In the organizer's words:

It can be an extremely "Important Incident" when the "Knight of the Hobbyhorse" tells the "Asking Child" a "Curious Story " "Of Foreign Lands and People" in the conceivably wide-open cultural space of the Humboldt Forum.

The RSB wind quintet "QuintFunk" will perform "Glückes genug" from the well-known piano cycle "Konderszenen" by Robert Schumann, specially arranged for five wind instruments, and is happy to invite you to reflect on the famous "Träumerei" in a very personal way.

Ilse Fromm-Michaels breathed musical life into "Four Dolls" in 1908 - with harmonic surprises and whimsical humor no less than Schumann. The German composer is currently being rediscovered, as is her French colleague Cécile Chaminade, who is a generation older. A widely traveled piano virtuoso during her lifetime, Chaminade's works are characterized by rapturous melodic inventions. She confidently says of herself that a melody she had to cry while composing was also suitable for making others cry. Or to experience pure joy!

The concerts take place in the Werkräume and the Weltstudio on the 1st floor, areas that are expressly dedicated to groups, families and children. Everyone is welcome to attend these short, moderated concerts.

Workrooms, 1st floor

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, op. 15, arranged for wind quintet

World Studio, 1st floor

Ilse Fromm Michals: Four Dolls for Wind Quintet op. 4

Cécile Chaminade: Three miniatures for wind quintet

Participants

Play - impart - inspire. Rudolf Döbler pursues these aims as a musician, lecturer, presenter and music educator. Rudolf Döbler was born in Achern (Ortenau) in 1966. He studied with William Bennett and John Wright at the music academies in Freiburg and Karlsruhe. He also attended master classes with Alain Marion, Michel Debost, James Galway, André Jaunet, Geoffrey Gilbert and Robert Dick. His first engagements took him to the philharmonic orchestras in Dessau and Hagen as principal flute.

Since 1993 he has been deputy principal flute with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Parallel to his orchestral activities, he was a member of the ensemble musikFabrik NRW, one of the leading German ensembles for contemporary music, from 1995 to 1997. He is a member of the "14 Berliner Flötisten" and the ensemble 7211.

Together with the Dutch flautist Robert Pot, Rudolf Döbler has been teaching advanced amateurs and professionals in master classes since 2002. He has been artistic director of the QUERWIND Flute Days Staufen since 2009.

Rudolf Döbler has been passionate about inspiring people for music ever since he has been on stage. His carefully chosen presentations of his own chamber concerts, his experience as a children's concert presenter and his commitment as a school representative of the RSB are evidence of this. Since 2005, he has coordinated, organized and designed workshops and rehearsal visits for Berlin schools and kindergartens.

Christoph Korn began playing the recorder at the age of four, switching to the clarinet at the age of ten and taking lessons at the Chemnitz Music School. At the age of 13, he went to the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau and then to study at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden.

Christoph Korn played in various orchestras from 1999, including as a substitute in the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to the clarinet, he increasingly concentrated on the bass clarinet and began his career as a professional musician with this instrument. He immediately passed his audition with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and became its new principal bass clarinettist in 2002.

Christoph Korn is active as a chamber musician in various formations, performs regularly as a soloist and frequently plays as a substitute with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. As an orchestral and chamber musician, Christoph Korn has traveled throughout Europe and abroad.

In the 2018/2019 season, Christoph Korn was principal bass clarinettist of the Sächsische Staatskapelle and returned to the RSB in the same role for the 2019/2020 season. Since the 2020/2021 winter semester, he has held a teaching position for bass clarinet at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.

Anne Mentzen was born in Braunschweig in 1981, where she received her first piano lessons at the age of five. She began horn lessons at the age of nine and was trained by Theodor Wiemes, principal horn of the Hanover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, from 1998.

After graduating from high school, she began studying horn in the fall of 2000 in Marie-Luise Neunecker's class at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. From 2003, she studied with Thomas Hauschild at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, where she graduated with distinction.

Anne Mentzen has won several national prizes at "Jugend musiziert" and prizes at other competitions, both on the horn and on the piano. In 1999, in addition to the first national prize, she was awarded a special prize from the Hanover Artists' Association and in 2000 she was also awarded the Lower Saxony Prize for "outstanding achievements in the cultural field". She also received scholarships from the Volkswagen Bank (1999), the Richard Wagner Association (2000) and the Gustav Mahler Academy (2002, 2005).

The horn player gained orchestral experience in the state and national youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and was invited several times to the International Orchestra Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. After an internship with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and a temporary position with the Kassel State Orchestra, she joined the Deutsche Oper Berlin as an intern in 2005.

Anne Mentzen has been a horn player with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2006. Here she also plays in various chamber music formations, such as the "Samtblech" ensemble.

Yisol Shin, bassoon

Gudrun Vogler has been oboist and cor anglais player in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2002. From 1988 to 1992 she was principal oboist at the Nationaltheater Weimar.

As a two-time winner of the ARD competition for chamber music with the wind quintet "Kammervereinigung Berlin", she has recorded CDs with this ensemble for renowned labels, first performing extensively throughout Germany and later internationally.

She was a member of the specialized ensemble for new music "KNM Berlin" from 1992 to 2019, with whom she performed in Buenos Aires, Tokyo and Taipei, among other places, and performed her role as an instrumentalist, performer and creative and lively interpreter with great curiosity and joy.

Since 2015, she has also been involved in music education at the RSB. As a music ambassador in the classroom, she shares her enthusiasm for classical music with young people in schools. She has worked in various teams to develop concepts for children's and youth concerts.

In addition to concertante chamber music activities in various formations and genres, she has been a successful and regular member of the soloist formation "Date for three" since 2016.

- For people of all ages

- Language: German, English

- The concerts are free of charge. Visiting the workrooms is also free of charge. For the concerts in the Weltstudio, a ticket for the Berlin Global exhibition is required for 9.00 EUR. An alternative is the Humboldt Forum Ticket. It includes the Berlin Global exhibition and allows you to visit all exhibitions in the building before and after.

- Children and young people up to the age of 19 do not pay admission. The usual discounts apply. Further information here.

- Tickets online or at the box office in the foyer.

- Venues: Weltstudio and Werkräume, 1st floor

- Part of: Micro-concerts of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin