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Moritz Schneidewendt

creates experiences that are more than just entertainment. As a clarinettist and ensemble leader, he is passionate about contemporary music - he listens to the unexpected, explores new perspectives and personally tells stories of the unexpected on stage.

With his ensembles Broken Frames Syndicate, (Ensemble Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation 2024), Kommas Ensemble, ensemble via nova, he stands for the diversification of musical life and wants to open up spaces for social discourse.

In close collaboration with young composers and artists from other disciplines and as a sought-after chamber musician, Moritz can be heard around the world - at the same time he writes, thinks and experiments in his Offenbach studio.


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ENSEMBLE MODERN
Poppe / Paxton
13. November 2025
Muziekgebouw Amsterdam
ENSEMBLE MODERN
Poppe / Paxton
NOW! Festival
09. November 2025
Essen
BROKEN FRAMES SYNDICATE
interdisciplinary performances
@saasfee* pavilon
25./26. Oktober 2025
Frankfurt/Main

ENSEMBLE MODERN
City Life – Steve Reich
10. Oktober 2025
Alte Oper, Frankfurt

BROKEN FRAMES SYNDICATE
Transparenz – sonic sculptures
04. Oktober – 6 pm
Karlskaserne Ludwigsburg

Open Rehearsal
Music inspired by Arvo Pärt
 Kantorei Offenbach
26. September – 7:45 pm
Lutherkirche, Offenbach
BROKEN FRAMES SYNDICATE
Hello Darkness
14. September 2025 – 7 pm
Konzerthaus Blaibach
BROKEN FRAMES SYNDICATE
Hello Darkness “dreams”
Naxos Hallenkonzert #89
05. September 2025 – 8 pm
Produktionshaus Naxos
Frankfurt/Main

BROKEN FRAMES SYNDICATE
BHV’45
28. August 2025
Parfümerie, Frankfurt
TANZKAMERA OBSCURA
8. May 2025
Kunsthalle Trier

BROKEN FRAMES SYNDICATE
mach kaputt, was dich kaputt macht #1 - Kommunikation
21. March 2025
Atelier Wäscherei
Offenbach

KOMMAS ENSEMBLE
#DUST 1
15. March 2025 – 8 pm
Alte Feuerwache, Bühne
Cologne

Ensemble Risonanze Erranti
in memoriam Wolfgang Rihm
6. March 2025
Akademie der Künste
Munich

︎︎︎Archive
Anwesend (© Marie Schwarze) Broken Frames Syndicate Broken Frames Syndicate Anwesend (© Marie Schwarze) Anwesend (© Marie Schwarze) Misfits Gaze vol. 1 (© Lena Bils) Misfits Gaze vol. 1 (© Lena Bils)

Broken Frames Syndicate

Broken Frames Syndicate is a ten-piece soloist ensemble from Frankfurt dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary music and the further development of a contemporary concert culture.

For our innovative project ideas and the already distinct frequency in the great sound of contemporary music, we were awarded the Ensemble Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2024.

Broken Frames Syndicate combines excellent ensemble playing with innovative, socio-political concepts, questions norms and expands the listening experience through interdisciplinary collaborations and in-house productions.

The ensemble was founded in 2018 after the International Ensemble Modern Academy. It is now at home in the Frankfurt cultural space "Netzwerk Seilerei" - where the group rehearses, experiments and organizes itself.
We also perform regularly in concerts in Germany and abroad.


︎︎︎ brokenframessyndicate.com
︎︎︎ Soundcloud

Members
    Lola Rubio, Violin
    William Overcash, Violin
    Laura Hovestadt, Viola
    Nathan Watts, Violoncello
    Katrin Szamatulski, Flute
    Moritz Schneidewendt, Clarinet
    Peng-Hui Wang, Bassoon
    Talvi Hunt, Piano
    Yu-Ling Chiu, Percussion
    Lautaro Mura Fuentealba, Conductor
    Paul Pape, visual art

Management – artistic direction
    Moritz Schneidewendt
    Katrin Szamatulski




We question the existing.

We draw strength from fractures.

We are the Broken Frames Syndicate.

We cooperate with young composers and put current music into the context of topics that matter to us.

Follow us into new worlds.