The Ensemble Immortales
was founded by Leipzig musicians Agnes Reuter and Sonja Riedel in September 2010.
The idea of bringing music to places where its healing, life-affirming effects could help people in a special way grew out of personal experience. The musicians thus hold regular concerts in cooperation with hospices and palliative care centres, but also play directly within patient rooms themselves in the context of a shared personal musical experience.
The ensemble is completed by singer and conductor Stephan Gogolka.
The concept of making music a bridge between life and death spawned interest in also bringing these ideas to concert halls and churches together with other musicians. As a result, the Ensemble Immortales now plays in different formations – as a chamber music ensemble (string quartet and quintet), a salon orchestra (Los Immortales) and a conventional chamber orchestra.
Within these various guises, members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Saxon Wind Philharmonic as well as independent musicians come together in the Ensemble Immortales to jointly search for the spirit of the music with great pleasure, devotion and personal dedication, beyond any hierarchical routine.
Pleasure and passion are always at the heart of the artistic creativity of the Ensemble Immortales. Music reconnects the immaterial and material worlds
was founded by Leipzig musicians Agnes Reuter and Sonja Riedel in September 2010.
The idea of bringing music to places where its healing, life-affirming effects could help people in a special way grew out of personal experience. The musicians thus hold regular concerts in cooperation with hospices and palliative care centres, but also play directly within patient rooms themselves in the context of a shared personal musical experience.
The ensemble is completed by singer and conductor Stephan Gogolka.
The concept of making music a bridge between life and death spawned interest in also bringing these ideas to concert halls and churches together with other musicians. As a result, the Ensemble Immortales now plays in different formations – as a chamber music ensemble (string quartet and quintet), a salon orchestra (Los Immortales) and a conventional chamber orchestra.
Within these various guises, members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Saxon Wind Philharmonic as well as independent musicians come together in the Ensemble Immortales to jointly search for the spirit of the music with great pleasure, devotion and personal dedication, beyond any hierarchical routine.
Pleasure and passion are always at the heart of the artistic creativity of the Ensemble Immortales. Music reconnects the immaterial and material worlds
