03. July 2025

Musikzimmer: IEMA-Ensemble 2024/25

The ensemble, which changes annually as part of the International Ensemble Modern Academy's cooperative study programme with the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, will be performing as part of the “Musikzimmer” series for the second time. The ensemble will present contemporary chamber music from a variety of sound worlds, and there will also be performances! The event will be held in English.

Programme

François Sarhan: Situation 13 „the world is unbearable“ (2008-20)
Toru Takemitsu: Rocking Mirror Daybreak (1983)
Erik Griswold: Switch (1991)
François Sarhan: Situation 6 „hope“ (2008-20)
Yuheng Chen: ōgi (2022)

IEMA-Ensemble 2024/25:

Gabriele Mastrototaro, Flöte
Patrícia Pinheiro, Oboe
Ling Zhang, Schlagzeug
Sarah Beth Overcash, Violine
Leonard Melcher, Violine, Performer
Tomás Jesús Ocaña-González, Performer
Jiyoon Hyun, Performerin
Yannick Mayaud, Performer
Leh-Qiao Liao, Performer

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 2024/25

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 2024/25 has performed at the festival “into the open” in Berlin and at the "Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik". In August IEMA will be part of 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 in February to the impuls Festival in Graz and in september they play in Utrecht at the "Gaudeamus Muziekweek" as part of the Ulysses network.

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