Name: Mozart Paradox
Start: 2026-03-22T19:00:00
Location: CityPalais

Thomas Enhco

Duisburger Philharmoniker

In the 2024/2025 season, Thomas Enhco already explored "Transatlantic Sound Worlds" with the Duisburg Philharmonic. And in his return, the artist proves himself to be an accomplished wanderer between musical worlds, equally at home in jazz and the classical repertoire. Both influences flow into his new program, "Mozart Paradox." "Mozart has accompanied me since childhood," recalls Thomas Enhco. "As a jazz musician, however, I had never before resorted to his work to improvise, as I often did with Bach, Brahms, or Schumann." And the versatile musician is now changing that with a project entirely dedicated to the work of the Salzburg prodigy. For this project, he has compiled a personal selection of popular works—including the "Lacrimosa" from the famous Requiem, the overture to the opera "Don Giovanni," and the eerily beautiful clarinet concerto—on which he can improvise with complete freedom. He wants to "consider the essence of Mozart's music through the prism of jazz" and explore the paradoxes in Mozart's emotional world: "tragedy and humor, exuberant joy and profound sadness, childlike mischief and reflections on death."