MDR KULTUR collaborates with renowned venues and festivals in Saxony, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt. Its cultural partners include alternative venues like the Theaterhaus Jena, as well as luminaries of high culture such as the Semperoper, and festivals like the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau and the Bach Festival in Leipzig.
In addition to the music academies in Leipzig and Weimar, the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden has also entered into a cultural partnership with MDR KULTUR.
MDR KULTUR broadcasts selected key events from the Dresden University of Music.