Bruckner’s 3rd Symphony – joy and anguish of the world
Vladimir Jurowski
Joseph Haydn
Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major for oboe, bassoon, violin, cello and orchestra
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103
(Second version from 1877)
Vladimir Jurowski
Conductor
Vladimir Jurowski - Conductor

Vladimir Jurowski has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since autumn 2017. The conductor, pianist and musicologist Vladimir Jurowski takes on all challenges whether they be stylistic, technical or music-historical.
After receiving training at the Moscow Conservatory Vladimir Jurowski emigrated to Germany in 1990. Here he continued his studies at the music conservatories in Dresden and Berlin – conducting with Rolf Reuter; correpetition and song accompaniment with Semion Skigin. In 1995 he made his international debut at the British Wexford Festival with Rimski-Korsakov’s “Mainacht” and in the same year at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with “Nabucco”. Subsequently he was, among other things, First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997- 2001) and Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001-2013). In 2003 Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has been its Principal Conductor since 2007 and will stay on until summer 2021. He is also Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra Yevgeny Svetlanov of the Russian Federation until summer 2021, Artistic Director of the International George Enescu Festival in Bucharest and Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Great Britain. He works regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the ensemble unitedberlin. With the start of the 2021/2022 season, Vladimir Jurowski will take on one of the most prestigious roles in German musical life in addition to his engagement with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, by becoming General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, a position for which he signed a contract in 2018.
Vladimir Jurowski is in high demand around the world as a guest conductor. He has conducted the major orchestras of Europe and North America, including the Berlin, Vienna and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. As a guest conductor, Vladimir Jurowski conducted Prokofiev’s “Semyon Kotko” with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest of the Netherlands in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, made his debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival with the Staatskapelle Dresden, debuted with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, performed with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival and conducted a unique project with the London Sinfonietta in Moscow to mark the UK-Russian Year of Culture. Together with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin he performed in Japan in spring 2019 and at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest in autumn 2019.
The first joint CD by Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin from 2015 immediately marked a milestone. Alfred Schnittke’s Symphony No. 3 was followed in 2017 by a Strauss/Mahler recording and a CD of violin concertos by Britten and Hindemith with soloist Arabella Steinbacher. In 2020, a critically acclaimed recording of Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” was released.
Vladimir Jurowski has been the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements, including various international record prizes. In 2018, the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards named him Conductor of the Year. In 2016, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Prince Charles at the Royal College of Music in London. In 2020, Jurowski will be awarded the Order of Cultural Merit by the Romanian President in recognition of his work as Artistic Director of the George Enescu Festival.
Clara Dent-Bogányi
Oboe
Clara Dent-Bogányi - Oboe

The oboist Clara Dent-Bogányi, who grew up in Salzburg, comes from a family of musicians. A number of important international awards decorated the beginning of her artistic career, such as the ARD Competition and the Geneva Competition (CIEM).
Clara Dent-Bogányi performs as a soloist with many renowned orchestras and has already recorded numerous solo works on CD and for radio. Her solo albums “Les Folies D`Espagne” and “La Primadonna” have received critical acclaims.
As a chamber musician she attends invitations to festivals throughout Europe and Asia, as she has already performed during the Berlin festival weeks, the Schloss Elmau Festival, the Bach Festival Weeks in Salzburg and the “International Oboe Festival” in China. Her chamber music partners include artists such as Radek Baborak, Irena Grafenauer, the Kuss Quartet and many more.
Since 1999, Clara Dent-Bogányi has been the solo oboist with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and a welcome guest with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bayerische Staatsoper München and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
In 2009, Clara Dent-Bogányi responded to the call of the Nuremberg University of Music and since then has held the professorship of oboe.
Sung Kwon You
Bassoon
Rainer Wolters
Violin
Konstanze von Gutzeit
Violoncello
Konstanze von Gutzeit - Violoncello

The cellist Konstanze von Gutzeit is the winner of the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann 2010 and the International Prague Spring Competition 2012. In 2013, she was awarded the 1st prize in the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition . These awards are just a few of the many that the cellist has won since she debuted as a soloist at the age of 12.
She was awarded the first prize in the Domenico Gabrielli Competition in Berlin in 2007, as well as the International Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Switzerland in 2008. In 2009, she received the “International Suggia Prize” from the Casa da Musica Foundation in Porto. She was awarded a scholarship from the Deutscher Musikrat in 2010 in the German Music Competition and was included in the 55th Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Künstler (Federal Selection of Concerts of Young Artists).
Born in Bochum in 1985, Konstanze von Gutzeit began playing the cello at the age of 3. From the age of 13, she studied as a junior student under Heinrich Schiff in Vienna and in 2005 she continued her studies under Jens Peter Maintz in Berlin. From 2011 she completed postgraduate studies under Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in Weimar, which she completed in 2016 with the concert exam with distinction. She attended master classes with David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Antonio Meneses, and Ivan Monighetti.
Konstanze von Gutzeit performed as a soloist with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Münchner Kammerorchester, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Bruckner-Orchester Linz, the Moscow Soloist Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and many others. She collaborated with conductors such as Marek Janowski, Kurt Masur, Michael Sanderling, and Yuri Bashmet.
Since 2012, Konstanze von Gutzeit has held the position of solo cellist with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. In addition, she has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2017.
Konstanze von Gutzeit plays a violoncello made by Gioffredo Cappa made in 1677.
Ralf Sochaczewsky
Assistant to Chief Conductor
Ralf Sochaczewsky - Assistant to Chief Conductor

Ralf Sochaczewsky received conducting lessons under Christian Grube and Marc Piollet at the Berlin University of the Arts. Later he studied choir conducting under Jörg-Peter Weigle and orchestral conducting under Prof. Reuter at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”.
He directs the Berlin choir Cantus Domus, with which he won a 1st prize at the Berlin Choir Competition in 2017 and a 3rd prize at the 8th Choir Competition of the Deutscher Musikrat in Dortmund . From 1998 to 2012, he conducted the Ensemberlino Vocale choir and successfully participated in choir competitions (1st prize at Chorfest Bremen (Bremen Choir Festival) 2008).
He regularly works with choirs like the Berlin Vocalconsort, the Cappella Amsterdam, the RIAS Kammerchor, and the Berliner Rundfunkchor.
In 2016, he conducted the European premiere of the oratorio “Anthracite Fields” by Julia Wolfe, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015, with the DR Vocalensemble and Bang on a Can-All Stars.
Ralf Sochaczewsky has performed with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the National Radio Orchestra Bucharest, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Minsk Philharmonic. He conducted operas at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Opera National du Rhin, and the Lithuanian National Opera.
Ralf Sochaczewsky collaborated with various pop groups and artists such as Stargaze and André de Ridder, Bon Iver, Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, and Tocotronic. With Cantus Domus, he is a regular guest at festivals such as HaldernPop and KalternPop.
He teaches choral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”. For his great service to the Berlin choir scene, the Chorverband Berlin awarded him the Geschwister Mendelssohn Medal in 2017.
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
From Haydn with RSB soloists to Bruckner's stylistic "Wagner" Symphony