Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi

Biography

With its unique enthusiasm and artistic quality, Ensemble Resonanz ranks among the world’s leading chamber orchestras. Their concepts connect classical and contemporary music, and their vivid interpretations create a field of resonance between the music, the audience and the stories that develop around the programmes.
The string ensemble consists of twenty-one members, organised democratically. The musicians work without a permanent conductor, inviting artistic partners on a regular basis instead. Violinist and conductor Riccardo Minasi has been the ensemble’s »principal guest conductor & partner in crime«. Previous close artistic partnerships of the ensemble include the violist Tabea Zimmermann, the violinist Isabelle Faust, the cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, the conductor Emilio Pomàrico, and the scenographer Annette Kurz as the first visual artist who has accompanied the ensemble as artist in residence. Another driving force of the ensemble’s artistic work is the collaboration with composers and the constant development of new repertoire.
In Hamburg, the ensemble performs in two unique and very different locations: The Elbphilharmonie and the resonanzraum St. Pauli. The ensemble’s residency at the Elbphilharmonie includes the concert series »resonanzen« which has been running with great success for more than 20 seasons. With its children’s concerts and various projects at festivals, the ensemble has a formative influence on the Elbphilharmonie’s programming, always emphasizing the vivid presentation of classical and contemporary music.