ASAMBURA

ASAMBURA-Ensemble | photo credits © Ghazaleh Ghazanfari 2017

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


Anne Bischof
flute | bass flute
education


Justus Böhm
double bass


Lluis Böhme
double bass

Lorraine Buzea
violoncello


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


Janis Neteler
guitar | theorbe


Mireia Peñalver
violoncello


Olivija Popovaité
english horn | oboe


Michel Remling
violin

Mehdi Saei
vocals


Parisa Safikhani
tar


Djielifily Sako
Kora


Mónica Sardón
violin


Daniel Seminara
lute | acoustic guitar


Ronas Sheikmous
duduk


Kassandra Siebel
electric guitar | performative dramaturgy


Katrin Szamatulski
flute | alto flute | bass flute

Sebastian Voß
trombone


Ammar Zein
oud

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© Ghazaleh Ghazanfari, Markus Wolter, Peter Hübbe, Frederik Möhle