Projects

by Igor Stravinsky with Ensemble Megaphon as a staged concert with video animations Evening performances and school concerts with educational workshops In the story of the soldier, the soldier enters into a daring bargain with the devil: he exchanges his beloved violin for a magic book, loses his bride, drinks with the devil and recaptures his violin. The ensemble [...]

Love songs of the Orient by and with Ensemble Megaphon The music ensemble Ensemble Megaphon from Hanover transported concertgoers into the world of the ancient musical history of the Orient with beautiful love ballads. They performed heart-rendingly beautiful, traditional Armenian, Syrian and Turkish works and songs about love, joy and sorrow - arranged for string quartet, voice, percussion and choir. The [...]

A CONCERT as part of the KLANGBRÜCKEN festival A multimedia synaesthetic concert evening allows you to not only hear - but also see and feel - texts and compositions by exceptional synaesthetic talents such as David Tammet, Helmuth Oehring and Julia Mihaly. Deaf people also perceive what hearing people call "music" - just not through their hearing. Composer Helmuth Oehring, for example, makes the vocal sounds produced in sign language by a deaf [...]

Die fromme Helene live radio play with text and pictures by Wilhelm Busch and music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970) and live improvisation by Ensemble Megaphon. Wilhelm Busch's well-known, wonderfully frivolous work of verse in a completely different way: Ensemble Megaphon playfully and humorously comments on the text. Music and large image projections comics influence each other in live interaction. The actress Vroni Kiefer burns a [...]

with concerts, youth projects and discussions First concert Radikal Utopisch I concert, night meal and exhibition July 2014 in St Mark's Church Works by Luigi Nono and Claudio Monteverdi Fragmente - Stille an Diotima for string quartet (1980) Con Luigi Dallapiccola for 6 percussionists and live electronics (1979) ¿Donde estás, hermano? (1981) for 4 vocal parts Magnificat for six voices from the Marienvesper SV 206 [...]

Text: Wilhelm Busch Music: Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Ensemble Megaphon Director: Mikael Honesseau For children aged 10 and over and adults Wilhelm Busch's well-known, wonderfully frivolous work of verse in a completely different way: Ensemble Megaphon, known for its unusual musical formats, playfully and humorously comments on the text. In live interaction, music and large image projections comics influence each other, the actress Vroni Kiefer burns [...]

A poetic garden awaits the audience in the ruins of St Aegidien Church, in which 1,000 white paper cranes (as symbols of peace) float. The Ensemble Megaphon will move through the open church space with the Nagisa women's choir and perform Japanese compositions and traditional Japanese songs. A commissioned work by the young Japanese composer Yaeko Asano, who lives in Germany, will celebrate its world premiere [...].

For the first time, a special kind of concert will be held in the pirate ship in the high ropes course: after the climbers have left, the Ensemble Megaphon will fill the unusual venue with music. In a relaxed summer atmosphere, works by French composers such as Maurice Ravel and Eric Satie can be heard - and an aerial artist swings above the heads of the audience through [...]

In a team effort between the teachers, the pupils of the ILMASI school and the choreographer Mikael Honesseau, a scenic collage about friendship, chaos and encounters was created on the basis of dialogue and creativity. The "Ensemble auf dem Weg", an inclusive ensemble of young people with and without disabilities under the direction of Christiane Joost Plate, provides the musical [...]

"If only it were so completely silent for once, if the accidental and approximate silence and the neighbourly laughter, if the noise that my senses make did not prevent me so much from waking -: Then I could think of you in a thousandfold thought up to your edge and possess you (just for a smile) to give you away to all life like a thank you." Rainer [...]