Another highlight of the BSO/GHO Alliance is a musician exchange program offering musicians from each orchestra a rare opportunity to spend 3-6 months performing with its partner orchestra in the latter's home city.
Another highlight of the BSO/GHO Alliance is a musician exchange program offering musicians from each orchestra a rare opportunity to spend 3-6 months performing with its partner orchestra in the latter’s home city. BSO musicians participating in the exchange program will immerse themselves in the many activities of the GHO, including weekly subscription concerts with the orchestra,, regular concerts with the Leipzig Opera, and Sunday performances of Bach cantatas at St. Thomas Church, where Bach served as Thomaskantor, composing weekly cantatas from 1723 through 1750, the year of his death at age 65. GHO musicians who participate in the exchange program will perform with the BSO during their weekly subscription concerts, perhaps also taking part (depending on the timing of their visits) in performances during the Boston Pops spring season and Tanglewood summer season.
There is also a musician exchange program between the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) and the Mendelssohn-Orchesterakademie (MOA), two of the world’s most acclaimed training programs for classical musicians.
Musicians from Leipzig and Boston that have been part of the programme so far:
Orchestral musicians
Gewandhausorchester:
Autumn 2018
Dorothea Vogel, Violin
David Lau, Viola
Spring 2019
Heiner Niebuhr, Violin
Waldemar Schwiertz, Double Bass
Autumn 2019
Veronika Starke, Violin
Manfred Ludwig, Flute
Boston Symphony Orchestra:
Autumn 2018
Elita Kang, Violin
Danny Kim, Viola
Spring 2019
Cathy French, Violin
Todd Seeber, Double Bass
Autumn 2019
Lisa Kim, Violin
Clint Foreman, Flute
Students
Mendelssohn-Orchesterakademie:
Summer 2018
Jihye Han, Viola
Olivier Marger, Cello
Julian Schack, Horn
Summer 2019
Anna Volkwein, Violin
Ole Heiland, Tuba
Tanglewood Music Center:
Yu-An Chang, Conductor
Gemma New, Conductor
Nathan Shields, Composer