Heinrich Schütz Konservatorium Dresden

Mit einer großen musikalischen Bandbreite und berührenden Beiträgen eröffneten wir das Jahr 2025 am vergangenen Freitag mit unserem Neujahrskonzert in der Historischen Schaltwarte im Kraftwerk Mitte. Dabei waren Solistinnen und Solisten sowie Kammermusikensembles des HSKD mit Beiträgen von Barock bis Jazz in diesem einmaligen Ambiente zu erleben.

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir als Gäste unseres Konzertes Barbara Klepsch (Sächsische Staatsministerin für Kultur und Tourismus), Annekatrin Klepsch (Beigeordnete für Kultur, Wissenschaft und Tourismus der Stadt Dresden), Mitglieder des Kulturausschusses der Stadt Dresden, Stadträtinnen und Stadträte sowie Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Fördervereine des HSKD begrüßen konnten. Frauke Roth (Intendantin der Dresdner Philharmonie) betonte in ihrem motivierenden Grußwort die Wichtigkeit und Bedeutung kultureller Bildung für Kinder und Jugendliche in Dresden.

Sichtlich beeindruckt von den Beiträgen zeigte sich Barbara Klepsch, der wir herzlich für die Übernahme der Schirmherrschaft für unsere Initiative »UnGehindert musizieren« danken und die im Rahmen des Konzertes gemeinsam mit unserer Musikschulleiterin Kati Hellmuth sowie Holger Schanze, Fachberater Inklusion, die Schirmherrschaftsurkunde unterzeichnete.

Ein herzliches Dankeschön gilt zudem allen Mitwirkenden und Ihren Lehrkräften!

Pressespiegel:
In der DNN am 13. Januar 2025 erschien der Artikel »Hoffnungsvolle Harmonien in Zeiten der Dissonanz – Beglückendes Neujahrskonzert des Heinrich-Schütz-Konservatoriums« von Andreas Schwarze.

Herzliche Einladung zum 1. HSKD Band Summit!

Am Sonnabend, dem 1. Februar 2025 | 19 Uhr werden drei Bands unseres Hauses in der Blauen Fabrik (Eisenbahnstraße 1 | 01097 Dresden) dafür sorgen, dass kein Fuß mehr still steht :). Zu erleben sind:

»The NoNamers« (Crossover Pop / Soul / Funk / Hip-Hop / R&B) | Leitung: Arne Rudiger

»X minus Y« (Rock / Pop) | Leitung: Kerstin Flath-Fischer

»Rhythm Section« (Jazz / Worldmusic) | Leitung: Tilman Droste

Der Eintritt ist frei, um Spenden wird gebeten.

Am 5. Dezember verzauberten unsere MusikSchützen der 120. Grundschule ihre Mitschülerinnen und Mitschüler, Eltern und Geschwister sowie Lehrerinnen und Lehrer mit einem fröhlich-besinnlichen Weihnachtskonzert.

Insgesamt 20 Kinder aus den Gitarrengruppen unserer Musikpädagogin Susanne Schillack sowie unseres Musikpädagogen Grigor Shagoyan musizierten im Musikraum der Schule und stimmten die Zuhörenden auf die Advents- und Weihnachtszeit ein.

 

How about an extraordinary gift for Christmas? Making music and dancing at HSKD? We currently have vacancies for the following instruments and dance classes:

Recorder (Mondays at Kraftwerk Mitte)

Contact: Michaela Niedermeyer (head of the woodwind department), Tel. 01520-8126430, niedermeyer.michaela@hskd.de

Trombone jazz/rock/pop and guitar jazz/rock/pop

Contact: Andreas Reuter (Head of Jazz/Rock/Pop Department), Tel. 01520-6353044, reuter.andreas@hskd.de

Classical guitar

Contact: our colleagues in the school office, tel. 0351 82826-45/-46/-47, schuelerbuero@hskd.de

Dance class ‘Boys only III’ (dance for 5-year-old boys, Wednesdays 4.45-5.30 p.m. at Kraftwerk Mitte, Lichtwerk 14)

Contact: Petra Steinert (Head of Dance Department), Tel. 0162-2946118, steinert.petra@hskd.de

Dance for adults (Wednesdays 7.30 to 8.30 pm at Kraftwerk Mitte, Lichtwerk 14)

Contact: Petra Steinert (Head of Dance Department), Tel. 0162-2946118, steinert.petra@hskd.de

We look forward to seeing you!

‘Exciting’ - The title of our B.I.O. concert last Saturday, 23 November, was the programme in more ways than one: not only did we welcome three guitarists from our partner music school “Szkoła Muzyczna I stopnia” from Wrocław, but also the jury of the 9th Saxon Orchestra Competition.

They certified our B.I.O. under the direction of Birgit Pfarr as having participated with outstanding success! The orchestra has thus earned the right to take part in the German Orchestra Competition 2025.

We would like to congratulate and thank the musicians, their director and all the helping hands behind the scenes for their special commitment!

Congratulations to Vera Anna Nikulina and Kyrill Förster on their outstanding results at the ‘Jürgen-Christoph and Jutta Behn Award’ (JCB Award) for woodwind and brass instruments at the Hamburg State Youth Music School.

Vera Anna (class: Ulrich Höntsch) won 1st prize in age group II (12 to 15 years) with her bassoon. Our horn player Kyrill (class: Andreas Roth) was honoured with a 2nd prize, also in age group II.

We are delighted and would like to thank the two outstanding HSKD ambassadors, their teachers and the accompanists Elena Rubinova (HSKD) and Yoko Aoki!

Our student Michaela Harnisch presented herself impressively at this year's ‘International Yasuo Kuwahara Competition for Mandolin Solo’, which took place from 18 to 20 October in Schweinfurt. Michaela is taught by Birgit Pfarr, whom we would like to thank for her commitment!

Maja Schütze, a former HSKD pupil, also took part in the competition and played her way through to the 2nd round.

We are very pleased about the excellent result of our students Yevheniia Holubiatnykova (violin, class: Elena Havel) and Barbara Schmidt (viola, class: Salome Schammer) at the ‘conTakt-junior Competition 2024’, which took place in Dresden at the end of September.

For her convincing audition, Yevheniia received a ¾ master violin from master violin maker Sibylle Fehr-Borchardt and a master bow from master bow maker Gerald R. Knoll. Barbara won a master viola from master luthier Gaspar Borchardt and a master viola bow from master bow maker Christophe Collinet.

We would like to thank Elena Havel and Salome Schammer for their commitment!

Last Saturday, 7 September, we celebrated the opening of our new premises at Kraftwerk Mitte, Lichtwerk 14, in the best summer weather and with many guests.

Lars Seiffert (SachsenEnergie board member) and Annekatrin Klepsch (Mayor for Culture, Science and Tourism of the state capital Dresden) warmly congratulated our music school director Kati Hellmuth on moving in and presented her with the symbolic key. Our big band ‘Bigbandexplosion’ delighted the audience with great groovy songs in the unique ambience of the Historische Schaltwarte, our new orchestra rehearsal hall.

Under the motto ‘We are colourful!’, the seventh Kraftwerk Mitte festival took place from 11 am. Concerts, dancing, hands-on activities and guided tours were organised throughout the site. We were also there with our dancers (also together with the go plastic company in the ASPHALT performance), the girls‘ choir, the boys’ choir, the Benjamin Orchestra and a Latin percussion improvisation performance by the percussion department.

Our guests were also able to take a look at our new rooms during several guided tours.

PS: Our big band is still looking for new trombone and trumpet players! Please contact the school office (tel. 0351 82826-45/-46/-47 or schuelerbuero@hskd.de).

‘If we danced more, the world would be a different place!’
(Andreas Nero Nick, German composer and lyricist)

We still have places available in our dance classes and courses for children, teenagers and adults. Children aged 4 and 5 who enjoy movement and play can take their first dance steps in our ‘Early Dance Education II’ and ‘Early Dance Education III’. We also offer several courses for adults, e.g. modern/contemporary dance for adults/seniors (60 plus).

You can find an overview of all our programmes in our timetable (in German). Dance classes and courses with free places are marked in green. Due to the preparation of several events, we ask that new students only register during the first half of the school year (until February 2025).

We look forward to seeing you!

Photo above: John Gilmore, photo below: Philipp Micheel

You can easily support us financially via the ‘Bildungsspender’ portal without having to spend any money - sounds contradictory, but it's true :).

This video (in German) explains how it works. Give it a try!

You can find us here: www.bildungsspender.de/hskd/

... We are happy about any help for the equipment of our new premises at Kraftwerk Mitte!

... who or what, if not them! But we are convinced: THERE IS MORE! And so, together with other cultural institutions in Dresden, we have set ourselves the goal of making sustainability a central theme of our thinking and actions. The central starting point is the climate-friendly and responsible use of all resources.

As a first pioneering step, we signed the "Dresden Charter for Sustainability in the Cultural Sector" with numerous other cultural institutions in our city on 13 January 2022.

Now it is time to bring the common guiding ideas to life with lived sustainability, innovative ideas and the joy of conserving resources. And you are also asked: What can we at the HSKD contribute to the protection of our nature and environment? Where do you see potential for improvement?

Send us an e-mail at oeffentlichkeitsarbeit@hskd.de. We are curious :-)!