Ensemble Garage
The Ensemble Garage was founded in 2009 in Cologne (Germany). Its members are on a quest for answers about the artistic, social, and aesthetic issues that define our time. The ensemble is exploring methods and means to create fields (ways, spheres, realms?) of expression through contemporary composition. Since its foundation the ensemble has yielded innovative artistic impulses, shifting the focus on the reflection of the (post)-internet-society with its digital-media manifestations, advancing a development in new music towards theatrical and performative forms of production. An important part of the ensemble’s work is the collaboration and exchange with other artists, particularly composers of the younger generation. Therefore Ensemble Garage has organized and curated numerous concerts with young composers from Germany, Poland, the USA, Finland, Turkey and France, among others. Further more, the ensemble regularly collaborates with guest curators and artists from various artistic fields. Since fall 2019, Ensemble Garage has hosted its own concert series entitled Acts ‘n Sounds several times per year, presenting diverse programmatic concepts with varying topics at different venues in Cologne. It also partners with the concert series FRAU MUSICA NOVA, developing concerts which expand the boundaries of club-culture, experimental music theatre ,and performance, with a particular emphasis on supporting the artistic work of women. The ensemble is regularly invited to performat renowned festivals in Germany and abroad, such as Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, Eclat Stuttgart, Warsaw Autumn, Musica Strasbourg, Ruhrtriennale, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Kunstfestpiele Herrenhausen, Hellerau, SPOR Festival Aarhus (Denmark), GAIDA Festival Vilnius (Lithuania) and Mixtur Barcelona (Spain), among others. The Ensemble Garage is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
