Kathrin von Kieseritzky
classical saxophone with Detlef Bensmann (Berlin), numerous workshops and master classes, including with Matthias Nadolny, John Taylor, Jasper van’t Hof, Earle Brown, Peter Niklas Wilson and the Ensemble musikFabrik.
Long-term collaboration in the duo Common Contrasts with accordion and in the duo Ars Sibilandi with organ.
A concert tour sponsored by the Goethe-Institut took them to Mexico (Festival Xcéntrico), Panama, Costa Rica (Festival de las Artes) and Trinidad & Tobago.
Founding member of the ADUMÁ saxophone quartet, with whom she completed her master’s degree in chamber music at the University of Music and Theater in Rostock and won numerous prizes and scholarships. The ensemble’s first CD “Ein Rot tönt den Raum” with new compositions written specifically for the quartet was released in June 2019 by kreuzberg records, the label of the Neue Musik publishing house. Founding member of ensemble xenon, an ensemble between free improvisation and interpretation of contemporary music.
2018 and 2019 musical director of the children’s club at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. For several years we have been working intensively with the visual artist and sound artist Ynez de Zilón on art-music projects for children.