As a contemporary music ensemble, we always strive to unite the aesthetic with a global perspective—or at least to explore our art within this spectrum. As we engage with the world, we encounter numerous TIPPING POINTS. In our perception, they exist somewhere between points and lines: between individual moments of transition and long-term developments, between visible changes and subtle shifts. In the 2026/27 season, we ask ourselves: Where do such turning points arise? How do we experience them in our environment, our society, and our music? And what new perspectives open up at the thresholds of change? With TIPPING POINTS, we explore these transitions and the sonic spaces that emerge from them.

Discover a wide variety of TIPPING POINTS in our Freiburg concert series:

KNOTENPUNKTE focuses on the tipping points of transportation policy; in JAG GÅR PÅ SOL, we bid farewell to our longtime cellist Åsa with a program she curated herself. REINGELAUSCHT – REINGESCHAUT invites you to reinterpret graphic scores and develop your own ideas about sound. With FUTURE FOREST by Kirsten Reese and Dr. Sandra Müller, ecological changes become audible in the soundscape of the forest. To close out the season, LIVING WATERS, VITAL SONG by Liza Lim offers a different perspective on time and the future, in collaboration with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Even beyond our Freiburg season, we continue to explore the TIPPING POINTS of our time: with our inclusive music theater project SOIL at the BørneKlang Festival in Copenhagen, as well as with guest performances at Wien Modern, Samtida Musik Stockholm, and the Distat Festival in Argentina.

You can find all concerts for this season and further information about the ensemble in our brochure. Tickets for the Freiburg series are available at www.tickets.ensemble-recherche.de, as well as through Reservix sales outlets, the Badische Zeitung ticket service, and at our box office; for events outside Freiburg, tickets are available through the respective organizers.

We would like to cordially invite you to Christuskirche Freiburg on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 8:00 p.m., where our musicians, together with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, will open the 2026 Ensemble Academy featuring both older and newer music.

— Your Ensemble Recherche

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Ensemble Recherche is supported by the City of Freiburg and the State of Baden-Württemberg.