"Magic musical performance" (Berliner Morgenpost, 03/04)

Since two years it now exists - the Venus Ensemble, an ensemble in which woman musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic got together to open up their own rooms, chances and opportunities, in a world in which men hold sway over chamber music. The basic idea of the young ensemble is to create a forum for small, but also variable composition of orchestral instrument players, open to all female members of the Berlin Philharmonic.
The composition in the past ranged from violinduo to pianoquintet all the way to stringoctet.

15 violinist, cellist and viola da braccio players, as well as different guest musicians have in the meantime been able to find their public attention through an ambitious blend of classical and contemporary music.
The repetoire of the ladies therefore includes different kinds of musical compositions like for example, the Mendelssohn octet, Kodaly stringtrio, Mozart duo for violins, Schostakowitsch pianoquintet as well as stringquartets by Sofia Gubaidulina and the Fauré pianoquartet.
Future projects of the Venus Ensemble will include musical instruments like the horn and the flute besides string instruments and piano, in an effort to further fascinate their audience.