Chroma Kollektiv - contemporary music by Spanish-speaking composers

One thing unites the con­tri­bu­ti­ons to the con­cert on Oc­to­ber 10 at the In­sti­tu­to Cer­van­tes: the Spa­nish lan­guage unites the com­po­sers of this evening, who­se bio­gra­phi­cal roots ran­ge from San­tia­go de Chi­le to Bue­nos Ai­res and Me­xi­co City: Ma­care­na Ros­ma­nich (com­po­ser-in-re­si­dence at the Ar­chiv Frau und Mu­sik in Frank­furt), Ce­ci­lia Ar­dit­to and Ma­rio La­vis­ta, who died in 2021, bring so­nic per­spec­tives from the La­tin Ame­ri­can re­gi­on. Their works will en­ter into a dia­log with es­tab­lished Spa­nish com­po­sers such as José Ma­ría Sán­chez-Ver­dú (Al­ge­ci­ras) and up-and-co­m­ing com­po­sers such as Mikel Itur­re­gi (Bizka­ia) and Tomás Jesús Ocaña-Gon­zá­lez (Mála­ga, also cla­ri­net­tist in the en­sem­ble and Mas­ter in Com­po­si­ti­on at the HfMDK).

The con­cert evening pro­mi­ses sur­pri­sing lis­ten­ing ex­pe­ri­en­ces and an im­pres­si­ve ae­s­the­tic ran­ge, while the en­sem­ble mem­bers also in­vi­te the au­di­ence to gain new per­spec­tives on con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic through their pre­sen­ta­ti­ons.

The pro­gram

• Ma­rio La­vis­ta: Cui­ca­ni for flu­te and cla­ri­net
• Ce­ci­lia Ar­dit­to: Via­je de las fre­cuen­ci­as en el agua for bass cla­ri­net, dou­ble bass and pia­no
• Ma­care­na Ros­ma­nich: Ce­ni­zas for vio­lin, cel­lo, flu­te, cla­ri­net and dou­ble bass
• José Ma­ría Sán­chez-Ver­dú: Ar­qui­tec­turas del lí­mi­te for vio­lin, cel­lo, flu­te, cla­ri­net and pia­no
• Mikel Itur­re­gi: Isi­la be­zain ilun for vio­lin, cel­lo, flu­te, cla­ri­net, pia­no and per­cus­sion
• Tomás Jesús Ocaña-Gon­zá­lez: Y sin em­bar­go, es ne­cesa­rio... for vio­lin, cel­lo, flu­te, cla­ri­net, horn, pia­no and per­cus­sion

CHRO­MA COLLEC­TIVE
Con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic by Spa­nish-speaking com­po­sers

Fri­day, Oc­to­ber 10, 2025
19.30 hrs
In­sti­tu­to Cer­van­tes Frank­furt
Stau­fen­str. 1, 60323 Frank­furt am Main
Ad­mis­si­on free

• Ga­brie­le Mastro­to­ta­ro - flu­te
• Tomás Jesús Ocaña-Gon­zá­lez - cla­ri­net
• Sze Fong Ye­ong- horn
• El­vi­ra Stre­va - pia­no
• Ling Zhang - per­cus­sion
• Sa­rah Beth Over­cash - vio­lin
• Leo­nard Mel­cher - vio­lin
• Al­bert Kuchin­ski - cel­lo
• Be­güm As­lan - dou­ble bass
• Leh-Qiao Liao - Con­duc­tor - Con­duc­tor

Af­ter stu­dy­ing tog­e­ther at the In­ter­na­tio­nal En­sem­ble Mo­dern Aca­de­my (IEMA) and the HfMDK Frank­furt, the 12 mu­si­ci­ans de­ci­ded to con­ti­nue their jour­ney by foun­ding a pro­fes­sio­nal en­sem­ble for con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic. Their aim is to pro­mo­te the ca­re­ers of young com­po­sers through nar­ra­ti­ve con­cert for­mats and to com­bi­ne the di­ver­si­ty of the worl­d's folk mu­sic tra­di­ti­ons with new mu­sic crea­ti­on.

As an IEMA en­sem­ble, they have al­rea­dy par­ti­ci­pa­ted in va­rious fes­ti­vals, in­clu­ding Into the Open (Ber­lin), Im­puls (Graz), the Wit­te­ner Tage für neue Kam­mer­mu­sik and the Gau­dea­mus Fes­ti­val (Ne­ther­lands).