The Zafraan Ensemble debuts at the Ultraschall Festival Berlin with new compositions by Eres Holz, Stefan Keller and Johannes Boris Borowski. The concert under the direction of Titus Engel will take place on January 22, 2016 at 5 p.m. in the Holy Cross Church.
Despite the diversity of their work, the three Berlin-based composers Eres Holz, Stefan Keller and Johannes Boris Borowski pursue the idea of creating a kind of new rhetoric in their music that explores the relationship between the familiar and the surprising.
Based on the concept of “sound speech”, which was coined in the late Baroque period by the composer and music writer Johann Mattheson and taken up again in the course of the so-called historical performance practice by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the composers search for modes of expression in their works that trigger a process of understanding in the listener, without resorting to specific traditions.
In order to strengthen this process, two works by each composer come together so that listening to and also comparing individual works is possible. A kind of acoustic look into the workshop of a young generation of composers with the presentation of a premiere each. The compositions commissioned by the Zafraan Ensemble were financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Further information about the program and tickets can be found here .
