Education

Firmly embedded in the ensemble's cultural programme, the Aventure Open format is based on the central approaches of community music. Supported and accompanied by ensemble members, guest musicians and composers, the audience is invited to take part in open-ended, process-orientated music-making situations. The aim is to develop a democratic framework, in which moments of artistic exchange between all participants can take place. Pieces of conceptual, improvised or intuitive music provide impulses for this. The Mantra? Everyone can join in! With a strong focus on communal music-making in bottom-up processes, Aventure Open offers a framework in which everyone's creativity can reach its potential - not only "at home" in the Elisabeth Schneider Foundation, but also in the truest sense of outreach in other locations, including those that transcend social milieus.

Ensemble Aventure regularly works with the next generation of musicians and composers at various national and international music academies, thereby providing artistic and educational impetus. Most recently, concert projects were organised in cooperation with the music universities in Detmold and Freiburg, in which works and concepts by Simon Steen-Andersen, Mark Barden and Earle Brown, among others, as well as new student compositions from the composition class at the Detmold Music Academy were performed.

Educational projects in a school context are at the centre of the special concert series “Warum macht ihr das eigentlich?” (Why do you do what you do?) Close collaborations with pupils from secondary schools in Freiburg (including the Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium and the Staudinger Gesamtschule) open up new artistic and aesthetic opportunities for expression for the next generation of Freiburg residents, which - following intensive project-orientated workshops - are presented in a formal concert setting at the Elisabeth Schneider Foundation. In recent years, the focus has been on topics such as music and language, music and sport, music and nature and intercultural music-making (Sounds of my homeland). Works conceived and performed by pupils have included performances such as Mother Nature (for an ensemble with stones, leaves, fruit, vegetables and amplification), keep calm and make music (music for sports equipment) and Der Herbst (for voices and percussion sounds).

A new project funded by the Centre for Cultural Participation Baden-Württemberg has been taking place since 2023 in collaboration with the KiBBiZ integrative daycare centre in Freiburg-Landwasser and aims to develop a new concert series for children of kindergarten age, their parents and caregivers.

For several years, Ensemble Aventure has maintained a close relationship with the amateur wind orchestra Stadtkapelle Lahr e. V. The two ensembles performed concepts by John Cage, Francisco Feliciano and Violeta Dinescu, among others, as well as the commissioned work Ausstellung II by Adrian Nagel, which was performed as part of the ECLAT festival at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. In June 2024, the two ensembles will jointly premiere a full-length commissioned work by Daniel Smutny in Stadtpark Lahr. The Planting Chronicles (Upcycling I) is located in a social-artistic field of tension between change concert installation and participatory community music happening and transforms the ecological principle of upcycling in a musical-artistic way. The project is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Art Innovation Fund.