LUX: NM
The ensemble LUX: NM is a special ensemble for new music .
It was founded in 2010 in Berlin by saxophonist Ruth Velten and accordionist Silke Lange . The ensemble includes several permanent soloists as well as a number of changing guest musicians. The regular line-up consists of saxophone, accordion, trombone, piano, violoncello and electronics. LUX: NM appears as an undirected ensemble. The field of work includes a. Chamber music concerts, performances, installations and musical theater.
Members
- Ruth Velten - saxophone
- Silke Lange - accordion
- Florian Juncker - trombone
- Vitaliy Kyianytsia - piano
- Malgorzata Walentynowicz - piano (until 2018)
- Wolfgang Zamastil - Violoncello (†)
- Beate Altenburg - violoncello
- Andreas Voss - violoncello (until 2018)
- Zoé Cartier - violoncello
- Lukas Böhm - drums
- Martin Offik - sound design
Discography
- 2013 / DUX - portrait CD Agnieska Stulginska
- 2015 / Wergo - Portrait CD Johannes Kreidler / German Music Council
- 2016 / GENUIN - LUXUS (GEN 16443) with works by Paul Frick, Gordon Kampe , Steingrímur Rohloff, Maximilian Marcoll and Sarah Nemtsov
- 2018 / GENUIN - STRANDGUT (GEN 18628) with works by Gordon Kampe , Yair Klartag, Philipp Maintz , Birke Bertelsmeier and Vassos Nicolaou
- 2018 / Wergo - Neolithic Brass (WER 64202) Portrait CD Steffen Krebber / German Music Council with the work Obdach / / Apartment
Awards
- In 2017, the debut album LUXUS (GEN 16443) was awarded by the German Record Critics' Prize on the best list 1/2017 in the contemporary music category. Marita Emigholz for the jury: “'We allow ourselves luxury', so it says in the booklet of this remarkable CD, which proudly presents five first recordings of newly composed works. The ensemble LUX: NM, based in Berlin, which has existed since 2010, relies on intensive collaboration with musicians and composers and proves with its debut album that the close interplay of composition and interpretation can bear wonderful fruits. Four of these five consistently significant pieces were created especially for this project, they all benefit from the playful competence of the ensemble: pure luxury! "
- LUXUS is on the longlist of the 2017 annual prizes from the German Record Critics' Prize .
- STRANDGUT is on the longlist of the nominated titles of the best list 1/2019 of the German Record Critics' Award in the contemporary music category.
Web links
- luxnewmusic.de
- New recordings with the ensemble LUX: NM - Luxus Neue Musik
- Tilman Urbach : Ensemble portrait LUX: NM in FONO FORUM 1/2017
- Stefan Drees: CD review LUXUS
Individual evidence
- ↑ Best list 1-2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release Prize of the German Record Critics. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release Prize of the German Record Critics. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .