| ConGioco Ensemble
In 1987 Ebba Rohweder co-founded and until 1999 was a member of the ConGioco Ensemble for CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC. They develop thematic programmes, explore spatial concepts, use the entire auditorium as a stage and, as pioneers in the contemporary scene, regularly integrate IMPROVISATION into their concerts. They specialise in SCENIC MUSIC and performance, presenting musical theater, for example by John Cage, Vinko Globokar, Carola Bauckholt, Mauricio Kagel and Daniel Ott.
The ConGioco Ensemble focuses explicitly on the presentation of works by WOMEN COMPOSERS, giving numerous commissions to female composers, e.g. Viera Janarcekova, Carola Bauckholt, Stefanie Schweiger, Violeta Dinescu, Juliane Klein, Barbara Heller, Urla Kahl and Emily Zobel, performing programmes exclusively with compositions by women, for example in the Konzerthalle Düsseldorf and in the Hessischer Rundfunk Hall, broadcast on the radio programme, and portrait concerts in the presence of women composers, for example with Younghi Pagh-Paan, Tera de Marez Oyens and Viera Janarcekova.
Concert Kunstschiff ANNA, Berlin. Foto: Magdalena Esponda
They premiere a multitude of COMMISIONS written for the ensemble by composers. In 1997, together with composer Daniel Ott, they won the Composition Prize of the Berlin Senate for Science, Research and Culture.
The ConGioco Ensemble presented its programmes at NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS such as Warschauer Herbst, Poland, Tage der Frauen Musik, Weimar and the 4th International Musica rara Festival, Erfurt, as well as in consecutive years in concert series such as BKA Unerhörte Musik and Kunstschiff ANNA, both in Berlin. Furthermore the concerts of the ConGioco Ensemble have been presented in several RADIO AND TELEVISION programmes, e.g. by the Hessischer Rundfunk Kassel and ZDF/arte.
PRESS-CLIPPINGS
"... an ensemble of magnificent musicians have come together here, who through a very solid technique and a rich variety of interpretative forms have fully convinced...". (WZ Düsseldorf)
"...the ConGioco Ensemble's performance of works by contemporary female composers was on an excellent technical level. A dizzying variety of techniques, their powerful emotional force and mastery of the acoustic possibilities of their instruments should be highlighted" (FAZ Frankfurt).
"...they are excellent musicians who also have a dazzling command of the technique of their instruments. Their performance was an impressive and convincing demonstration in favour of contemporary music. Much applause for the likeable young artists". (Rheinsche Post)
"...the six plethoric musicians call their ensemble ConGioco and this is a goal clearly achieved: with playfulness. This characterises both the approach and the result: All theatre? they ask in their current programme at the Berliner Kabarett Anstalt. A small panopticon, irresistibly staged by specialists ..." (Die Welt Berlin)
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Concert Kunstschiff ANNA, Berlin. Foto: Magdalena Esponda
CD PRODUCTION
KLANGREISE Concepts for Places
ConGioco Ensemble: Carmen Brendel, Urla Kahl, Thomas Lehn,
Ruth Wäffler, Andreas Blau, Lisl Jürgens, Ebba Rohweder
CD, ConGioco Ensemble, 2008
Listen extract : Auf Messers Schneide, concept: Andreas Blau
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DARGOW by Emily Zobel, ConGioco Ensemble
Concert in the series KOMPONISTINNEN UND IHR WERK
(Women Composers and their Works)
Broadcasting Hall HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK (HR), Kassel /Germany, 1995
CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS
1999
BKA UNERHÖRTE MUSIK, Berlin
Premiere performance of the commissioned composition TJAKA by Ralf Ollertz
1998
KUNSTSCHIFF ANNA, Berlin
World premiere of the collective composition A.ANNA.A
by ConGioco Ensemble
1997
STADTGARTEN KÖLN, Cologne
Music for the silent film Les deux timides by René Claire
Composition by Bernd Schultheiss
Production for arte/ZDF television. Broadcast on arte and 3SAT
KUNSTSCHIFF ANNA, Berlin
Portrait concert and in the presence of the composer
Viera Janárceková (Slovakia)
BKA UNERHÖRTE MUSIK, Berlin
Experimental concert of scenic music
Premiere of Daniel Ott's composition "7".
Composition Prize of the Berlin Senate for the
ConGioco Ensemble and Daniel Ott.
1996
BKA UNERHÖRTE MUSIK, Berlin
Experimental concert of scenic music
World premieres of the commissioned compositions
STATIONEN by Barbara Heller and
ich will es soll ein stück sein. ein stück. by Ebba Rohweder
OETKERHALLE BIELEFELD
Experimental concert of scenic music
with works by Carola Bauckholt, Mauricio Kagel, John Cage and Ebba Rohweder
KUNSTSCHIFF ANNA, Berlin
Experimental concert of scenic music with the painter Gabriele Gärtner
and world premieres of the commissioned compositions for anna.orte,
by Emely Zobel and double/trouble by Urla Kahl.
KULTURBRAUEREI, Berlin
Concert with works by women composers
Premieres of commissioned compositions:
Ohne Tageslicht I/II, Adaption, Und by Juliane Klein,
du fond de mon avenir... by Violeta Dinescu,
Kästen, die(die) Welt bedeuten by Ebba Rohweder and
Krzyk by Emilie Zobel
1995
Broadcasting Hall of the HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK (HR), Kassel
Concert of the series KOMPONISTINNEN UND IHR WERK
(women composers and their work)
Compositions by Ada Gentile, Adriana Hölszky, Emilie Zobel,
Carola Bauckholt, Violeta Dinescu and Viera Janárceková
Broadcast of the concert on radio HR 3
RATHAUSFESTSAAL ERFURT
IV. Internationales Musica rara Festival
Concert with works by the composers Violeta Dinescu,
Makiko Nishikaze, Doina Rotaru, Emely Zobel, Barbara Heller,
Carola Bauckholt and Tera de Marez Oyens
1994
MUSIKHOCHSCHULE WÜRZBURG
Concert with works by contemporary women composers
Premiere of the commissioned composition DARGOW IV by Emely Zobel
MUSIKHOCHSCHULE WEIMAR
Concert in the framework of TAGE DER FRAUEN MUSIK WEIMAR
(Women's Music Days in Weimar)
Premiere of the commissioned compositions SPHÄRENWOLF
by Viera Janárceková and "28" by Stephanie Schweiger
Kryptonale, Wasserspeicher, Berlin
Tera de Mares-Oyens Sounds and Silence
Karl-Heinz Stockhausen Japan and Für kommende Zeiten
John Cage Variations II
1993
KOMPONISTINNENBIBLIOTHEK (Women Composers' Library) UNNA
Portrait Concert and in the presence of the composer
Tera de Marez Oyens (Netherlands)
1991
KONZERTHAUS DÜSSELDORF
Concert with works by the composers Ada Gentile, Violeta Dinescu,
Adriana Hölszky, Carola Bauckholt, Jaqueline Fontyn, Sofia Gubaidulina and Ruth Zechlin.
Ruth Zechlin
1988
VOLKSHOCHSCHULE ESSEN
Portrait concert and in the presence of the composer Younghi Pagh-Paan (Korea)
World premiere of the composition Ta-Ryong by Younghi Pagh-Paan |
