Sir Donald Runnicles will become Chief Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic at the start of the 2025/26 season; he already serves as Chief Conductor Designate in 2024/25. The Scottish-born conductor is also GMD of the Deutsche Oper Berlin until mid-2026. He stands for the principle of quality over quantity and has built up close artistic relationships with renowned institutions worldwide. His expertise in the opera and concert repertoire is in demand everywhere, and the German repertoire is particularly close to his heart.

The New Zealand tenor Thomas Atkins is enjoying a flourishing career, particularly on the opera stage in works such as “La bohème”, “Jenůfa” and “The Rakes Progress”, but also in the concert hall, for example for Mozart's and Verdi's Masses for the Dead and Britten's “War Requiem”. In the 2024/25 season, he makes his debut at the English National Opera, returns to the Salzburg Easter Festival and sings Lenksy in “Eugene Onegin” at the Semperoper Dresden.

The Kinderchor Radost Praha was founded in 1961 and has already performed in more than 20 European countries and in Canada. With a broad repertoire from all stylistic periods, it is a sought-after partner for the major Czech orchestras and ensembles, appears at numerous festivals and participates in recordings.

The children's choir owes its foundation to an initiative of the then chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur, in 1967 and thus looks back on a history of more than fifty years. Today, the Dresden Philharmonic Children's Choir is one of the best-known and most successful children's choirs in Germany. The continuous professional work with the children is supported by the close cooperation with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.

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.