ZMF prizewinners matinee - "from Bach to Beatles"

This year's ZMF Honorary Award goes to Spark - the classical band, who will perform an impressive and varied program ranging from Bach to Beatles at the award-winning matinee.
ZMF prizewinner Tabea Kind will also be part of the matinee.

The ECHO Klassik award-winning Ensemble Spark brings together two icons of Western music: Johann Sebastian Bach, the forefather of classical art music, and the Beatles, the titans of pop music. As different as these two worlds of sound may seem at first, they are united by a visionary spirit, an expression of subtle sensuality and the flair of constant curiosity. And this is precisely the appeal for the members of Spark, who themselves enjoy constantly reinventing and questioning themselves. They move with great virtuosity between Bach counterpoint, well-known Beatles hits and their own compositions. In doing so, they constantly open up new sounds and scenarios for themselves and their audience, combining the familiar with the unheard, expanding, explaining, contrasting and creating a lively dialog between baroque and modern. Exciting sets and innovative collages show that there is a little bit of Bach everywhere, a little bit of Baroque in the Beatles and vice versa - and that the spirit of the Beatles was already palpable in Bach. Spark uninhibitedly and naturally makes use of all the pigeonholes, breaks down superfluous boundaries and celebrates one thing above all with passionate dedication: good music from Bach to the Beatles.

Instrumentation (Spark):

Andrea Ritter - recorder
Daniel Koschitzki - recorders & melodica
Stefan Balazsovics - violin & viola
isabel García Castro - violoncello
Christian Fritz - piano