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.

Johannes Hildebrandt: KäsekuchenKäsekuchen (2025)
Like several other compositions of recent years, this piece was inspired by and developed in collaboration with the composer and performer Christina Bernhardt. It was meant to have something to do with food. The text was quickly found after a cheesecake at the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. Added to this was a multitude of kitchen utensils, which will now serve as the basis for further works, as only a few of them are used in KäsekuchenKäsekuchen.
Johannes Hildebrandt

Samuel Tramin: line/fall back (2024)
The piece is based on an uninterrupted melodic line of seven notes, which is repeated continuously with minor rearrangements, gradually “charging” itself with energy and gaining in amplitude, yet always falling back to its simple basic figure.
Samuel Tramin

Kaspar Querfurth: Divertimento – mit kaputter Klappe (2012)
A Divertimento — that is, a piece of entertainment — as part of an anthology for the “Flute King”, intended for posthumous performance on his 300th birthday (a little late for the purpose, perhaps, but maybe that's not such a bad thing either …); also a conversation with the flute; also a “solfeggio”, meaning a study piece, in this case in response to the stage action (certainly also true for the composer at the time!); and an exercise in tolerating unruly flutes …
Kaspar Querfurth

Bernd Lauber: Just In Time (2025)
“Finished just in time” — a feeling most people will have experienced at some point. A term that originally comes from industrial production optimisation is increasingly making its way into social life. Maximum synchronicity with minimal idle time, optimal scheduling without pause, constant forward motion, being in movement until complete compression is reached — from the living to the algorithm, from the algorithm to music. This piece too is based on a self-developed, quasi-algorithmic procedure: monophonic polyphony.
Bernd Lauber