festival.M is an experimental concert performance festival that brings together musical styles by international artists on the theme of ‘MINIMAL’. With experimental concert designs, installations and accompanying workshops, .M seeks to create more lively stage moments and encounters in the classical concert hall.
All artists in the line-up sought points of connection with their audience in advance: since May 2025, they have been working with non-professionals in a parallel community programme to develop individual storytelling for concert performances and involve them creatively and participatively in content generation. The vision: a collaborative festival that raises artistic and dramaturgical awareness of the ‘minimal’ and enables a mindset that does not need ‘MUCH’ but gets by with few resources: sound, noise, presence, encounter.
Over four public festival days, the artistic work of artists and communities will be presented on the stages of TONALi SAAL (Hamburg) and Villa Elisabeth (Berlin).
SAVE THE DATE. BERLIN.
The festival.M is coming to Berlin in a smaller format. On Saturday, 18 October, starting at 3 p.m., four concerts from the festival programme will be performed at Villa Elisabeth.
Here you find all further information.
CONCERTS. PERFORMANCES. BERLIN.
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_o_ reimagines the concert space as an exhibition and vice versa. Drawing from post minimalist aesthetics, the performance understands musicians as living sculptures, instruments as sounding ready-made art-objects and music as something that composes space as well as with time. Sustained tones, stretched-out pauses and layered textures create a room for introspection, calmness and deep listening as a contrast to a fast-paced and overstimulated state of being. Cello, flute, and guitar weave with electronics built from recordings made together with participants in a workshop at HausDrei Altona. These include Field-Recordings of the surrounding area, Foley-Recordings with found objects and contact-microphone experiments. Throughout the performance, the door remains open. The audience is free to wander, to pause, to stay as long as they wish—becoming part of the space the music shapes.
Saturday 3.10. 3 pm, Villa Elisabeth
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Kaspar Kuoppamäki, Composition, Electronics
Carmen Kleykens Vidal, Cello
Florian Burdyl, Guitar
Henrike Kathe, Flute
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Kaspar Kuoppamäki is a Finnish-German composer, music producer, filmmaker and media artist. In their interdisciplinary praxis rooted in music, performance and visual art,
they deal with the phenomena of genre in an artistic way, questioning the cultural formations which seperate popular, experimenal and underground art and music scenes, while recontextualising their distinct qualities.
In 2023 they were awarded the GigaHerz Experimental Pop Prize at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) for their work with the group “This Machine!”. Their works have been performed at venues and festivals such as Rhiz and Echoraum in Vienna,
Stromspiesser in Essen, Fringify in Hamburg and screened at festivals, such as Pool International Dance Film Festival Berlin and Rollout in Macao.
kasparkuoppamaki.com
https://www.instagram.com/kapppak/
Life is…
In our fast-paced world, it can be challenging to focus on minimalism and appreciate its meaning . To encourage this reflection, we asked the question: What sounds represent life to you? This simple inquiry shaped our theme.
During the workshop, participants explored their personal connections to the sounds of life and shared their discoveries. Expanding on this theme, we invited other festival artists to contribute their own interpretations, further enriching the tapestry of sound.
For this concert, we received recorded sounds representing life from workshop participants and other festival artists. These contributions encapsulate each individual’s unique perception of life’s sounds.
The combination of these recorded sounds, minimal musical compositions, live instruments, and video creates an immersive space showcasing life from the artistic perspective of composer and cellist Atena Eshtiaghi, along with th artist and filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi. We will create a minimal, calm and peaceful atmosphere during the performance, celebrating the sounds of life that we often overheard . Life is… and we welcome you to experience its essence with us.
Saturday 18.10. 5 pm, Villa Elisabeth Tickets
An artist talk will take place after the concert.
Participants
Atena Eshtiaghi, Composer & Sound Designer
Atena Eshtiaghi, Cello, Bass Gheychak & Electronics
Farahnaz Sharifi, Video
Atena Eshtiaghi, is an Iranian composer, multi instrumentalist and music producer. She studied classical music and Persian traditional music. As a cellist and double bass player since 2007, she performed with esteemed orchestras, including Tehran Symphony and Iran National Orchestra.
Her film music career took off in 2021, composing for acclaimed films like „I’m Trying to Remember“ , „Endless Borders“ She won the Deutscher Dokumentarfilm-Musikpreis at DOK.fest München for her work in Farahnaz Sharifi’s award-winning documentary, „My Stolen Planet“ (2024).
As an INTRO scholarship recipient, Eshtiaghi worked at Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg in Germany. Now based in Hamburg, she co-founded „Ateneum Music Studio“ for her music production. Eshtiaghi also served as Artistic Director of the „Hastam Festival“ (2024) in Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg, featuring talented Iranian artists from Europe, and artists of other nationalities. The festival received the Helga Festival Award Germany.
A Berlinale Talents alumna (2025) and European Film Academy member, Eshtiaghi continues to play concerts worldwide, demonstrating her passion for music composition.
www.atenaeshtiaghi.com
.a donut is more than nuts on a dough.
One donut. One room.
Nothing more.
Yes!
Humans.
And music.
One donut.
A connecting element. Of humans. With music.
In the middle open. Without beginning. Without ending.
One donut. In the middle of us.
What else?
J.P. Rameau. Gavotte, Les Teindres Plaintes
A. Eshtiaghi. Soaring wish
P. Glass. Glassworks Opening, Etude No.9
G. Ligeti. Musica ricercata, No. 1, 7, 10
D. Bucurescu. „A donut is more than nuts on a dough“
works for piano with electronics
and more
An inconspicuous doughnut. A familiar everyday object. Almost overlooked…
The starting point for a performative concert situation. In its quiet
existence, it encapsulates what minimal music has always been about: reduction,
repetition, expansion. The donut: a symbol of an attitude.
Saturday 18.10. 7 pm, Villa Elisabeth
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Daniel Bucurescu
Pianist | Concert performer | Community composer
Soon after Daniel Bucurescu began playing the piano at the age of 14, the Berlin native knew for sure: ‘Music – that’s for me!’ He studied piano in Berlin, Rostock, Geneva and Paris and has performed at venues including the Berlin and Paris Philharmonic Halls, NDR Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, Laeiszhalle and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival.
Since 2019, he has been realising interdisciplinary projects as a pianist, concert performer and community composer with parallel education and community programmes, always under his motto ‘Music with and for people’; This includes his interdisciplinary experimental music festival ‘festival.M’ in Hamburg and Berlin in 2025 (the basic idea for which was nominated for the OPUS KLASSIK in 2024) with artists from the independent scene who share his social vision.
As part of the Elbphilharmonie’s future programme, Daniel works as a freelance cultural mediator, teaching young people about music and regularly giving concert introductions at the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg. Since the summer semester of 2025, Daniel has been a lecturer at the HfMT Hamburg: in the ‘Musicology & Music Education’ department, he works with students to develop new concert formats for broad and diverse audiences, as well as individually on their artepreneurship for the independent scene.
Since July 2021, Daniel has been supported by the Claussen-Simon Foundation as part of the stART.up scholarship, where he continues to develop his interdisciplinary approaches to his art. He is also a scholarship holder of the German Music Council (2021-2023), the Goethe-Institut (2023/24), the German Orchestra Foundation, the Köthen Musicalien Lab (2023) and winner of the ‘Together for the Future’ award and the ‘International Beethoven Prize’ of the Beethoven Society Bonn.
In his spare time, Daniel is interested in photography and languages, owns about 16 pairs of Happy Socks (which he also likes to wear on stage at the piano), produces soundtracks for dance films and is always on the move in Hamburg on his white vintage bike.
Although music came into his life late, Daniel is always looking for new ways to open up art as a freely accessible cultural asset to society.
Form & Freiheit – A journey from classical to minimalist
In ‘Form & Freiheit’, we embark on a musical journey from the structured world of classical song art to the atmospheric reduction of minimalism. The first part of the concert is dedicated to selected songs by Schubert and Schumann—poetic miniatures that unfold emotional depth through voice and piano.
In the second part, we leave the familiar paths: my own compositions, inspired by a workshop with secondary school students, open up sound spaces in which freedom, silence and structure are negotiated in new ways. The young people contributed ideas such as the ‘sound of the desert’ or the image of night-time wanderers – images that I have translated into minimalist soundscapes.
‘Form & Freedom’ is a dialogue between past and present, between formal rigour and tonal openness – an invitation to hear and experience music in a new way.
Saturday 18.10. 9 pm, Villa Elisabeth
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Hussain Atfah. Vocal, Oud, Composition
Daniel Bucuresscu. Piano
Basilius Alawasd. Cello
Angela Boutros. Piano
Hussain Atfah is a Syrian tenor whose musical journey combines the spiritual depth of Arab tradition with the sophistication of European classical music. Influenced by Sufi singing and Koran recitation, he learned to play the oud at an early age, studied music education and classical singing in Homs (graduating in 2013), continued his studies in Damascus and came to Germany in 2016. In Lübeck, he completed his vocal studies with distinction (BA & MA), supplemented by piano. Atfah excels in combining Arabic expressiveness with Western technique and has performed at venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Berlin, Beethoven-Halle Stuttgart, Theater Malmö, Bonn and many more. He works with Lucidarium, Asambura and the Ornina Syrian Orchestra, among others, and is developing an artistic profile that bridges tradition and contemporary expression.
https://www.thebima.de/hussain-atfah
CONCERTS. PERFORMANCES. HAMBURG.
_o_
_o_ reimagines the concert space as an exhibition and vice versa. Drawing from post minimalist aesthetics, the performance understands musicians as living sculptures, instruments as sounding ready-made art-objects and music as something that composes space as well as with time. Sustained tones, stretched-out pauses and layered textures create a room for introspection, calmness and deep listening as a contrast to a fast-paced and overstimulated state of being. Cello, flute, and guitar weave with electronics built from recordings made together with participants in a workshop at HausDrei Altona. These include Field-Recordings of the surrounding area, Foley-Recordings with found objects and contact-microphone experiments. Throughout the performance, the door remains open. The audience is free to wander, to pause, to stay as long as they wish—becoming part of the space the music shapes.
Thursday 25.9. 6 pm, TONALi SAAL
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Kaspar Kuoppamäki, Composition, Electronics
Carmen Kleykens Vidal, Cello
Florian Burdyl, Guitar
Henrike Kathe, Flute
´Kaspar Kuoppamäki is a Finnish-German composer, music producer, filmmaker and media artist. In their interdisciplinary praxis rooted in music, performance and visual art,
they deal with the phenomena of genre in an artistic way, questioning the cultural formations which seperate popular, experimenal and underground art and music scenes, while recontextualising their distinct qualities.
In 2023 they were awarded the GigaHerz Experimental Pop Prize at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) for their work with the group “This Machine!”. Their works have been performed at venues and festivals such as Rhiz and Echoraum in Vienna,
Stromspiesser in Essen, Fringify in Hamburg and screened at festivals, such as Pool International Dance Film Festival Berlin and Rollout in Macao.
kasparkuoppamaki.com
https://www.instagram.com/kapppak/
Lift & Loop – Musik. Muskel. Minimal.
Repetition as an artistic and physical principle is at the heart of Lift & Loop, a concert format in which a cellist and a fitness trainer meet on a shared stage and connect two worlds that at first glance do not seem to fit together: the concert hall and the gym.
The programme includes works by composers such as Kate Moore, Pauline Oliveros, Philipp Gras and Arturo Fuentes, complemented by baroque and contemporary studies by Diego Ortiz and Sofia Gubaidulina. With cello, loop station and voice, sonic loops are created in which time stretches, rhythms shift – and body and sound merge. Baroque virtuosity meets physical presence and modern body practice.
The concept deliberately plays with aesthetic contrasts: sportswear meets concert accessories, repetition becomes the interface between musical technique and physical training. What musicians do in their daily practice – training, disciplining, repeating – is made visible and tangible here.
Lift & Loop is a sonic training session, a choreographed clash, an invitation to listen and empathise, aimed at an audience that is open to crossing boundaries between music, performance and physical practice.
Thursday 25.9. 8:45 pm, TONALi SAAL
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Stephanie Ko, Violin & Fitness trainer
Anne Keckeis, Cello & Concept
‘An octopus skiing’ – this is how Anne Keckeis describes her artistic work: no leg runs without the other. Lively, contrasting, emotional and honest are her trademarks. As a cellist, she is active in all musical fields: from large symphony orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic to hip hop at HAMILTON. Her heart lies in chamber music, and she is particularly dedicated to piano trio literature with the award-winning accio piano trio. As a concert dramaturge and co-founder of the HIDALGO collective, she focuses on alternative concert formats and interdisciplinary work. Since 2024, she has been part of the TONALi Stage Academy and the concerto 21 Academy.
Life is…
In our fast-paced world, it can be challenging to focus on minimalism and appreciate its meaning . To encourage this reflection, we asked the question: What sounds represent life to you? This simple inquiry shaped our theme.
During the workshop, participants explored their personal connections to the sounds of life and shared their discoveries. Expanding on this theme, we invited other festival artists to contribute their own interpretations, further enriching the tapestry of sound.
For this concert, we received recorded sounds representing life from workshop participants and other festival artists. These contributions encapsulate each individual’s unique perception of life’s sounds.
The combination of these recorded sounds, minimal musical compositions, live instruments, and video creates an immersive space showcasing life from the artistic perspective of composer and cellist Atena Eshtiaghi, along with th artist and filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi. We will create a minimal, calm and peaceful atmosphere during the performance, celebrating the sounds of life that we often overheard . Life is… and we welcome you to experience its essence with us.
Friday 26.9. 6:30 pm, TONALi SAAL
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Atena Eshtiaghi, Composer & Sound Designer
Atena Eshtiaghi, Cello, Bass Gheychak & Electronics
Farahnaz Sharifi, Video
Atena Eshtiaghi, is an Iranian composer, multi instrumentalist and music producer. She studied classical music and Persian traditional music. As a cellist and double bass player since 2007, she performed with esteemed orchestras, including Tehran Symphony and Iran National Orchestra.
Her film music career took off in 2021, composing for acclaimed films like „I’m Trying to Remember“ , „Endless Borders“ She won the Deutscher Dokumentarfilm-Musikpreis at DOK.fest München for her work in Farahnaz Sharifi’s award-winning documentary, „My Stolen Planet“ (2024).
As an INTRO scholarship recipient, Eshtiaghi worked at Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg in Germany. Now based in Hamburg, she co-founded „Ateneum Music Studio“ for her music production. Eshtiaghi also served as Artistic Director of the „Hastam Festival“ (2024) in Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg, featuring talented Iranian artists from Europe, and artists of other nationalities. The festival received the Helga Festival Award Germany.
A Berlinale Talents alumna (2025) and European Film Academy member, Eshtiaghi continues to play concerts worldwide, demonstrating her passion for music composition.
www.atenaeshtiaghi.com
Life is…
In our fast-paced world, it can be challenging to focus on minimalism and appreciate its meaning . To encourage this reflection, we asked the question: What sounds represent life to you? This simple inquiry shaped our theme.
During the workshop, participants explored their personal connections to the sounds of life and shared their discoveries. Expanding on this theme, we invited other festival artists to contribute their own interpretations, further enriching the tapestry of sound.
For this concert, we received recorded sounds representing life from workshop participants and other festival artists. These contributions encapsulate each individual’s unique perception of life’s sounds.
The combination of these recorded sounds, minimal musical compositions, live instruments, and video creates an immersive space showcasing life from the artistic perspective of composer and cellist Atena Eshtiaghi, along with th artist and filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi. We will create a minimal, calm and peaceful atmosphere during the performance, celebrating the sounds of life that we often overheard . Life is… and we welcome you to experience its essence with us.
Friday 26.9. 6:30 pm, TONALi SAAL
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Atena Eshtiaghi, Composer & Sound Designer
Atena Eshtiaghi, Cello, Bass Gheychak & Electronics
Farahnaz Sharifi, Video
Atena Eshtiaghi, is an Iranian composer, multi instrumentalist and music producer. She studied classical music and Persian traditional music. As a cellist and double bass player since 2007, she performed with esteemed orchestras, including Tehran Symphony and Iran National Orchestra.
Her film music career took off in 2021, composing for acclaimed films like „I’m Trying to Remember“ , „Endless Borders“ She won the Deutscher Dokumentarfilm-Musikpreis at DOK.fest München for her work in Farahnaz Sharifi’s award-winning documentary, „My Stolen Planet“ (2024).
As an INTRO scholarship recipient, Eshtiaghi worked at Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg in Germany. Now based in Hamburg, she co-founded „Ateneum Music Studio“ for her music production. Eshtiaghi also served as Artistic Director of the „Hastam Festival“ (2024) in Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg, featuring talented Iranian artists from Europe, and artists of other nationalities. The festival received the Helga Festival Award Germany.
A Berlinale Talents alumna (2025) and European Film Academy member, Eshtiaghi continues to play concerts worldwide, demonstrating her passion for music composition.
www.atenaeshtiaghi.com
.A donut is more than nuts on a dough.
One donut. One room.
Nothing more.
Yes!
Humans.
And music.
One donut.
A connecting element. Of humans. With music.
In the middle open. Without beginning. Without ending.
One donut. In the middle of us.
What else?
J.P. Rameau. Gavotte, Les Teindres Plaintes
A. Eshtiaghi. Soaring wish
P. Glass. Glassworks Opening, Etude No.9
G. Ligeti. Musica ricercata, No. 1, 7, 10
D. Bucurescu. „A donut is more than nuts on a dough“
works for piano with electronics
and more
An inconspicuous doughnut. A familiar everyday object. Almost overlooked…
The starting point for a performative concert situation. In its quiet
existence, it encapsulates what minimal music has always been about: reduction,
repetition, expansion. The donut: a symbol of an attitude.
Friday 26.9. 8:45 pm, TONALi SAAL
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Sonnenfäden – Studies for Dance & Electronics
„Sonnenfäden“ is a 50-minute cycle of five miniatures for dance and electronics. It is based on more than ten graphic notations from my minimalist workshop at the Eimsbüttel Vocational School of Economics, developed by around ten young people (aged 17–21) with a migration background from Ivory Coast, Syria, Ukraine, Serbia and India. Sonnenfäden refers to the fine lines in the summer light – and at the same time to the lifelines of migration, including my own from China: paths that connect places, languages and memories. Points, lines and surfaces give rise to clear sets of rules (repetition, reduction, displacement, breath) that control dance and sound live. The voices and everyday sounds of the young people become raw material for granular and filter synthesis as well as spatial folds. Dancer Sara Ezzell translates the graphic impulses into body patterns between stillness and pulse; pauses, shadows and heat characterise a summery stretching of time. Preparatory workshops in the institutions teach the rules; selected scores flow directly into the performance. Minimal here means maximally attentive – to material, space and the polyphony of a diverse present.
Saturday 27.9. 3:30 pm, TONALi SAAL
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Xiao Fu, Composition, Live-Elektronik, Video/Projection
Sara Ezzell, Dance/Performance
Participants in the minimal workshop at the Eimsbütte Vocational School of Economics – Graphic scores & audio material (participation, not live on stage)
Xiao Fu is a multimedia composer, sound and video artist based in Hamburg. She studied and earned her doctorate in composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (HfMT). In 2025, she was a visiting scholar at CCRMA/Stanford University, where she researched AI-assisted composition, vibrotactile feedback systems and performative forms of notation. In her acoustic and electronic practice, she works with gesture control, live electronics and interactive stage systems, with a focus on accessibility and collaborations with deaf performers. Her works for solo and chamber ensemble with live electronics have been presented at the Hamburger Klangwerktage, the next_generation Festival (ZKM Karlsruhe), EMW 2013 (Shanghai), ICMC 2014 (Athens), NYCEMF 2016/17, National Sawdust (New York), TENOR 2022 (Marseille) and ICMC 2025 (Boston). In 2017, she composed and produced the music for the dance theatre production ‘enactment::interchange – an interactive dance theatre’.
OOO
In this 40-minute experimental encounter, visitors are invited to
move together in a circle – slowly, mindfully and without a destination. The empty space becomes a resonance chamber for gentle synthesizer pads, delicate voices and subtle acoustic sounds. The music envelops the movement, carries it and opens up a space for shared contemplation. It is an invitation to consciously slow down and collectively experience presence, movement and sound.
Saturday 27.9. 6:15 pm, TONALi SAAL
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Morín González, Performer
Elena Victoria Pastor, Performer
Carlos Andrés Rico, Concept, Composer, Performer
Carlos Andrés Rico works as a producer and performer under the stage name ‘Rico Danta’. His compositions combine electronic sounds with popular music from Latin America and the Global South. His interest in exploring music in relation to society is reflected in his doctoral thesis on artistic research (Dr.Sc.Mus.).
https://carlosandresrico.com/
Form & Freiheit – A journey from classical to minimalist
In ‘Form & Freiheit’, we embark on a musical journey from the structured world of classical song art to the atmospheric reduction of minimalism. The first part of the concert is dedicated to selected songs by Schubert and Schumann—poetic miniatures that unfold emotional depth through voice and piano.
In the second part, we leave the familiar paths: my own compositions, inspired by a workshop with secondary school students, open up sound spaces in which freedom, silence and structure are negotiated in new ways. The young people contributed ideas such as the ‘sound of the desert’ or the image of night-time wanderers – images that I have translated into minimalist soundscapes.
‘Form & Freedom’ is a dialogue between past and present, between formal rigour and tonal openness – an invitation to hear and experience music in a new way.
Saturday 27.9. 8:30 pm, TONALi Saal
An artist talk will take place after the concert. Tickets
Participants
Hussain Atfah. Vocal, Oud, Composition
Daniel Bucuresscu. Piano
Basilius Alawasd. Cello
Angela Boutros. Piano
Hussain Atfah is a Syrian tenor whose musical journey combines the spiritual depth of Arab tradition with the sophistication of European classical music. Influenced by Sufi singing and Koran recitation, he learned to play the oud at an early age, studied music education and classical singing in Homs (graduating in 2013), continued his studies in Damascus and came to Germany in 2016. In Lübeck, he completed his vocal studies with distinction (BA & MA), supplemented by piano. Atfah excels in combining Arabic expressiveness with Western technique and has performed at venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Berlin, Beethoven-Halle Stuttgart, Theater Malmö, Bonn and many more. He works with Lucidarium, Asambura and the Ornina Syrian Orchestra, among others, and is developing an artistic profile that bridges tradition and contemporary expression.
https://www.thebima.de/hussain-atfah
WORKSHOPS. HAMBURG.
Composer Pauline Oliveros developed a special form of conscious listening with her Deep Listening method—attentive, experimental, and connecting. In this workshop, we will take a short exploratory walk and immerse ourselves in her Sonic Meditations: simple sound exercises that anyone can participate in—no musical experience necessary. Through listening, sounding, remembering, and sharing, a space for presence, exchange, and mindfulness is created. Music happens incidentally—as an echo of the shared experience.
Saturday, 27.9., 12:15 p.m., TONALi seminar room, 45 minutes
Please register for the workshops by emailing m.oment@web.de or speaking to our Team at the bar or at the cash desk.
Leaving straight after the concerts? Not with us!
Let’s sit down together at a table and chat, eat together, ask questions, share thoughts, laugh together and have a good time together. Because art doesn’t just live in the moment on stage, but also in the encounters before and after. festival.M and we stand for creating closeness and understanding the stage not as a boundary, but as a bridge. You are warmly invited to our ‘Meet and Eat’ format!
Saturday, 27.9., from 1 p.m., TONALi courtyard
No registration necessary
This workshop invites you to experience sound as the living essence of minimal music. A single note, simple and pure, unfolds like a breath in silence and becomes an unmistakable signature. We immerse ourselves in the interplay of repetition, rhythm and conscious emptiness – spaces in which listening becomes a sensory experience. Cellist Basilius Alawad opens up the world of his instrument, showing how the cello weaves layers of sound and emotion with a few deliberate gestures. At the end, we meet in an open discussion to not only understand sound, but to recognise it as a poetic force in contemporary music.
Saturday 27.9. 2:15 p.m., TONALi seminar room, 60 minutes
Please register for the workshops by emailing m.oment@web.de or speaking to our Team at the bar or at the cash desk.
We invite you to join us for an engaging workshop that will immerse you in the fascinating realm of music’s role in film, with a focus on the impact of minimalism in film scores. During this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to explore the fundamental aspects of film score composition and learn the essential techniques required to create a harmonious connection between images and minimalist scores.
No special materials or preparation are required; just bring your passion for film music and your enthusiasm for exploring minimalism.
Saturday, 27.9., 5:15 p.m., TONALi seminar room, 60 minutes
To register for the workshops, please send an email to m.oment@web.de or speaking to our Team at the bar or at the cash desk.
Join movement artist, interdisciplinary creator, and taiji practitioner Sara Ezzell for 45 minutes dedicated to connecting with the inherent intelligence of our body and nervous system.
In a world often filled with maximal amounts of stimulation and stress, this workshop is an invitation to join a gentle experiment. How many impactful pathways of relaxation, alignment, and integration can be touched with just one hour of our attention?
And what emerges when we cultivate a quality of attention, together?
Movement and awareness practices with the power to regulate and awaken space for creativity guides this invitation. Please join us!
This workshop will be led in English, and is applicable for people of all abilities. Please bring layers of clothing that are comfortable, warm, and breathable.
Saturday 27.9. 7:30 pm, TONALi Seminarraum, 45 minutes
Please register for the workshops by emailing m.oment@web.de or speaking to our Team at the bar or at the cash desk.
TICKETS & VENUES
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Day pass Normal price Thur&Fri 25€ | Sat 40€
All concert on one day
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Day pass Soli price Thur&Fri 50€ | Sat 75€
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Festival pass Normal price 95€
All concerts during the festival
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Festival pass Soli price 160€
All concerts during the festival
25. – 27.9.2025
TONALi SAAL
Kleiner Kielort 3-5,
20144 Hamburg
18.10.2025
Villa Elisabeth
Invalidenstr. 3,
10115 Berlin
