12. November 2025

Musikzimmer: Noor Jazz Ensemble

Noor Jazz Ensemble by Bridges Kammerorchester at the Villa 102, hosted by Martin Kersten.

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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. Tanava is an ensemble of the transcultural music initiative Bridges - Music Connects.

Moderated by Martin Kersten. Martin Kersten has been music editor and presenter of the world music programme "Hörbar-Musik grenzenlos" on hr2-kultur and other cultural programmes on Hessischer Rundfunk for many years. In the past, he has presented the live format "Hörbar in Concert" at various venues in Hesse, including several times with the Bridges Kammerorchester.

Bridges - Kammerorchester

The Bridges Kammerorchester - The Composing Orchestra is a unique orchestra in Europe, bringing together musicians and their instruments from different regions of the European, Asian and American continents. The musicians of the orchestra are experts in Arabic, Persian and European classical music, jazz, contemporary music, Eastern European folklore and various forms of Central Asian and Latin American music. Based on their individuality, they compose and arrange their own works. The result is transcultural music.

The Bridges Kammerorchester made its debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in August 2024 as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and was accepted into the Federal Programme Excellent Orchestra Landscape Germany 2024. The Bridges album Complementarity, released in 2024, was nominated for the German Record Critics' Award 02/2024 in the Crossover Productions category. From September 2022, the Bridges Kammerorchester will be in residence at the Kronberg Academy's Casals Forum. In 2022 and 2023 it was nominated for the shortlist of the Innovation Prize of the German Orchestra Foundation and received the German Record Critics' Award in the category Crossover Production (02/2021) for its debut album Identigration, released in 2021 in co-production with hr.