MODERN ART ENSEMBLE
The modern art ensemble, founded in 1994, fascinates with its innovative concerts. The ensemble's repertoire covers the entire spectrum of contemporary music: from arrangements of classical pieces to works by important composers of new music to the latest, current music projects.
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With over 180 premieres, the modern art ensemble works closely with composers from Berlin, all over Europe, and East and Southeast Asia. It has participated in numerous music theater productions, realized concert opera performances, and played live music for films.
PROGRAM
Zeynep Gedizlioğlu
“Yol - The Way” for clarinet, vibraphone, violin, cello and piano
Alexandra Karastyyaneva Hermetin
“Polynj” for cello, flute, violone, viola and piano
Michael Quell
“energeia aphanés” for flute, clarinet, cello and percussion
BREAK
Makiko Nishikaze
fantasy - fugue for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano (world premiere)
Helmut Zapf
“Heimat” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
- "Yol - The Path" by Zeynep Gedizlioglu describes the path of a sound, but also the artistic path of the Berlin composer of Turkish descent.
- Born in Moscow, Alexandra Karastyaneva Hermetin grew up in Sofia and now lives in Vienna. Her piece "Polynj" (Wormwood) cleverly surrounds the solo tone of the cello with the tonal colours of the rest of the ensemble - a work with a reduced, impressive tonal language whose motifs seem to move around a mysterious core.
- Michael Quell's "energeia aphanés" is also on the trail of a secret: it deals with "black energy", which plays a central role in theories about the universe. Invisible and not directly detectable, "energeia aphanés" is the force that holds the structures of the universe together. We see the trace of its presence, but not itself.
- Next on the programme is the world premiere of Makiko Nishikaze's "fantasie-fuge", which is based on Bach's unfinished Fantasia and Fugue for Organ BWV 562. Nishikaze first orchestrated it for ensemble, then wrote it to completion and finally transformed it entirely into her own sound cosmos.
- The programme concludes with Helmut Zapf's composition "Heimat", in which he questions the location of his person and his musical world and provides a possible answer.
Participating artists
modern art ensemble
Dates
February 2025
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