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As a location for production and performance, RADIALSYSTEM
V is the artistic home of four outstanding independent ensembles:
The 
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin,
Sasha
Waltz & Guests, the
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
and the
Vocalconsort Berlin are closely
bound up with the development of the venue in their role
as Ensembles-in-residence.
Akademie für Alte Musik
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin enjoys a secure
place among the world's top chamber orchestras. The ensemble
is a regular guest in all the major musical centres of Europe,
from Vienna to Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, London and Brussels.
It has toured across almost every European country as well
as in Asia, South America the USA and Canada. Back in 1984
the ensemble began performing its own concert series in
the Konzerthaus at Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt, and since 1994
it has been a regular guest at the Berliner Staatsoper and
at the Innsbrucker Festwochen. The ensemble collaborated
with dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests on joint productions
of "Medea" (2007), the Purcell opera "Dido
& Aeneas" (2005) and the choreographic concert
"4 Elemente - 4 Jahreszeiten" (2007), which further
cemented its international reputation as a creative and
innovative ensemble. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
has been a resident ensemble at RADIALSYSTEM V since September
2006.
www.akamus.de
"4 Elemente – 4 Jahreszeiten" (2007), ©
Foto: Sebastian Bolesch
Sasha Waltz & Guests
The dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests was founded in
Berlin in 1993 by Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig. Between
1993 and 1995 it developed the "Travelogue" trilogy,
which toured over 30 different countries with a changing
roster of guest performers. The founding of the Sophiensaele
in 1996 marked the establishment of an important production
centre for independent theatre in Berlin. In the period
between 1999 and 2004 Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig focussed
their work on the artistic directorship of the Schaubühne
at the Lehniner Platz. The company remains a partner of
the Schaubühne within the framework of a cooperation
dating back to 2005. Since its opening on 9th September
2006, Sasha Waltz & Guests have worked closely together
with RADIALSYSTEM V as a Ensemble-in-residence. This has
resulted in productions including "Medea" (2007),
"Jagden und Formen" with the Ensemble Modern (2008),
and other collaborations with resident ensembles such as
the Dialoge projects "Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum"
– at the artistic inauguration of the Neues Museum
in Berlin (2009) – and "Dialoge 09 – MAXXI"
at the inauguration of the new MAXXI museum for contemporary
art in Rome (2009). In 2010, Sasha Waltz conceived and developed
her productions "Continu" (premiered in Zurich
in June 2010) and "Passion", based on an opera
by Pascal Dusapin (premiered in Paris in October 2010) at
RADIALSYSTEM V. Since the company was founded, over 150
artists – architects, visual artists, choreographers,
filmmakers, musicians, actors and dancers – from 25
different countries have participated as "guests"
in over 30 productions, Dialogue projects and films. With
over 100 performances per year worldwide, Sasha Waltz &
Guests is one of the most successful cultural enterprises
on the international scene.
www.sashawaltz.de
"Dialoge 06 - Radiale Systeme" (2006), ©
Foto: Sebastian Bolesch
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
The young Berlin-based chamber orchestra Solistenensemble
Kaleidoskop was founded in 2006 and has since that time
garnered acclaim, in particular for its innovative and creative
concert installations. A string orchestra consisting of
15 players forms the core of the ensemble, and this is augmented
by various guest players. Under the artistic direction of
Michael Rauter, the ensemble places contemporary works in
the context of diverse musical epochs. At the same time,
the ensemble strives to discover new expressive and performance
concepts beyond conventional concert formats through its
collaborations with artists from the fields of architecture,
literature, dance, acting and light design. In 2009 this
young ensemble was invited to the Lille3000/EUROPE XXL festival
and to the Shared Sounds festival at RADIALSYSTEM V. In
the production of "Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum"
(2009), Kaleidoskop performed alongside the Sasha Waltz
& Guests dance company and the Vocalconsort Berlin.
In 2009/2010 the two-part concert installation titled "Fluktuation
09" was realized at RADIALSYSTEM V. Solistenensemble
Kaleidoskop has been a Ensemble-in-residence at RADIALSYSTEM
V since April 2008.
www.kaleidoskopmusik.de
© Foto: Sonja Müller
Vocalconsort Berlin
The Vocalconsort Berlin, founded in 2003, specializes in
music of the Baroque and early Baroque eras, though it also
dedicates itself to new interpretations of Romantic and
Contemporary music. The variability of the line-up, from
quartets to polychoral works, allows the ensemble to act
in a concert situation as well as in scenic productions.
The Vocalconsort Berlin performs at numerous festivals and
in renowned concert halls the world over. The ensemble enjoys
a particularly special cooperation with the Akademie für
Alte Musik Berlin, and beyond this it works with excellent
orchestras such as the Accademia Bizantina, the Elbipolis
Barockorchester Hamburg and B'rock, a Belgian Baroque orchestra.
The evolution of this outstanding ensemble has also been
enriched by the influence of renowned conductors, directors
and choreographers such as Marcus Creed, René Jacobs,
Daniel Reuss, Gary Cooper, Olof Boman, Sasha Waltz, Barrie
Kosky and Luc Perceval. The Vocalconsort Berlin has been
Ensemble-in-residence at RADIALSYSTEM V since 2006, working
under the same roof as the Akademie für Alte Musik
Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Solistenensemble
Kaleidoskop, and collaborating on productions including
"Dido & Aeneas" (2005), "Medea"
(2007) and "Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum" (2009).
In 2008 the Vocalconsort Berlin was awarded the Preis der
Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for its debut double-CD "Hugo
Distler – Geistliche Chormusik op. 12, Weihnachtsgeschichte
op. 10".
www.vocalconsort-berlin.de
© Foto: Hans Scherhaufer
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