The musicians of the Ensemble JungeMusik Berlin invite you for lunch! Melodious and tasty treats at lunchtime. From Monday to Friday, our five lunchtime concerts offer a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life with a varied program, giving you the opportunity to listen to music with different ears and engage in conversation with the artists.

This year the voice takes centre stage. The tenor Berk Altan guides us through the week with miniatures composed especially for the Tafelmusik series. Each day features tenor solos by Artur Kroschel, Samuel Tramin, Raphaëlle Aoun, Burcu Durukan, Anton Wittkowski and Johannes K. Hildebrandt. You can also look forward to works by Alexandra Filonenko, Olga Rayeva, Stefan Streich, Georg Katzer, Emre Dündar, Helmut Zapf, Ilgın Ülkü, Sebastian Stier (WP), Uroš Rojko, Sean Schumann, Margarete Huber, Iris ter Schiphorst, Ralf Hoyer, Hermann Keller, Kathrin Denner, Kaspar Querfurth and Bernd Lauber (WP).

The ensemble's flutist, Erik Drescher, cooks favourite dishes of the composers.

Ilgın Ülkü: warten, erwarten (2022)
warten, erwarten was composed in 2020. The work conveys a fluid transition between sonic stasis and movement, compressing a multitude of existential life dynamics into the smallest of spaces. From a single note, an increasingly complex sound cluster gradually develops. Sudden chords break through the musical flow, creating surprising and at times unsettling moments. These ruptures lend the piece an expressive restlessness, making audible an almost manic state of mind. The composition shifts between clarity and irritation, introspection and impulse – an inner drama in concentrated form.
Ilgın Ülkü

Samuel Tramin: Beiläufiges zur Nahrungsaufnahme (2025)
Following a request for a tenor solo on the theme of "food" for the lunchtime concerts of this year's Klangwerkstatt, I wrote four short humorous texts, which I then swiftly set to music with a wink, in a kind of offbeat cabaret style. The result is a small cycle comprising the pieces Salat, Fast ein Stillleben (Suppe), Schoko – Ode an eine Lebensretterin and Komm essen!. Let's see which one will be heard today.
Samuel Tramin