Bridges Chamber Orchestra

Conductor: Nabil Shehata

Artistic direction: Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff

Soloists: Muriel Razavi, viola; Kioomars Musayyebi, Santur; TAKUYA, Taiko; Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff, flute; Agustin Leon, tenor

With Exploring the space beyond, the Bridges Chamber Orchestra once again brings a varied program to the stage that brings together and further develops a wide variety of musical traditions.

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Special highlights include the premiere of the double concerto for viola and santur by the internationally successful composer Golfam Khayam with the renowned soloists Muriel Razavi (viola) and Kioomars Musayyebi (santur) as well as the debut of the taiko player TAKUYA with the Bridges Chamber Orchestra. In accordance with the common conception of the Bridges Chamber Orchestra's concert programs, the works are largely composed or arranged by the orchestra members.

The Bridges Chamber Orchestra is conducted by Nabil Shehata . Nabil Shehata has been chief conductor of the South Westphalia Philharmonic since 2019, has taken on numerous guest conducting roles with renowned orchestras such as the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, and made his conducting debut in the Elbphilharmonie in 2023. www.nabilshehata.com

Since autumn 2019, the Bridges Chamber Orchestra has brought together freelance musicians and their instruments from various regions of the European, Asian and American continents. The orchestra members are experts in Arabic, Persian and European classical music, jazz, contemporary music, Eastern European folklore and various forms of Central Asian and Latin American music. In co-creative processes they compose or arrange a large part of their repertoire themselves. What emerges is transcultural music.

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The concert is supported by the Frankfurt RheinMain Cultural Fund .

The Bridges Chamber Orchestra has been the Kronberg Academy's Orchestra in Residence since 2022 and was nominated for the shortlist of the German Orchestra Foundation's Innovation Prize in 2022 and 2023. It is one of the winners of the Hessian Integration Prize and the Frankfurt Diversity and Integration Prize 2022. For its debut album Identigration, published in co-production with Hessischer Rundfunk in 2021, it received the German Record Critics' Prize 2/2021 in the Border Crossing category.