist and specialist in historical performance practice. Until the summer of 2023, the likeable Briton was Chief Conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover. Since 2018 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, since autumn 2024 he holds the same position with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

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Konstanze Pietschmann

The young cellist Konstanze Pietschmann developed a passion for the cello at a very early age thanks to her musical upbringing and received her first lessons from Gerda Scharf at the age of three. After studying in Anna Niebuhr's class for young talent at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, she began studying music at the same university in 2018 in the class of Prof. Peter Bruns.

She has won prizes at several national and international competitions.

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Dresdner Philharmonie

Top Class!

Top class! That is the claim of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra stands for concerts at the highest artistic level, musical education for all ages and looking beyond the musical horizon. Guest performances on almost every continent and collaborations with guests from all over the world have established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the international classical music world.  

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