Tonkünstler-on-the-Bund was founded to fix orchestras.

But what is an orchestra? Contrary to popular belief, a lot of knowledge about the sound of western art music has been lost since the invention of the gramophone. The early years of TKB, therefore, saw a gradual build-up of this lost sound.

After October 2022, the original approach was found to be inadequate.

It became clear to us that the modern composer is burdened with the Scylla of professionalisation (a snapshot of the bons mots on which subject was captured in a fortune program) and the Charybdis of indifference to verbal learning. Thus, the recent work of TKB is geared instead to the modelling of a new type of composer.