Greetings

With a programme spanning almost an entire century of music history, the IEMA Ensemble 2025/26 delivers its calling card at the Main Auditorium of the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts on December 13. The concert weaves a fascinating thread from Nikos Skalkottas’ ›Octet‹, composed in 1931 using twelve-tone technique, via the dark ›Greeting Music‹ (1978) by Claude Vivier, all the way to Fausto Romitelli’s ›Amok Koma‹ (2001), which is based on the eponymous album by the German punk rock band Abwärts (1980). The programme is rounded out by Jörg Widmann’s entertaining ›empty space‹ (2020) as well as David Bird’s ›fm life‹ (2024), which plays with the sonic world of frequency modulation.