In four concerts this season, musicians and ensembles from Berlin will cross paths with us, bringing together classical Western music from different centuries with a love of experimentation and styles that all have a home in this city - from folklore to soul to electropop. Berlin Tracks aims to inspire, connect communities and invite you to follow different musical tracks that together make up the soundtrack of our city.

The CONTINUUM ensemble, led by the Berlin harpsichordist Elina Albach, always finds surprising references to the present in early music. This project combines psalm settings by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani with a new arrangement of Steve Reich's epic work “Tehillim” (Hebrew for “Psalms”) to tell stories of individual suffering and the emancipatory power of music.

Giorgi Gigashvili came to the piano via Georgian folk songs and pop music. As an award-winning pianist, he is now at home on major concert stages. In his programme “Serious Music”, the Berliner-by-choice returns to electropop and asks what “serious music” actually means.

The Berlin vocal ensemble A Song For You sees itself as an interdisciplinary platform for underrepresented voices and moves between neo soul, R&B and gospel. Together with the Konzerthausorchester, it is bringing its recomposition of Missa solemnis in a soul guise with groove-driven songs and lyrics to the stage in Berlin for the first time.

From Berlin, singer and bağlama player Derya Yildirim builds bridges between Anatolian folk, psychedelic pop and transtraditional avant-garde. In this concert with mandolinist Avi Avital and the strings of Ensemble Resonanz, baroque sounds meet traditional songs and world premieres.