19. March 2025

Musikzimmer: Tanava

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

In their ensemble Tanava, Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff (flute), Alireza Meghrazi (kamanche), Nicola Pacha Vock (double bass) and Ramin Rahmi (percussion/vocals) combine their musical traditions in their own arrangements and compositions. The name Tanava refers to the creative combination of 'dance' and 'nava' (Persian: song/singing). The repertoire is correspondingly diverse, with works from Western European and Persian contexts and thematic references to joie de vivre, love and spirituality. Tanava is part of the Bridges Kammerorchester.

Instrumentation:
Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff, flute
Nicola Pacha Vock, contrabass
Alireza Meghrazi, kamanche
Ramin Rahmi, percussion/vocals

Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff is a flutist and has been the artistic director of Bridges - Music Connects verbindet in Frankfurt since 2016. Together with Anke Karen Meyer, she founded the Bridges Kammerorchester in 2019. On her concert tours as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician to numerous countries around the world, it is always important to her to get to know the musical traditions of the respective host country. Since 2015 she has also been active as a composer and arranger, including for the Bridges Kammerorchester.

Alireza Meghrazi initially began playing the violin, then also learned the kamanche and studied harmony, composition and solfège. He has appeared on radio and television and has played in renowned Iranian orchestras, among others. Alireza Meghrazi was honoured as best kamanche player at the Tehran Music Festival and as best composer at the Folk Music Festival.

Nicola Pacha Vock is a freelance double bass player, a member of the Bridges Kammerorchester and has been Head of Education and Community at the Bridges Kammerorchester since 2024. She also develops her own projects and works as a teacher in the school project ‘Response - New Music in Schools’ at the HfMDK Frankfurt. Nicola Pacha Vock was Managing Director and part of the artistic management of the Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt.

Ramin Rahmi is a percussionist and singer, founding member of the Bridges Kammerorchester and member of various Bridges Ensembles. He has been playing tombak and daf since childhood, then studied the Persian long-necked lute Tar and musicology in Tehran Conservatory and continued his training at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Ramin Rahmi has performed in Iran, Italy, Germany, Sweden, France and Russia.

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.