Projects

An event of the Garden Region Hannover The hiking concert "Alps and Mountains" linked the ascent of a mountain close to the city with the sound of trombone choirs and chamber music ensembles to a scenic-musical overall experience. The second, concertante part of the walking concert took place in the leafy area of the Empelde Caliberg. The Ensemble Megaphon presented chamber music by Daniel Schnyder. Two common songs: "God be in ...

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"Why don't you come closer? We don't need any distance!" Entertaining and enjoyable-scurrile street theatre from Plague to Corona - including guaranteed infection with information, sarcasm and irony 16 performances in 2021-2022 Open Air in Hannnover Based on historical facts, the artists* of Ensemble Megaphon and Ensemble Sozusingen, directed and conducted by ...

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Four concert tours

Our ensemble on sounding walks and paths of discovery. Sound-moving forays through musical epochs and improvisations form the rhythms for each excursion.

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of organ builder Arp Schnitger, three young women writers spin their stories around the mysterious Mona Lisa made famous by Leonardo Da Vinci's (ⴕ1519) portrait. Three contemporary composers set these stories to music, inspired by the life and work of the Baroque composer Barbara Strozzi (*1619). In an interplay, music and stories merge with the respective church spaces and their ...

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The music theatre "TIN PIT - in the nowhere of a strange city" is about untold stories of people from a reviled neighbourhood, a non-place somewhere in the middle of Damascus in the time before the war. The author and visual artist Wasim Ghrioui, who has lived in Berlin since 2013, grew up in this neighbourhood. In his second ...

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With the musicians of the Ensemble Megaphon and guest artists, we span a wide range from Hildegard von Bingen's mystical chants from the 12th century to traditional Arabic Sufi music, improvisations and today's music. In doing so, we include the space, the light and its atmosphere and all meet in a musical dialogue. Press commentary excerpt from ...

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"...Ensemble Megaphon realises the sounds conceived for this with precision and empathy. The sopranos Olivia Stahn and Sophia Körber as well as baritone Daniel Gloger also contribute with their musical personalities. "The Rain Passed Over" succeeds in subtle tonal tightrope walks between fragmentation, deconstruction, paraphrase and condensation. The protagonists fail to find a common language. The ensemble by no means..." ...

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Performances at the Sprengel Museum and the Old Police Station Hanover October 2016 - January 2017 I asked myself the question: Is DADA politically and artistically topical in our time? What do sound poems sound like and look like when implemented with today's artistic means? How do we implement it musically? We interviewed artists and composers in the spirit of DADA, ...

Dada Sounds There! Read More "

What do angels sound like and what do they look like? Fascinated by images and compositions by various artists and composers, the musicians of the Ensemble Megaphon embarked on a journey. In this, poetic spoken word and choral singing have combined with compositions from the Middle Ages to the present day, sung by soprano Sophia Körber and played by violin, flute and accordion. ...

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As part of Klangbrücken - Mauricio Kagel / Festival der Staatsoper Hannover Mauricio Kagel has long since become a classic as a composer. Reason enough to look at him through Kagelian glasses. Together with the composer and interaction artist Bernhard König, who was one of Kagel's last students, the Ensemble Megaphon has created a dialogue process ...

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