UpToThree 2021 / Werkstattfestival mit ensemble mosaik und Gästen
Since 2017, ensemble mosaik has been offering insights into joint projects, further developments of particularly exciting works and new experiments at its workshop festival UpToThree together with guest artists. Up to three musicians take to the stage. This fifth edition focuses on collaborations with 13 composers. Among them are Liisa Hirsch and Chris Swithinbank, this year's recipients of our Progetto Positano scholarship, and Rama Gottfried, Juliana Hodkinson, and François Sarhan, with whom we are currently developing full-length, partly staged productions. Daniel Allas, Malin Bång, Bnaya Halperin, Georgia Koumará, Sarah Nemtsov, and Kelley Sheehan will contribute works created especially for ensemble mosaik, and Andrea Mancianti and Manuel Rodríguez Valenzuela newly arranged pieces.
ensemble mosaik Bettina Junge (flute), Simon Strasser (oboe), Christian Vogel (clarinet), Martin Losert (saxophone), Roland Neffe (drums), Ernst Surberg (keyboard / synthesizer), Adrian Pereyra (electric guitar), Chatschatur Kanajan (violin), Karen Lorenz (viola), Mathis Mayr (cello), Niklas Seidl (cello), Arne Vierck (sound direction)
composers Daniel Allas, Malin Bång, Rama Gottfried, Liisa Hirsch, Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari, Juliana Hodkinson, Georgia Koumará, Sarah Nemtsov, Andrea Mancianti, Manuel Rodríguez Valenzuela, François Sarhan, Kelley Sheehan, Chris Swithinbank
The new work by Georgia Koumará was commissioned by HELLERAU European Center for the Arts. We thank you very much for allowing the world premiere to take place in the framework of UpToThree.The new work by Sarah Nemtsov is the preliminary version of a commissioned work for HGNM - Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik.
The new work by Rama Gottfried is an excerpt from a full-length work commissioned by the Rainy Days Luxembourg Festival, where it will be premiered in its entirety.
About ensemble mosaik:
Founded in 1997, ensemble mosaik has evolved to become a particularly diverse and experimental formation in the field of contemporary music. Beyond their outstanding instrumental skills they display creative individuality and a never-ending joy in experiments. In years of tight cooperation they have created an entity of sound that is highest ranking both in artistic competence and openness to the most diverse concepts of contemporary music.
Close cooperation with up-and-coming composers and the tying in of digital media are key to the ensembles work in composition, interpretation and presentation. It prefers an egalitarian workflow between all participants in a project. Transparency helps focus and intensify creativity. ensemble mosaik has cooperated with many composers over the years, thus enhancing a musical development in mutuality.
A special focal point is the reflection of new approaches in performance, such as including scenic and visual elements, and the trying of new concert formats, shedding light on shared contexts connecting individual works, consolidating current strands and probing new perspectives. In cooperation with artists from other fields and musical genres, the concerts themselves become experimental designs.