Ensemble 2012

The “Ensemble 2012” is an initiative of young musicians from Russia and Germany, and it was founded in 2012 as a part of the Russian-German Music Academy.

The main inspiration of the project is to connect both Russia and Germany on the important concert venues and music festivals. Thus, the “Ensemble 2012” played at the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Kassel Music Days, the MPHIL 360 at the Gasteig, at the Kissinger Sommer as well as at the Stars of the White Nights – the Festival in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Easter Festival and the Diaghilev Festival in Perm.

Works of Ensemble 2012’s include composition commissions as well as content-specific programs of collaborations, public concert performances and a research is undertaken in Russian music archives with the aim of bringing unknown music to light and presenting it to the public.
The “Ensemble 2012” consists of ever-changing young yet already well-known Russian and German musicians. The permanent members come from the Mariinsky Theater orchestra, the Bavarian Radio, the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and selected soloists.

RCCR Artists performs the general management for the Ensemble 2012.

Ensemble 2012

The “Ensemble 2012” is an initiative of young musicians from Russia and Germany, and it was founded in 2012 as a part of the Russian-German Music Academy.

The main inspiration of the project is to connect both Russia and Germany on the important concert venues and music festivals. Thus, the “Ensemble 2012” played at the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Kassel Music Days, the MPHIL 360 at the Gasteig, at the Kissinger Sommer as well as at the Stars of the White Nights – the Festival in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Easter Festival and the Diaghilev Festival in Perm.

Works of Ensemble 2012’s include composition commissions as well as content-specific programs of collaborations, public concert performances and a research is undertaken in Russian music archives with the aim of bringing unknown music to light and presenting it to the public.
The “Ensemble 2012” consists of ever-changing young yet already well-known Russian and German musicians. The permanent members come from the Mariinsky Theater orchestra, the Bavarian Radio, the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and selected soloists.

RCCR Artists performs the general management for the Ensemble 2012.

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“The professional exchange between young musicians, their skills, which you have acquired over the years – is an important task of every serious musician”. – Valery Gergiev

The “Ensemble 2012” is an initiative of young musicians from Russia and Germany was founded in 2012 as a part of the Russian-German Music Academy. The main inspiration of the project is to connect both Russia and Germany on the important concert stages and music festivals. Thus, the “Ensemble 2012” played at the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Kassel Music Days, the MPHIL 360 at the Gasteig, at the Kissinger Sommer as well as at the Stars of the White Nights – Festival in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Easter Festival and the Diaghilev Festival in Perm.

An important field of Ensemble 2012’s work includes composition commissions as well as content-specified programming of collaborations and public concert performances, as well as a research is undertaken in Russian music archives with the aim of bringing unknown music to light and presenting it to the public.

Conceptually, “Ensemble 2012” not only forms an interpretive ensemble “unit”, but also sees itself as a kind of laboratory. The mixture, juxtaposition and crossing of Russian-German concert programs make it possible to compare the music of these two countries, to find and identify parallels and differences in compositional and aesthetic developments. Ensemble 2012 was collaborated with the following artists as soloists and lecturers: Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Eberhard Feltz (violin), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Wilfried Strehle (viola), Christian Dallmann (horn), Natalia Arsumanowa (piano) and Martin Wuttke (speaker).

The “Ensemble 2012” consists of ever-changing young but already well-known Russian and German musicians. The permanent members come from orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theater, the Bavarian Radio, the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and selected soloists.

“Young people need to be in constant exchange with each other in order to build mutual understanding and trust. The professional exchange between young musicians, their skills, which you have acquired over the years – is an important task of every serious musician”. – Valery Gergiev