We Explore, Create, and Curate the Music of Today.
The Chamber Orchestra Elbe is an international and dynamic group of highly skilled creative musicians, composers, and researchers, with extensive knowledge and experience in the performance of a broad spectrum of contemporary music as soloists and members of some of Europe’s leading ensembles and orchestras.
Concert-Series
at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
As one of its main missions, Chamber Orchestra Elbe aims at performing electro-acoustic masterpieces of western contemporary classical repertoire for large ensembles/chamber orchestras of 20th and 21st century and newly commissioned works by well-established living composers alongside works by less represented or non-European contemporary classical composers.
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A Performance-Research Experimental Lab
From exploring the potentials of implementing human-computer interactive systems in designing innovative concert formats to the realisation of multidisciplinary projects that involve machine learning and artificial intelligence, computational creativity, motion sensor technology, and live coding environments among other latest artistic-scientific developments, opus glitch_, a group of 10 instrumentalists from the Chamber Orchestra Elbe, aims at creating innovative projects to engage a diverse audience of contemporary music enthusiasts, as well as those interested in the intersection of art and science.
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Collaboration with the Music and Theater University in Hamburg (HfMT)
In close collaboration with HfMT Hamburg, as one of its main focuses, the Chamber Orchestra Elbe aims at creating training programs for students in composition, conducting and instrumental departments, and developing artistic-scientific research projects that interweave music, science, and technology. Our first collaboration project in 2023 will be announced soon.
CO-Elbe strives to establish collaborations with organisations, academic institutions, composers, researchers, artists, and festivals that share the values of inclusion, diversity, and pluralism, have a similar focus, profile, and prioritisation, aiming to contribute positively in terms of presenting high-quality contemporary music beyond hierarchies as well as create premises for freedom, fairness, and social uplift through music.