August 7-21, 2011 in Moritzburg & Dresden, Germany. British composers are in the spotlight for 2011. For the first time in the history of the Moritzburg Festival, English music is the focus, with performances of compositions that show that country’s significant influence on European music, especially in the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries.
Located near Dresden, Germany in Saxony’s unspoiled rural landscape, the Moritzburg Festival is all about music-making at its finest. It takes place every year in August for a 15-day feast of music featuring concerts, recitals, and open rehearsals. Covering the whole range of chamber music literature, the programmes of the festival also present a great deal of contemporary music as well as hosting a different Composer-in-Residence each year. In 2006, the Festival established the Moritzburg Festival Academy which gives young talented music students from across the globe the opportunity to prepare chamber orchestra as well as chamber music works for performance within the Festival. Every year the Festival welcomes 40 young musicians to work closely with established and renowned concert artists. In addition, the Festival’s 2001 initiative “Moritzburg Festival on Tour” takes Moritzburg artists to important musical centres across Europe, the USA, and, in 2011, for the first time to South Korea.
The Moritzburg Festival under the artistic direction of internationally renowned and ECHO awarded cellist Jan Vogler was founded in 1993 by Kai Vogler, Peter Bruns and Jan Vogler. All three artists had been participants in the famous Marlboro Festival in the USA several times and were looking for an opportunity to establish a similar concept in the German federal state of Saxony—Moritzburg Castle near Dresden appeared to be the ideal setting to carry out this ambitious project.
MJC has been responsible for the coordination of international public relations for the Moritzburg Festival since 2005.
