Ensemble Klang
Ensemble Klang is a contemporary music group with a strong orientation toward collaboration. The group has issued several recordings on its own Ensemble Klang label.
Ensemble Klang was founded in The Hague in the Netherlands in 2003. It describes itself as a "Dutch ensemble playing only the newest of new music. We've got saxes, trombone, guitars, keys, and stuff we like hitting!" The core Ensemble Klang members are pianist Saskia Lankhoorn, guitarist and artistic director Pete Harden, trombonist and business director Anton van Houten, saxophonists Erik-Jan de With and Michiel van Dijk, and percussionist Joey Marijs. The group performs widely in concert halls, at open-air festivals, and in pop music venues, and it has attracted a wide audience.
Ensemble Klang performs without a conductor, despite undertaking music of considerable virtuosity and risk. Performances often include electronics as well. The ensemble has collaborated on new music with both Dutch composers and those abroad, including Heiner Goebbels, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Hersch. Ensemble Klang, whose members describe themselves as born collaborators, has also undertaken larger projects that encompass other musicians; these include "Igor C. Silva's Follow" (a multimedia work featuring vocalist Stephanie Pan) and "Thrift Hybrids," a multimedia work for soprano soloist, video, and ensemble by Matthew Wright and Claron McFadden. "An Embroidered Forest" combined a musical work, Keir Neuringer's Litanies of Trees, with Sara Vrugt's gigantic artwork 100,000 Trees, in a performance linking Ensemble Klang with students from the Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague's Amare Concert Hall, Theater De Nieuwe Regentes in The Hague, and some 1,300 embroiderers. In the early 2020s, Ensemble Klang established a new group of collaborators it calls Associate Makers; some of the first group were audio/video artist Barbara Ellison, DJ/composer Oceanic (Job Oberman), and composer Maya Verlaak. In addition to albums released on its own label, Ensemble Klang was heard in 2022 with soprano Ah Young Hong on a recording of Hersch's The Script of Storms, released by New Focus Recordings.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Adriaansz: Environments
Ensemble Klang, Peter Adriaansz
Classical - Released by Ensemble Klang on 26 Mar 2021
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Waves - Peter Adriaansz
Experimental - Released by Ensemble Klang on 27 Jan 2010
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Enclosures
Saskia Lankhoorn, Ensemble Klang, Trio Scordatura
Classical - Released by Ergodos on 15 Jun 2016
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Michael Hersch: The Script of Storms
Ah Young Hong, Ensemble Klang, Tito Muñoz, The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by New Focus Recordings on 16 Sep 2022
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O Death - Oscar Bettison
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ensemble Klang on 24 Apr 2010
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Experimental - Released by Ensemble Klang Records on 26 Apr 2024
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Elegies & Litanies - Keir Neuringer
Ensemble Klang, Keir Neuringer
Classical - Released by Ensemble Klang on 23 Oct 2020
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Cows, Chords & Combinations - Tom Johnson
Classical - Released by Ensemble Klang on 24 Apr 2010
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Oscar Bettison: Presence of Absence
Ensemble Klang, Matangi Quartet, Michaela Riener, Oscar Bettison
Classical - Released by Ensemble Klang Records on 9 Sep 2021
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Michael Hersch: Black Untitled
Classical - Released by Ensemble Klang Records on 27 Nov 2017
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Pete Harden: Precious Metals
Classical - Released by Ensemble Klang Records on 15 Jun 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo