Ensemble focus
The brass quintet Ensemble Fokus was founded in 2009 by five students from the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and has quickly made a name for itself as an experimental ensemble .
The ensemble
As a “focus” the young musicians present an exciting and demanding contemporary repertoire, often in connection with traditional works, and work with composers on new works for wind quintet .
Within less than a year the ensemble played its debut concert at the “LjudOLjud” festival in Stockholm , won the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize for Chamber Music from the Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin and performed live on Norddeutscher Rundfunk .
In 2012 they won first prize at the International Jan Koetsier Competition in Munich. The ensemble also extends its line-up for larger works with percussion, choreography and electronic instruments.
In 2013 the composer Eres Holz and the Ensemble Fokus were awarded a scholarship from the Berlin Cultural Administration for a new brass quintet.
Members
- Cecilie Marie Schwagers (horn)
- Janne Matias Jakobsson (tuba)
- Matthew Brown (trumpet)
- Matthew Sadler (trumpet)
- Mikael Rudolfsson (trombone)