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This week A SONG OF SALT AND WATER at Festspielhau

This week A SONG OF SALT AND WATER at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
@festspielhausbadenbaden

Concerts;

🐟 23.Mai | 09:00

🐟 23.Mai | 11:00

🐟 24.May | 15:00

🌊 Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Beim Alten Bahnhof
Baden-Baden, 76530 Germany

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

About the concert 🪸

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
@kristinetjogersen

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, Director @mm_goetz
Christine Löbbert, inclusion consulting
Charlotte Morache, set design and costume @charlottemorache
Natalie Stark, light design @natalilicht
Julian Kämper, dramaturgy

📷 @elza__loginova

Tryouts online today in Ensemblehaus for ESML - P

Tryouts online today in Ensemblehaus for
ESML - POSTGRADUATE COURSE IN APPLIED COMPOSITION 2024-2025
🇵🇹

For more information follow: @esml.composition

We are happy to participate in this program together with 🎼

Luis Naón (CNSMD Paris), Composition
Rut Schereiner (CNSMD Paris), Conducting
Alex Waite (HMDK Stuttgart), interpretation - piano @alexwaitepiano
Michele Tadini (CNSMD Lyon), computer composition @michele_tadini

Composers of the 2025:

Marco Benetti
So Ho-Chi
Pouyan Ramezanpour
Agustin Castellon
Amanda Martikainen
Joao Quinteiro

Stay tuned for more ☀️

This week A SONG OF SALT AND WATER at Festspielhau

This week A SONG OF SALT AND WATER at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
@festspielhausbadenbaden

Concerts;

🐟 23.Mai | 09:00

🐟 23.Mai | 11:00

🐟 24.May | 15:00

🌊 Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Beim Alten Bahnhof
Baden-Baden, 76530 Germany

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

About the concert 🪸

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
@kristinetjogersen

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, Director @mm_goetz
Christine Löbbert, inclusion consulting
Charlotte Morache, set design @charlottemorache
Natalie Stark, light design @natalilicht
Julian Kämper, dramaturgy

Ensemble Recherche zur GEMA-Reform: Das Problem

Ensemble Recherche zur GEMA-Reform:

Das Problem mit der Diskussion um die GEMA-Reform ist, dass sie oft als eine Art Kulturkampf zwischen E-Musiker*innen und U-Musiker*innen geframed wird. In Gesprächen mit Komponist*innen, mit denen wir als Ensemble arbeiten, zeigt sich aber deutlich: Die klare Trennung zwischen E- und U-Musik ist in der Neuen Musik längst überholt. Wir bevorzugen eine durchlässige Musik, die sich bewusst jeder Kategorisierung entzieht.

Das wahre Problem liegt also nicht in einer ästhetischen Auseinandersetzung, sondern in den finanziellen Folgen dieser Reform. Denn mit der geplanten Abschaffung der E-/U-Klassifizierung geht auch ein tiefgreifender Umbau der Verteilungssystematik einher: Statt wie bisher auch kulturpolitisch zu gewichten, sollen künftig ausschließlich marktwirtschaftliche Kriterien gelten – etwa Reichweite und Nutzung.

Gerade Komponist*innen zeitgenössischer Musik, die meist in der freien Szene tätig sind, wären davon massiv betroffen. Nach Einschätzung des Verbands FREO drohen hier Einbußen von bis zu 90 %.

Wir können und wollen diese Entwicklung nicht unkommentiert hinnehmen. Denn sie stärkt das kommerzielle Musikbusiness – und schwächt die freie Szene. Deshalb solidarisieren wir uns mit all den Komponist*innen, die sich gegen diese Reform aussprechen. Es braucht keine nivellierende Vereinfachung, sondern gerechte, vielfältige und zukunftsfähige Strukturen für Musik aller Formen.

(bitte teilen)

#gema #stop #reform

📷 Peter Gwiazda

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ABO 4 – Innen |18.May

With works by

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

➡️ 18.May | 20:00
Venue:
Paulussaal, Freiburg
Dreisamstraße 3
Freiburg im Breisgau, 79098

HELSINKI CHAMBER CHOIR

Conductor: Nils Schweckendiek

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

Promoted
by Kulturamt Freiburg

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

📷Maarit Kytöharju

#newmusic #choir #chambermusic

ABO 4 – Innen |18.May With works by Vito Žura

ABO 4 – Innen |18.May

With works by

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

➡️ 18.May | 20:00
Venue:
Paulussaal, Freiburg
Dreisamstraße 3
Freiburg im Breisgau, 79098

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.

HELSINKI CHAMBER CHOIR

Conductor: Nils Schweckendiek

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

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.

#newmusic #choir #chambermusic

Festival Acht Brücken Köln | Innen / Sisäll

Festival Acht Brücken Köln | Innen / Sisällä | SAT 17. May | 17:00
@achtbruecken

Helsinki Chamber Choir @helsinginkamarikuoro
Nils Schweckendiek | Conductor
Ensemble Recherche

🗓️ Saturday May 17th | 17:00
📍WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
Free entry

Works by L. Wennäkoski, M. Bång, P. Haapanen, F. Bedrossian and V. Žuraj / H. Klaus

🎼Program

Lotta Wennäkoski
Valossa (2013)
for mixed choir. Text from the Bible in Finnish translation

Malin Bång
faces and moon splinters (2005)
for flute, clarinet, female voice, piano, violin and violoncello

Perttu Haapanen
Strophes II (2007, rev. 2009)
for mixed choir. Phonetic text by Perttu Haapanen

Franck Bedrossian
We met as sparks (2015)
for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, viola and violoncello

Vito Žuraj / Händl Klaus

Inside / Sisällä (2024)
for mixed chamber choir and ensemble. Libretto by Händl Klaus

Commissioned by Helsingin Kamarikuoro, Beethoven Jubiläums-Gesellschaft and ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
German premiere

Light and shadow play an important role in Scandinavia. Anyone who has ever celebrated Midsummer knows about the life-giving, body and soul-warming power of the sun, which is eagerly awaited by the population after the depriving winter months. In “Faces and Moon Splinters”, Malin Bång uses an essential property of light: speed. In Bedrossian's “We Met as Sparks”, light also forms the starting point for a musical spark that gradually ignites. The Slovenian composer Vito Žuraj, who returns to the cathedral city in 2025 with a vocal-instrumental piece based on texts by Händl Klaus, is now also well known in Cologne. “I close my eyes, I see the night.” This is how the third part of the libretto begins, wonderfully unveiling the essence of the text. The Scandinavian focus is completed by choral music by Lotta Wennäkoski and Perttu Haapanen, who are among the figureheads of the Helsinki Chamber Choir's repertoire and whose music has never before been heard at ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln.

Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW

📷Maarit Kytöharju

WORK IN PROGRESS - IM.PULS 💥 @festspielhausbade

WORK IN PROGRESS - IM.PULS 💥
@festspielhausbadenbaden @hfm_karlsruhe

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming students from the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Freiburg with their teacher Steffen Jahnke and their mentor composer Anna Sowa @sowaanna67 to the Ensemblehaus and were very happy to tryout the pieces they are writing for us! What a great job they are doing ✨🌟💪👏👏

Read more about this amazing project:

IM.PULS

Getting young people excited about classical music

The IM.PULS project aims to get young people interested in classical music. Together with young, up-and-coming artists, they will discover the world of music. In honour of the 100th birthday of Pierre Boulez, the project year 2024/25 refers to the great composer and conductor who was very fond of young audiences.

Under the guidance of five composers - Anna Sowa, Elnaz Seyedi, Kathrin Denner, Veronika Reutz Drobnić and Benjamin Scheuer - and students from the Karlsruhe University of Music, school classes will spend a year practising composition, testing their ideas with their peers and making music with the professional musicians of the renowned Ensemble Recherche.

The four project classes come from the Realschule Baden-Baden, the Ludwig-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Rastatt, the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Freiburg and the Anne-Frank-Schule Karlsruhe.

The project has been made possible by funding from the T. von Zastrow Foundation.

LINK IN BIO to the website of IM.PULS - Project Blog of the Festpielhaus Baden-Baden

#pierreboulez100years #newmusic #chambermusic #composition #y

We lost sight of our pianist, Klaus, in the crowd!

We lost sight of our pianist, Klaus, in the crowd! Piano preparation fans 😃🎹

These are photos from our last Schlag 6 concert together with @freiburgerbarockorchester at Ensemblehaus!

Schlag 6 is a series of short concerts, at 6pm and always with a surprise programme to end the day with music by Ensemble Recherche and/or @freiburgerbarockorchester

The concerts are free and take place in the Ensemblehaus 🎼💚

The last edition featured works by

Meike Senker (*1990)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Marisol Jimenez (*1978)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

performed by the amazing

Gottfried von der Goltz | Violin
Sebastian Wienand | Harpsichord
Klaus Steffes-Holländer | Piano

The next Schlag6! dates:

04.06.2025 | 01.07.2025

#happyhour #withmusic #schlag6 #ensemblehaus

Tomorrow: SIDE BY SIDE: Musikhochschule Freiburg 🎼🎻⚡⭐🎵
@hfm.freiburg

➡️24.April
⏰19 Uhr
📍Musikhochschule Freiburg
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Platz 1
Freiburg, 79102

Free entry

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 presented in concert.

The concert evening at the Freiburg University of Music, music by Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn, Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Natalia Solomonoff will be played. In addition, three new works by composition students at the Institute for New Music, Jose Buencamino, Yebon Jeong and Albert Saprykin, will be premiered – all side by side with the musicians of Ensemble Recherche.

With works by

Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Natalia Solomonoff, Jose Buencamino, Yebon Jeong and Albert Saprykin

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE

Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Students from Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Sara Vazquez Sanz, flute
Manuel García, bassoon
Gian Marco Medda, percussion
Ayano Shigematsu, violin

#ensemblerecherche #hfmfreiburg #newmusic #contemporarymusic #sidebyside

Arrival at Ensemblehaus; new monographic CD from F

Arrival at Ensemblehaus; new monographic CD from Fabien Lévy by KAIROS

We are delighted to be part of it together with Teodoro Anzellotti, Arcis Saxophon Quartett, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin), Johannes Kalitzke, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Iris Torossian-Topalian.

The CD includes works from solo instrument to large orchestra, and the booklet contains comments on the compositions by the musicologist Michael Zwenzner. The CD was mastered by Max Hundelshausen (Studio Maximedes) and can be purchased at Kairos-music.com. It is also available online at Spotify, AppleMusic, Youtube, AmazonMusic, etc. The booklet can be downloaded after registration at Kairos-music.com

E-N-J-O-Y 🎵🎼

SIDE BY SIDE: Musikhochschule Freiburg 🎼🎻⚡

SIDE BY SIDE: Musikhochschule Freiburg 🎼🎻⚡⭐🎵
@hfm.freiburg

Rehearsing MODE ON / Coming UP 🤗

➡️24.April
⏰19 Uhr
📍Musikhochschule Freiburg
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Platz 1
Freiburg, 79102

Free entry

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 presented in concert.

The concert evening at the Freiburg University of Music, music by Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn, Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Natalia Solomonoff will be played. In addition, three new works by composition students at the Institute for New Music, Jose Buencamino, Yebon Jeong and Albert Saprykin, will be premiered – all side by side with the musicians of Ensemble Recherche.

With works by

Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Natalia Solomonoff, Jose Buencamino, Yebon Jeong and Albert Saprykin

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE

Eduardo Olloqui, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Klaus Steffes-Holländer, piano
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Students from Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Sara Vazquez Sanz, flute
Manuel García, bassoon
Gian Marco Medda, percussion
Ayano Shigematsu, violin

#ensemblerecherche #hfmfreiburg #newmusic #contemporarymusic #sidebyside

This week we said goodbye to the amazing Paul Hang

This week we said goodbye to the amazing Paul Hangstein 🧡 He was with the Ensemble Recherche office team for the last five years. He was an outstanding team member, always coming up with creative ideas and making the office a fun and engaging place 🫶 🎼 We'll miss him, but we're excited to see the new adventures his career will take him on 👏 We hope to see him around the Ensemblehaus often! Thanks, Paul! 🙏

We had a farewell party with coffee and cake 🍰 ☕ and took this perfect "staircase" photo with our incredible, charismatic management team;

Nik (Artistic Director), Paul (Finance Assistant), Bogi (Finance Director), Julia (Project Manager) and Joey (Project Manager) 🤗💥✨🌟⭐💫⚡

The application period for this year's Ensemble Ac

The application period for this year's Ensemble Academy from @ensemblerecherche and @freiburgerbarockorchester starts on 1 May! Hurray!! 🎉

Save the dates 1. to 6. September 2025!!

And check the website (ensemble-akademie.de) and the Ensemble Academy account @ensemble_akademie_freiburg for more information 🦋

TOMORROW at - Festival @archipelgeneve 🇨🇭 P

TOMORROW at - Festival @archipelgeneve 🇨🇭
Portrait Concert of Farnaz Modarresifar @farnaz_modarresifar

✴️Balades Oniriques

🗓️ 9.April | 19:00
VENUE
Maison Communale de Plainpalais – Grand salle
52 Rue de Carouge
1205 Genève, Switzerland

About the concert:

“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 to the exploration of timbre. The program consists of composed and improvised music for the musicians of Ensemble Recherche as well as for santur and voice.

Marie Soubestre, soprano @marie_soubestre
Farnaz Modarresifar, santur @farnaz_modarresifar

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Supported
by Impuls neue Musik and GVL Stiftung

#i̇ran #persian #contemporarymusic #contemporaryart #chambermusic #composition #improvisation #womeninart #ensemblerecherche #archipel

Next Stop - Festival @archipelgeneve 🇨🇭 Po

Next Stop - Festival @archipelgeneve 🇨🇭

Portrait Concert of Farnaz Modarresifar @farnaz_modarresifar

✴️Balades Oniriques

🗓️ 9.April | 19:00
VENUE
Maison Communale de Plainpalais – Grand salle
52 Rue de Carouge
1205 Genève, Switzerland

About the concert:

“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 to the exploration of timbre. The program consists of composed and improvised music for the musicians of Ensemble Recherche as well as for santur and voice.

Marie Soubestre, soprano
Farnaz Modarresifar, santur

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Adam Woodward, violin
Sofia von Atzingen, viola
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

Supported
by Impuls neue Musik and GVL Stiftung

Innen / Sisällä ✨🌌 Ensemble Recherche and

Innen / Sisällä ✨🌌

Ensemble Recherche and Helsinki Chamber Choir
@helsinginkamarikuoro

These beautiful pictures were taken by photographer Maarit Kytöharju at @musicanovahel in the concert with the Helsinki Chamber Choir and conductor Nils Schweckendiek in Helsinki a few weeks ago.

You can enjoy this amazing programme in May 2025 at

✨ @achtbruecken 2025
SA 17. Mai | 17:00
WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
Cologne
Free Entrance

And also in Freiburg im Breisgau at

✨ABO 4
SA 18. Mai | 20:00
Paulussaal
Dreisamstraße 3
Freiburg im Breisgau
Tickets link in Bio

Programme 🎶

🎵Lotta Wennäkoski: Valossa (2014, for mixed choir)

🎵Malin Bång: faces and moon splinters (2005; for female voice, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello)
@malinaebang

🎵Perttu Haapanen: Strophes II (2007/2009, for mixed choir)

🎵Franck Bedrossian: We met as sparks (2015; for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, viola, and cello) – Ensemble Recherche
@frankbedrossian

🎵Vito Žuraj: INNEN (for mixed choir and ensemble),
@zurajvito
- Libretto by Händl Klaus
- Commissioned by Helsingin Kamarikuoro, Beethoven Jubiläums-Gesellschaft and ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
German premiere at @achtbruecken

Promoted
by Acht Brücken | Musik für Köln and Kulturamt Freiburg

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

and supported by:
Goethe-Institut
@goetheinstitut

#ensemblerecherche #achtbruckenfestival #helsinginkamarikuoro #musicanova #contemporarymusic

ABO 3 – Kammerwunder 13.March | 20:00 💭 To

ABO 3 – Kammerwunder 13.March | 20:00 💭

To everyone in Freiburg and the surrounding area: We are happy to invite you to KAMMERWUNDER!

🗓️13.03.2025
⏰20:00
📍Ensemblehaus
Schützenallee 72
79102 Freiburg

With works by

Stefan Prins @prinsstefan, Antonio la Spina @antonio_luigi_la_spina , Swantje Lichtenstein @swan_lich , Li-Ying Wu @composerliyingwu and Enno Poppe

Tickets

available at reservix.de (LINK IN BIO), at Badische Zeitung Ticketservice and at the box office.

About the concert;

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 a musical hall of mirrors that promises healing through deliberate self-deception. In his oratorio for Chat GPT, Antonio la Spina lets the algorithm oracle about the future of human creativity. Swantje Lichtenstein’s electronic pieces are based on digital revenants, on deepfakes of real people.

The second part of the concert will feature the Freiburg premiere of ‘Laub’, which Enno Poppe wrote for Recherche and premiered in Cologne in 2024. ‘Laub’ works like the Silent Mail: each bar is a variation of the previous one until a completely different message is communicated at the end. Does this message have anything to do with foliage, or does Poppe’s powerful choice of title tempt us to want to hear the rustling of leaves in the music?

There are enough absurd and alarming events in the world to leave us open-mouthed in amazement. On this evening, it is our ears that we should open in amazement – perhaps there will be a small chamber miracle.

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

This project is part of a broad effort by Ensemble Recherche in its 2024/25 season (“What is Real/What is Not”) to engage in discussion about Artificial Intelligence and the impact it will have on Art and Creativity.

#contemporarymusic #contemporaryart #chambermusic #ai #fakenews #ki #chatgpt #politics

Helsinki Chamber Choir and Ensemble Recherche: INN

Helsinki Chamber Choir and Ensemble Recherche: INNEN/SISÄLLÄ 🇫🇮

This Saturday, works by Malin Bång, Franck Bedrossian, Perttu Haapanen, Lotta Wennäkoski and a premiere by Vito Zuraj (@zurajvito) with the Helsinki Chamber Choir (@helsinginkamarikuoro ) and conductor Nils Schweckendiek at the Festival Musica Nova @musicanovahel !

🗓️ Sat 15.2.2025
⏰ 16:00–17:30

📍Address:
Musiikkitalo, Paavo
Töölönlahdenkatu
00100 Helsinki

🎫 Tickets:
29,50/25/20 € (Musiikkitalo)
https://musiikkitalo.fi/konsertit-ja-tapahtumat/musica-nova-innen-sisalla-15-2-2025

Programme 🎶

Lotta Wennäkoski (*1970): Valossa (2014, for mixed choir)

Malin Bång (*1974): faces and moon splinters (2005; for female voice, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello)

Perttu Haapanen (*1972): Strophes II (2007/2009, for mixed choir)

Franck Bedrossian (*1971): We met as sparks (2015; for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, viola, and cello) – Ensemble Recherche

Vito Žuraj (*1979): INNEN (for mixed choir and ensemble), world premiere

About the concert:

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 a disabled person with reference to Monet the painter and his gradual loss of sight. The first joint concert by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and the Freiburg-based Ensemble Recherche will also feature a virtuoso solo work for female voice and instrumental ensemble by Sweden’s Malin Bång and works by Lotta Wennäkoski, Perttu Haapanen and Franck Bedrossian.

Performers 🎼

Nils Schweckendiek, conductor

Helsinki Chamber Choir

Ensemble Recherche

In co-operation with and supported by:

Goethe-Institut
@goetheinstitut
@goetheinstitut_finnland

Sibelius Academy @Helsinki 🇫🇮 @sibeliusacade

Sibelius Academy @Helsinki 🇫🇮
@sibeliusacademy

The musicians of @ensemblerecherche are now in Helsinki for workshops at the Sibelius Academy and to perform with young instrumentalists from the NYKY Ensemble conducted by David Claudio at Musica Nova Helsinki 2025.

Tomorrow is the concert 🤗

🗓️11.2.2025
⏰19:00
📍Sonore
Mannerheimintie 13a
00100 Helsinki

Tickets
12,50–24,50 €

With works by
Alex Paxton, Carola Bauckholt, Bára Gísladóttir and Salvatore Sciarrino

Here is also an interview with violinist 🎻 Adam Woodward: “Playing together is special”

https://www.uniarts.fi/en/articles/interviews/adam-woodward-playing-together-is-special/#:~:text=NYKY%20Ensemble%20RECHERCHE%3A%20side%20by%20side

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
Anja Clift, flute
Shizuyo Oka, clarinet
Adam Woodward, violin
Åsa Åkerberg, violoncello

In co-operation with and supported by:
Goethe-Institut
@goetheinstitut_finnland
@goetheinstitut

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