A warm welcome, NIK BOHNENBERGER!

We are delighted to welcome the luxembourgish composer
Nik Bohnenberger
as our new
Artistic Manager !


Dear  audience

The arts and humanities of today often exhibit a particularly complex relationship with history. The impulse to challenge and reject conventional wisdom – a hallmark of the post-modernism of the late 20th century – has come to be intertwined with something that, while it cannot quite be described as nostalgia, at least carries a sense that we are all, for better or worse, exiles of the past. In other words, we have within us the capacity to think and act as past generations did, like a diaspora community that suddenly revives abandoned customs from its ancestral homeland.

As we as artists become increasingly critical of the legacies of so-called Western high culture and its institutions, it is necessary to reflect upon our relationship with history and the implications of our deep connection to it – after all, meaningful efforts to redress the lack of inclusivity that was the norm in our field for centuries are only a recent phenomenon. Our 23/24 season is therefore a contemplation on what distinguishes today from yesterday, this year from last year, this century from last century… We recognise the progress which is enriching and diversifying our musical landscape while also holding ourselves up to scrutiny and seeking to engage with criticism for the parts of history that we still carry with us.

In our Freiburg Subscriber Season, Ensemble Recherche will present five concert events which endeavour, each in a different way, to examine the echoes of the past in our creative milieu. At the heart of these projects is the desire to create a framework in which composers and sound artists of diverse backgrounds, identities and stylistic orientations may express through music their perspectives and convictions with respect to the concepts briefly touched upon above. We hope that you, our listeners, will join the conversation too!

These projects and others will of course also be presented beyond the walls of our hometown, with performances at festivals including Traiettorie, Eclat, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and Acht Brücken. Finally, pedagogical and outreach engagements this season will see us travel to the four corners of Germany, as well as to Switzerland and Greece.

Your Ensemble Recherche

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1 week ago

SIDE BY SIDE: Hochschule für Musik Freiburg 😍Rehearsing MODE ON / Coming UP 🤗➡️24.April⏰19 Uhr📍Musikhochschule FreiburgMendelssohn-Bartholdy-Platz 1Freiburg, 79102Free entryMusicians of Ensemble Recherche and students from the Hochschule für Musik FreiburgBeing part of the Ensemble Recherche for once: For a couple of days, four Recherche musicians will work with the four instrumental students Sara Vazquez Sanz, Manuel García, Gian Marco Medda and Ayano Shigematsu. On 24 April 2025, the result will be presented in concert.The concert evening at the Freiburg University of Music, music by Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn, Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Natalia Solomonoff will be played. In addition, three new works by composition students at the Institute for New Music, Jose Buencamino, Yebon Jeong and Albert Saprykin, will be premiered – all side by side with the musicians of Ensemble Recherche. With works byRebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Natalia Solomonoff, Jose Buencamino, Yebon Jeong and Albert Saprykin ENSEMBLE RECHERCHEEduardo Olloqui, oboeShizuyo Oka, clarinetKlaus Steffes-Holländer, pianoÅsa Åkerberg, violoncello Students from Hochschule für Musik FreiburgSara Vazquez Sanz, fluteManuel García, bassoonGian Marco Medda, percussionAyano Shigematsu, violin#ensemblerecherche #HfMFreiburg #newmusic #contemporarymusic #sidebyside ... See MoreSee Less
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2 weeks ago

Thank you Archipel Festival - Genève for having us and photographer Greg Clément for this beautiful 📸 Portrait concert of Farnaz Modarresifar "Balades Oniriques"with soprano Marie Soubestre and Ensemble recherche ... See MoreSee Less
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OUR  PROJECTS

A Song of Salt and Water

Other Histories

Hainbach + Recherche

CONTACT

ensemble recherche

Ensemblehaus

Schützenallee 72

D – 79102 Freiburg 

phone:  +49 (0)761 70 20 79

fax +49 (0)761 70 20 80

mail@ensemble-recherche.de

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