An important agreement was signed in August 2024: The Musaik Orchestra became the official partner orchestra of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Musaik children play alongside the orchestra's professionals in joint projects. In this way, experienced musicians and young musicians meet on the podium and together emphasise the importance of an orchestra as a diverse community. The Musaik children learn a lot from the professionals, who support the orchestral sound and the musicality of each individual. And what do the professional musicians have to say? Julius Rönnebeck, director of 'kapelle für kids', says: "I would say that it is incredibly exciting and enriching for us as professional musicians to meet young people who live in completely different realities to us, but who ultimately make music with the same dedication and seriousness as we do.“

The Staatskapelle Dresden has a long history of collaborating with Musaik: Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals" in 2022 was followed the year afterwards by a "Dance through the Centuries". In the same year, the Staatskapelle donated the prize money of the €50,000 Herbert von Karajan Prize of the Salzburg Easter Festival to Musaik - Making Music Without Borders. In 2024, our young musicians also performed pieces from West Side Story with the professionals in the 'Between Blocks' project. Since then, these projects have reached audiences that are sometimes excluded from major cultural events. Further productions, such as 'The Elbe - In the Flow of Music' in 2025 and the large-scale Kiez Opera in June 2026, are currently being planned, demonstrating the appeal of two 'flagship' cultural projects.

As part of the partnership, the orchestra's musicians regularly hold masterclasses with the children and young people of Musaik. In addition, the children have the opportunity to attend performances at the Semperoper or general rehearsals of the Staatskapelle. The connection between the Staatskapelle Dresden and Musaik is not only artistically successful: the cooperation is a wonderful model project for social responsibility in the world of classical music.