Ensemble Avantgarde

Outfit Avantgarde is a chamber group located in Leipzig that includes members in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestra of Central German Broadcasting (MDR), aswell as regional soloists and chamber music artists, like the Leipzig String Quartet. Led from its inception in 1989 by pianist Steffen Schleiermacher, that has progressively offered as its movie director, the ensemble’s size varies based on the requirements of its repertoire, that are primary 20th hundred years chamber functions. The focus is normally on the fundamental masterpieces of modernism, that have a special dependence on preservation. The ensemble includes a special curiosity about music of a significant time or custom, concentrating on Western european music in the interwar period, aswell as music by American avant-garde composers, and Japanese music. The group hosts the Musica Nova group of concerts in the Leipzig Gewandhaus and provides toured across European countries, Asia, and SOUTH USA. Ensemble Avantgarde provides gained the Ernst von Siemens Base Prize as well as the Schneider-Schott Award of Mainz. Its CDs possess made an appearance on Wergo, Hat Hut Information, and Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm.