1:1 CONCERTS

1 musician, 1 listener – 2 metres apart.

The 1:1 CONCERTS© defy the corona crisis, create powerful artistic spaces and raise solidarity donations supporting musicians in distress.

Cultural life has almost come to a complete standstill as it has vanished behind digital screens. More than ever, people are in need of genuine personal contact and a commonly and directly shared musical experience, yet the current limitations are likely to stay with us for a long time. With 1:1 CONCERTS© we have now created an opportunity for an authentic concert experience that takes into account all of the current Covid-19 restrictions.

A 1:1 CONCERTS© features a 10 min. non-verbal 1-to-1-encounter between a listener and a musician. The opening eye contact and ensuing mutual gaze is the impulse for a very personal concert where both sides experience an unprecedented intensity allowing proximity from a distance. The concert attendees do not know who is going to play. Whether they hear a jazz saxophone, a double bass or a baroque flute will come as a surprise. Moreover, the concept explores extraordinary concert venues – concerts can take you to an art gallery, a qiuet backyard, an empty factory hall or an allotment garden. Spaces and venues are provided by private hosts.

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The objective of the 1:1 CONCERTS project is to make a substantial contribution to the preservation of our cultural landscape by bringing together musicians, listeners and hosts through the various institutions: the voluntary donations of our concert visitors go directly to the Emergency Fund of the German Orchestra Foundationor similar regional foundations supporting musicians who are in distress due to the corona-driven cancellation of all concerts and performances.

You can register for a 1:1 CONCERT in your vicinity through our partner institutions – see menulink BOOKING.

The project was launched in Stuttgart together with the Staatsorchester Stuttgart and the SWR Symphonieorchester, followed by the Sächsische Staatskapelle and Philharmonie Dresden, Marbach, Theater Erfurt, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. Other institutions and venues will be joining soon.

Story behind

As an interdisciplinary team – the flutist Stephanie Winker, the scenographer Franziska Ritter and the cultural mediator Christian Siegmund – we have been working together in various project constellations for several years. With creative energy as well as a a passionate playfulness, we break new ground in the design of musical experiences. With our projects we explore the manifold relationships between music, space and people in new and different ways – together we are the ©1to1Concerts GbR.

Feel free to contact us: team@1to1concerts.de

Stephanie Winker

Flutist

studied at the New York Juilliard School and at HfM Hanns Eisler, Berlin. After working as a solo flutist for several major orchestras, she was part of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from 2004 to 2015 including several solo performances. Moreover, she is an active member of the Ma'alot Wind Quintet with whom she has played many concerts all over Europe, America and Asia and recorded many award-winning CDs. Since 2013, Stephanie Winker works as a flute professor at the music academy HfMDK Frankfurt am Main and teaches at international master classes. Besides her manifold chamber music activities, she is a much sought-after orchestral soloist.

stephanie.winker@1to1concerts.de

Franziska Ritter

Scenographer

Franziska Ritter is a scenographer and studied architecture at the TU Berlin and the University of North London. She is a research associate of the Department of Stage Design & Scenic Space at TU Berlin and works as a lecturer for exhibition design and theatre construction at different universities. She is a representative and currently the leading member of the project of Digitality and New Technologies of the Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft. "Im/material Theatre Spaces - Augmented and Virtual Reality for Theatre". Moreover, she plays as a flutist for Ensemble Opus 45.

franziska.ritter@1to1concerts.de

Christian Siegmund

Cultural Mediator

came into contact with classical music at an early age and learned piano and cello. He studied linguistics and literature as well as literary translation in Vienna, Florence and Munich. In addition to translating into various languages, he works as a purser for Lufthansa German Airlines. In March 2019 he was involved in the project "Listening differently" at Frankfurt's Alte Oper as a facilitator for Marina Abramović. He now lives in Berlin, where he runs a private art and music salon "Salon S", an experimental space for interdisciplinary artistic encounters.

christian.siegmund@1to1concerts.de