Upcoming Events
8 February 2026 – 18:00
Ying Wang – Schmutz
Theaterhaus, T1, Siemensstraße 11, 70469 Stuttgart, DE
15 February 2026 – 16:00
Maurice Ravel – Sonata for Violin and Cello
Rebecca Saunders – Skin for Soprano and Ensemble
Rebecca Saunders – Skull for Ensemble
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, DE
Legno.Edre
6 March 2026 – 18:00
I. Me
II. Edre
V. Metrio
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, IT
4 April 2026 – 20:00
Gérard Grisey – Talea
Luc Brewaeys – Painted Pyramids
Claude Vivier – Bouchara
muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Gent, BE
Past Events
Abschlusskonzert / Legno.Edre
14 January 2026 – 18:00
Pierluigi Billone – Legno.Edre I – V (World Premiere Complete Cycle)
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Composer Collider / Ensemble Musikfabrik
15 December 2025
New works from students of the RSH Düsseldorf
Köln, DE
Dystopie 2 / consord / Albrecht Hirche
7 December 2025 – 19:00
Helena Cánovas Parés – Neues Werk
Dortmund, DE
Dystopie 2 / consord / Albrecht Hirche
6 December 2025 – 19:30
Helena Cánovas Parés – Neues Werk
Münster, DE
werk_statt_festival / HMDK Stuttgart
5 December 2025 – 19:00
Chongyang Zhang – Neues Werk
Matteo Rigotti – Neues Werk
Konzertsaal, HMDK Stuttgart, DE
Conductor: Ronan Whittern
Dystopie 2
16 November 2025 – 19:00
Helena Cánovas Parés – Neues Werk
Theater im Delphi, Berlin, DE
9 November 2025 – 17:00
Matthias Krüger – le vide à perdre
Sarah Nemtsov – skotom.orchesterstueck
Helena Cánovas Parés – Neues Werk (World Premiere)
RWE Pavillon, Philharmonie Essen, DE
30 October 2025 – 18:45
Fabien Lévy – “Avant-demain” für sechs Autohupen
Conductor: Ronan Whittern
Philharmonie Essen, DE
SILENCE MUST BE!
22 October 2025 – 19:30
Francesco Filidei – I Funerali Dell’Anarchico Serantini
Thierry De Mey – Silence must be!
Jessie Marino – Rot/Blau
Mark Applebaum – Tlön
Thierry De Mey – Musique de Table
with Emi See & Margot Le Moine
Szene 10 – Bühne in Girardet, Girardetstraße 10, 45131 Essen, DE
SILENCE MUST BE!
5 October 2025 – 17:00
Francesco Filidei – I Funerali Dell’Anarchico Serantini
Thierry De Mey – Silence must be!
Jessie Marino – Rot/Blau
Mark Applebaum – Tlön
Thierry De Mey – Musique de Table
with Emi See & Margot Le Moine
in Zusammenarbeit mit Tobias Post / Immersive Art
Kunstverein Duisburg, Weidenweg 10, 47059 Duisburg, DE
4 October 2025 – 22:00
Ronan Whittern: synthetic soundscapes
Karlskaserne Art Center, Ludwigsburg, DE
4 October 2025 – 18:00
Ronan Whittern: live electronics
Johannes Schwarz: bassoon, tuba, live electronics
Karlskaserne Art Center, Ludwigsburg, DE
Abschlusskonzert des Composer Seminar / Lucerne Festival / IEMA Ensemble
24 August 2025 – 15:00
Agnes Vrânceanu – Blurred Shapes
Zixuan Chen – Bullet Time III
Egemen Kurt – Zäsuren
Maya Miro Johnson – Lynchiana
Jaebong Rho – stone
Julia Constance Wiger-Nordås – SKULPTUR
Joonghyun Lee – SPIKED GOGGLES & ANTIPSYCHOTICS
KKL Luzern, CH
Folkwang Fagottissimo!
11 July 2025 – 19:30
Pierluigi Billone – Legno.Edre II. Edre
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Kammermusiksaal, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Abschlusskonzert / Jiaying He / Just one last beat
4 July 2025 – 18:00
Jiaying He – Hallo World! (Premiere)
Jiaying He – Wunderland
Conductor: Ronan Whittern
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Abschlusskonzert / Margot Le Moine / Chemins
3 July 2025 – 18:00
Luciano Berio – Chemins II (conductor: Ronan Whittern)
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Frische Klänge / Essen
1 July 2025 – 18:00
Luciano Berio – “Call” (St. Louis Fanfare) (conductor: Ronan Whittern)
Pierluigi Billone – Legno.Edre II. Edre (Bassoon: Ronan Whittern)
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
28 June 2025 – 20:00
Works by: Dead Brothers, Panzerballett, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, John Zorn and Bernhard Gander
Ehrenfeldgürtel 127, Köln, DE
15 June 2025 – 19:00
Works by: Dead Brothers, Panzerballett, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, John Zorn and Bernhard Gander
Hawerkamp 31, Münster, DE
2 May 2025 – 22:00
Harin Choi – In(ner) Peace
Farhad Ilagi Hosseini – Unraumreflexionen
Märkisches Museum, Witten, DE
Prüfungskonzert II / IEMA Ensemble
26 March 2025 – 19:30
Thomas Bruttger – Breaks, Windows
HfMDK Frankfurt, DE
Abschlusskonzert / Miguélez Álvarez
4 February 2025 – 19:30
Miguélez Álvarez – Calcografía en el tiempo à 8 con aroma antillano für 4 Trompeten & 4 Alt-Posaunen (premiere)
Conductor: Ronan Whittern
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Frische Klänge / Essen
27 January 2025 – 19:30
Pierluigi Billone – Legno.Edre I. Me
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
26 January 2025 – 19:00
Luciano Berio – Recital I: for Cathy
Luciano Berio – Folksongs
Luc Brewaeys – Fêtes à tensions: (les) eaux marchent
BOZAR, Brussels, BE
19 January 2025 – 11:00
Thomas De Prins – Fieldrecordings of my own environment
Thomas De Prins – De 7 Sacramenten/ Elementen
Joris Van de Moortel, performance
SPECTRA o.l.v. Filip Rathé
S.M.A.K., Gent, BE
13 January 2025 – 20:00
Parsa Zandi – Introspection I (premiere)
Raphaëlle Aoun – évolution fabriquée (premiere)
Kyungjin Lim – ernsT ist das leBen (premiere)
Aaron Zimmer – Of an Unwelcome Stillness (premiere)
Alisa Kobzar – architect of lies (premiere)
Eunhye Joo – Eine kleine Wunderkerze (premiere)
Studio des Ensemble Musikfabrik, Köln, DE
2024
Lucerne Festival Academy Zu Gast Bei Happy New Ears / Ensemble Modern
3 December 2024 – 19:30
Che Buford – Beauty is brief and violent (German premiere)
Ingrid Saldaña – Transmisión (German premiere)
Christoph Baumgarten:– Choral (German premiere)
Sebastian Black – To Shimmer, To Quiver, To Quake (German premiere)
Seungju Noh – Hwik[ʍik] (German premiere)
Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main, DE
30 November 2024 – 19:00
Misato Mochizuki – …Pas à pas
Andreas Paparrousos – 2•3 (premiere)
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Accordion: Filip Erakovic
Neue Musik Zentrale, Essen, DE
25 November 2024 – 20:00
Heiner Goebbels – A House of Call. My Imaginary Notebook
Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, FR
1 November 2024 – 15:00
Luciano Berio – Sequenza XII for Solo Bassoon
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
26 October 2024 – 19:30
György Ligeti – Hamburg Concerto
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Abschlusskonzert / Diana Ortiz
9 October 2024 – 19:30
Diana Ortiz – Raspar, un signo (premiere)
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
6 October 2024 – 19:00
Mauricio Kagel – Staatstheater
Theater im Delphi, Berlin, DE
4 October 2024 – 20:00
Mauricio Kagel – Staatstheater
Pumpenhaus, Münster, DE
22 September 2024 – 19:00
Mauricio Kagel – Staatstheater
ES365, Düsseldorf, DE
Ensemble Modern / Ratkje / Ultima
19 September 2024 – 21:30
Maja S. K. Ratkje – National Anthems
Cosmopolite Scene, Oslo, NO
Frische Klänge / Duisburg
13 July 2024 – 19:30
Luciano Berio – Sequeza XII for Solo Bassoon
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Kleiner Konzertsaal, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Duisburg, DE
12 July 2024 – 18:00
Tristan Murail – Ethers for solo flute and Ensemble (conductor: Ronan Whittern)
Brian Ferneyhough – Mnemosyne for bass flute and tape
Beat Furrer – Presto for flute and piano
Salvatore Sciarriono – Venere che le grazie la fioriscono for solo flute
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Abschlusskonzert / Jisoo Kwon
11 July 2024 – 18:00
Jisoo Kwon – Cats actually don’t like fish (World Premiere)
Conductor: Ronan Whittern
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Folkwang Woche Neue Musik
10 July 2024 – 19:30
Leon Focker – How to disentrain your cat with a laser pointer (World Premiere)
Jiaying He – When I am with you (World Premiere)
Arlet Miguélez Álvarez – Óleo en el tiempo à 8 (World Premiere)
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
Folkwang Woche Neue Musik
8 July 2024 – 19:30
Nicolaus A. Huber – Mit Errinerung
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
25 May 2024
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra / Elim Chan / Midori
Antonín Dvořák – Violin Concerto in A minor
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Konigin Elisabethzaal, Antwerpen, BE
24 May 2024
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra / Elim Chan / Midori
Antonín Dvořák – Violin Concerto in A minor
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, NL
3 May 2024
consord / Lautaro Mura Fuentealba / Acht Brücken
Elnaz Seyedi – frames I
Samir Odeh-Tamimi – Ja Nári
Joanna Wozny – Dia/trans
Enno Poppe – Scherben
Köln Philharmonie, DE
3 March 2024
Ensemble Musikfabrik / Musikfabrik im WDR 88
Catherine Lamb – the being/the world (2023/24) world premiere
WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Köln, DE
29 January 2024
Frische Klänge / Essen
Pierluigi Billone – Blaues Fragment
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Neue Aula, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
29 January 2024
Frische Klänge / Duisburg
Liza Lim – Axis Mundi
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern
Kleiner Konzertsaal, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Duisburg, DE
14 January 2024
Abschlusskonzert / Paul Müller Reyes
Paul Müller Reyes – approximating bells (2023)
Paul Müller Reyes – le système sacrificiel (2022) szenen III und IV
Paul Müller Reyes – fog/whats hidden (2023)
Paul Müller Reyes – Exploration of Space I+II (2022)
Partika Hall, Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf, DE
2023
15 December 2023
Kontrabass Marathon / Krüger / Ronan Whittern
Matthias Krüger – an incomparable milk of wonder (world premiere)
Conductor: Ronan Whittern
Pina Bausch Theater, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
12 December 2023
Kammerorchester Elbe / Mahan Esfahani / Yalda Zamani
Takuya Imahori – De Avibus Dialogum (Dialogue of the Birds)
Manuel de Falla – Concerto for clavicembalo, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello
Anahita Abbasi – Intertwined Distances for solo harpsichord and electronics / Commissioned by and dedicated to Mahan Esfahani
Farzia Fallah – This Burning Mass – a Feast of Color / Commissioned by Riot Ensemble at Britten Pears Arts / Aldeburgh Festival
Gary Carpenter – Concerto for Harpsichord and Six Players / Commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society for Mahan Esfahani and the Ensemble 10/10 with Yalda Zamani
Kleiner Saal, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, DE
19 December 2023
Folkwang Fagottensemble
Sofia Gubaidulina – Duo Sonate
Bassoon: Ronan Whittern, Paulina Strebel
Kammermusiksaal, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, DE
5 November 2023
consord / Cage: harmonies
John Cage – harmonies
St. Sebastian, Münster, DE
15 October 2023
30 Jahre Das Neue Ensemble – FESTKONZERT
George Lewis – Neues Werk, Auftragswerk für Bassklarinette, E-Gitarre, Akkordeon (2023) world premiere
György Ligeti – Klavierkonzert (1985 – 88)
Márton Illés – Forajzok (2021)
Katherine Balch – New Geometry (2015)
Piano: Tamara Stefanovich
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
14 September 2023
Ensemble Modern / Sir George Benjamin / Anna Prohaska
Edgard Varèse – Octandre – für sieben Bläser und Kontrabass
Saed Haddad – Mirage, Mémoire, Mystère
Maurice Ravel – Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Bach / Benjamin – Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: Canon und Contrapunctus
Arnold Schönberg – Kammersymphonie Nr. 1 op. 9
Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, DE
12 September 2023
Ensemble Modern / Sir George Benjamin / Anna Prohaska
Edgard Varèse – Octandre – für sieben Bläser und Kontrabass
Saed Haddad – Mirage, Mémoire, Mystère
Maurice Ravel – Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Bach / Benjamin – Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: Canon und Contrapunctus
Arnold Schönberg – Kammersymphonie Nr. 1 op. 9
Wigmore Hall, London, UK
10 September 2023
Ensemble Modern Orchestra / Sir George Benjamin / Anna Prohaska
Unsuk Chin – Spira – Concerto for orchestra
Elizabeth Ogonek – Cloudline
Francesco Filidei – Cantico delle Creature per soprano ed orchestra
George Benjamin – A Mind of Winter for soprano and orchestra
Dieter Ammann – glut
Köln Philharmonie, Köln, DE
9 September 2023
Ensemble Modern / Sir George Benjamin / Anna Prohaska
Edgard Varèse – Octandre – für sieben Bläser und Kontrabass
Saed Haddad – Mirage, Mémoire, Mystère
Maurice Ravel – Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Bach / Benjamin – Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: Canon und Contrapunctus
Arnold Schönberg – Kammersymphonie Nr. 1 op. 9
Köln Philharmonie, Köln, DE
3 September 2023
Ensemble Modern Orchestra / Sir George Benjamin / Anna Prohaska
Unsuk Chin – Spira – Concerto for orchestra
Elizabeth Ogonek – Cloudline
Francesco Filidei – Cantico delle Creature per soprano ed orchestra
George Benjamin – A Mind of Winter for soprano and orchestra
Dieter Ammann – glut
Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, DE
2 September 2023
Ensemble Modern / Sir George Benjamin / Anna Prohaska
Edgard Varèse – Octandre – für sieben Bläser und Kontrabass
Saed Haddad – Mirage, Mémoire, Mystère
Maurice Ravel – Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Bach / Benjamin – Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: Canon und Contrapunctus
Arnold Schönberg – Kammersymphonie Nr. 1 op. 9
Kleiner Saal, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, DE
1 July 2023
Boulez Ensemble / François Xavier-Roth / Michael Barenboim
Gyorgy Ligeti – Horn Trio
Gyorgy Ligeti – Kammerkonzert
Gyorgy Ligeti – Violinkonzert
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, DE
25 June 2023
The East Complex / Walsh / Ronan Whittern
Riles Walsh – The East Complex
conductor: Ronan Whittern
Minardschouwburg, Gent, BE
24 June 2023
The East Complex / Walsh / Ronan Whittern
Riles Walsh – The East Complex
conductor: Ronan Whittern
Minardschouwburg, Gent, BE
3 June 2023
Soundmine / Antwerp Symphony Orchestra / Peter Rundel
Kobe Janssens – Escape
Pieter-Jan Bossuyt – Balloon Ride
Evans Kocja – Mystères de l’espace
Monne Verschaeve – Redonda
Tina Geroldinger – Drops of Paint – Still Wet
Jonathan Pinchuk – Essay
Ignacio Martinez – Herida Crónica
Yon Chekhanovich – Direction from a Shape
Pieter De Vos – Vorspiel (for a single imaginary Oper: Diana and Actaeon)
Bart Delvaux – Focus
Murielle Lemay – Waldeinsamkeit
Tom Johnston – Ar-men
Konigin Elisabethzaal, Antwerp, BE
10 May 2023
The East Complex / Walsh / Ronan Whittern
Riles Walsh – The East Complex (world premiere)
conductor: Ronan Whittern
Opera Ghent, Gent, BE
9 May 2023
The East Complex / Walsh / Ronan Whittern
Riles Walsh – The East Complex (world premiere)
conductor: Ronan Whittern
Opera Ghent, Gent, BE
8 May 2023
The East Complex / Walsh / Ronan Whittern
Riles Walsh – The East Complex (world premiere)
conductor: Ronan Whittern
Opera Ghent, Gent, BE
3 May 2023
opus glitch_ / Miranda / Yalda Zamani
Eduardo R. Miranda – Multiverse Symphony (world premiere)
ligeti zentrum, Hamburg, DE
4 March 2023
Composition Spring Sounds / Walsh / Ronan Whittern
Riles Walsh – Scenes from The East Complex
Miry Konzertzaal, Gent, BE
conductor: Ronan Whittern