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Ensemble Adapter

The contemporary music group Ensemble Adapter places emphasis on collaboration and education, as well as performing as a quartet. The group has recorded for various labels, including Kairos and Wergo. Ensemble Adapter, often known simply as Adapter, was founded in 2004 by percussionist Matthias Engler and harpist Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir. Both had attended the Amsterdam Conservatory, and both have maintained independent careers; Einarsdóttir performs in Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble, an acoustic techno band, and has toured major pop venues, while Engler performs widely in Germany as a freelance percussionist and continues to serve as Ensemble Adapter's artistic director and manager. The ensemble maintains headquarters in Berlin and Reykjavik. In its first years, Ensemble Adapter collaborated with the collective Klangnetz e.V., adding various instruments as needed around the core of harp and percussion. In the late 2000s decade, Ensemble Adapter took on a more independent existence and a more fixed quartet configuration, including flutist Kristjana Helgadóttir and clarinetist Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson in addition to the two principals; the ensemble might expand to up to ten players for special projects. From 2017 to 2012, Marc Tritschler was also often added on piano. The group made its recording debut in 2011, joining composer Davið Brynjar Franzson on his album A Guide for the Dead Through the Underworld. That album was released on the Carrier Records label. Ensemble Adapter moved to Kairos for a 2014 album of music by Franco Donatoni and to Wergo for 2018's Sarah Nemtsov: Amplified Imagination. The group's repertory consists exclusively of world premieres and other very recent works. Ensemble Adapter has toured internationally. The group's work also has a strong collaborative and educational aspect; in the group members' own words, "Treating music as a contemporary art form, Ensemble Adapter creates, curates, produces, workshops and performs -- both onstage and online." Workshops transmit information about notation, performance practice, and scholarship to other composers, performances, and creative figures in general. In 2022, Ensemble Adapter announced another change in direction, with Einarsdóttir and Engler as leaders without a connection to specific instrumentation. In 2023, the ensemble appeared on a recording of Reiko Füting's opera Mechthild on the New Focus label.
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