From Flensburg to Lübeck, Ensemble Connect brings together musicians, genres and cultures from different continents. The ensemble, consisting of pianist Ninon Gloger, oud player Shaul Bustan, percussionist Arian Robinson and cellist Nora Karakousoglou, combines influences and ideas to create unique, cross-genre works.

Together they bring culture to medium-sized towns in Schleswig-Holstein, promoting creative diversity and enlivening the region with experimental sounds and innovative music. Structured improvisation results in works that weave the cultural backgrounds of the members into an aesthetic whole.

External link: https://www.shaulbustan.com/ensembleconnect/

Uwe Johnson: Anniversaries - from the life of Gesine Cresspahl

With Charly Hübner and Caren Miosga
Piano/music: Ninon Gloger
Text montage/direction: Wolfgang Stockmann

The performance with Caren Miosga, Charly Hübner and Ninon Gloger (music/piano) is a journey through the narrative flow of the 1,875-page novel in which Gesine Cresspahl tells her ten-year-old daughter Marie about her own family history day by day over the course of a year. She presents exemplary characters, episodes, conversations, memories, reports and newspaper articles from the New York Times and everyday events in New York in 1967/1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War, student protests and the preparations for the invasion of Soviet troops into the C.S.S.R.

Exciting, entertaining, touching and socio-politically topical.

Press reviews:

"After occasional murmurs and applause, the performers, accompanied by Ninon Gloger on the piano (...) opened up their own access to Johnson's cosmos (...) From the moment the spotlights flickered on, you were right in the middle of Johnson's narrative stream, spanning time and place. - Hanno Müller (TA Erfurt)

"skilfully staged (...) In addition, pianist Ninon Gloger creates sounds on the keyboard. She does this so skilfully that the text always has the say. Sometimes she accompanies it with appropriate moods, sometimes she undermines it (...) the beguilingly beautiful "Blackbird" by the Beatles...". - Hanno Kabel (LN Lübeck)

„the reading attracted the audience in droves - and impressed! (...) Caren Miosga's sensitive, touching presence and the acting class of Charly Hübner, who also brilliantly brings the Mecklenburg background to life, combine with the musical drive of pianist Ninon Gloger to create an evening that can win over many new and returning readers. - Susanne Schulz (Strelitzer Zeitung)

Schauspiel Kiel - Berthold Brecht: Mother Courage

Director: Carlos Wagner
Musical direction: Ninon Gloger

Written by Brecht in exile in Sweden in 1938/39 with the help of Margarete Steffin and first performed at the Zurich Schauspielhaus in 1941, this drama shows the hopelessness and futility of human virtue in the face of the atrocities of war. In the dehumanised world of the Thirty Years' War and a devastated Europe, the sutler "Courage" learns that war has no winners.

Press reviews:

"... In the middle, death in the form of a skeleton costume has taken a seat at the piano. This is the most impressive image of the production (...) The musical performances in particular are among the strongest moments of the performance". - Lenard Brar Manthey Rojas (taz)

"A multi-layered production (...) in which the pianist Ninon Gloger, dressed in a skeleton leotard, dabs at fragile tones or maltreats the strings in various ways, bringing out all the brutality of Paul Dessau's music". - Ruth Bender (KN)