alba KULTUR - International Office for Global Music

For 30 years alba KULTUR has been working as an independent office, specialized in global music cultures ranging from classical non-Western music and orally transmitted traditional music and folk to contemporary hybrid and creolised fusion and crossover projects, that all express the concept of cultural diversity in a globalised world.

Our work is based on the philosophy, that music is a fundamental human expression. It creates and supports social and cultural identity. Dealing with both, one's own music and foreign music cultures help to establish openness, tolerance, respect, self-awareness, sensitivity and the ability to give and receive criticism - all valuable criteria for a peaceful living together and the development of a vibrant civil society.
We primarily work in the following areas:

• artist management
• curatorial work
• concept development and consulting
• cultural education
• music and sustainable development
• cultural political commitment

Conferences & Lectures

alba KULTUR regularly participates at international conferences, symposia, excursions etc. Find out, where we could meet next - online and face to face - to exchange ideas, new projects and future collaborations !
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Klangkosmos NRW

Klangkosmos NRW is the global music network of local cultural organsations in more than 20 cities in North Rhine-Westphalia since the year 2000.

Please check out the program 2021/ 2022 on the website of Klangkosmos NRW.


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Migrants Music Manifesto - Projektwoche

The aim of this project, funded by the EU Creative Europe Culture Programm 2020 - 2022 and organized with partner organisations in France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and alba KULTUR in Germany, is to improve artistic communication and understanding of migrants and refugees in Europe through music. 
The project week from 13.-19. September 2021 in Cologne/ Germany offers a workshopLab with 20 sessions, residence and concert of the spectacular project orchester with 28 musicians based in NRW and in Brussels and a public general debate / conference on the post-pandemic perspectives for the global-local music in NRW and in Europe.   

The full program will be online on 01.07.2021. Registration and tickets from 01.07.2021 here.
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Focus Rhineland

Since more than 25 years we are collaborating with countless ensembles of the rich and creative local music scene based in the music city of Cologne and in the surroundings of Rhineland. Discover the Sound of Rhineland !
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Globalflux

A civil society iniative of the global music scene in North Rhine-Westphalia

with:
Calender of global music concerts
Database of Cologne based musians and bands
 
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Klassik der Welt in der Elbphilharmonie

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg features music from non-Western cultures with own 'classical' traditions - complex art music with a along history of notation. An important part of these 'Classics Of The World' are as well music styles which had been handed over orally and refined by master musicians over centuries.  

New program out 2021/ 2022 is out !

   
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Weltmusik in der Alten Oper Frankfurt

World music series at Frankfurt Old Opera House at Mozartsaal 
New program out 2021/ 2022 is out !



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UNESCO

alba KULTUR supports the work of the German UNESCO Commission to implement the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage through practical projects in the field of global music.

Find out more about world wide RESILIART Debates : Artists and Creativity beyond Crisis

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Artist Mobility

Throughout the last twenty years, alba KULTUR has specialised in and continously worked on issues regarding artist mobility ...



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CCAS Summer Tours in France

CCAS act in favor of the development of human beeings, the well-being of each person and the quality of life, while respecting in solidarity and dignity their legal rights. During the vacation CCAS offers in its centers and in sites of its social tourism partners cultural programs with widest diversity of expression - included an inside view into music from various cultures performed by master musicians.    
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Egschiglen

Contemporary and Traditional Music from Mongolia
Right from the beginning almost thirty years ago Egschiglen set the focus of their artistic work on contemporary music. They explored the sound dimensions of works by contemporary Mongolian composers with their fine-tuned arrangements, using traditional instruments from Mongolia and Central Asian vocal techniques ...
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