Under the direction of Milko Kersten, Sinfonietta Dresden performs compositions at risk of fading from our collective memory. This includes, for example, 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 a refuge. It is always a part of human meaning-making. Taking responsibility therefore always means looking, listening, naming, and developing empathy.
Volker Sondermann will compose new pieces based on the cycle's theme, framing the concert with a work by Israeli-Palestinian composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi. Dresden's city writer for 2025, Alexander Estis, will read texts he developed specifically for these concerts with the musicians as a poetic language of sound.
