Ensemble Recherche and Helsinki Chamber choir

INNEN was jointly curated by Ensemble Rechercheand the Helsinki Chamber Choir and marks the first
collaboration between the two ensembles: The programme charts a trajectory of sonic growth, opening with the virtuosic intimacy of Jug Marković’s “Set Adrift” for solo clarinet and culminating with Vito Žuraj’s “INNEN” for choir and the eight instrumentalists of Ensemble Recherche – composed in collaboration with Austrian writer Klaus Händl. Händl summarises the work’s dramatic setting as follows:

“Does the impairment of a sensory organ central to artistic creation lead to a different language? We are in a room that encompasses the past and the present: On the wall of the museum hangs a picture that is being looked at. Simultaneously, we enter different fields of tension of perception. In a musical painting process, we share the gaze of an old painter, which is fixed on his eternal motif, a lush patch of grass. The painter’s gaze is becoming increasingly cloudy: the grass now appears to him in false colours: withered, because his eyes are diseased. He consistently mixes the corresponding offcolours on his palette and reproduces what he sees: Grass that tells of his illness – in whose ‘false’ green glow the outsiders who look at it lose themselves, bewitched.

With works by
Vito Žuraj (UA), Malin Bång, Jug Marković, Franck Bedrossian and Zad Moultaka

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Christian Dierstein, percussion
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello
Lukas Nowok, sound design

Tickets
available at reservix.de, at Badische Zeitung Ticketservice and at the box office.

Promoted 
by Kulturamt Freiburg

A cooperation 
between Ensemble Recherche and the Freunde of the Ensemble Recherche e.V.