Since its foundation the ensemble has combined contemporary repertoire with Middle Age, Baroque and Renaissance works in its concerts throughout Europe. With its original scoring of recorder, baroque violin, viola da gamba and harpsischord, it has premiered pieces of different aesthetics and formats (electronics, video, poetry, improvisation), showing a wide palette of expressive possibilities of the ensemble. Continuum XXI has also premiered several works originally written for historical instruments. This is the case of the composers Peter Ablinger, Raphaël Cendo, José M. Sánchez-Verdú, Alberto Bernal, Helga Arias, Sergio Blardony, Manuel J. Sánchez or Sandra Lanuza.

Since 2018, Continuum XXI has been part of the “Contemporary Music Support Program” of the German Musical Council (Deutscher Musikrat, Förderprojekte Zeitgenössische Musik) as a young and innovative initiative, which refers to our ensemble in the following terms: “It was a great concert with an uncommon program, new and interesting discoveries and all played to a very high level.”

Continuum XXI has won the Cesar-Etopia Labs 2020 residency and published the interdisciplinary work Continuum XXI: TRACES with visual artist and composer Joan Gómez Alemany. The ensemble has also been interviewed in RNE (Musica Viva) or in the online magazine SulPonticello and selected for the prestigious Libro de Oro de la Música Española (Melómano). At present, the ensemble works closely with renowned composers, of whom it is going to perform world premieres in Germany, Portugal, Spain and other European countries. In addition, Continuum XXI collaborates with artists from other disciplines, such as the theater group “theatrale subversion” in their programs Ritual Reloaded or Music of the extremes.

The ensemble has received the support of important institutions such as the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Deutscher Musikrat, Musikfonds, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Sparkasse Dresden, Klangnetzt Dresden, ETOPIA-Cesar Residency, SLUB Dresden, Kühlhaus Berlin, etc.

Review in the magazine Scherzo | Continuum XXI, behind Scelsi’s shadow (Spanish).

Interview in the online magazine SulPonticello | Continuum XXI: feedback between past and present (Spanish).

Interview in the Spanish radio show Música viva (RNE): Classical music vs contemporary music (Spanish).