Displaced Persons
uprooted, displaced - home alone in a place of longing MUSIC

Concert
Sinfonietta Dresden

Milko Kersten (musical direction)
Alexander Estis (texts and reading)

Under the direction of Milko Kersten, Sinfonietta Dresden performs compositions that are in danger of disappearing from the collective memory. This applies, for example, to the Jewish composers Vítězslava Kaprálová and Rosy Wertheim. For people affected by war, displacement and cultural uprooting, music can be a place of longing and refuge. It is always part of creating human meaning. Taking responsibility therefore always means looking, listening, naming and developing empathy.

Volker Sondermann will compose new music on the theme of the cycle and create a framework with a piece by the Israeli-Palestinian composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi. Dresden's Stadtschreiber 2025, Alexander Estis, will read texts that he has developed as a poetic language of sound especially for these concerts with the musicians.

Programme:

Michael Jary/Michael Jarczyk (1906 - 1988)
I know, one day a miracle will happen.
Symphonic suite for chamber orchestra

Rosy Wertheim (1888 - 1949)
Divertimento for orchestra

Samir Odeh-Tamimi (*1970)
Ahinnu

Volker Sondermann (*1992)
World premiere for chamber orchestra

Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915 - 1940)
Suite en miniature

Michael Jary/Michael Jarczyk (1906 - 1988)
I know, one day a miracle will happen.

Sinfonietta Dresden

Sinfonietta Dresden is a self-organised, independent chamber orchestra. For more than 30 years, the orchestra has been a committed partner of many well-known choirs, church choirs and cantorates in Dresden, Saxony and Germany. Sinfonietta Dresden's own concerts are exemplary, in which a field of tension is created between old and new music in order to break up conventional listening patterns. The highly successful and critically acclaimed concert series "Spannungen", "Spiegelungen", "Beethoven I Schnittpunkte", "Displaced Persons" and the concerts in collaboration with KlangNetz Dresden, Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen, the Dresden, Halle and Magdeburg composers' classes and the Acantun Kollektiv epitomise this attitude of the ensemble.

Sinfonietta Dresden has premiered over one hundred compositions to date. In addition to internationally successful composers, these include numerous Saxon composers of the younger generation. The focus continues to be on compositions from Eastern Europe and Dresden's twin cities.

The orchestra has been invited to perform at various national and international festivals. Concert tours have taken Sinfonietta Dresden through Germany and several European countries. In addition to CD productions, there have been numerous radio recordings.

in 2025, Sinfonietta Dresden was awarded the Art Prize of the City of Dresden.

All programme items are performed in German and Polish. Special conditions are available for organised groups by prior arrangement. The box office opens 30 minutes before the concert begins.

* discounts apply to pupils, students, ALG recipients, severely disabled persons, volunteers and holders of an honorary card. (Proof of entitlement to the discount will be checked at the entrance. Please bring the relevant identification document with you to the event. If proof cannot be provided at the entrance, the difference to the normal price must be paid before admission)

Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue
Dr.-Kahlbaum-Allee 31
02826 Görlitz