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Cello-Matinée

The Return of Instruments – Preserving Sound for the Future
© Vita Kan

4/12

Sunday | 4/12/2026
11:00 am Start of Concert
Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

Prices
25 €
FLEXFee + 6 €
Discounts:
ab 10 € for students under 18J. 
ab 10 € for Young People under 30J.
ab 12,50 € for Dresden-Pass und SB from GdB 80
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About the Concert

The history of the Dresden Philharmonic is inseparably linked to its instruments. They carry memories, identity, and sound tradition within them - and they tell of splendor, loss, and new beginnings. A large part of the historical instrument collection of the Dresden Philharmonic was lost during World War II. In 1945, numerous instruments stored in the orchestra's archive were destroyed in a fire. With them, not only the instruments burned, but also a piece of Dresden's musical history. Thanks to a generous donation, it was now possible to acquire two very valuable instruments for the Dresden Philharmonic. These are a violin by Antonio Gragnani and a cello by Santino Lavazza, both dating back to the 18th century. It is particularly beautiful that the cello already has a connection to Dresden and the Dresden Philharmonic, as it once belonged to Enrico Mainardi, who in the 1920s at the beginning of his international career was also the principal cellist of the Dresden Philharmonic. Konstanze Pietschmann, the new principal cellist of the Dresden Philharmonic, will present the cello and make it resonate in many more concerts of the Dresden Philharmonic. Robert Lis will play the new violin, which will shape the sound of the violins of the Dresden Philharmonic in the future. Boris Giltburg, our current Artist in Residence, will accompany the two string players in this chamber concert.

Program

Robert Schumann
Fantasy Pieces for Cello and Piano

Sergei Prokofiev
"Five Melodies" for Violin and Piano

Antonín Dvořák
Piano Trio in E minor "Dumky Trio"

Artists

Konstanze Pietschmann
Cello
Robert Lis
Violin
Boris Giltburg
Piano (Artist in Residence)

Biographies

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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Robert Lis

Robert Lis is one of the most talented Polish violinists of his generation, having won numerous national and international competitions. He has held the position of second concertmaster of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since 2018.

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Boris Giltburg

Artist in Residence 25/26

Moscow-born Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is praised worldwide as an extremely sensitive, empathetic and captivating performer, and he appears each season with a wide variety of repertoire. He demonstrates this again in the 2025/26 season, when he – as Artist in Residence of the Dresden Philharmonic – performs a solo recital at the Kulturpalast, as well as four concerts with the orchestra in Dresden and two concerts on tour with works by Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Gershwin.

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