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Profile The Mutare Ensemble was founded in 1982 by a group of then-students at Frankfurt am Main with the ideas of creating a chamber
orchestra of versatility concerning expression, style and players which can deal with the repertory between solo-pieces and chamber-symphony in intensive musical and programmatic work. By the time the members of the Mutare Ensemble became regular members of several german Radio- and Opera- Orchestras, some became Professors at different Musikhochschulen and some made a career as professional freelancer.
But still all of them meet for doing rehearsals and concerts, coming from all over west and soutwest Germany. One main emphasis of the ensemble is the music of the 20th century and the contemporary
repertory is which often acquired in personal collaboration with the composers.
The programm includes premières, musical portraits, the connection of visual arts and literature with music, contemporary and
experimental music-theatre as well as concept-, era-, and style-related programmes.
Apart from that the ensemble regularly deals with the romantic and late-romantic period, with “Lied” and with vocal works and last
but not least with the research of specific moments which link pieces of different eras over several centuries of music-history. During the last years the ensemble has also realized a number of interesting
crossover-projects in collaboration with Jazz-musicians, video- and theatre-artists. Since 1993 the ensemble has an own concert-series in the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art (MMK) where a dealing with the specific
architecture, the resonance-areas and the exhibits of the museum is seeked. The international concert-activities are completed by broadcasting and CD-productions and the scenical music-theatr work.
The artistic director of the ensemble is the composer and conductor Gerhard Müller-Hornbach. Concerts and productions among others with the following
concert-halls, theatres, festivals andbroadcasting-services: Alte Oper Frankfurt/ Frankfurt Feste, Frankfurt am Main
Tage für Neue Musik, Braunschweig
“Extasis” - Festival du musique d´aujourdhui, Genf, Schweiz
“Festival RomaEuropa”, Rom/Italien
“Caso caos necessità - Musica scienza” Rom/ Florenz, Italien
Tage für Neue Musik, Weingarten
Theaterhaus Frankfurt
Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Musik, Dresden
Musiktheater-Werkstatt und “Maifestspiele” des Hessischen Staatstheater, Wiesbaden
Künstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt am Main
Konzerthaus Berlin
Accademia Filarmonica Romana/ Teatro Olimpico, Rom, Italien
“Europäisches Musikfest”, Stuttgart
Oetkerhalle, Bielefeld
Tage für Neue Musik, Darmstadt
Tage für Neue Musik, Lüneburg
Tage für Neue Musik, Hannover
“Jornadas de Música del Siglo XX”, Segovia, Spanien
“Festival de Primavera - Música del Siglo XX” Salamanca, Spanien
Circulo de Bellas Atres, Madrid, Spanien
Literaturhaus, Frankfurt am Main
Städtische Kunstsammlung Chemnitz,
Palais Harrach, Wien, Österreich
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Süddeutscher Rundfunk, SDR
Südwestfunk, SWF
SüdwestRundfunk, SWR
Saarländischer Rundfunk, SR
Hessischer Rundfunk, HR
Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR
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