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Ensemble Courage
3+ albums
germaninstrumentalcontemporary classicalexperimentaltrombone
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The ensemble courage was founded in 1997 in Dresden. Meanwhile it has established itself as one of the leading ensembles for contemporary music in Germany. Since its debut concert ensemble courage has consistently received critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience support for its high quality concert performances and ambitious and unusually diverse programming. The group has a core of 15 musicians and presents concerts with repertoire ranging from solo compositions to chamber symphony size works. Alongside its own performance season in Dresden the ensemble presents concerts at festivals such as Ars Nova (SWR), Dresden Festival for Contemporary Music, Global Ear, INMF Darmstadt, International Festival of Contemporary Music Tashkent, Musica Viva Munich and Maerzmusik Berlin. Sponsored by the prestigious Siemens Arts Program, the City of Dresden, the Deutscher Musikrat, and the State of Saxony the ensemble has given premiere performances by established composers such as Chaya Czernowin, Gerhard Staebler, Sidney Corbett, Christopher Fox, Helena Tulve and Michael Hirsch as well as dozens of premieres by emerging composers. In 2004 it premiered a program with miniature operas by Tamara Ibragimowa, Benjamin Schweitzer and Charlotte Seither as part of the Dresden Festival of Contemporary Music. Concerts of the ensemble have been recorded and broadcast by nationwide and European radio stations. In 2002 the ensemble's debut solo cd was released on the "en avant"-label. In 2008 ensembl
top songs
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Achteinhalb
62Anfänge/Netze (Malbork)
33Dafne: Abgesang (Fragment) [Duett-Version]
24Entschlackt (Piece in Two Parts) I.
25Entschlackt (Piece in Two Parts) II.
26Dafne: Abgesang (Fragment) [Solo-Version]
27Dull Roots & Spring Rain I.
28Dull Roots & Spring Rain II.
29Abgesang (Dafne-Fragment) - Duett-Version
110Dafne: Abgesang (Fragment) (Duett-Version)
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