Berlin
Ensemble Modern
| Day/Time: | Friday, March 6th 2009. 20:00 |
| Venue: | Konzerthaus Berlin, Berlin |
Programme
diverse, :
"into Johannesburg" with compositions by Luke Bedford, Jörg Birkenkötter, Lars Petter Hagen und Lucia Ronchetti
"into Johannesburg" with compositions by Luke Bedford, Jörg Birkenkötter, Lars Petter Hagen und Lucia Ronchetti
About the event
Compositional approximations of Istanbul, Dubai, Johannesburg and the Pearl River Delta with the Ensemble Modern.With the boom of the ‘Mega-City’, more than half of the world’s population is now living in cities such as Cairo, Mexico-City or Jakarta.
In an attempt to more closely examine these dynamic environments the Ensemble Modern has invited composers to take part in their project "into...". For this special project, four composers are going to live and work/compose for four weeks in Istanbul, Dubai, Johannesburg and the Pearl River Delta. Their creations, compositional approximations of each city, will be performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Artists
Ensemble Modern, Orchestra
Ensemble Modern is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries.
Ensemble Modern tour widely and have released many recordings, performing works by such composers as Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Kurt Weill, Edgard Varčse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, George Benjamin, Frank Zappa, Anthony Braxton, Heiner Goebbels and many others. They are highly regarded for their ability to play difficult music with complex rhythms and tempi. In 2003 the group received an ECHO.
