The Bremen tritonus festival (from 17 to 24 November 2024) will celebrate the 100th birthday of the Swiss composer Klaus Huber (1924-2017), who spent the last two decades of his life in Bremen. Over the course of four concerts, his music will come into a dialog, both with older works that were important points of […]
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 […]
Music from the corners of the cloud For artists in communities that were historically subjected to colonisation, the transition to the digital age has been a double-edged sword: The potential of social media algorithms to bring together people with shared languages, experiences and histories is belied by mechanisms which, by design or by mere absence […]
With works by Enno Poppe, Katherine Balch and Malin Bång 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
Musicians of Ensemble Recherche perform a concert side by side with students of the Sibelius Academy. With works by Alex Paxton, Carola Bauckholt, Bára Gísladóttir and Salvatore Sciarrino ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE Anja Clift, flute Shizuyo Oka, clarinet Adam Woodward, violin Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello
Helsinki Chamber Choir was to have given the world premiere of a new work, INNEN, by Vito Žuraj in September 2020, but the pandemic changed the plans. It is now to be heard for the first time, nearly five years later. To a libretto commissioned from Händl Klaus, the work examines the unfiltered creativity of […]
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 […]
Music - feels real Ensemble Recherche creates a cabinet of curiosities with pieces to amaze and doubt. Music between truth and illusion, between fibbing and effectiveness. Li-Ying Wu deals with the manipulative effect of fake news and the question of how we can communicate with each other with understanding. With Stefan Prins, we enter […]
“Balades Oniriques” - Portrait of Farnaz Modarresifar “Balades Oniriques” is the first result of a long-term collaboration between Ensemble Recherche and Paris-based Iranian composer and santoor player Farnaz Modarresifar. Modarresifar is known for the novel musical syntax she has developed for her instrument - a combination of Persian traditional modality and a contemporary European approach […]
Musicians of Ensemble Recherche and students from the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg Being part of the Ensemble Recherche for once: For a couple of days, four Recherche musicians will work with the four instrumental students Sara Vazquez Sanz, Manuel García, Gian Marco Medda and Ayano Shigematsu. On 24 April 2025, the result will be […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
