22. August 2024

Musikzimmer: IEMA

The Internationale Ensemble Modern Academy is part of the „Musikzimmer“ series with their Contemporary Music & Art Performance.

The master students of the Frankfurt Unitversity of Music and Performing Arts present contemporary and new music.

Programme
Le Contredésir – for clarinet, horn and violoncello, 2004 I Saed Haddad
MON CHIER AMY… – for viola, cello, double bass and playback tape, 2012 I Oxana Omelchuk
...da kehrte die Ruhe ein... – for horn, trumpet and trombone, 2020 I Nina Šenk

Ensemble: Pablo Piñeiro Mundín (clarinet), Robyn Blair (horn), Jinhyoung Kim (trumpet), Noah Perkins (trombone), Elijah Spies (viola), Uschik Choi (violoncello), Emmett Jackson (double bass), Moritz Fischer (sound direction)

Musikzimmer

With the "Musikzimmer" series, KfW Stiftung creates a new stage for music and transcultural encounters. Attending the concerts in the historic ambience of Villa 102 offers the audience not only an insight into the wealth of musical culture, but also the opportunity for personal exchange about the diversity of composition, design and instruments from around the world. Perismon is an ensemble of the transcultural music initiative Bridges - Music Connects.

The International Ensemble Modern Academy - IEMA- Ensemble 2023/24

By founding IEMA in 2003, the members of Ensemble Modern bundled their existing education activities. Offering education and further education for various target groups, IEMA takes responsibility for passing on the knowledge and experience gathered over many years by Ensemble Modern to coming generations. All IEMA programmes are conceived and implemented by Ensemble Modern members. Since the IEMA programmes take place in parallel with the ensemble’s continuous touring schedule, Ensemble Modern has established an education arm to fit within its own activities. Complementing IEMA’s offerings for young professional musicians, from 2022 onwards another target group has come into focus: the new coaching programme “Young Ensemble Academy” addresses the needs of very young contemporary music ensembles. It's a new mentoring-program "ICCS (International Composer & Conductor Seminar" initiated by Ensemble Modern and the Aventis Foundation. The IEMA also sees itself as a platform for dialogue-formats. In 2018, together with Hans Zender and the city of Meersburg, it founded the "Meersburger Konzert Gespräche", conceived as a think tank with public rehearsals, lectures and concerts. Since 2021, the format has been expanded to include a new master class, the Hans Zender Academy. In 2019, the IEMA organized a symposium on developments in the ensemble landscape in contemporary music. At the beginning of November 2022, a symposium was held on musical and artistic training in times of changing professional fields.

The main focus is the Master's program a cooperation with the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK) since 2006. Each year forms its own IEMA ensemble. Funded by Kunststiftung NRW, the GVL, the Crespo Foundation and other project funds, students from various disciplines (instrumental playing, sound direction, conducting and composition) can spend a year working on contemporary repertoire with the musicians of Ensemble Modern and renowned composers and conductors such as Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut Lachenmann, Mark Andre, Lucia Ronchetti, Rebecca Saunders, Stefan Prins, Sebastian Hilli, Lucas Vis, Stefan Asbury and Jonathan Stockhammer. The results of their work as an IEMA ensemble are presented in over 20 concerts in Germany and abroad. As a partner in the EU-funded Ulysses network, the IEMA implements improved framework conditions for artistic processes for young professional artists through cooperation projects with 12 other European academies and festivals.

The IEMA Ensemble 2023/24 has performed at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the festival “into the open” in Berlin and at the festival cresc... - "Biennale für aktuelle Musik, Frankfurt Rhein Main". IEMA will be part of the "Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik", the "Meersburger Konzert Gesprächen", the "Lucerne Festival Academy" and present eight world premieres by young composers from the Composer Seminar, which is led by Unsuk Chin and Dieter Ammann. Further international appearances will take the ensemble to the "Time of Music Festival" in Viitasaari and the "Gaudeamus Muziekweek" in Utrecht as part of the Ulysses network.

More information about IEMA can be found here.
IEMA is part of the Cooperation Project "Frankfurt Moves".