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Bridges Kammerorchester
Premiere: Estimate

Das Bridges Kammerorchester kommt mit seinem neuen Programm Estimate am 7. März 2025 ins Casals Forum Kronberg.
07.03.2025 | 07.45 PM | Casals Forum, Kronberg Ticket
Bridges Kammerorchester
Estimate

Das Bridges Kammerorchester kommt mit seinem neuen Programm Estimate am 8. März 2025 ins Casals Forum Kronberg.
08.03.2025 | 07.45 PM | Casals Forum, Kronberg Tickets
Beyond time and space
Bridges Kammerorchester

Das Bridges Kammerorchester überwindet mit Beyond time and space einmal mehr Grenzen.
12.04.2025 | 08.00 PM | Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunk, Frankfurt Tickets
Bridges Kammerorchester
Complementarity

Das Bridges Kammerorchester bringt zu seinem Debüt in Hilchenbach sein Programm Complementarity mit.
03.05.2025 | 07.00 PM | Gebrüder-Busch-Theater, Hilchenbach Tickets
Bridges Kammerorchester
Glokale Welthits in Frankfurt

Das Bridges Kammerorchester kommt mit seinem Programm Glokale Welthits in Frankfurt ins netzwerk.seilerei.
12.06.2025 | 08.00 PM | netzwerk.seilerei, Frankfurt Tickets
Bridges Kammerorchester
Glokale Welthits in Leipzig

Das Bridges Kammerorchester feiert seine Premiere auf dem Bachfest in Leipzig.
13.06.2025 | 07.00 PM | Bachfest Leipzig

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Education
Klangwelten – Cooperation project
with Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium

In cooperation with the Bridges Kammerorchester, Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium is expanding its range of courses from winter semester 25/26. The Bachelor’s degree programme in Elementare Musikpädagogik und Musikvermittlung will then also allow students to study instruments that do not correspond to the Western European canon. Those interested can register for the entrance examination in June 25 or for the PreCollege.

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Tag der offenen Tür
22.02.25, 13-18 Uhr
Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium
Premieres
Concerts 2025

The Bridges Kammerorchester will be performing four different concert programmes in renowned venues in the first half of 2025. Ticket sales have started!

Estimate – 7. & 8. März Casals Forum

Beyond time and space –12. April hr- Sendesaal

Complementarity – 3. Mai Hilchenbach

Glokale Welthits
12. Juni netzwerk.seilerei & 13. Juni Bachfest Leipzig
Achieving more together
Förderverein
Bridges Kammerorchester e. V.

Our Förderverein Bridges Kammerorchester e. V. is currently being founded. Its aim is to support the orchestra in increasing its impact and enriching the musical landscape through its diversity. You can already become a member now.

Kontakt: friends@bridges-kammerorchester.de

Membership form

Foto: Jubiläumsfeier 5 Jahre Bridges Kammerorchester, Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium 13.10.
Online-Release
Complementarity – track by track

Since autumn 2024, we have been releasing a track from our new album Complementarity every week.

Complementarity was nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 02/2024 in the category Grenzgänge.

On 24 January we will release our full-length album:
Complementarity
Sendehinweis
What is universal in music?
SWR Wissen on 23.10.

What is universal in music – and what is not? This exciting question was the subject of the SWR Wissen programme with journalist Christoph Drösser on 23 October from 8.00 am.

In the run-up to his production, Christoph Drösser conducted an interview with Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff, who contributes her expertise on transcultural music and thus sheds light on further aspects of possible universality.

To the Podcast of the programme
Premiere
Successful premiere
at the Elbphilharmonie

With its debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Bridges Kammerorchester kicked off the new 24/25 season on 26 August in the sold-out Elbphilharmonie.

Press articles
Stephan Knies, BackstageClassical, 28.08.24
Andreas Ströbl, Klassik Begeistert, 27.08.24
Foto:
Sophie Wolter, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 26.08.24
Broadcast
Deutschlandfunk
5 years Bridges Kammerorchester

On July 16 at 10:05 p.m., Deutschlandfunk broadcast the program Brücken aus Klängen on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Bridges Kammerorchester. In the run-up to the program, journalist Jochanan Shelliem conducted numerous interviews with members of the orchestra.

Click here for the program
Streaming-Premiere
Exploring the space beyond

The Bridges Kammerorchester’s program Exploring the space beyond was celebrated with standing ovations in the hr-Sendesaal in April. If you were unable to attend or would like to hear the works again, you can now enjoy the concert via stream.

Click here for the stream
Our Awards
Longlist German Record Critics‘ Award

Complementarity was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award 02/2024 in the category of Crossover Productions. Complementarity is our vibrancy – and the title of our second album, released in March 2024. The works of the orchestra members are full of multi-layered experiences and reflections and represent the unique liveliness of the Bridges sound.

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Bridges Kammerorchester

We are revolutionising the concert experience. Our music renders immigrant societies audible. The Bridges Kammerorchester brings diversity to the stage, the audience and the venues.

Bridges Ensembles

The Bridges Ensembles bring our transcultural sound to any location – from duo to quintet. The individual artistic identities of the ensemble members shape the repertoire.

Bridges Education

We promote transcultural music education and empower children and young people with music theater and hands-on activities. We pass on our experience and expertise with transcultural music in workshops and in a university context.

Bridges Community

In our community projects, (semi-) professional musicians can make music together with musicians from the Bridges Kammerorchester. We create a lively community in which the focus is on learning from each other and musical encounters.

„The Bridges Kammerorchester is the orchestra of our time. In the orchestra as well as in the ensembles, in education and community formats, the wonderful diversity of music can be experienced. The Bridges Kammerorchester makes clear what is possible in a post-migrant society: a new whole that is more than the sum of its parts. This makes the beauty of diversity audible.“

Prof. Dr. Meron Mendel, Director of the Bildungsstätte Anne Frank

„The Bridges Kammerorchester engages with our society and seeks musical dialog. Playing together in different time signatures creates friction. Contemporary music that connects – with a lot of feeling.“

Hadija Haruna-Oelker, journalist/author

„The Bridges Kammerorchester is a great ambassador for our region. It not only brings together outstanding musicians, but also combines musical influences from all over the world to create a unique blend. Diversity enriches and inspires. The ensemble conveys this through music. Bridges could not be better suited to our times and our colorful region. I’m already looking forward to the next concert.“

Kaweh Mansoori, Hessian Minister of Economics and Deputy Prime Minister