Bridges Chamber Orchestra: From the Silk Road via Venice to Constantinople

From Venice via the Silk Road to Constantinople

The Bridges Chamber Orchestra presents one of its most successful programmes in a new format: in this performative concert, the orchestra plays without a conductor. This allows orchestra members to interact with each other independently and responsibly.

Venice - once the leading trading power of the Mediterranean, an internationally significant music metropolis and cosmopolitan city - exemplifies in this programme an inspiring exchange between (musical) cultures.

Starting from the Iberian La Follia in the variations of the famous Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi, the programme extends to compositions that combine stylistic elements from Arabic, Persian and European classical music, jazz, contemporary music, Eastern European folklore and various forms of Central Asian and Latin American music. From the diversity of the musicians' identities and in the tension between tradition and innovation emerges the unique Bridges Sound. The works have been composed or arranged by orchestra members.

From the programme:

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Arranger: Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff
La Follia

Salim Salari (1992), Rabie Azar (1980), Peter Klohmann (*1986)
Alterity 2 4 what

Gabriel Mientka (*1986)
Constantinople

35.00 € (17.50 € reduced)
Free seating