30 Jahre Holst Sinfonietta

In the organizer's words:

Steve Reich at 90! and Saturday Night Fever

Concert Steve Reich at 90! on Sat 20.06., 19:00 in the hall with afterwork happening Saturday Night Fever in the foyer from 21:30

How can it be that time flies so quickly? But now the time has come: the Holst Sinfonietta is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Two concerts in one evening promises a lot. Let us surprise you. We don't want you to get bored!

Thanks to the E-WERK for almost 30 decades of partnership and hospitality!

Steve Reich at 90! and Saturday Night Fever

Steve Reich will be 90 years old in 2026 and this is an occasion to bring his music into line with the anniversary of the Holst Sinfonietta, as the ensemble has been one of the most active in Germany for 20 years, regularly dedicating its own projects to his music. After the great success of the previous concerts in 2019 with Steve Reich's legendary Music for 18 Musicians (an "all-round admirable production" according to the Badische Zeitung) and 2021 Tehillim/City Life/Sextet and 2023 The Desert Music, the Holst Sinfonietta is following up. With a very recent work by Steve Reich, the ensemble dedicates the concert to one of his greatest works: Reich/Richter. This piece pays homage to the great painter Gerhard Richter and a true Reich classic of the 1980s - his legendary string quartet work Different Trains.

Reich's Clapping Music will open the concert, followed by the percussion duo Nagayo Marimbas, which is very reminiscent of his early works.

With

Steve Reich at 90
A Tribute to one of the greatest Living Composers

Steve Reich: Clapping Music 1971 5'
(*1936) Nagayo Marimbas for two marimbas 1994 5'
Different Trains for string quartet and playback 1988 27'
Reich/Richter for large ensemble 2018 37'
Freiburg premiere

Instrumentation: 2-2-2-0; Schlzg. (2), Klav. (2), 1-1-1-1-0; sound direction
(14 musicians)
Felix Dreher, sound direction
Holst Quartet

Holst Sinfonietta
Musical direction: Klaus Simon
Clara Giner Franco and Sara Vázquez, flute
Lena Gersbacher and Itsuko Sanada, oboe
Anna Maria Steinheber and Nicole Krüger, clarinet
Lee Ferguson and Nanae Kubo, marimba and vibraphone
Elmar Schrammel and Olivia Shurman, piano
Sylvia Oelkrug and Cornelius Bauer, violin
Katharina Schmauder, viola
Philipp Schiemenz, violoncello

Members of the Holst Sinfonietta
play for you in solo performances, as a duo or in small chamber ensembles
Works by Wolfe, Connesson, Rachmaninoff and many more.

Price information:

Admission 24€ / students & pupils 15€