Aventure ensemble

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The Ensemble Aventure , founded in Freiburg in 1986 , is one of the most respected European ensembles for new music .

overview

The Aventure ensemble was founded at the beginning of 1986 around the Freiburg University of Music and consists of fifteen distinguished instrumentalists who play music together in changing line-ups. The concert programs include works by the Second Vienna School , the New York School and the Darmstadt School , Dada , Fluxus and Conceptual Art, as well as works by displaced and forgotten composers. For the line-up of Edgar Varèses , the composition Octandre (seven wind instruments and double bass), which was already presented in the debut concert , but also for many other line-ups, the ensemble has since commissioned numerous compositions; in total it has played several hundred world premieres . Since the early 1990s, the Aventure ensemble has been invited to renowned festivals and important concert series; Tours have led to other European countries, East Asia and time and again to Latin America . A Freiburg concert series with usually six seasonal concerts has existed since 1991. In 1995 the ensemble found a permanent location in the rooms of the Elisabeth Schneider Foundation not only for this series of concerts, but also for rehearsals.

In addition to the concert activity, numerous recordings for the Südwestrundfunk and other broadcasters as well as around twenty CD recordings have been made. In 1995 the Ensemble Aventure received the Regional Music Prize of the European Economy, in 1996 and 1998 a prize from the German record criticism , in 1996 and 2011 a sponsorship prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and in 2006 - for one at the Donaueschinger Musiktage together with schoolgirls and students presented the John Cage project - a prize from the Kulturstiftung der Länder . A Freiburg culture and events newspaper characterized the Aventure ensemble with the following words:

“It has rediscovered composers who were ostracized under National Socialism. It seeks contact with non-European music. It wants to shake up and move emotionally, wants to be a sting and by no means be boring. "

Members

  • Martina Roth, flute (since 1993)
  • Alexander Ott, oboe (since 2006)
  • Walter Ifrim, clarinet (founding member)
  • Wolfgang Rüdiger , bassoon (founding member and artistic director)
  • Delphine Gauthier-Guiche, Horn
  • Andrew Digby, trombone (since the early 1990s)
  • Marina Paccagnella, harp (founding member)
  • Bärbel Libera, guitar (since 1997/1998)
  • Victoria Ifrim, drums (founding member)
  • Akiko Okabe, piano (since 2006)
  • Friedemann Amadeus Driver, violin
  • Horst Hildebrandt, violin (since 1988)
  • Sylvie Altenburger, viola (since 2014)
  • Beverley Ellis, violoncello
  • Johannes Nied, double bass (founding member)

Information base

Literature (selection)

  • Susanne Benda: … also a kind of social utopia. The Freiburg ensemble Aventure. In: NZ. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1/1995, pp. 48–50.
  • Stefan Drees: Portrait in productions: Ensemble Aventure. In: Positions 46, February 2001, pp. 49–51.
  • Georg Wasmuth: The “Freiburg Spring” by Ensemble Aventure. In: MusikTexte. Zeitschrift für Neue Musik 106, August 2005, p. 90 f.
  • Lydia Jeschke: Free to make good music. 20 years of Ensemble Aventure Freiburg. In: MusikTexte. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1/2006, p. 60 f.
  • Meret Forster: Stay on the move. The Aventure Freiburg ensemble. In: Positions 67, May 2006, p. 46 f.
  • Georg Wasmuth: Ensemble Aventure's second Freiburg spring. In: MusikTexte. Zeitschrift für Neue Musik 110, August 2006, p. 83 f.
  • Lydia Jeschke: silhouette of the new. The Freiburg ensemble Aventure has been conveying new music for 25 years. In: NZ. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 3/2011, pp. 54–56.
  • Coriún Aharonián : In the Dialogue of Cultures. Twenty-five years of Ensemble Aventure. In: MusikTexte. Zeitschrift für Neue Musik 130, August 2011, p. 27 f.
  • Aventure ensemble. Documentation. Status July 2012. Edited by Ensemble Aventure, Freiburg 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation 2012, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Documentation 2012, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Documentation 2012, p. 6; see. also Elisabeth Schneider Foundation at www.kulturfoerderung.org, as of May 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ Documentation 2012, pp. 5 and 38–41.
  5. ↑ Documentation 2012, pp. 6, 9, 39 and 54; see. also Ensemble Aventure ( Memento from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on www.musikderzeit.de.
  6. ^ Georg Rudiger: Message instead of business. In conversation: Wolfgang Rüdiger, Artistic Director of the Freiburg Ensemble Aventure. In: Culture Joker. Culture and events newspaper , July 2011, p. 1.