Ensemble Obligat Hamburg

Established musicians have come together to form the Ensemble Obligat, a comprehensive chamber ensemble featuring wind instruments, strings, harp, harpsichord and piano. The ensemble was founded in 1995 by flutist Imme-Jeanne Klett. In 2025, Ensemble Obligat Hamburg will celebrate its 30th anniversary with great success and an extraordinary programme of the highest calibre.

The ensemble is composed of soloists from renowned orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Camerata, as well as professors from the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, Lübeck and the Würzburg University of Music.

Since its founding, the Obligat Hamburg ensemble has performed repeatedly at numerous concerts in renowned concert series in Germany and abroad, as well as at prestigious festivals. These include the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival, the Lower Saxony Music Days, the Hohenlohe Cultural Summer, the Euroclassic Festival, the Arabesques Hamburg Festival, China-Time Hamburg and Berlin, the Corvey Music Weeks and many more. The ensemble also performs regularly on radio and organises its own chamber music festival in Hamburg called OBLIGAT!

The ensemble's wide-ranging repertoire spans all eras of music history: from Baroque solo or trio sonatas with harpsichord to classical quartets for flute and string trio (in an expanded formation as a string sextet) to large-scale works of Romanticism, French Impressionism and modern compositions that incorporate the sound of the harp, the piano or colourful wind ensembles. The musicians of Ensemble Obligat Hamburg are committed to performing chamber music from all eras in a wide variety of timbres and instrumentations.

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