The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is one of the international leading orchestras and excites with its unique music style their audience worldwide. Since 2004, the Estonian-American conductor Paavo Järvi has been the artistic director.

A previous highlight in the cooperation with Paavo Järvi was the joint Beethoven-project, on which the conductor and orchestra, concentrated for six years. Their Beethoven was celebrated worldwide by the audience and the critics as setting standards. With the whole nine Beethoven-symphonies cycle, they fascinated among others in Paris, Tokyo, Strasbourg, Warsaw, São Paulo as well as at the Salzburg Festival and the Beethoven festival Bonn. The cycle, which is available on RCA as CD, was celebrated by critics worldwide. Another positive echo found the TV and DVD documentation of the Beethoven-project by the Deutsche Welle and Unitel, was also awarded with numerous prizes. Recently, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen added to cycle the overtures, which were released on RCA in October 2014.

After the Beethoven-project, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen with Paavo Järvi, dealt successfully with the symphonic work of Robert Schumann. The first CD with the symphonies No 3 & No 1 was released at the end of 2011, the second CD of the cycle with symphony No 2 and overtures in October 2012. The third and last CD with Symophony No 4 and the concert piece for 4 bugles has been available since May 2014. After the sensational success in Tokyo and St. Petersburg, the Schumann-symphonies were also performed at the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw as well as in the Vienna concert house in the year 2012. In the autumn of 2012, a TV-/DVD-production by the Deutsche Welle in cooperation with Unitel, arte and Radio Bremen, presented the Schumann-project. This documentation also attracted attention and enjoyed numerous popular awards.

For years, the orchestra has been had tight musical friendships with international renowned soloists and conductors like Christian Tetzlaff, Maria João Pires, Viktoria Mullova, Hélène Grimaud, Janine Jansen, David Fray, Igor Levit, Martin Grubinger, Hilary Hahn, Heinrich Schiff, Trevor Pinnock and Sir Roger Norrington.

With a big personal engagement, the orchestra members engage in joint projects with the comprehensive school Bremen-Ost, where the orchestra's rehearsal rooms have been located for the past few years. Due to the unique cooperation that arose from that, it has been honoured with numerous awards, among them the ›Future Award‹ in 2007, as ›best social innovation‹. The musicians strive to encourage individual growth - especially but not exclusively in surroundings, away from schools, with music. By now, the State Minister for Culture, named this ›future laboratory‹ of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as a model project.

In 2008, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen received the renowned Deutschen Gründerpreis (German Foundation Prize) in the category special prize for the successful combination of entrepreneurship and culture. In 2009, three of their CD-productions have won one of by now seven Echo Classic. In 2010, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen was awarded, as the first orchestra, for their editorial complete work from Bach to Ruzicka with the certificate of the German Record Critics and Paavo Järvi received, for the Beethoven recordings, the Echo Classic as conductor of the year 2010. In 2012, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen received and Echo Classic for youth development, for their initiative 'Future Laboratory/New Social Perspectives through music'.

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is the resident orchestra of the Elbphilharmonie concerts Hamburg.

Opening times
Mondays to Fridays from 10am - 2pm,
in addition, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4pm - 7pm

Contact
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Kunden-Service
Kulturhaus Stadtwaage
Langenstr. 13
28195 Bremen

Tel.: +49 421 321919
Fax: +49 421 95885-11
Email: info@kammerphilharmonie.com