Voyage en Block

Voyage en BLOCK was founded as a pure instrumental ensemble in Freiburg 2003. In the meantime the initial instrumental make-up of group has expanded: tenor Joachim Streckfuß, percussionists Max Riefer, Kevin Sims and Nicholas Reed, and lute player Erik Skanke Høsøien have all become active members of the ensemble. Apart from public performances presented by the University of Music, Freiburg, and concerts throughout Germany, in June 2005 the ensemble participated in the “10th Alte-Musik-Treff” Berlin. In January 2006, Voyage en BLOCK was honoured with the exceptional prize for early music from the Saarländische Rundfunk and the Fritz-Neumeyer-Akademie for early music of Saarland, which was combined with a production with Saarländische Rundfunk in June 2006.

In April 2007 the ensemble was a finalist at the “Musikpreis Schloss Waldthausen” competition in Mainz. In the same year, Voyage en BLOCK performed at concerts series such as the Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht (Fringe), Endenicher Herbst, as well as a concert put on by the Landesmusikrat Rheinland-Pfalz at the Mainz Landtag/State Parliament, which was recorded by the Südwestrundfunk (SWR). In May 2008 Voyage en BLOCK performed in the Festival de Música Antiga de Barcelona (Fringe) and played a concert in Aleppo/Syria during the Syrian-german days of culture. In the Final of the International Young Artist`s Presentation in Antwerp in August 2008 the Ensemble won the prize awarded by the jury as well as the prize awarded by the audience.

The Ensemble deals with a variety of music from the middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque and in addition plays original music and works especially arranged by and for the ensemble.