Thank you,

that you attended our concert. On this page we provide you with photos of the concert and information about the program. At the bottom of the page you will also find our concert recommendations for the current and coming season.

Program & artists:

You heard:

Edvard Grieg
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor op. 16

Henryk Górecki
Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" for Soprano and Orchestra

presented by:

Krzysztof Urbański, Boris Giltburg, Michał Sławecki, Edyta Krzemień, Anna Federowicz and the Dresdner Philharmonie

Stars at the piano

88 keys, 243 strings, 12,000 individual parts - our new Steinway concert grand piano has a versatile and complex inner life. But above all, it has an excellent sound! So what could be more obvious than to invite the best of the best and dedicate an entire series to the piano? Take a look behind the scenes and see all concerts with our new chief conductor at a glance. We are presenting these four concerts in co-operation with DK Deutsche Klassik. 
 If you book the entire “Stars at the Piano” package as a subscription, you save 20 percent - the offer is limited to 100 pieces. 

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Further information:

©Marco Borggreve

Krzysztof Urbański

At the start of the 2024/25 season, Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbański will take up his position as Chief Conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra. He has also been Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana since 2022. He has recently made his debuts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He toured Europe with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the fall of 2023.

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Boris Giltburg ©Sasha Gusov

Boris Giltburg

Our Artist in Residence introduces himself. You can find more pictures & videos of Boris Giltburg here.
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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©Oliwia Kozłowska

Michał Sławecki

vPolish countertenor Michał Sławecki has a wide-ranging repertoire from various periods, from Baroque to modern compositions. Whether in Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas", Mozart's "Le nozze de Figaro" or Janiak's "Człowiek z Manufaktury" (The Man from the Factory), he knows how to inspire his audience. He is also in demand as a concert singer, and he appears in art performances and films.

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©Weronika Kuźma

Edyta Krzemień

Edyta Krzemień has enjoyed success as a musical and concert singer and as the Polish dubbing voice for many well-known films such as “Wicked” and “Snow White”. Most recently, she has been touring the world as a singer with Cirque du Soleil. She works particularly closely with Zbigniew Preisner, the most famous Polish film composer. She has already performed his compositions on soundtracks and at various galas.

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©Piotr Komoń

Anna Federowicz

Polish musical actress and singer Anna Federowicz graduated with distinction in 2019 and made her debut at the Poznań Grand Theatre of Music Opera in 2020 in the musical "Virtuoso". She has also appeared in Poland in "West Side Story" and "My Fair Lady", and she is currently playing Glinda in the new production of "Wicked" at the Roma Music Theatre in Warsaw. Together with pianist Tomasz Stroynowski, she forms the Federowicz Stroynowski Duo, which has already performed in many halls in Poland, Germany and Norway.

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©Simon Pauly

Dresdner Philharmonie

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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