07. February 2024

Musikzimmer: Noor Jazz Ensemble

Dialogue Concert at Villa 102

The Noor Jazz Ensemble presents a special blend of classical jazz and sounds and rhythms from the Mediterranean to Central Asia at the first concert in the "Musikzimmer" series in 2024. Double bass and saxophone meet the North Indian tabla and the box zither kanun. The Noor Jazz Ensemble came together as an ensemble of the Bridges Chamber Orchestra in 2021 and was a guest at the festival in Bielefeld's Vogelviertel.

Cast: Eleanna Pitsikaki (Kanun), Peter Klohmann (saxophone), Eduardo Sabella (double bass), Mirweis Neda (tabla)

The concert is fully booked.

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.

Bridges - Chamber Orchestra

The Noor Jazz Ensemble is one of twelve transcultural ensembles of the Bridges Chamber Orchestra. The musicians of the chamber orchestra are active in ensemble and educational formats, which are characterized by the interplay of instruments from various regions of the European, Asian and American continents, incorporating the musical cultural backgrounds of the participants. Concert activities range from refugee shelters to the Alte Oper Frankfurt to the German government, and from concert series in venues and museums in Frankfurt to international festivals in Italy and Uzbekistan. 

"Bridges" has gone through KfW Stiftung's "ANKOMMER.Perspektive Deutschland" programme and won KfW Stiftung's Special Impact Prize. The Bridges Chamber Orchestra was appointed Orchestra in Residence of the Kronberg Academy in September 2022 and was shortlisted for the Innovation 2022 Prize of the German Orchestra Foundation. It is one of the laureates of the Hessian Integration Prize 2022 and received the German Record Critics' Award 2/2021 (category Grenzgänge) for its debut album "Identigration", released in 2021 in co-production with the Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Radio Broadcasting). In 2019, the Bridges Chamber Orchestra was awarded The Power of the Arts 2019 as a nationwide lighthouse project for lived diversity and integration at eye level.

More information about Bridges can be found here.