Ensemble Modern

The Ensemble Modern (EM ) is an international board of soloists, interprets the works of contemporary music and promotes.

History

The Ensemble Modern was founded in 1980, when a group banded together students of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie to the ideal of its own - to realize industrial and organizational manner - and unique in the world: the ensemble dispensed with artistic director, instead, all projects, co-productions and financial issues on a democratic basis decided together supported and implemented. Currently, the Ensemble 19 soloists from different backgrounds: Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Poland and Switzerland form the cultural background of the formation.

Since 1985, the Ensemble Modern is based in Frankfurt am Main, where there is also a series of subscription concerts in the Alte Oper Frankfurt contests since 1985, implemented regularly opera productions in cooperation with the Frankfurt Opera and lists under the title Happy New Ears workshop concerts since 1993, in which a Forum is offered for central works of contemporary music. The programmatic bandwidth of the ensemble includes music theater, chamber music and orchestral music as well as dance and video projects. Over the years, had intense and unusual collaborations, including with John Adams, George Benjamin, Hans Zender, Peter Eötvös, Heiner Goebbels, Hans Werner Henze, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Benedict Mason, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Quint, Steve Reich and Frank Zappa.

Each year, the Ensemble Modern is about 100 concerts and worked an average of 70 new works, of which about 20 premieres. The previous tours have taken the ensemble already to Africa, Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, South America, Taiwan, Russia and the United States. It is regularly represented at prestigious festivals, including, inter alia, the Salzburg Festival, the sound tracks Schwaz, the Berliner Festspiele, the Lucerne Festival, the Festival d' Automne à Paris or the Festival Ars Musica in Brussels.

2003, the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA ) was founded, whose goal is to promote young artists. These include the granting of scholarships, conducting master classes and training programs for teachers and the organization of symposia. The Academy offers master classes, " composer Studios " and Courses for Young Musicians to winners.

Members

Saar Berger ( Horn ), Eva Böcker (cello ), Uwe Dierksen (trombone ), Roland Diry ( clarinet), Valentín Garvie (trumpet ), Christian Hommel (oboe), Nina Janssen ( clarinet), Megumi Kasakawa (viola ), Michael M. Kasper (cello ), Hermann Kretzschmar (piano), Jagdish Mistry (violin), Rumi Ogawa (Drums ), Norbert Ommer ( sound director ), Rainer Römer ( drums), John Black (bassoon), Sava Stoianov (trumpet ), Dietmar Wiesner (flute), Ueli Wiget (piano), Rafal Zambrzycki - Payne (violin).

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Awards (selection)

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