The name Asambura – an anagram of the Tanzanian ‘Usambara’ mountains – is symbolic of looking beyond one’s own horizon.
Since 2013, musicians of different origins and cultural affiliations have been reinterpreting classical music in dialogue with non-European musical traditions and avant-garde elements. In doing so, we are always on the lookout for new perspectives on familiar sounds, connections between unthinkable and, not least, areas of friction with the social, societal and political present, which make music current and relevant today.
At the same time, Asambura is a collective that mediates and cooperatively transmits the constructive dialogue between different cultures and religions.
The confusion of voices of the “Tower of Babel”, a central narrative in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is reinterpreted by Asambura into a perspective of appreciation of cultural and religious diversity.
More information about the ensemble’s projects and Asambura e.V. can be found at
https://asambura-ensemble.de.
„I have been made re-listen and to re-think found myself gradually drawn into a world which is neither eastern nor western, but something which is indeed both ‚rich and strange‘.
This reimagined winter journey has the power to speak to individuals, and potentially to join and to bind them.“
Claire Seymour | Musicweb International
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Elias Aboud
daff | marimba | percussion
Abdulrahim Aljouja
riq I daff
Berfin Altunok
violin
Georg Benhöfer
djembe
Lorraine Buzea
Elisabet Cada
trombone
Robert Colonius
violoncello | piano
Justus Czaske
clarinet | bass clarinet | arrangements | concepts
Ehsan Ebrahimi
composition |
persian santoor |
electronic
Michael Essl
piano
Susanne Fassnacht
double bassoon | bassoon
Leonie Flaksman
violin
education
Viola Fricke
viola
Mohamed Gamal
trombone
Florian Giering
viola
Sebastian Gokus
marimba
Maximilian Guth
composition | bass clarinet
artistic director
Samar Hafez
double bass
Barbara Hartrumpf
violoncello
Kathrin Herwanger
violoncello
Ashley Hribar
prepared piano | synthesizer
Jule Hillmann
flute | alto flute
Robin-Lynn Hirzel
violin
Friedrike Kayser
oboe | english horn
Ghazaleh Ghazanfari
video | photos
Daniela Kohler
bass clarinet | clarinet
Yebin Kor
piano
Raphael Isaac Landzbaum
english horn | oboe
Johannes Ludwig
percussion (u.a. udu drum, daff,
dumbak)
Marianne Mittenzwey
oboe | english horn
Frederik Möhle
double bass
Daniel Moreira
conductor | electric guitar
Toktam Moslehi
vocals
Kioomars Musayyebi
persian santoor
Tilman Muth
marimba I timpani
Youssef Nasif
kanun
Janis Neteler
guitar | theorbe
Mireia Peñalver
violoncello
Olivija Popovaité
english horn | oboe
Cornelius Rauch
piano
Michel Remling
violin
Mehdi Saei
vocals
Parisa Safikhani
tar
Djielifily Sako
Kora
Mónica Sardón
violin
Josefa Schmidt
piano
Daniel Seminara
lute | acoustic guitar
Ronas Sheikmous
duduk
Kassandra Siebel
electric guitar | performative dramaturgy
Sebastian Voß
Alaa Zaitounah
oud
Ammar Zein
oud
