The Vailiant Little Tailor, Stage set scene

The Vailiant Little Tailor

The stage is simple. There are chairs placed on small pedestals, in front of them music stands. The room is filled with the rustling, whispering and mumbling of the arriving audience. Slowly, as you know it from classical music concerts, an excited silence arises. Then the presenter and four musicians are taking their seats and sort their sheets. The concert begins…

Information, dates and tickets:  https://atzeberlin.de/repertoire/das-tapfere-schneiderlein/

Picture: Jörg Metzner

Logo tutti d*amore

Tutti d*amore

tutti d*amore is a Berlin-based music and theatre collective which cuts stale operas and operettas loose from their reputation as anachronistic, dry art forms and infuses them with authentic, bold flavour. We are a cocktail of professional artists from a variety of fields of theatre and music who want to do more with opera than simply present it in the traditional way. We take an opera, twist it, knead it, chop it up, and serve it crisp and piquant.

 

Info: https://tuttidamore.de/home.html

Art work: Tutti d*amore

Fredric Nezce sitting on his RV

IFNG

When Fredric Nezce was found in his RV on November 26th, 2015 by the Hamburg police with a wound in his loin area, we were all shocked. An artist who blasted the genre-boundaries between musical theatre, film, pop music concert and concept opera, was simply extinguished, before his work had received recognition.

The International Fredric Nezce Society (IFNG) aims to pursue musical theatre beyond traditional standardisation and hierarchical, excluding power systems in honor of his memory.

Info: https://fredricnezce.com

Hyäne Fischer art work

Hyäne Fischer

Hyäne Fischer – Das totale Musical is a heroic epos recounting the myth surrounding the pop star Hyäne Fischer and Germany’s last chance to collectively embark upon the path that will lead into the golden era of matriarchy.

The total musical showcases the true heroes and heroines in the one and only cultural history – the living and the dead.

Music: Eva Jantschitsch

Info: https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/repertoire/hyaene-fischer-das-totale...

Art work: Esther Räsänen

Contemporary Insights Performance Picture

Contemporary Insights

Contemporary Insights is a Leipzig, Germany, based ensemble for contemporary music. The diversity of our members enables us to present a variety of projects with unique perspectives. As a large ensemble, we work with a range of instrumentations and sizes so that we can better connect established contemporary/classical music communities.

Info: https://contemporaryinsights.org/home/heim/

Picture: Klemens Körner

film clip "Der Wald"

Der Wald

Opera movie based on Ethyl Smyth, directed by Kerstin Steeb

More than 100 years ago composer Ethel Smyth dedicated herself to the phenomenon of GERMAN ANGST with her very own motifs in her romantic opera DER WALD/THE FOREST (DP Berlin 1902). Where is it from, this fear of the foreign, the unknown, the uncontrollable?

Info and stream: https://www.kerstinsteeb.de/posts/der-wald-26dhr-hzar7

Picture: Jacob Hohf / art work: Eleonore Roedel

portraits of the musicians

Nikos Titokis: As Near As Far

Composition by the Hamburg based composer Nikos Titokis, published on the sampler „Jazz City Hamburg Special Moves 05“.

In an unusual instrumentation (violin, viola, clarinet, french horn, Wurlitzer piano) the composition tells of sorrow, tears and comfort.

Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzbAAeVHoJw

Original portraits of the musicians by Stephanie Barke: https://atelier-unter-der-linde.de

 

 

 

concert picture of the band at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

JOCO

Since 2017 Sonja Engelhardt accompanies the two north German sisters Josepha Carl and Cosima Carl aka JOCO at live shows as part of the JOCO horn section. Live concerts have taken place at the Grand Hall of Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Mojo Club Hamburg, studio of German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur in Cologne, and many more.

Info: https://www.jocomusic.com

Picture: Benjamin Hüllenkremer

Past Projects

2022 "Magna Mater" with Tutti d’amore (Wiederaufnahme)
2022 "Mythos" by Max Andrzejewski, Pantopia Festival
2022 Debut performance "Moments Intérieurs I" by Corie Rose Soumah and "Rules of Engagement" by Wieland Hoban with Contemporary Insights
2021 Debut performance "Der Freischütz – die Echos Utopias" with Verworner- Krause- Kammerorchester (VKKO), Konzerthaus Berlin
2021 "Next Generation #5" with Contemporary Insights, four debut performances commisioned by the Saxon Music Association
2021 Recording "As near as far" by Nikos Titokis
2021 "Magna Mater" with Tutti d*amore
2021 Recording "Der Wald" based on E. Smyth (directed by Kerstin Steeb)
2020 Founding of IFNG „Internationale Fredric Nezce Gesellschaft“
2019 - now Member of "Contemporary Insights" ensemble
2019 Debut performances:
"Schwarze Birke" by Qi Chu
"Concerto for Chamber Ensemble" by Zachary M. Seely
2018 Debut performance: "4 Szenen aus dem Hohelied" by Jonathan Sievers
2018 Recordings for:
Kai Degenhardt: "Die Endlos Lange Straße"
Goetz Steeger: "Everything is free"
Enno Bunger: "Wolken aus Beton", "Ponyhof", "Wofür" (from the album "Was berührt, das bleibt")
2017 Debut performances:
"Noch" by Jan Kehrberger
"Hot and cold" by Nahyun Lee
"Weg" by Vasileios Panousis
2017 Film score for „Sommertage“ (Short film, arrangement/ studio musician)
2017 - now Member of the brass section for „JOCO“
2016 Debut performances:
"Minothauros" (contemporary musical theatre, bunker below Hamburg central station, directed by S. Richter)
"Komposition für Bläser" by Jonathan Sievers
"Anfang oder Ende?" by Mehran Sherkat Naderi
"Reverse" by Jinwook Jung
2016

Score composition and rehearsal for the play “Ronja & Julian” at GWA St. Pauli Hamburg
2015 Debut performances of contemporary musical theatre:
"Die kleine Meerjungfrau" (directed by V. Nováková/ Theater Bremen)
"Eunus" (directed by J. Beckmann/ Resonanzraum Hamburg)
"Wagner sucht" (directed by S.Richter/ HfMT Hamburg)
2015 Debut performance if music installation "Fünfminutenmaschine" (directed by Schorsch Kamerun) at Theater Bremen
2015 Arrangement/ musical direction/ musician for "Gesellschaft für Progressives Gedenken" at Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2014 - 2017 Band member of "The Golden Error Machine"
2014 Space installation „Regenschirme aus Hong Kong“ at the "Night of Chinese Sounds“ at  HfMT Hamburg
2013 Performance "Kindheitshelden" at HCU Hamburg
2013 - 2016 Curator of the concert series "Salon Kleiner Michel" (in St. Ansgar und St. Bernhard Hamburg)