Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich
| Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich | |
|---|---|
| Chamber orchestra | |
| Short name | JCOM |
| Founded | 2005 by Daniel Grossmann |
| Location | Munich, Germany |
| Principal conductor | Daniel Grossmann |
| Website | [1] |
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The Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich (or JCOM) is a professional German chamber orchestra based in Munich. Its musicians are Jewish and non-Jewish and mostly live in Germany.
History
The orchestra was founded as the "Orchester Jakobsplatz München" in 2005[1] by conductor Daniel Grossmann, who has been the orchestra's artistic director ever since. Since the 2018/19 season, the orchestra has been called the "Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich."[2]
The orchestra plays in various concert halls and theaters in and outside Munich and has long-standing collaborations with important Munich cultural institutions such as the Bavarian State Opera, the Villa Stuck Museum, and the Munich Kammerspiele.[3]
Tours have taken the JCOM to Austria, Hungary, Romania, Israel, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, China and North America.
Content Orientation
The orchestra's activities deal with various aspects of Jewish culture in terms of their relevance to the present day – making it the only thematically oriented orchestra in the world.
The orchestra performs mainly, but not exclusively, music by Jewish composers. All of the orchestra's concerts are moderated by Daniel Grossmann and include introductions. The themes presented range from concerts dedicated to a particular Jewish holiday or ritual (such as the Jewish New Year's Concert performed annually in October at Munich's Prinzregententheater or a concert dedicated to the Jewish mourning ritual Shiva) to concerts about Jewish artists (e.g. portraits of composers forgotten due to the Holocaust or other important Jewish personalities such as Paul Celan or Franz Kafka) to silent film concerts (e.g., The Ancient Law from 1923: the JCOM played the premiere[4] of the version reconstructed on behalf of arte TV and provided with a new film score by Philippe Schoeller at the Berlin International Film Festival 2018).
In the process, the JCOM collaborated with artists of different genres, such as the video artist Christoph Brech, composers such as Nikolaus Brass, Richard Ruzicka, Sarah Nemtsov or Moritz Gagern, or soloists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniel Hope, Christoph Prégardien, Chen Reiss, Benjamin Appl, Ludwig Mittelhammer, David Orlowsky, Ingeborg Danz or Tassilo Probst and actors such as Bibiana Beglau, Brigitte Hobmeier, Lambert Hamel, Götz Otto and Sibylle Canonica.
Education program
In addition to concerts for children and young people, the JCOM realizes major projects as part of its education program:
In September 2017, the orchestra was included in the "Excellent Orchestra Landscape Germany" program initiated by the German Minister of Culture Monika Grütters[5] with the children and youth "Opera School." During 2018 and 2019 the project offered around 100 children aged 7 to 18 from socially disadvantaged families in the Munich area the opportunity to gain an insight into all areas of professional musical theater and the production process of a new production through workshops and lessons, free of charge.
The follow-up project in 2022 was the "ButterbroteBesserEsser Opera" an opera developed by children's author Nadia Budde, composer Gustavo Strauss and director Sapir Heller in collaboration with Daniel Grossmann, which was performed at the Munich Volkstheater in November 2022. It featured some 40 children in the orchestra and 60 on stage as singers and performers.[6]
In 2023, the JCOM published an eLearning platform[7] on the living conditions and music-making in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, suitable for use in schools as well as by others interested in the subject. The implementation was funded by the dive in program of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the German Government Foundation for Culture.
References
- ↑ Gümbel, Miryam (May 2, 2007). "Sommer der Konzerte". Jüdische Allgemeine.
- ↑ Zeitung, Süddeutsche (May 4, 2018). "Jüdische Institution". Süddeutsche.de.
- ↑ "Konzerte Archiv". JCOM.
- ↑ "Das alte Gesetz | The Ancient Law - Berlinale Classics 2018". www.berlinale.de.
- ↑ "„Exzellente Orchesterlandschaft Deutschland" - Grütters: Neues Förderprogramm stärkt Vielfalt unseres Musiklebens". Die Bundesregierung informiert | Startseite. September 18, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.muenchner-volkstheater.de/programm/extra/butterbrote-besseresser-oper#:~:text=Das%20Projekt%20gibt%20Kindern%20und,Oper%20bis%20zur%20Premiere%20beizuwohnen.
- ↑ "eLearning".
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