For the 24th consecutive year, the Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival brings the art of music-making to the tranquil and lush town of Moritzburg, located a short distance from Dresden (Germany). This exceptional Festival continues to bring together artists from around the world for an intense two-week exchange of musical ideas, knowledge, and passion. Festival artists perform works that explore the full range of the chamber music repertoire and push the concept of the genre to its limits.

When the Academy was founded in 2006, the goal was offer intensive musical training and support to young professional musicians. This year, forty-one musicians from around the world will come to Moritzburg to immerse themselves in chamber music, studying with Festival artists and performing throughout the Festival in small chamber groups and as part of the Festival Orchestra. The orchestra will work with Spanish conductor Josep Caballé Domenech, recently appointed General Music Director of the Staatskapelle Halle and assistant conductor Moldavan Roman Baltag.

The spectacular Schloss Moritzburg (Moritzburg Castle) is the heart of this 15-day musical journey with the Evangelische Kirche (the Lutheran Church) in Moritzburg, the Schloss Proschwitz (Proschwitz Castle) near Meissen, Volkswagen’s “Die Gläserne Manufaktur”  in Dresden, the Steinbach Church near Moritzburg and the Elbe Flugzeugwerke (Elbe aircraft factory) also offering inspiring architectural backdrops for festival concerts.  
 
The 2016 Festival offers a pre-opening event on August 4 at the Elbe Flugzeugwerke where Jan Vogler will animate a lively behind-the-scene discussion about the Festival and Conductor Josep Caballé Domenech will lead the Academy Orchestra in excerpts from the Festival program. The Opening Concert on August 6 takes place at Volkswagen’s award-winning “Die Gläserne Manufaktur”  and feature the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra and soloists Benjamin Beilman (violin) and Jan Vogler (cello) conducted by Maestro Caballé Domenech in works by Rossini, Brahms and Schumann. Favourite events such as the Proschwitz Music Picnic in the Proschwitz Castle Park and the Long Night of Chamber Music return along with the open rehearsals, portrait concerts, a composer talk and special gala evenings.

http://www.moritzburgfestival.de/en/programme.html