Ensemble Zwischentöne

Zwischentöne was founded by the composer Peter Ablinger in 1988 in Berlin. As it was in the beginning (while still a course for experimental music and improvisation at the Musikschule Kreuzberg), the Ensemble remains comprised by a mixture of professional & semi-professional musicians, even non-musicians. This conscious mixture was conceived as a mechanism to avoid the pitfalls of conservatory training, the limits of the virtuoso, and to ensure the constant questioning of boundaries that is the Ensemble’s mission.

In the early years, the Ensemble focused on collaborations with Berlin-based artists; in the meantime, it acts internationally. Its focus is the link between music and the arts — all woks sind (& before!) the 20th-century that question the fundamental conditions & assumptions of music-making and performance.