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Acker Stadt Palast

Place for contemporary Dance, Theatre and Neue Musik The Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin's Mitte district is a place where established artists...

Acud Macht Neu

ACUD MACHT NEU is an art collective based in Berlin. In 2014, the initiative saved the Kunsthaus ACUD from bankruptcy and has since set in motion...

Au Topsi Pohl

Au Topsi Pohl is the organism behind the cultural content at the bar Isotop in Berlin-Tiergarten. We try to bring back the function and...

Akademie der Künste

The Akademie der Künste is an exhibition and event location, a meeting place for artists and people interested in the arts, where public debates...

AsianArt Ensemble

The AsianArt Ensemble is unique in the world in its instruments and the type of music that it presents. Founded in 2009 the Ensemble already plays...

The Jazzclub A-Trane was founded in September 1992 in Berlin Charlottenburg. The 2word A-TRANE is a play on words combining references to...

ausland – Territory for arts and collateral damage

ausland is an independent venue with multi-discipline programme in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Since its opening in 2002, ausland is run by a partly...

BAM! - Berliner Festival für aktuelles Musiktheater

www.bam-berlin.org

Berlin PianoPercussion

Founded in autumn 2008 by internationally renowned soloists who for many years have championed the interpretation and promotion of contemporary...

Gegründet wurde das "b-flat" 1995 von den beiden Musikern Jannis Zotos und Thanassis Zotos sowie dem Schauspieler André Hennecke. In...

Clinker Lounge Concerts

Clinker Lounge Concerts offers classical artists a platform to reach new audiences, perform innovative ideas and connect with fellow open-minded...

CTM Festival for Adventurous Music and Art

Founded in 1999, CTM Festival is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital, and experimental music and...

Ensemblekollektiv

Four internationally renowned Berlin ensembles – Ensemble Adapter, ensemble mosaik Sonar Quartet and Ensemble Apparat – cooperate as a...

Ensemble Adapter

Adapter is a German-Icelandic ensemble for contemporary music based in Berlin. The core of the group consists of a quartet with flute,...

ensemble mosaik

As a particularly diverse and experimental formation, ensemble mosaik has developed into a renowned ensemble for contemporary music since its...

ensemble unitedberlin

The ensemble unitedberlin was founded in 1989 with the symbolic purpose of reconnecting classical musicians in a city long divided by the Cold...

ensemble xenon - Berlin based ensemble for Contemporary music

In its concert series ensemble xenon examines the genesis, mode of action and forms of presentation of New music. In performances of...

Erik Drescher

Erik Drescher is a freelance flutist, performer and curator for contemporary music based in Berlin.   In addition to a very active...

Errant Sound - Project Space for Sound Art

Errant Sound has been dedicated to experimental work in sound related arts, including installation, performance, fieldwork, voice, radio and...

exploratorium

Musical improvisation, as well as improvisation in the other arts – movement, theatre etc. –, is the focus of the exploratorium berlin, Centre for...

FAHRBEREITSCHAFT

FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin-Lichtenberg is a well-preserved industrial yard with buildings mostly originating from the 1950s. Before the fall of...

gamut inc

The retro-futuristic ensemble gamut inc makes musical theatre and plays computer-controlled music machines that they develop themselves. The core...

Heroines of Sound

The Heroines of Sound Festival has set itself the task of (re)discovering female protagonists in music and increasing the public presence of their...

itinerant interludes

itinerant interludes presents pop-up performances by outstanding musicians in select galleries and institutions of art throughout Berlin. Programs...

Kairos Quartett

The Kairos Quartet was founded in 1996 and specializes in music written since 1950, including smaller and larger settings. Older music is included...

Kammerensemble ad hoc

Klangwerkstatt Berlin - Festival for New Music

Klangwerkstatt Berlin is dedicated to contemporary music that transcends genre and generation boundaries. It presents relevant works and promising...

Klangzeitort Institute for New Music

KLANGZEITORT, the joint Institute for New Music Berlin of Berlin University of the Arts and Hanns Eisler School of Music, is conceived as a...

klarinette-akkordeon plus

KNM Berlin

Ensemble KNM Berlin stands for the active, current music scene in Berlin’s metropolis. Along with other students of former East Berlin’s Hanns...

Kontakte

Kontraklang

Kontraklang is a monthly concert series for contemporary music in Berlin. It showcases the diversity of the various contemporary music scenes in...

Kultur Büro Elisabeth

Labor Neunzehn

Labor Neunzehn is an artist-run space in Berlin engaged in a multidisciplinary discourse that involves expanded cinema, modern music, publishing,...

Labor Sonor

Labor Sonor—founded in 2000 by Gregor Hotz, Andrea Neumann, and Steffi Weismann to create a platform for new experimental music beyond established...

LUX:NM

LUX:NM contemporary music ensemble berlin is a soloist ensemble for new music that has rapidly developed into an internationally sought­after...

MaerzMusik – Das Festival 2018

Marc Sinan Company

Ever since 2008, the Marc Sinan Company has been synonymous with contemporary musical projects that connect and critically examine different...

Maulwerker

They are specialists at the intersection of music and theater and music and language, they operate where music and space, sound and silence...

MEINBLAU project space

Founded in 1997 at Pfefferberg in Berlin as project space and studio house for art by 5 artists, MEINBLAU provides 125 qm of exhibition and...

mikromusik – Festival of Experimental Music und Sound Art

mikromusik, the festival of experimental music and sound art organized by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, takes place for the fourth time at...

modern art ensemble

The modern art ensemble was founded 1994 and has presented its own concert series in Konzerthaus Berlin since 2003.The modern art ensemble has...

MONOM

With the opening of MONOM at the historic Funkhaus on December 1st 2017, Berlin gains an experimental performance venue and state of the art...

Musikfest Berlin

From 31 August to 18 September 2017, Musikfest Berlin will open this year’s Berlin new concert season, hosted by Berliner Festspiele in...

Night of Contemporary Organ Music

The Night of Contemporary Organ Music presents organists from Berlin and other cities as well as internationally renowned composers. Venues are...

N.E.W.

N.E.W. ist aus dem 2005 gegründeten Composer Performer Ensemble Les Femmes Savantes hervorgegangen. Im Spektrum aus Neuer Musik, Jazz, Elektronik,...

Petersburg Art Space (PAS)

Petersburg Art Space (PAS) is a multidisciplinary art space and music venue based in Moabit, Berlin. Since its establishment in 2017,...

PHØNIX16

PHØNIX16 is a singer collective for the propagation and performance of current, updated and contemporary music for | with | without voice: living...

Pierre Boulez Saal

The concert hall was designed upon the initiative of Daniel Barenboim, General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera, and in collaboration with...

Pyramidale Festival

On the outskirts of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, the Berlin district with the largest prefabricated housing development in Europe, is...

Radialsystem

Since its opening as a privately financed venue in September 2006, Radialsystem has became an internationally renowned initiator and hub for the...

Reanimation Orchestra

Reanimation Orchestra  is an international open-structured multidisciplinary group of musicians united by their desire to blur the...

Savvy Contemporary

Eight years after the inception of SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, it is worth rearviewing at the agencies and ambitions,...

Sebastian Berweck (Pianist)

With over 220 world premieres to his name, Sebastian Berweck is one of the most sought-after interpreters of experimental contemporary music. He...

singuhr — projekte

»singuhr — projects« is conceived as a decentralized, nationally and internationally linked platform that aims to promote the development of sound...

Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop

The Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop was founded in 2006. Originally conceived as a chamber orchestra, the ensemble has consistently transformed...

Sonar Quartett

Sonar is Spanish for "to sound". But Sonar also describes a procedure for measuring distance under water. Sound pulses are sent into an unknown...

Sophienkirche

Splitter Orchester

Splitter Orchester, founded in 2010, consists of 24 ultra-specialized composer-performers who choose not to work in an institutionalized framework...

Spor Klübü

Spor Klübü (founded August 2003) is an interdisciplinary project space that works mainly with international artists from Berlin and offers them...

Spreehalle Berlin

Spreehalle Berlin offers artistic high voltage in Oberschöneweide. Berlin's new production and performance venue for transmedia and transcultural...

studioboerne45

studioboerne45 has established itself as a rehearsal room as well as an outstanding recording studio in Berlin and, due to its size, it is...

TIK – THEATER IM KINO (north)

The Theater im Kino (north) opened at the end of 2006. Since then, our venue has established itself as a place for people from the neighborhood to...

Trickster Orchestra

Trickster Orchestra unites superb soloists in a collective of transcultural avant-garde music. Under the artistic direction of Cymin Samawatie and...

Trio Generator

Das Trio „Generator“, initiiert von Natalia Pschenitschnikova, ist eine neues Ensemble dreier Berliner Sängerinnen unterschiedlicher Herkunft. In...

Ultraschall Berlin

In the course of these two decades, the festival has gone through many metamorphoses, and has nevertheless remained true to his basic idea. From...

Unerhörte Musik

„Unerhörte Musik“ is Germany's only weekly concert series. With its unique structure it is not only part of Berlins contemporary music life, but...

Villa Elisabeth

XelmYa

XelmYa / XelmYa+ (Alexa Renger - violin, Sylvia Hinz - recorder, Friederike Börnchen - oboe / cor anglais, Guests - violoncello) was founded in...

Zafraan Ensemble

Zafraan stands for music that reflects all facets of life, society and reality today. In combination with other art forms, Zafraan observes,...

Zinc & Copper

Zinc & Copper was founded by Robin Hayward in 2005. A trio of horn, trombone and tuba forms the basis for a variable ensemble of brass...

The Zig Zag Jazz Club is south west Berlin's hidden gem. Away from the busy tourist high streets, the Club is a popular destination for Berliners...

Zionskirche

Venues #27

The events listed in the May-August issue of field notes will be performed at the following venues: A ACUD MACHT NEU...