Ensemble Recherche

Acht Brücken @Köln
2025-05-17 | WDR Funkhaus, Köln, Wallrafplatz 5, Köln, 50667, Deutschland
With works by
Malin Bång, Franck Bedrossian, Perttu Haapanen, Lotta Wennäkoski and Vito Zuraj

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
Helsinki Chamber choir

ABO 4 - Innen
2025-05-18 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Paulussaal, Freiburg, Dreisamstraße 3, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79098, Deutschland
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.

A Song of Salt and Water - school performance No. 1 @Baden-Baden
2025-05-23 09:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof, Baden-Baden, 76530, Deutschland
Staged family concert
A dive into the sea to hear, see and touch – completely non-verbal, because you can only communicate with gestures, signs and light signals when you are underwater. And here, of course, with all the means of music. The eight musicians of the Freiburg-based Ensemble Recherche play music by Kristine Tjøgersen as well as new compositions by Mads Emil Dreyer. The sound artist Lukas Nowok creates soundscapes that rustle, gurgle and flow, as if the concert hall were a large pool of water. The distinction between music coming from instruments and loudspeakers become blurred. In the spirit of sustainability, the set is made from eco-certified and recycled materials.

With works by
Kristine Tjøgersen and Mads Emil Dreyer

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
Miriam Götz, direction
Charlotte Morache, set design
Natalie Stark, light design
Christine Löbbert, Inclusion consulting

Suitable for children aged 6 and over, with and without visual or hearing impairments.

A Song of Salt and Water - school performance No. 2 @ Baden-Baden
2025-05-23 11:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof, Baden-Baden, 76530, Deutschland
We find ourselves underwater: with composers Kristine Tjøgersen and Mads Emil Dreyer we dive into the sound of singing schools of fish and marvel at the colorful play of the cuttlefish. But as beautiful as this underwater world is, it is also threatened: coral bleaching, plastic waste, overfishing, extinction of species, hearing-impaired porpoises….
Tim Gordon, a researcher of coral reefs, reports from the Great Barrier Reef, a coral reef off the coast of Australia: „Once there was color and life everywhere in this incredible landscape, but now it resembles a graveyard. Not only has it become much quieter here, but also the quality of the sounds has changed. The acoustic complexity is gone, there‘s much less going on today – you can literally hear a dying riff.“ Changes caused by humans, threatened ecosystems and complex nutritional systems that are out of balance… And yet the music manages to avoid an apocalyptic mood or hopelessness despite these serious themes. Rather, her fine music sensitizes us to the beauty of the underwater world and touches us so strongly precisely because we become aware of what is in danger of being lost.

With works by
Kristine Tjøgersen and Mads Emil Dreyer

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
Miriam Götz, Director
Christine Löbbert, inclusion consulting
Charlotte Morache, set design
Natalie Stark, light design

Suitable for children from the age of 6, with and without visual or hearing impairments.

A Song of Salt and Water - a staged family concert No. 1 @Baden-Baden
2025-05-24 11:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof, Baden-Baden, 76530, Deutschland

A Song of Salt and Water - a staged family concert No. 2 @Baden-Baden
2025-05-24 15:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof, Baden-Baden, 76530, Deutschland

Schlag 6 im Ensemblehaus!
2025-06-04 18:00 | Ensemblehaus Freiburg, Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
The spontaneous concert format of FBO and ensemble recherche in their rehearsal room
A free event of the foundation of the Baden-Württembergische Ensemble-Akademie Freiburg

Under the title “Schlag 6 im Ensemblehaus” (“Beat 6 in the Ensemble House”), musicians from both ensembles will create an entertaining musical evening as soloists, in small or larger groups in their joint rehearsal home. Beginning: 6 p.m. Surprise program without intermission. Pay after.

Pfingstfestspiele @Baden-Baden
2025-06-07 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof, Baden-Baden, 76530, Deutschland
Salon 1955

In Baden-Baden in 1955, Pierre Boulez set three cycles of poems by the surrealist René Char to music. However, he did not order the poem cycles one after the other. Instead, he interlocked them like a geometric experiment. René Char joined the Resistance. His friends included the painter Joan Miró and the philosopher Albert Camus. Artists such as Henri Matisse and Georges Braque illustrated his poems.
“Le Marteau sans maître” will now be performed at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on the occasion of Pierre Boulez’s 100th birthday.

With works by
Pierre Boulez

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE

Tickets and further information: www.festspielhaus.de

Workshops @HfM Trossingen
2025-06-10
The musicians of Ensemble Recherche hold workshops with the students of the HfM Trossingen.

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Concert @HfM Trossingen
2025-06-11 19:30
‘Flow and form – music in motion’
The evening offers an energetic and multi-facetted programme that presents the music of Prof. Sven Daigger and introduces him as a composer and new teacher at the HfM Trossingen.
Sven Daigger is Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the HfM Trossingen since the summer semester of 2024. His works include pieces for music theatre, orchestra, chamber music, dance and vocal music.

With works by
Sven Daigger

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello
Chamber Choir HfM Trossingen
Horn Ensemble of HfM Trossingen

More information here: hfm-trossingen.de

Workshops @Busan
2025-06-23 16:00
Ensemble Recherche as a guest at the Daegu Festival in South Korea!
Apart from concerts, the ensemble’s wind trio will also be giving two workshops in Busan on 23 June.

1st workshop:
Location: Gimhae University
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
2nd workshop:
Location: Seum Composers’ Association
Time: 18:00 – 20:00

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet

With the financial support of the Goethe-Institut.
Supported by Baden-Württemberg state.

Reading session @Daegu Festival South Korea
2025-06-26 10:00
Ensemble Recherche as a guest at the Daegu Festival in South Korea!
In addition to workshops and two festival concerts, the musicians of Ensemble Recherche will also play a reading session on the morning of the first concert day.

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

With the financial support of the Goethe-Institut.
Supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Concert No. 1 @Daegu Festival South Korea
2025-06-26 19:30 | Daegu Concert House, 141 Taepyeong-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
Ensemble Recherche as a guest at the Daegu Festival in South Korea!
After two workshops in Busan, Ensemble Recherche will play two concerts in Daegu, where works by Korean composers will be performed alongside works by Carola Bauckholt and Ricardo Eizirik.

With works by
Elnaz Seyedi, Carola Bauckholt, Márton Illés, Taeho Kim, Dimitri Papageorgiu and Ji-Hyang Kim

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

With the financial support of the Goethe-Institut.
Supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Concert No. 2 @Daegu Festival South Korea
2025-06-27 18:00 | Daegu Concert House, 141 Taepyeong-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
Ensemble Recherche as a guest at the Daegu Festival in South Korea!
After two workshops in Busan, Ensemble Recherche will play two concerts in Daegu, where works by Korean composers will be performed alongside works by Carola Bauckholt and Ricardo Eizirik.

With works by
Ricardo Eizirik, Hèctor Parra, Günter Steinke (UA), Cheolha Park, Junyung Park and Jaekyung Lim

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 direction

With the financial support of the Goethe-Institut.
Supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Schlag 6 im Ensemblehaus!
2025-07-01 18:00

ABO 5 - 40 years Recherche! - Part I (1985-1995)
2025-07-11 20:00 | Ensemblehaus Freiburg, Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
How the future sounded, how the past will sound
Since its foundation in 1985, Ensemble Recherche has made a truly significant contribution to the culture of contemporary music in Germany and around the world. In 2025, we celebrate the ensemble’s 40th birthday by looking back – and forward – at some of the works and collaborations with composers that have shaped, and continue to shape, our creative identity.
40 Jahre Ensemble Recherche! comprises four concerts – each dedicated to a decade of the ensemble’s existence –held over a three-day period in Ensemblehaus Freiburg. The programmes, curated collectively by ensemble members and artistic management, combine masterworks by familiar names with world premieres by younger composers whose creative visions we admire.

With works by
Morton Feldman and Allan Gravgaard Madsen (UA)

Followed by
Talk with guests & Open Ensemblehaus

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.

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

With support from

ABO 5 - 40 years Recherche! - Part II (1995-2005)
2025-07-12 15:30 | Ensemblehaus Freiburg, Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
How the future sounded, how the past will sound
Since its creation in 1985, Ensemble Recherche has made a truly significant contribution to the culture of contemporary music in Germany and around the world. In 2025, we celebrate the ensemble’s 40th birthday by looking back – and forward – at some of the works and collaborations with composers that have shaped, and continue to shape, our creative identity.
40 Jahre Ensemble Recherche! comprises four concerts – each dedicated to a decade of the ensemble’s existence –held over a three-day period in Ensemblehaus Freiburg. The programmes, curated collectively by ensemble members and artistic management, combine masterworks by familiar names with world premieres by younger composers whose creative visions we admire.

With works by
Gérard Grisey, Georg Friedrich Haas, Lucia Ronchetti, Bryan Ferneyhough, Carola Bauckholt, Wolfgang Rihm, Isabel Mundry, Györgi Kurtág, Marc Andre and Salvatore Sciarrino

Followed by
Talk with guests & Open Ensemblehaus

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.

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

Gefördert von / mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch

Abo 5 - 40 years Recherche! - Part III (2005-2015)
2025-07-12 19:00 | Ensemblehaus Freiburg, Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
How the future sounded, how the past will sound
Since its creation in 1985, Ensemble Recherche has made a truly significant contribution to the culture of contemporary music in Germany and around the world. In 2025, we celebrate the ensemble’s 40th birthday by looking back – and forward – at some of the works and collaborations with composers that have shaped, and continue to shape, our creative identity.
40 Jahre Ensemble Recherche! comprises four concerts – each dedicated to a decade of the ensemble’s existence –held over a three-day period in Ensemblehaus Freiburg. The programmes, curated collectively by ensemble members and artistic management, combine masterworks by familiar names with world premieres by younger composers whose creative visions we admire.

With works by
Clara Iannotta, Hèctor Parra, François Sarhan, Simon Steen Andersen, Hans Abrahamsen, Ramon Lazkano, Chaya Czernowin and Hugues Dufourt

Followed by
CD release with Hainbach and party

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.

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

With support from

ABO 5 - 40 years Recherche! - Part IV (2015-2025)
2025-07-13 11:00 | Ensemblehaus Freiburg, Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
How the future sounded, how the past will sound
Since its creation in 1985, Ensemble Recherche has made a truly significant contribution to the culture of contemporary music in Germany and around the world. In 2025, we celebrate the ensemble’s 40th birthday by looking back – and forward – at some of the works and collaborations with composers that have shaped, and continue to shape, our creative identity.
40 Jahre Ensemble Recherche! comprises four concerts – each dedicated to a decade of the ensemble’s existence –held over a three-day period in Ensemblehaus Freiburg. The programmes, curated collectively by ensemble members and artistic management, combine masterworks by familiar names with world premieres by younger composers whose creative visions we admire.

With works by
Monthati Masebe, Anda Kryeziu, Lisa Streich,Helmut Lachenmann and Elnaz Seyedi
and
coffee and cake

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

Free entry!

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

With support from

IM.PULS @Baden-Baden
2025-07-24 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof, Baden-Baden, 76530, Deutschland
IM.PULS – Final concert
Start early if you want to compose great works. And some ideas are best tried out with your peers. That’s why school classes practised composing for a year under the guidance of composers and with the help of Ensemble Recherche – and are now presenting their works in a final concert. Be part of it! The school classes will be delighted!

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE

More information here: festspielhaus.de
Free entry.

Workshop + Concert @Lissabon
2025-07-26 - 2025-07-31 | Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Campus de Benfica do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, 1500-651, Portugal
The Applied Composition programme at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa aims to provide a contemporary education in the field of music production, with a focus on experimental areas – combined with the diversity of contemporary practices and tools of production. During the postgraduate programme, students have the opportunity to work with internationally renowned teaching staff, the Ensemble Recherche and the Schallfeld Ensemble – after an intensive workshop phase, the collaboration culminates in a concert with world premieres of all newly created works.

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

Opening concert @Ensemble Academy
2025-09-02 20:00 | Christuskirche, Maienstraße, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
Opening concert of the Academy week with Ensemble Recherche and Freiburger Barockorchester
The Academy-Week is the event at the heart of the Ensemble Academy Freiburg. This year, it takes place from 1st to 6th of september.
Surpassing the co-existence of different styles and periods, this program aims to give participants a thorough understanding of early and contemporary music. Since mutual artistic inspiration is absolutely vital to this endeavour, we are convinced participants will benefit greatly from sharing their experiences with different performance techniques and broadening their horizon by learning new approaches. What we hope to achieve with Academy-Week is to give participants the opportunity to learn specific skills for use in specialised ensembles and to simply come together in their joy of making music.

With works by
Enno Poppe

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Tickets
available at reservix.de and at the box office.

More information here: ensemble-akademie.de

Final concert @Ensemble Academy
2025-09-06 18:00 | Christuskirche, Maienstraße, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
Final concert with participants of the Academy Week
The Academy-Week is the event at the heart of the Ensemble Academy Freiburg. This year, it takes place from 1st to 6th of september.
Surpassing the co-existence of different styles and periods, this program aims to give participants a thorough understanding of early and contemporary music. Since mutual artistic inspiration is absolutely vital to this endeavour, we are convinced participants will benefit greatly from sharing their experiences with different performance techniques and broadening their horizon by learning new approaches. What we hope to achieve with Academy-Week is to give participants the opportunity to learn specific skills for use in specialised ensembles and to simply come together in their joy of making music.

Free entrance. Donations are welcome.

More information: ensemble-akademie.de & reservix.de

European Workshop for Contemporary Music @Warsaw
2025-09-16 - 2025-09-17
In the European Workshop for Contemporary Music (EWCM) young musicians from Poland, Germany and other European countries come together to work on core pieces from the contemporary music repertoire, explore contemporary playing techniques and premiere new works by young European composers.
The ensemble consists of about 20 young musicians who meet once a year for a week-long rehearsal and coaching period with the musicians of Ensemble Recherche. This is followed by a concert at the prestigious Warsaw Autumn festival.

With works by
Wolfgang Rihm, Ricardo Eizirik, Maciej Kabza, Golnaz Shariatzadeh and Fausto Romitelli

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Christian Dierstein, percussion
Adam Woodward, violin
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello
Markus Schwind, trumpet (guest)

More information here.

Reingelauscht - ABO 1
2025-09-26 20:00 | Ensemblehaus Freiburg, Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
Imagine walking down a corridor, past a door left ajar – and hearing a peculiar mix of hums, squeaks, creaks, groaning,and hammering emerging from inside the room. Curious, you take a quick peek into the room, to figure out what the source of the noise is.
In this concert, we invite the audience to peek into every world of strange noises they encounter. Stefan Prins, Anna-Louise Walton, Kristine Tjøgersen and Maja Bosnić each create fascinating sound worlds of their own. Each piece presents new impulses and questions, which accompany us beyond the limits of the concert hall.
Stefan Prins’ intensive, electronic soundworld teems with feedback and fine layers. Anna-Louise Walton’s choreographic piece for object ensemble brings together precision and playfulness in the most fascinating of ways. Kristine Tjøgersen brings a poetic, natural dimension to the concerthall with instrumental imitations of birdsong. Maja Bosnić’s ((mno.go)) dissolves the fourth wall between the musicians and the audience.
But it will not be enough to participate passively in this concert. Instead, the focus is on active discovery: in the form of a participative intervention, sounds from pieces played will be recreated, altered, and experienced anew. Every sound which occurs in the concert hall will be microphoned and processed. In this way, every movement and every noise modifies the soundscape of the room and becomes part of the musical process. New artist duo is born: Recherche and its Audience! Alternatively: composition and improvisation.

With works by
Stefan Prins, Anna-Louise Walton, Kristine Tjøgersen and Maja Bosnić

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.

Supported by
Freunde of the Ensemble Recherche e.V.

Schlag 6 im Ensemblehaus!
2025-10-01 18:00, 2025-11-18 18:00 | Ensemblehaus Freiburg, Schützenallee 72, Freiburg i.Br., 79102, Deutschland
The spontaneous concert format of FBO and ensemble recherche in their rehearsal home
A free event of the foundation of the Baden-Württembergische Ensemble-Akademie Freiburg

Under the title “Schlag 6 im Ensemblehaus” (“Beat 6 in the Ensemble House”), musicians from both ensembles will create an entertaining musical evening as soloists, in small or larger groups in their joint rehearsal home.
Beginning: 6 p.m. Surprise program without intermission. Pay after.

Klassik am Meer @Wilhelmshaven
2025-10-05 20:00
One of the most important forums for contemporary art with a supra-regional impact, the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven offers an ideal performance space for the musical avant-garde. In the autumn of 2025, artists of different generations will explore the shimmering cosmopolitan empire of mermaids in the exhibition Of Mermaids, Border Crossers and an Aesthetics of the Fluid. Inspired by this, Ensemble Recherche dives into flowing musical soundscapes with works such as John Cage’s Water Music and Toshio Hosokawa’s The Water of Lethe.

With works by
Márton Illés, Bahar Royaee, John Cage, Michiko Fukazawa, Salvatore Sciarrino, Dai Fujikura and Toshio Hosokawa

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Tickets and more information here

NOW! @Essen
2025-10-31 20:30 | Pavillon, Philharmonie Essen, Huyssenallee 53, Essen, 45128, Germany
With works by
Clara Iannotta, Katherine Balch, Malin Bång, Ashkan Behzadi and Günter Steinke

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 and more information here.

Étoiles à Neutrons @MH Freiburg
2025-11-14 19:00 | Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Wolfgang-Hoffmann-Saal, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Platz 1, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79102, Germany
With works by
Gérard Grisey

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Adam Woodward, violin
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello
Students of the percussion class of Håkon Stene
Studio for Electronic Music of the Institute for New Music

Admission free
