Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff

Flutist - Composer - Arranger - Social Entrepreneur

Ensembles

Tanava

Grupo Maloka

Antara

Tanava

Four musicians, four instruments, one common language: music. Flute, kamanche, double bass and percussion, Western European and Persian music, tradition and modernity, rhythm and melody come together in the ensemble Tanava.

Inspired by traditional sounds and modern influences, the musicians Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff (flute), Alireza Meghrazi (kamanche), Nicola Pacha Vock(double bass) and Ramin Rahmi (percussion/vocals) create their own arrangements and compositions that build bridges between cultures and explore themes such as joie de vivre, love and spirituality.

The neologism Tanava refers to the creative combination of ‘dance’ and ‘nava’ (Persian: song/song) and exemplifies the ensemble’s transcultural sound: a dance between worlds, an echo of diversity, between deep roots and free development – sometimes rousing, sometimes melancholic, but always full of emotion.

 

Ensemble:

Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff Flöte  
Alireza Meghrazi Kamanche
Nicola Pacha Vock Kontrabass
Ramin Rahmi Perkussion/Gesang

 

More infos: https://bridges-kammerorchester.de/ensembles/tanava

Booking: booking@bridges-kammerorchester.de

Photos: Ensemble Tanava © Salar Baygan

Grupo Maloka

The Grupo Maloka combines Latin American music with Persian sounds, Eastern European folk songs and Irish folk. Every corner of the world comes together musically to build the Maloka House. The word Maloka comes from an indigenous language of the Amazon, and means a simple house built of straw and wood, a space that harbors community, celebrations and ceremonies. Grupo Maloka arranges traditional music from the homelands of its members as well as other folklore in the typical Bridges sound: instruments and styles that are traditionally never seen together, yet here, you will find them all together in one home. 

The musicians of Grupo Maloka:

Andrés Rosales Tiple/Guitar/Cuatro 
Samira Memarzadeh Harp
Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff Flute/Quena 
Reza Rostami Percussion 
Diana Dinu Vocals

More infos: https://bridges-kammerorchester.de/ensembles/grupo-maloka

Booking: booking@bridges-kammerorchester.de

 

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Antara

Between breath and string, between tradition and experiment – Antara moves in the space between. European baroque music, dances from Styria and South America as well as traditional Persian music form the basis for diverse soundscapes. The musicians of Antara (Sanskrit: in-between) explore familiar melodies from new perspectives and release unexpected vibrations with their sound: ‘Transonance’ – a new resonance created by their transculturality. Antara’s music is both an echo of the past and a call to the future, inviting us to cross thresholds and create new connections.

Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff Flöte  
Alireza Meghrazi Kamanche
Maria Carolina Pardo Reyes Violoncello
Sarah Luisa Wurmer Zither

 

More infos: https://bridges-kammerorchester.de/ensembles/antara

Booking: booking@bridges-kammerorchester.de

Photos: Ensemble Antara © Theresa Rundel

 

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Ugarit Band

Duo Saltamontes

Bridges Kammerorchester

Ugarit Band

The Ugarit Band is an ensemble of the Bridges Kammerorchester and fuses traditional Arabic music, sounds from the Mediterranean region and classical European music. Each member of the ensemble contributes their own musical and cultural background: Arabic and Persian instruments such as the oud, riq and tombak meet the European flute, double bass and a violin, whose spectrum of sound colours is expanded with a variety of playing techniques from traditional and classical Arabic music. The name of the ensemble refers to the city of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, which harbours one of the greatest treasures of musical culture: the first musical notation, dating from around 3.400 BC, engraved on a clay tablet in the royal palace and bearing a striking resemblance to the classical European tonal system.

Besetzung

Walid Khatba Violin
Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff Flute
Hadil Mirkan Oud
Nicola Pacha Vock Double bass
Ramin Rahmi Percussion

 

More infos https://bridges-kammerorchester.de/ensembles/ugarit-band

Booking: booking@bridges-kammerorchester.de

Photos: Ensemble Ugarit Band © Theresa Rundel

Duo Saltamontes – Cross-genre music for children

In the fall of 2021, Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff and Peter Klohmann founded the “Duo Saltamontes” in Frankfurt with the aim of bringing good, cross-genre music for children to the stage in moderated concerts. They draw on their experience with various concert formats for children and their expertise in different musical traditions. In this way, they offer children and parents a cheerful and contemporary approach to songs and instrumental music from a wide range of genres.

With flute, voice, saxophone, guitar and many other instruments, Duo Saltamontes tells, sings and plays music and stories for children between the ages of 4 and 8 and their families. Children and families are invited to join in under the current hygiene rules.
The band members come from different musical traditions (classical and jazz) and are both well-versed in transcultural music. In the duo Saltamontes, they come together to create a cross-genre children’s program. The ensemble has been touring mainly in the Rhine-Main region since fall 2021 and also plays concerts in schools and kindergartens.

 

Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff, Flutes/Tin Whistle/Vocals

Peter Klohmann, Transverse flutes/guitar/vocals

Booking: info@johanna-leonore-dahlhoff.de

Bridges Kammerorchester – The composing orchestra

Arte concerts: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/124821-000-A/beyond-time-and-space/

Since fall 2019, the transcultural Bridges Chamber Orchestra has brought together freelance musicians and their instruments from various regions of the European, Asian and American continents. The orchestra members are experts in Arabic, Persian and European classical music, jazz, contemporary music, Eastern European folklore and various forms of Central Asian and Latin American music.

The Bridges Chamber Orchestra was founded in 2019 by Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff and Anke Karen Meyer in Frankfurt am Main.

The Bridges Chamber Orchestra was accepted into the federal program Excellent Orchestra Landscape Germany in 2024 and will play its debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in August 2024 as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. His album Complementarity, released in March 2024, was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award 02/2024 in the category Grenzgänge. Since September 2022, the Bridges Chamber Orchestra has been in residence at the Casals Forum of Kronberg Academy. In both 2022 and 2023, it was nominated for the shortlist of the German Orchestra Foundation’s Innovation Prize. It is one of the winners of the Hessian Integration Prize and the Frankfurt Diversity and Integration Prize 2022 and received the German Record Critics’ Award 2/2021 (category Grenzgänge) for its debut album Identigration, released in 2021 in co-production with hr. In 2019, the Bridges Chamber Orchestra was awarded The Power of the Arts, one of the most highly endowed cultural sponsorship prizes in Germany, as a nationwide lighthouse project for diversity and integration, as well as the Special Impact Prize of the KfW Stiftung in 2018.

More infos: https://bridges-kammerorchester.de/

 

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