Mahler Academy Orchestra 2024

The Mahler Academy Orchestra’s originalklang project sheds new light on the performance practice of Mahler’s time. For this unique project, the young artists of the Gustav Mahler Academy met in 2024 55 musicians from Europe’s top ensembles. In Dobbiaco, where Mahler wrote his last works and under the direction of Philipp von Steinaecker they brought the music of the turn of the century to new life on historical instruments. To make the project possible, the Euregio Cultural Centre Dobbiaco Foundation has created a collection that unites the instruments used by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra around 1900.

The Mahler Academy Orchestra is part of the Gustav Mahler Academy Bolzano-Bozen, which was founded by Claudio Abbado to create a place where 45 exceptionally talented young musicians from all over the world receive decisive impulses for their entire musical lives under ideal conditions. In close collaboration with outstanding teachers and soloists, they work on their individual playing as well as their skills as chamber musicians in order to transfer the highly dialogical playing style they learn to the orchestra. In recent years, the Mahler Academy Orchestra has been conducted by Daniel Harding, Pablo Heras Casado, Lahav Shani and Mark Minkowski.

For the Mahler Academy Orchestra’s originalklang project 2024, the young musicians of the Gustav Mahler Academy have been joined by instrumentalists from the following ensembles:
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia – AnimAeterna – Artemis Quartet – Bayerisches Staatsorchester – Berliner Philharmoniker – B-Rock – Camerata Salzburg – Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam – Czeck Philharmonic – Dortmunder Philharmoniker – Leipziger Streichquartett – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Mahler Chamber Orchestra – NDR Radiophilharmonie – Nederlands Radio Orkest – Oper Zürich – Orchestre de Paris – Orquesta de Galicia – Royal Stockholm Philharmonic – Slovenska Filharmonija – Staatskapelle Dresden – Staatsorchester Kassel – Staatstheater Halle – Teatro Massimo Palermo – WDR Symphonieorchester – Wiener Symphoniker.

The originalklang project of the Gustav Mahler Academy is a co-production between the Busoni-Mahler Foundation Bolzano and the Euregio Cultural Centre Dobbiaco Foundation.

“The Gustav Mahler Academy plays a very important role in the Italian and European cultural scene (…)
offering many musicians a truly significant artistic opportunity.”

(Claudio Abbado)

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