The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) has announced that it will shut down the Danish National Chamber Orchestra (DNCO) on the 1st of January due to budget cuts. The DNCO employs approx. 45 musicians as well as the artistic team working with them. Apart from the evident disaster of the musicians losing their jobs, the loss of the DNCO would be catastrophic for Denmark’s cultural life — there simply is no other orchestra that could lift the DNCO’s 75-year-long cultural heritage with the same skill, diversity and beauty.
Apparently, it takes a budget-meeting and three months to shut down an orchestra, but it has taken 75 years to build a part of Denmark’s cultural heritage.
An online petition (in English and Danish) has received more than 23.000 signatures within the first two days. With your signature, you will be urging the board of directors of UnderholdningsOrkestret and the Danish Ministry of Culture to find a solution, so that the orchestra continues to provide audiences and listeners at home and abroad with unique musical experiences. Please sign it as soon as possible!
A facebook campaign has also been launched under the Danish name ‘Bevar UnderholdningsOrkestret’, which received more than 43,000 likes within just a couple of days. Please ‘like’ or ‘share’ it to express your immediate support!
Thank you for support!
About The Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Denmark’s sole professional chamber orchestra is one of the best in Europe. The orchestra is well known across the entire country for its outgoing, popular and appraised concerts and groundbreaking projects with – among others – a series of progressive indie artists and DJs, pop singers as well as international artists such as Procol Harum. The orchestra has also recorded a series of award-winning recordings under its chief conductor, Adam Fischer, including the complete Mozart symphonies.
Contact
For more information contact Chairman of the Board, the Danish Musician’s Union, Anders Laursen
E‑mail: al@dmf.dk
Phone: +45 40 15 10 92