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The Dresden University Orchestra unites over 100 members in its two formations, the symphonic and chamber orchestra. Most of them are students, employees and graduates of TU Dresden, who find joy and friends in making music together in their free time. Rehearsals take place weekly, and at the end of the semester both ensembles present themselves in performances with a changing, wide-ranging repertoire at a recognized high level. Helmuth Reichel Silva has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Dresden University Orchestra since the 2020 summer semester.

The university orchestra has existed since 1961 and has been affiliated with TU Dresden as a non-profit association since 1991, which supports the orchestra along with the Studentenwerk, the Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden e.V., the Landesverband Sächsischer Liebhaberorchester e.V. and the Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Sachsen. As an orchestra of the TU Dresden, the university orchestra also provides the backdrop for academic highlights such as the matriculation ceremony.

The mixture of change and continuity, of youthful ambition and mature experience of the members of different generations keeps the orchestra alive throughout its more than 50-year history. Music and orchestral life are also the result of the interaction between student and professor, doctoral student and graduate, Dresdener and new Dresdener.

In 1997, a second line-up was created, initially as the TU Chamber Orchestra, whose membership grew steadily to a small symphonic line-up, so that it has been called the TU Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra since 2004.

In 2018, the separation between the ensembles was abolished: since then, there have still been two ensembles under the umbrella of the University Orchestra, which rehearse and perform separately; however, both ensembles now only perform as the "Dresden University Orchestra". The members are reassigned to the respective ensembles once a year. One ensemble rehearses on Mondays, the second on Tuesdays; one rehearsal weekend per semester in Dresden or the surrounding area serves to intensify concert preparations. In addition to the parallel rehearsals of both ensembles, there are project-related plans in which members of both ensembles take part.

Both orchestras can look back on a large number of interesting projects. In addition to the semester concerts held in Dresden with a varied repertoire, these include choral symphonic concerts, e.g. with the Dresden University Choir, as well as unconventional projects such as the "Queen Classic Night" and participation in the Dresden art festival ORNÖ or the "Children's University" at TU Dresden. Exchange projects with partner orchestras and choirs have taken the orchestra to Poland, Spain, Norway, France, England, Slovenia and Switzerland in recent years.

The Dresden University Orchestra Association consists of the members of both ensembles, who elect the artistic director, the joint board and an orchestra council for each ensemble.