Ensemble Megaphon

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Ensemble Megaphon is a collective of international artists and was founded in 2007 by the Czech violinist Lenka Župková. The ensemble's creative focus is on the interfaces between contemporary music and media, music theater, conceptual improvisation and live electronics as well as the juxtaposition of avant-garde and early music

The artists of the Megaphon ensemble are specialists in spatial staging and site-specific performances as well as concerts in non-places in unusual spaces. With passion and a love of experimentation, they develop and realize new performance formats in which they combine video, sound art, dance and drama.

Using the complex means and possibilities of musical theater, they place art in a new context in order to raise questions about ecological and political contexts. The projects are thematically, politically and socially oriented. The environment, ecology and social systems are important topics for the ensemble and intercultural encounters with artists from Syria, Armenia, Iran and Turkey are an important concern.

Ensemble Megaphon regularly works with composers such as: A. Schlünz, S. Nesic, B. König, H. Tulve, K.Reese, J.Hodkinson, G.Eckert, J.G.Stastny, M.Eggert, T. Prelevic, D. Morreira, Ch.Seither, E. Ebrahimi, V. Globokar and many more, and commissions compositions from young composers.
More than 60 works have been written and premiered for the ensemble to date.

Under the direction of music theater educators, the ensemble regularly realizes participatory mediation projects and educational-artistic actions.

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