Orchester im Treppenhaus – Neue Formate für klassische Musik

In the artist's words:

What can classical music do today? The Orchester im Treppenhaus has been working on an expanded concept of the concert for several years. With a playful research drive, it explores the boundaries of the live concert situation, opening doors to new listening experiences, intimate moments and surprising content. Concert as an experience. Classical music as performance. Always with surprising connections to our reality.

The multi-award-winning 20-piece ensemble is one of the leading representatives of the innovative classical music scene in Germany and Europe. With its format developments such as KULT, DARK ROOM, DARK RIDE, INNER JOURNEY, DATE DEINE MUSIK, NOTFALLKONZERTE, DISCO or the Corona production CIRCLES and its further development CIRCLING REALITIES, it conducts research, often together with video artists, directors, actors and composers, in its laboratory city of Hanover and is regularly invited to national and international locations and festivals, for example to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Istanbul Music Festival, Við Djúpið Festival Iceland, Rheingau Music Festival, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Mozartfest Würzburg, Heidelberger Frühling, Thüringer Bachtage, Podium Festival Esslingen, Beethovenfest Bonn, Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich, Detect Festival and the Fusion Festival.

Since 2020, the orchestra has also been organizing the month-long SEA SOUNDS festival on the North Sea island of Norderney every year, and in October 2022 the first edition of the KLANGBLASEN:FESTIVAL in Hanover was also launched. Its STEP UP division concentrates the ensemble's educational developments under its own roof, with workshops, coaching, developments for special target groups and many other impulses, it is strongly committed to social and cultural policy.

In 2021, the Orchester im Treppenhaus was awarded the Perspective Prize of the German Theater Prize DER FAUST.

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