The Zafraan Ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary! The 1980s can be experienced LIVE in the Recital Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin on June 28, 2021 at 8 p.m.!
Tickets: Concert Hall
For its tenth anniversary, i.e. the tenth of a century, the Zafraan Ensemble is planning a very ambitious project. In a series of ten chamber concerts, the history of Berlin from the 1910s to today will be told as a musical one.
Contemporary music history is made into history, across two world wars and five forms of government.
If the 80s and Berlin, then it was 1989 and what was composed, premiered and commissioned there. It is partly quiet and modest and conscious. That would have been good for everything. We also meet again Paul Dessau and his suite, written in 1935, whose first three movements were heard publicly for the first time in 1989 and whose 4th movement is finally being performed for the first time today.
We are completing what began over 80 years ago. Because everything that belongs together grows together: again. Because everything is heard together and grows together: against.
Paul Dessau “Suite for alto saxophone and piano” 4th movement (UA Berlin 2021)
Iris ter Schiphorst “Ballad for a Bulldozer” for violin and synthesizer/sampler
Thierry Blondeau Quintette “Airlifts”
Isabel Mundry “again and against” for flute solo
Jonathan Harvey “Three Sketches” for cello solo
Matan Porat “I cannot take this anymore” (UA Berlin 2021)
Moderation: Mark Scheibe
A concert series by the Zafraan Ensemble.
Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation.
