The Elbphilharmonie’s gamelan collection consists of Indonesian gongs, drums and metalophones – an exotic-sounding collection of instruments that is regularly brought to life by the Elbphilharmonie’s own ensembles. Under the direction of the experienced gamelan teacher Steven Tanoto, the participants encounter hands-on how the gamelan connects people: Indonesian music is never about the individual, but always about the overall harmonic sound. In the final performance, the participants present what they have learned in their weekly rehearsals – how to make music on gongs and metalophones.

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Sekar Kenanga – Elbphilharmonie Gamelan Ensemble

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In the Elbphilharmonie’s Family Orchestra, children, parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts make music together – and each as best he or she can. The dedicated amateur musicians present the result of six months of hard work and rehearsals in a final concert.

Elbphilharmonie Family Orchestra

With minimal music, a new style of music emerged from the 1960s in the USA with catchy, continually repeating melodies or rhythms, commonly called »Patterns«. Composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass made this style world famous. In this workshop, participants learn something about this musical style, play on xylophones and metallophones and come up with their own minimal music piece at the end.

Workshop: Kosmos Minimal Music

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Elisabeth Stöppler's production of "Stockhausen for Children: Michael's Journey" offers children ages 6 and up, as well as adults, a sensory experience of Karlheinz Stockhausen's cycle "Light," a monumental work of the younger musical avant-garde. Together with Michael, portrayed by a solo trumpet, the audience embarks on a fantastical journey around the world, immersed in the infinite expanses of the universe and rarely heard sounds.

Stockhausen for children: Michael's journey

Opera Stabile Werk/Wirkbühne der Staatsoper

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_ZQW5C2pw&amp;t=2s

The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFe6mW6x9pc

The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

The sorceress Circé tells of her magical abilities in this family concert. Accompanied by musicians from the «Orchestra La Scintilla», she presents arias from Jean-Marie Leclair's opera «Scylla et Glaucus».

On Circé's Magic Island

Hall of Mirrors

Illustrious guests come and go at the "Sound Hotel of Emotions." All of them are merely passing through, yet they have their own special needs and demand their full attention. Emotional outbursts are inevitable. But the doorman ensures that everyone finds their place in the Hall of Mirrors, and contentment ultimately returns.

Sound Hotel of Emotions

What do balls, wheels and balloons have in common? They are all round, and they can all easily be converted into musical instruments! In »BALLads«, even the music revolves on its own axis: in rondos, waltzes and endless melodies from the baroque to the modern era.

Kindergarten Concert »Ballads«

It 's Christmas Eve. Marie and Fritz Stahlbaum are excited. There's celebrating and dancing. Marie's eyes light up when her godfather gives her a nutcracker, which she immediately falls in love with. Fritz is delighted with a new squadron of hussars for his toy army, something he's longed for. But during the night, the toys come to life. Big, fat mice scurry through the room, and with a rumble, the Christmas tree begins to grow, and the nutcracker also awakens. Together with him, Marie enters the Land of Sweets, and a journey into wondrous worlds begins…

The Nutcracker

Laeiszhalle, Small Hall

The music of the French composer Maurice Ravel is full of fantasy and colours. The musical theatre »Chez Maurice« takes the audience along into the home where Ravel grew up as a child. From his father, an engineer and inventor, a lot of machinery and equipment stand about there. They make weird noises, cast magical shadows and stimulate the imagination of the young Ravel. Step by step, Belgian chamber music ensemble Revue Blanche reveals his creative world. And of course several of Ravel’s original compositions ring out at the same time.

Twinkle Concert L / Chez Maurice

Everything is completely quiet. There is no one around. Do humans hibernate, like hedgehogs? And why do they hide away? That’s what Miroslav, Maurice, Jakob, Christoph and Zufit are asking themselves. You too have been sitting in your rooms at home for far too long, getting incredibly bored. It’s so much nicer to play, run and jump around together – and sometimes even to argue.

Twinkle Concert L / Five wins!

Flairdrum

Just build your own musical instrument? This is possible with the »flair drum«! This instrument consists of recycled PET bottles and is played like a xylophone. By inflating the bottles with different amounts of air pressure, different notes and a unique Caribbean sound are formed. Even the construction process is a lot of fun – and playing together then all the more so!

Workshop: Kosmos Flaidrum

Located within the base section of the Elbphilharmonie building on floors 2 and 3 are the Kaistudios, home to the Elbphilharmonie’s World of Instruments and extensive music education programme. The largest Kaistudio is the Elbphilharmonie’s third concert hall – ideal for concerts, experimental music, seminars and workshops for up to 150 guests.

String Day

They are like brothers, similar and yet quite different: the two differently sized saxophones playing the leading role in this concert. The soprano saxophone is proud of its beautiful high-pitched voice; the baritone saxophone is fond of its impressive bass. Poetically and playfully, the two musicians challenge each other on an arena projected onto the floor and become better acquainted with each other. And sometimes the boundaries become blurred and soprano and baritone become one: »Sopriton« even!

Kindergarten Concert »Sopriton«

He recently won the German Audiobook Award for his way of narrating classical music: The actor Frederic Böhle. Similar to his project »opera re:told«, he also shines here with a humorous, relaxed tone, rousing entertainment and always great knowledge of the work. In this concert, he will be performing with the soloist ensemble D’Accord, centred around violin soloist Martina Trumpp, which has enjoyed success throughout Europe with its chamber versions of major works from opera and concertos. This artistic partnership promises a grippingly narrated and captivatingly performed morning with one of the greatest hits of classical music: Antonio Vivaldi’s »Four Seasons«. The celebrated »red priest« published his poetic and virtuoso journey through spring, summer, autumn and winter exactly 300 years ago.

Vivaldi: »Four Seasons« – Family Concert

Felix Kubin, Mark Boombastik and Ensemble Resonanz are on an intergalactic mission: they are collecting sounds for the Plexifon, a cosmic music machine. Guided by their spaceship’s slightly confused computer Tipsy, they fly through the cosmos to planets made of water, parallel worlds and aggressive boulders. Hopefully Tipsy doesn’t miss the right exit…

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