The Helsinki Chamber Choir is visiting Freiburg!

New choral sounds from Scandinavia meet instrumental music from France and Serbia, until the evening culminates in Vito Žuraj’s new work ‘INNEN’, which he composed especially for Ensemble Recherche and Helsinki Chamber Choir in collaboration with the Austrian author Klaus Händl.

Vito Žuraj says of his new work: ‘The libretto of “INNEN” explores the deep connections between physical impairment and creative expression. It draws on the life of Claude Monet, whose progressive visual impairment had a lasting impact on his art.’

Žuraj, who suffered from severe stuttering as a child, recognised a parallel to his own story in Monet’s fate. The audience experiences the formative journey of letting go the stuttering in musical form. The three-part libretto initially builds up a great deal of tension, which seems to be released in the second part. In the end, however, it becomes clear that a certain tension always remains.

Following the world premiere in Finland, the two ensembles are now bringing their joint programme to Germany – under the baton of a former Freiburg resident: Nils Schweckendiek, who studied musicology as well as orchestral and choral conducting at the local university in addition to Cambridge and Helsinki.

With works by
Vito Žuraj, Malin Bång, Franck Bedrossian, Perttu Haapanen, Jug K. Marković and Lotta Wennäkoski

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

Helsinki Chamber Choir

Conductor: Nils Schweckendiek

Weitere Informationen:

ABO 4 – Innen – Ensemble Recherche

Helsinki Chamber Choir

Nils Schweckendiek

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.