2025
Best Large Ensemble
"What on earth"
Cornelia Voglmayr
Austria
With their riveting production ”What on Earth” the energetic and ambitious, young Austrian String ensemble, Inn:Wien Ensemble, has created a deeply engaging concert experience in close collaboration with their artistic director and choreographer Cornelia Voglmayr. With this impressive and poetic performance the ensemble not only manages to mix music by Vivaldi and Grieg with composers like Ethel Smyth and Victoria Yagling with great virtuosity; the 11 musicians have also put in the extra effort of enhancing and strengthening their skillful musical expression with a perfectly honed scenic approach. This includes extensive choreographed movement, storylines without words and everchanging tableaus and add extra layers of expression to the music. The combination of highly skilled musicianship with this playful and experimental kind of body movement presentation not only succeeds in weaving a strong artistic thread from start to finish – it creates a unique, compelling and quite unforgettable concert experience for all ages to enjoy!

