The newly founded ensemble \u201cEars Wide Open\u201c wants to transfer the philosophy of community music into concert formats.<\/p>\n
Marion Haak-Schulenburg<\/strong> is a community musician, singer and music teacher. After studying Mathis Mayr<\/strong> has been a member of the Mosaik ensemble since 2008. He studied cello with Uzi Wiesel in Sydney \/ Australia and at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Munich. In 2005 Mathis Mayr was awarded the F\u00f6rderpreis f\u00fcr Musik der Stadt M\u00fcnchen. His repertoire includes works from Renaissance and folk music to contemporary compositions, from jazz to flamenco. He has played improvisation concerts with Sebastiano Tramontana, Gunnar Geisse and Christoph Reiserer, dance theatre projects with Monica Gomis and Mikel Aristegui, as a soloist cello concertos by Schumann and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k as well as numerous world premieres of contemporary compositions.<\/p>\n Ravi Srinivasan<\/strong> is a percussionist, singer and composer, performing worldwide as a soloist and collaborating with orchestras and institutions such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Icelandic National Opera. Trained on the Indian tabla and in Indian classical vocal techniques, he is also known for his virtuoso whistling.
\nAfter studying school music at the Berlin University of the Arts, she worked as a choir director and music teacher for the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Ramallah from 2006 to 2009. Subsequently, she began freelancing as a choral conductor, workshop leader, vocal coach and lecturer at UdK Berlin, Landesmusikakademie NRW, among others. Since 2016 she has been a trainer for Musicians without Borders (NL).
\nAs part of a doctorate, she is researching musical concepts in musical project work and is a research assistant at the Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt in the MA \u201cInclusive Music Education \/ Community Music\u201c.<\/p>\n
\nRavi Srinivasan has composed music for numerous films, plays, ballet and classical Indian dance. His ensemble \u201cIndigo Masala\u201c won the Creole World Music Prize in Hannover in 2006. In 2022 Ravi Srinivasan’s film \u201cDreams are like wild tigers\u201c, for which he recorded tabla, percussion and vocals, won the German Film Music Award.<\/p>\n