At the center of the Ensemble-Academy is Academy Week, which this year takes place from the 7th to the 12th of September 2020. Far more than the juxtaposition of different styles and epochs, it is about the manifold exploration of older and newer music. Mutual artistic inspiration is central to this. The exchange of experiences […]
Opening concert with members of ensemble recherche and the Freiburg BarockConsort At the center of the Ensemble-Academy is Academy Week, which this year takes place from the 7th to the 12th of September 2020. Far more than the juxtaposition of different styles and epochs, it is about the manifold exploration of older and newer music. […]
Final concert with Academy participants At the center of the Ensemble-Academy is Academy Week, which this year takes place from the 7th to the 12th of September 2020. Far more than the juxtaposition of different styles and epochs, it is about the manifold exploration of older and newer music. Mutual artistic inspiration is central to […]
In der Vergangenheit war es für uns sehr bereichernd, mit jungen Komponist*innen zusammenzuarbeiten. Auch in dieser Spielzeit werden wir wieder Studierende aus zwei verschiedenen Hochschulen bei uns im Ensemblehaus Freiburg zu Gast haben. Während eines mehrteiligen Prozesses entstehen so neue Stücke. Unsere langjährige Erfahrung und die frischen Ideen der Studierenden bereichern sich wechselseitig! Mit Kompositionsstudierenden […]
Remix culture has become an integral part of the present and also has had a strong influence on the contemporary music scene. Although only recognized as an art form in its own right since the late 1980s, the idea of the remix has been an essential part of European culture for much longer: Renaissance as […]
From the lonely paths of the bass clarinet, this new cycle by Alberto Posadas leads into a dense network of wandering sounds. The movements of the voices and instruments make spatial experiences possible that are reminiscent of our moving about. With the Poética del camino Alberto Posadas creates a treatise, both spiritual and directly sensual, […]
Allan Gravgaard Madsen's music plays with quotations—and through Morten Riis' (electro-)mechanical loudspeaker orchestra becomes a quotation itself, a re-composition. In the second half of the concert, the focus is on Isabel Mundry, who also works with existing material in her Dufay arrangements. The project is produced by Foreningen 458 with support by Goethe Institute Dänemark, […]
Allan Gravgaard Madsen's music plays with quotations—and through Morten Riis' (electro-)mechanical loudspeaker orchestra becomes a quotation itself, a re-composition. In the second half of the concert, the focus is on Isabel Mundry, who also works with existing material in her Dufay arrangements. The project is produced by Foreningen 458 with support by Goethe Institute Dänemark, […]
This concert program was curated by the Hong Kong-Chinese composer Charles Kwong. Artistic Manager Clemens K. Thomas spoke with Charles Kwong about Hong Kong, its new music scene and the variety of composers there. Dear Charles, you were born in Hong Kong in 1985 and grew up there but spent a large part of […]
"...strange sounds from a strange, disjointed year...": Ricardo Eizirik reflects in his work Placeholder on the difficulty of a creatively productive "carry on" that he has felt in the past year. Matias Vestergard describes a "pathological amnesic state that can last for several months, during which a person suffers from memory loss, often starts a […]
Displacement, escape, deportation, death—the inhumane burdens that people far from their homes must fight against, people who have been violently torn from their surroundings. These burdens are immense—and timeless. We come across descriptions of them already in mythological prehistoric times. An Icelandic legend tells of the abduction of the giantess Gerðdur by the god Freyr […]
The Freiburg composer Carola Bauckholt has a pair of eyes projected onto two balloons. Through these external movements we can draw conclusions about internal processes. The sounds of the clarinet, cello and piano complement the eyes so that we can perceive a kind of composite artificial face in this construct of images and sounds. Thus, […]
The focus of the Ensemble Academy is Academy Week, which will take place this year from September 6 to 11, 2021. Far more than the juxtaposition of different styles and epochs, it is a varied exploration of older and newer music. Mutual artistic inspiration is central to this. The exchange of experiences about different performance […]
