Press Reviews
"... the conductor Ulrich Kern shows love for Yvain's music with the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie: he savors transitions, he helps the far-reaching developments of music to have a strong effect…"
Opernwelt – Internationale Fachzeitschrift für Musiktheater, April 2025, Roland H. Dippel
"Ulrich Kern conjures up a wonderfully light, springy sound with his Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie, which does Yvain full justice."
Orpheus - Oper und mehr, Fachmagazin Musiktheater über „Ta Bouche“ von Maurice Yvain, 28.2.2025, Daniel Hirschel
„Die Fledermaus“ in Stuttgart
"The Orchestra of the Stuttgart State University of Music and Performing Arts gave a splendid performance under the careful direction of Ulrich Kern. (…) At the end there was great cheering and shouts of “Bravo” for the ensemble of the Opera School."
Online Merker - Die internationale Kulturplattform, 31.1.2024, Alexander Walther
"Simplicius Simplicissimus" von Karl Amadeus Hartmann
"OPERNWELT 2023", about SIMPLICIUS SIMPLICISSIMUS by Karl Amadeus Hartmann with Ulrich Kern at the podium:
“listed in the critics ‘survey as the most unusual performance of the season.“
"Musically, this impressive composition is in the best hands with Ulrich Kern.”
Sächsische Zeitung, 5th June 2023, Jens Daniel Schubert, review about the opera „Simplicius Simplicissimus“ by K.A. Hartmann
Makabri ! Makabri !
"Soprano Yeree Suh and conductor Ulrich Kern fill the concert of the Stuttgart Philharmonic with humor and precision. (...) Ulrich Kern directs the strings as well as the excellent wind soloists elegantly, with much sense for the one-composed dance forms and for the theatrical potential of the piece through the many effectively placed notes. (...) Finally, Beethoven's Eighth. Kern clearly illuminates rhythmic - metric battle zones. The symphony sounds racy, clean as a whistle, pushing forward, granting brilliant moments to the solo cellist and proving that humor can also be subtle.”
Stuttgarter Zeitung und Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 26.03.22, Susanna Benda
Symphony concert with the Deutschen Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
"... Here Ulrich Kern convinced with a stylistically confident, gripping conducting, which let the themes clearly emerge (Haydn Symphony No. 83 - Editor's note) (...) Clear contours and secure tempi distinguished the interpretation as well as picturesque, ethereal and enrapting moods, before the symphony ended in a short, sweeping coda.”
Die Rheinpfalz, 1.11.2020, Konstanze Führlbeck
Beethoven 7 with the MDR-Sinfonieorchester
"... Rarely is the audience so excited after a guest performance by the MDR-Orchestra. (...) Cheering, bravo - shouts, stamping their feet - the audience gives free rein to their emotions..."
Tageszeitung Freies Wort Südthüringen, 26.10.2020, Peter Lauterbach
About the „Philharmonisches Konzert“
“Ulrich Kern, associate General Music Director, had perform his orchestra with much verve and inspiration. (...) Kern provided balance, sharpening yet the contrast between the movements. The audience was enthusiastically. Bravo - an excellent performance with the Lausitzer Philharmonie“
Sächsische Zeitung, 25.10.2019, Karsten Blüthgen
About Operetta „Die Fledermaus“
“With Ulrich Kern the evening was an energetic event. He experiences the tunes, provides musicians and singers sufficient leeway. That sounds really good. Not just from the ditch. Even choir and soloists are at their best.“
Sächsische Zeitung, 07.10.2019, Jens Daniel Schubert
Flowers for the bugle
“… Ulrich Kern brought the work to sharp contours, let the brass player shine and the bass thump. (...) The applause and the pounding of the audience in the sold-out hall was a clear sign. More of this fresh color!“
Sächsische Zeitung 20.10.2018, Karsten Blüthgen (about Sibelius‘ 2. Symphony)
"…Here, as a master, Kern confirms, more clearly, more decisively, the thematic threads of neatly tracing structuring, which leads the Philharmonic Orchestra to a convincing, multifaceted interpretation of the symphony. (Schumann, 2nd Symphony, Notes, ed.)”.
Rhein-Zeitung, 31.05.2017, Lieselotte Sauer-Kaulbach
"… Ulrich Kern rise to the top-form in this suite, he dances the pieces formally on his conductor's podium ..."
Sächsische Zeitung 03.01.17, Jens Daniel Schubert
"Kern gave the orchestra wings, always balancing the registers harmoniously. Dynamically, we could hear the melodies in flight, "light and mellifluous", just as their inventor himself heard them in 1878. (Editor's note: Brahms 2nd Symphony)."
Sächsische Zeitung 24.10.2015, Karsten Blüthgen
"66 minutes of 'music by musicians' in the truest sense of the word – played in a virtuoso manner by the soloist as well as by the accompanying orchestra Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserlautern, conducted by Ulrich Kern...... The accomplished ensemble playing with sonorous refinement, musical depth and virtuoso lightness is very much impressive. C'est magnifique!"
(Stephan Froleyks, Zeitschrift „Das Orchester“, September 2014, CD „French Trombone Concertos“)
