FUTURE NOW - Tomorrow's Traditions Today
The festival within the festival as part of Young Euro Classic
📅 Every festival weekend
🕔 5 pm, Werner-Otto-Hall and Französische Friedrichstadtkirche
Time for the future: At “FUTURE NOW – Tomorrow’s Traditions Today”, six ensembles from Bolivia, Indonesia, Afghanistan (in exile), India, Gambia and the Sámi Region interpret the musical traditions of their homelands, illuminating the future of art music going back thousands of years.
Electric guitar meets joik, Sámi chanting, indigenous instruments make the Andes resound, konnakol vocalism fills the Konzerthaus with the rhythms of South Indian vocal percussion. The festival within the festival presents the power of musical innovation from various cultural perspectives – and how the future of music is shaped today!
One feature that is new and unique is a spontaneous encounter without scores between the FUTURE NOW ensembles and musicians of the orchestras performing at Young Euro Classic. In these encounters, a musical dialogue without words unfolds among the young musicians, their cultural backgrounds and musical traditions. Connections are discovered and shared futures created through the medium of music – in the context of selected evening concerts, always on the day before the ensemble’s own concert!
Ticket information for the FUTURE NOW concerts
For the six concerts as part of ‘FUTURE NOW - Tomorrow's Traditions Today’, you have the option of buying tickets for the individual concerts or a festival pass for three concerts of your choice, or for all five concerts. If you buy a festival pass, you receive a discount of more than 30%.
🎫 one concert: €18
FUTURE NOW Festival Pass:
🎫 three selected "FUTURE NOW" concerts for €45
🎫 all six "FUTURE NOW" concerts for €78
All concerts of ‘FUTURE NOW - Tomorrow's Traditions Today’
(Two Pairs of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos)
An ensemble concert in the Werner-Otto-Hall that brings the Andes to life! Four young musicians play - literally - with tradition and modernity.
The traditional Joik singing form of the indigenous Sámi in northern Fennoscandia is combined by the Sápmi duo with the modern sounds of electric guitar and synthesiser. The concert takes place at the Werner-Otto-Hall.
Gamelan Degung with a modern twist! With contemporary and traditional compositions, the Simpay Panaratas ensemble from West Java fills the Werner-Otto-Hall with the dreamy sounds of traditional instruments from the Indonesian islands.
A concert that moves: with music, dance and complementary dialogue, young Afghan musicians talk about resistance, hope and freedom.
TRAD. · “Rag-e Pilo”
AMIR JAN SABOORI · “Sar-zamen-e-man” arr. Tiago Moreira da Silva
AHMAD ZAHIR · “Migam Ke Dustet Dāram” arr. Tiago Moreira da Silva
ZAKHAIL · “Pa Loyo Ghro” arr. Tiago Moreira da Silva
USTAD M. S. SARMAST · “Ay Shakh Gul” arr. Tiago Moreira da Silva
USTAD AWAL MIR · “Mast-e Mang-e” arr. Tiago Moreira da Silva
TRAD. · “Ey Shokh” arr. Tiago Moreira da Silva
TRAD. · “Horse Dance of Badakhshan (Raqs-e Asb)”
Here comes rhythm! The internationally celebrated percussionist Karthik Mani presents a unique musical experience of rhythm, energy and tradition together with four young talents from the South Indian Karnataka College of Percussion. The concert will take place in the Werner-Otto-Hall.
Discover the captivating musical vision of this trio from Gambia and and experience how tradition and modernity are interpreted with unique sounds and innovative compositions at the ensemble concert in the Werner-Otto-Saal!
