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"I want to take old music as seriously as I can — with the instrumentation, with the style of interpretation," says Midori Seiler. The Baroque violinist has taken over the artistic direction of the Zamus Festival, which celebrates historical music from May 21 to May 31. Under the motto "Ecstasy and Contemplation," there are 30 concerts and events on the program. Among the nearly 40 soloists are artists such as Andreas Staier, the Duo Pleyel, or Ludus instrumentalis. Baroque music meets Flamenco, light art, meditation, or music theater.

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Zamus 2025: Seven Last Words with Ludus Instrumentalis and Andreas Staier

The election-Kölner Andreas Staier and Ludus Instrumentalis on the piano and in the string quartet interpret "The Seven Last Words" by Joseph Haydn (1732–1809).

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Zamus 2025: Marsyas Baroque and Martí Corbera

At the Zamus Festival for Early Music, sound and movement spaces are opened up in the Old Fire Station Cologne. For this, the dancer and choreographer Martí Corbera brings together Flamenco and Baroque music.

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Zamus 2025: "The consecration of my time"

Christina C. Messner's interdisciplinary music-theater laboratory format on the theme of sacrifice invites you on a journey along the fine line between experiment and song, between noise and melody.

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Zamus 2025: Light! I with Christina Meißner and Jörg Becker

Together with the light artist Jörg Becker, the cellist Christina Meißner has conceived a concert experience that incorporates the ancient chants of Hildegard of Bingen.

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Zamus 2025: academy – young talents

The oboist Clara Blessing and the cellist Kristin von der Goltz have developed a program with chamber music from the 18th century with young talents.

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Concert: Mahler and Beethoven – for four hands

The duo Pleyel is dedicated to the four-handed piano arrangements of Beethoven and Mahler, thereby showcasing the musical as well as personal levels of collaboration.

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Zamus 2025: Dido in Carthage

The baroque music from Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas," interpreted by the Ensemble Teatro del mondo with Anna Herbst in the title role, is contrasted with classical Arabic music.

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Zamus 2025: Symposium – Creating New Spaces

What colonial practices and forms of knowledge shaped Early Music, and which continue to shape it? The accompanying symposium invites lectures, exchange, and a communal breakfast.

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25.05., please add to the Zamus collection, Historical Dance Ball | Martin Erhardt, Mareike Greb

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Zamus 2025: All Ears with Jennifer Arri

Through guided meditation, the connection between body and music is intensified, so that the sounds can not only be heard but also felt.

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Zamus 2025: I feel the joy with the zamus: amateur baroque orchestra

The zamus: amateur baroque orchestra collaborates with the University of Music and Dance Cologne and presents aria highlights from the most successful works of various composers.

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Zamus 2025: Hollywood on the Nile with Oxford Maqam

In the Arabic tango, the unique texture of Latin America is combined with classical Egyptian music - the unmistakable sound is brought to life by the Oxford Maqam.

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Zamus 2025: Memento Mori with Lantana Camara

Baroque longing for death in music and philosophy: The ensemble Lantana Camara approaches the theme musically, and forensic psychiatrist Nahlah Saimeh also explores it philosophically.

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Zamus 2025: In eternity with the Ensemble Nusmido

800-year-old spring sounds: The ensemble Nusmido lets hymns resound in the Christuskirche that were composed at the threshold from the 12th to the 13th century.

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Zamus 2025: The white shirt with baroque focus

Gambist Holger Faust-Peters and harpsichordist Irén Lill explore the contemplative language in French court music around 1700. And three modern compositions turn to the sensitive strings.

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Zamus 2025: Heavenly Bodies with the Ensemble Hourglass

Inspired by the idea of "spherical music," the ensemble Hourglass combines Renaissance music and contemporary works into a heavenly sound sphere.

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Zamus 2025: Planet Bach by the Ensemble MuOM and Meteor

Between overtone singing and the baroque sound world: MuOM and the Trio Meteor take the audience on a journey with Ecstatic Voices into musical spheres – a journey to the planets and into the depths of music.