April 19, 2026
…sometimes you just need the right space.
In the unique acoustics of the "Alte Kirche Fautenbach" near Achern, we Escapadinnen were able to unleash our best, most exclusive pianissimo at "Träume & Visionen" and together with Sebastian Mirow immerse yourself in many dreamlike colors.
The friendly, attentive audience shared a completely new experience with us: dreaming at eleven in the morning – that's possible too!
April 2026
Joy and sorrow – who doesn't know them? We are delighted to announce that we will be launching our passion project with Miriam Feuersinger in October in Stuttgart and Bregenz We are allowed to stage the performance. However, we are currently worried about whether we can afford it.
For this reason, our support association "Friends of viola da gamba music e.V." A crowdfunding campaign was launched via the savings bank platform "Wirwunder".
Donations up to €50 received between April 3rd and 6th, 2026 will be doubled by the Sparkasse bank. Now that's something to be hopeful about!
Click here to go to the promotion:
https://wirwunder.de/projects/173687?wirwunder=246&utm_campaign=user_share&utm_medium=ppp_sticky&utm_source=Email&utm_content=ww-sparkasse-karlsruhe
December 10, 2025
„Heavenly Strings“ at the State Museum Stuttgart.
Surrounded by impressive keyboard instruments, such as this Art Nouveau grand piano, we played our viola da gamba strings to the delight of the large, attentive audience.
Alongside us in the fully occupied "fruit crate": Ilona Les from Frankfurt, who handled this last-minute substitution wonderfully. Thank you!
Photo: Sabine Kreutzberger
October 12, 2025
We were so happy!
Finally, we were able to enjoy some time in the Greifenberg Institute Playing one of the legendary workshop concerts at Lake Ammersee! This time as part of the 3-day music festival, where "Dreams & Visions" with Sebastian Mirow as speaker formed the grand finale.
Our hosts Margret Madelung and Helmut Balk are pictured here with 75% of the Escapadinnen. (The remaining 25% are taking photos…)
Thank you to the organizers Sabine Lutzenberger and Susa Timm for this beautiful autumn weekend!
October 5, 2025
The sound of bells filled the Jägerhaus, the cultural hub of the municipality of Forst. What a fantastic audience! Their enthusiasm truly overwhelmed us. And the thoughtful, attentive care provided on-site by the team of... Local history and cultural association. Many thanks for the wonderful welcome, the Mozartkugeln, and the lovely evening that ended with a delicious meal together. A huge thank you for the delicious food!
September 28, 2025
How wonderful that we were able to present our "Festive Music" for a second time in the venerable—already somewhat fresh—monastery church in Lorch. We felt surrounded and supported by so many positive vibes from our many fans from Stuttgart and the surrounding area, as well as from all the new listeners who joined us. And the idea from the audience to simply bring a bouquet of sunflowers and place them as a splash of color in front of the organ—simply fantastic! Thank you to Klaus-Dieter Mayer, Reinald Schwarz, and thank you to the entire team at the „"Music in Lorch"“We'd love to come back again!.
September 27, 2025
What a joy to play music that had been hidden for so long! Our musical nose Cosimo Stawiarski has once again unearthed unique 17th-century compositions for us. Featuring the magnificent soprano Miriam Feuersinger and wonderful colleagues, we are playing this touching music in the series „"music on demand"“ in the Christ Church in Karlsruhe. . Simon Linné (Theorbo), Simon Reichert (Organ) and Cosimo Stawiarski (violin and artistic direction) – a dream team par excellence!
6 July 2025
Our bells rang out again, this time in the baroque St Mary's Chapel in Kirrweiler/Pfalz. The rush was gigantic, the chapel with its 80 seats was completely full. And this was despite the fact that we had some formidable competition in the form of the "Kirrweiler Weinzehnt". The midsummer temperatures in the first half of the concert didn't just make the tightly packed audience sweat. Our strings were also really steaming. The fact that we unfolded a "constantly and lustfully fanning out kaleidoscope of figurations" was evident the next day in the Rheinpfalz to read. Well then!
27 June 2025
Theatre Festival St. Gallen, Tosca and the bells, us with our bell programme "What strikes the clock?" - and all this in the atmospheric Forum St. Katharinen with breathtaking acoustics and a wonderful representation.
Thank you, Laura Frey!
Next time we'd love to have a programme for viola da gamba+organ! 🙂
11 May 2025
We will remember this bright May day for a long time: such a nice and overwhelmingly numerous audience listened to the sounds of our "Passecailles" anniversary concert! Andrea C. Baur was at our side with her baroque guitar and theorbo. In addition, there was a marvellous play of light from outside, enriched with lovely birdsong from the garden. Simply marvellous!
9 May 2025
In her interview on SWR Kultur, Jane Höck captured our ensemble Les Escapades so wonderfully, with great warmth and enthusiasm.
Listen for yourself:
https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/musik-klassik/25-jahre-karlsruher-gambenconsort-les-escapades-100.html
March 2025
In the March issue of Viola da Gamba Magazine there is an interesting interview on the occasion of our ensemble anniversary.
It can be read
Here
28 March 2025
...that was in 2007. Our first press photo, staged by Jochen Klenk
You can download our anniversary flyer here view.
9 May 2025 INVITATION TO THE CONSORT GAME
16.00-18.00, 76135 Karlsruhe, Stephanienbad, Breite Str. 49
Do you already have experience in consort?
And would you like to play with us? Here's your chance!
Coordination: Franziska Finckh | f.finckh@gmx.de | 0721-8203371
Application deadline: 28 April 2025
18.00 hrs Snack
19.00 Annual General Meeting Friends of viol music e.V.
17 November 2024
"Freshly painted" - a complete success!
This time we were at the start with an extended line-up and an intensive, demanding programme.
We were joined by two extremely accomplished young string players from Frankfurt. With Paula Rommel (alto viol) and Anne Clement (bass viol) we had a lot of fun during the two rehearsal days and of course also at the concert!
The fact that we were able to play for our many fans in an almost completely full church fills us with great joy.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this fulfilling concert evening: Dieter Cramer, cantor of the Auferstehungskirche, the "Freunde der Gambenmusik e.V.", Frank Thissen, Roland Winger and everyone on site.
24 July 2024
After all the wonderful concerts with Sebastian Mirow, there was a special event today:
the escapade company outing to the Baden-Baden theatre!
Today we were allowed to watch:
at the penultimate performance of the musical "The Addams Family„.
Great fun for all the senses.
And Sebastian in the leading role of the singing, dancing, fencing Gomez Addams.
LOVELY!
22 June 2024
824 kilometres in one weekend in a Stadtmobil bus...
to dream in the marvellous baroque church in Heiligenberg! And for those who don't yet know: this small hamlet, which is difficult to find on a map, is the source of Lower Bavarian viol making. We even met Hartmut Münzberg, the legendary founder of the Heiligenberg violin-making workshop, in the flesh! How nice.
After the concert break with wine and snacks on the green church lawn, it gradually got darker and our blue light atmospherically illuminated the dreams and visions.
9 June 2024
even though it was very bright outside and the nights are very short in June:
in Frankfurt's Carmelite monastery, we immersed ourselves in the atmosphere of the night, together
with the actor Sebastian Mirow.
We are still very touched by this wonderful, dreamlike atmosphere and by the many people who shared our dreams on this election Sunday.
Photo: ALLEGRA Thomas Rainer
24 April 2024
Who would have thought it: Les Escapades at the Karlsruhe Tollhaus!!! Sandie Wollasch had invited us, together with her "women" and the brilliant Klaus Wagenleiter Trio, to present her latest project "Women's choice" to present. In addition to accompanying their song "I was wrong", we were also able to contribute an original gamba piece from a completely different world. In this context, it was perhaps a curious idea - the audience in the packed Tollhaus-Saal loved it. And it was a great experience for us to be on stage with Sandie and all the great people!
Photo: Bernadette Wozniak-Fink
March 2024
Good Friday music at its finest in the Christuskirche in Karlsruhe (cond. Peter Gortner): Buxtehude's cantata cycle "Membra Jesu nostri" was performed here alternating with percussion improvisations (Thorsten Gellings) and readings of Paul Gerhardt texts (Stephanie Köhler), top-class soloists and the extended Escapades ensemble.
In the morning, the worshippers experienced "The Seven Words of Jesus on the Cross" by Heinrich Schütz. A maximally intensive day with full viola da gamba use!
Photo: Daniel Schreiber
January 2024
What a wonderful souvenir! This photo reached us today via a small diversions from Tenerife.
A reminder of the studio concert with the Karlsruhe jazz and pop singer Sandie Wollasch last year in the legendary Kangaroo Studios.
The Karlsruhe musician Rolf Ableiter took the photographs with his old Leica camera.
How beautiful!
29 December 2023
"Between the years" we were on the road with the Träume programme. The atmosphere in the sold-out concert hall of the Hessian State Archives Marburg was overwhelming. We enjoyed fabulous all-round support from the 1st Chairwoman of the Marburg Castle Concerts Association, PD Dr Anna Widmer and her great team!
The "Friends of viola da gamba music e.V." once again provided us with exemplary support in terms of organisation and transport services.
A big "Esscapaden" thank you also goes to Mrs Friedrich.
Of course, the contemporary piece "Il sogno di Giulia" by Austrian composer Fritz Keil, which he composed (in one go, so to speak) for our ensemble on a Raunacht 2022, was a perfect fit for the current "Raunächte".
13 October 2023
Together with the speaker Sebastian Mirow we presented our new CD today.
The blue jackets fit the "Dreams & Visions" theme really well!
The photographer Claudia Fy has captured us and the concert atmosphere in a sensitive way. More atmospheric impressions can be found in our Gallery.
16 + 17 September 2023
Miriam Feuersinger and the extended ensemble Les Escapades were guests in Schöntal Monastery as part of the Hohenlohe Music Summer and in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Maulbronn. Heartfelt thanks to Matthias Bergmann from Mannheim, who stepped in at short notice for the gambist Barbara Pfeifer.
Photo: © Conrad Schmitz/ Maulbronn Monastery Concerts
8 September 2023
...it has become very beautiful, our Dreams CD! A great concept to combine music and words. On our Press page you can see for yourself.
You can find an audio sample on our Media page.
Or you can visit our release concert on 13 October?
All information is available in the Concert calendar