Titans Rising

The TITANS RISING Ensemble for Early Music was founded in 2014 by Sarah Fuhs and is dedicated to music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods with its diverse repertoire. The contrasting TITANS RISING program of chamber music performances covers a broad thematic spectrum from the crystal-clear polyphony of the Renaissance to the magnificent sacred music of the Counter-Reformation or the lively secular music of the early Italian Baroque to the exotic Baroque music from South America.

The virtuoso Roman program with Carissimi’s “Historia di Jephte” was performed again for the ensemble’s 10th anniversary in early 2024. The Christmas program “Bailar y danzar!” with an exciting contrast between Johannes Kapsberger’s Roman oratorio “I pastori di Bettelemme” and baroque music from Bolivia was funded by the Berlin Senate Administration in 2021. The TITANS RISING Ensemble has also been receiving basic funding for early music ensembles since 2023.

A particular focus of TITANS RISING is to present interesting people and events in history through our concerts. To this end, we are constantly developing our ongoing series on powerful women in politics and art. We also use short videos and other multimedia content embedded in our printed programs to depict the lives of our protagonists. In past concerts, for example, we have presented the patron Margaret of Austria and the rivalry between Lucrezia Borgia and Isabella d’Este. Many more women’s stories are planned for future projects.

Another focus of TITANS RISING is on rarely played works or unjustly forgotten composers of early music. On the occasion of Sebastiano Festa’s 500th anniversary in 2024, we will present the Italian frottola as well as the first madrigals by him and contemporaries such as Philippe Verdelot, Jhan Gero and others. In this way, the ensemble wants to make the full diversity of early music accessible to a broad public, arouse curiosity among the audience and cultivate the valuable musical heritage.

The TITANS RISING Ensemble regularly performs in the concert series of the same name at the Lietzensee in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which is held about ten times a year in the Berlin Evangelical Church Am Lietzensee with varied programs and has been a member of the European network for early music REMA since 2024. For the 100th concert, the madrigals of Johann Hermann Schein and dances by Michael Praetorius, among others, took center stage in order to sonorous present the theme “All wild animals in the green forest – a celebration of nature”. Collaborations with educational institutions in Berlin and Brandenburg are planned for 2024/25.