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14.Nov 2025 | 7:30 pm
Der fliegende Holländer at the MARKK
Decolonial Richard Wagner
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
16.Nov 2025 | 6:00 pm
Der fliegende Holländer at the MARKK
Decolonial Richard Wagner
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
18.Nov 2025 | 7:00 pm
Ceremony of the Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge-Prize
Trickster Orchestra & Naika Foroutan
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
20.Nov 2025 | 8:00 pm
Unsettling Sounds
BR Passagen
Kulturforum, Fürth
08.Feb 2026 | 7:00 pm
Trans-traditional Musik Lab
Encounter V: Trans-traditional Multiperspectivity
Radialsystem, Berlin
14.Feb 2026 | 7:00 pm
Amphiphilie
Trickster Orchestra & Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Konzerthaus, Berlin
24.Apr 2026 |
TransTraditionale Festival
Radialsystem, Berlin
25.Apr 2026 |
TransTraditionale Festival
Radialsystem, Berlin
26.Apr 2026 |
TransTraditionale Festival
Radialsystem, Berlin
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Modara

Fest for Contemporary Music

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is Modara. I’ll meet you there.”
Rumi, 13th century

The Trickster Orchestra’s festival for contemporary music, Modara, celebrates ambiguity and cultural transformation in music. Rumi’s idea of Modara is a place of intense encounter and dissolution of the self into something completely new. The festival embodies this utopian place of unity and presents revolutionary musicians that create transcultural art music transcending boundaries and merging traditions, genres, and instruments into new musical experiences.

The festival begins with several improvisation sessions all over Berlin, before concluding with two days of concerts at Heimathafen, Neukölln.

Lineup

Vocals Cymin Samawatie
Trombone Hilary Jeffery
Oud & Guitar Mahan Mirarab
Grand Piano Niko Meinhold
Koto Naoko Kikuchi
Vibraphone & Marimba Taiko Saito
Bass Clarinet & Electronics Milian Vogel
Kanun Bassem Alkhouri
Trumpet Liz Allbee
Viola Martin Stegner
Electronics Korhan Erel
Paetzold Bass Recorder Susanne Fröhlich
Cello Anil Eraslan
Kawala & Nay Mohamad Fityan
Double Bass Ralf Schwarz
Drums Ketan Bhatti
Concept, Dramaturg Philip Geisler