Ensemble Aventure stands for adventure, for daring to set out into unknown sonic and imaginative realms. Since its foundation in 1986, the Freiburg-based ensemble has dedicated itself to contemporary chamber music at the highest level, and concurrently placed great importance on education and outreach through workshops with students at music academies, projects with children, and performances with amateur musicians. An essential concern is giving marginalised perspectives a voice. This is seen in the ensemble’s commitment to the music of politically persecuted and repressed composers to whose rediscovery Ensemble Aventure has made a significant contribution. Moreover, it is demonstrated in the ensemble’s search for new compositional voices, and long-standing commitment to the contemporary music of Latin America and other non-European compositional worlds. With its renowned Freiburg concert series, intensive contacts with composers worldwide, numerous commissions, hundreds of world premieres, international concert appearances, around 25 CDs and numerous projects and publications on the communication of new music, Ensemble Aventure has played a decisive role in shaping contemporary music and bringing it to a wide audience.