The violinist Johannes Haase moves on electric and modern instruments
in the wonderful intersection of contemporary music, jazz and
improvised music. He collaborates with artists such as rapper Flowin
Immo, sitar master Imran Khan and pianist Johanna Borchert, played
tangos in milongas in Buenos Aires, concerts at the Fusion Festival as
well as in major concert halls worldwide, among others with the
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
His solo projects focus on contemporary sounds, electronics and
improvisation: with the use of effect devices, preparations and
unusual playing techniques, sound worlds are explored / opened up that
are not normally associated with a violin, thus expanding the concept
of instruments. Haase initiates projects and regularly works
interdisciplinary: in the audiovisual Haase & Rößler Duo and since
2014 with architects, visual artists and poets of the Corporación
Cultural Amereida, Chile (Ciudad Abierta). In 2018 and 2019, he has
collaborated with the Goethe Institute in India and Chile.
Collaboration with composers in Europe and South America is a natural
and inspiring part of his life, and he has particularly enjoyed
working with Beat Furrer, Klaus Huber, and does so regularly with
composers of the younger generation. Johannes is the winner of the
John Cage Prize of the John Cage Organ Foundation Halberstadt, and he
was also awarded the Klaus Huber Special Prize of the Hochschule der

Künste Bremen for his commitment to contemporary music. He is co-
founder of the Kommas Ensemble (Cologne).

He also performs worldwide with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
and the Kammerorchester Basel, collectivo eunk, in duo with Johanna
Borchert, the violin-drum duos ohneland and Scylla, and the
improvisation groups Myotis Kollektiv and The First Church of Free
Music.
Johannes has given masterclasses and workshops at various universities
in South America Europe and Asia and was a lecturer with the Junge
Deutsche Philharmonie in 2018, and since 2019 he has been teaching
improvisation at the Academy of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen.

Joosten Ellée studied with Prof. Thomas Klug (HfK Bremen) and Prof.
Petra Müllejans (HfMDK Frankfurt). He is concertmaster, artistic
director and co-founder of ensemble reflektor. In addition to active
participation in ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, the
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Ensemble Continuum, Joosten
realizes his own musical concepts with or without violin in front of
or behind the orchestra, in chamber music groups or on the computer.
"If I survey my development and its goal so far, I neither complain
nor am I satisfied." - Franz Kafka, Report for an Academy

Yuko Hara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts as well as the
Geneva Conservatory and the Basel Music Academy. She is a prize winner
of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Tokyo
Music Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with the Japan
Philharmonic Orchestra and plays with the Zurich Opera House Orchestra
and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, among others. With the
Barockbratsche she is a member of the ensemble Volcania in Bremen and
plays with the Orchestra La Scintilla in Zurich and the Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra. She is an avid chamber musician, studying string
quartet with Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and winning 3rd prize at
the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. She is violist of
the Quatuor Ardeo in Paris and the franz ensemble in Bremen, and since
2018 the artistic director of the French festival Hirondelle.

Cellist Jakob Nierenz studied at the HfK Bremen and at Rice University
in Houston/USA. Until the end of the 2019/20 season he was deputy
principal cellist of the Philharmonic Orchestra Lübeck. He is solo
cellist of the "ensemble reflektor", which will debut at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in the 2020/21 season.
Jakob Nierenz was a member of the Houston-based new music ensemble
Loop38 and served as principal cellist during its inaugural season in
2016/2017. A special moment in his career was a performance with
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble in Mannheim in 2018. With close
friends, he plays in the Rothko String Quartet (concerts at PODIUM
Festival Esslingen and Taktraum Festival Ingolstadt, among others) and
the OvAnima Piano Trio (concerts in the USA, Spain and Germany). From
the summer semester 2021 he will be Artist in Residence at Leuphana

The violinist Johannes Haase moves on electric and modern instruments
in the wonderful intersection of contemporary music, jazz and
improvised music. He collaborates with artists such as rapper Flowin
Immo, sitar master Imran Khan and pianist Johanna Borchert, played
tangos in milongas in Buenos Aires, concerts at the Fusion Festival as
well as in major concert halls worldwide, among others with the
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
His solo projects focus on contemporary sounds, electronics and
improvisation: with the use of effect devices, preparations and
unusual playing techniques, sound worlds are explored / opened up that
are not normally associated with a violin, thus expanding the concept
of instruments. Haase initiates projects and regularly works
interdisciplinary: in the audiovisual Haase & Rößler Duo and since
2014 with architects, visual artists and poets of the Corporación
Cultural Amereida, Chile (Ciudad Abierta). In 2018 and 2019, he has
collaborated with the Goethe Institute in India and Chile.
Collaboration with composers in Europe and South America is a natural
and inspiring part of his life, and he has particularly enjoyed
working with Beat Furrer, Klaus Huber, and does so regularly with
composers of the younger generation. Johannes is the winner of the
John Cage Prize of the John Cage Organ Foundation Halberstadt, and he
was also awarded the Klaus Huber Special Prize of the Hochschule der

Künste Bremen for his commitment to contemporary music. He is co-
founder of the Kommas Ensemble (Cologne).

He also performs worldwide with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
and the Kammerorchester Basel, collectivo eunk, in duo with Johanna
Borchert, the violin-drum duos ohneland and Scylla, and the
improvisation groups Myotis Kollektiv and The First Church of Free
Music.
Johannes has given masterclasses and workshops at various universities
in South America Europe and Asia and was a lecturer with the Junge
Deutsche Philharmonie in 2018, and since 2019 he has been teaching
improvisation at the Academy of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen.

Joosten Ellée studied with Prof. Thomas Klug (HfK Bremen) and Prof.
Petra Müllejans (HfMDK Frankfurt). He is concertmaster, artistic
director and co-founder of ensemble reflektor. In addition to active
participation in ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, the
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Ensemble Continuum, Joosten
realizes his own musical concepts with or without violin in front of
or behind the orchestra, in chamber music groups or on the computer.
"If I survey my development and its goal so far, I neither complain
nor am I satisfied." - Franz Kafka, Report for an Academy

Yuko Hara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts as well as the
Geneva Conservatory and the Basel Music Academy. She is a prize winner
of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Tokyo
Music Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with the Japan
Philharmonic Orchestra and plays with the Zurich Opera House Orchestra
and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, among others. With the
Barockbratsche she is a member of the ensemble Volcania in Bremen and
plays with the Orchestra La Scintilla in Zurich and the Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra. She is an avid chamber musician, studying string
quartet with Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and winning 3rd prize at
the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. She is violist of
the Quatuor Ardeo in Paris and the franz ensemble in Bremen, and since
2018 the artistic director of the French festival Hirondelle.

Cellist Jakob Nierenz studied at the HfK Bremen and at Rice University
in Houston/USA. Until the end of the 2019/20 season he was deputy
principal cellist of the Philharmonic Orchestra Lübeck. He is solo
cellist of the "ensemble reflektor", which will debut at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in the 2020/21 season.
Jakob Nierenz was a member of the Houston-based new music ensemble
Loop38 and served as principal cellist during its inaugural season in
2016/2017. A special moment in his career was a performance with
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble in Mannheim in 2018. With close
friends, he plays in the Rothko String Quartet (concerts at PODIUM
Festival Esslingen and Taktraum Festival Ingolstadt, among others) and
the OvAnima Piano Trio (concerts in the USA, Spain and Germany). From
the summer semester 2021 he will be Artist in Residence at Leuphana