1. Chamber Concert 2023: 20 years Cologne Classical Ensemble

The Seasons: Vivaldi, Piazzolla & Cage

We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Cologne Classical Ensemble with a special programme. Together with the outstanding violin virtuosos Alexander Prushinskiy and Arsenis Selalmazidis, we take a look back at the early repertoire of our ensemble.

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World premiere new piece for 8CELLI

As part of the 8CELLI concert on 19 October 2022 in Aachen, the new work by Tobias Kassung was performed: Suite en quatre mouvements for eight violoncellos. Alongside music by Vivaldi, Rachmaninoff and Piazzolla, the piece was received by the audience with much applause.

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Scholarships "Ukraine Aid" launched

The willingness to help is still enormous! After we could collect the fantastic sum of 14.240,- Euro with the benefit concert of Aleksey Semenenko and Inna Firsova, we received two more donations in the course of the last weeks, so that we can pay out a total of 15.240,- Euro in financial help for young, Ukrainian musicians and artists.

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Live album out now: Piazzolla's 100th birthday

Last year the Astor Trio celebrated the 100th birthday of their namesake Astor Piazzolla by reviving the combination of Bach & Piazzolla. Now the live recordings of their grandiose concert at the Chamber Concerts at the Kunstverein have been released by KSG Exaudio. The album is available on all major streaming providers (Spotifiy, iTunes, Amazon etc.) and is only distributed digitally this way.

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