Lab der Musik

The Lab at its best: warm room, brilliant artists, a Sunday that earned it!

Arianna Manganello — mezzo-soprano, Deutsche Oper Berlin — and Elda Laro — pianist, conductor, Berliner Philharmonie — brought something warm and unhurried into our space. (Also, they didn’t forget to aura farm)

Getting closer to the end of the season, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the music, the people, and everything in between. ☺️

Last night at Oblomov, people!

Luca was back, and this time he brought Elene on drums and Thomas on guitar. Cecilia, you already know.

Garlajazz and his Swingers brought the swing, you brought the energy, and the floor took care of the rest. A space full of people who knew what to do with their feet.

Great to be back!

Young, precise, and already very hard to ignore.

The Exira Quartet came to the Lab for a Classic Series concert: four young players from Turkey, Lebanon, and Russia, bringing the classical canon and the musical cultures they come from into the same conversation.

Formed in Berlin in 2025, they’re still early in their path, and already there’s something quietly remarkable about how they play together. One of them, Alpay, is now part of the Lab family as a tutor!

We’re glad they found the Lab.

Ottodix has spent over twenty years building a practice that doesn’t fit a single category: electronic music, multimedia installations, concept albums, performances inside museums and biennials.

Behind the name is Alessandro Zannier, artist, musician, writer, who has collaborated with artists connected to Massive Attack, Subsonica and Bluvertigo, and exhibited alongside Ai Weiwei and Maurizio Cattelan.

His new album Cerebro Mundi starts in the amygdala, where fear and aggression live, and ends with the damage they do at planetary scale.

On 13 June, he performs it at Lab, close range.

🎟️ Limited capacity

A tenor walks into a room with a gramophone and a story to tell.

My Pappou’s Gramophone is Costa Latsos tracing his own musical journey out loud: from Sydney to Bologna to Berlin, through Italian song, operetta, and opera. Intimate, personal, and performed close.

At the piano: Francesca Rambaldi, a familiar face in the Lab, and the kind of collaborator who makes a recital feel like a conversation.

Only at Lab!

He’s been here before. Turns out once wasn’t enough.

Last year, Luca Garlaschelli brought his Musikorchestra to Oblomov and filled the room with something between jazz and theatre. This time he’s back. Same venue, different shape. Leaner, swingier, and ready to move.

Garlajazz and his Swingers is a quartet: bass, guitar, drums, violin, and Luca’s voice out front. The repertoire runs from the American swing songbook of the 30s and 40s into the warmer territory of Italian and Latin song: Besame Mucho, Historia de un Amor, Guarda che luna. All played in the spirit of Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday. Music that knows what a dancefloor is for.

They’ve been running Lindy Hop nights at the best swing venues in Italy for years. If your feet already know what to do, this is your evening. If they don’t yet, they’ll figure it out.

Don’t miss!

📍 Oblomov Kreuzkoelln
🗓️ 14 May / 20:00

Yesterday was cold, grey, and pouring rain. But not at our Lab. 😌

Martina Biondi, wonderful cellist and our dearest friend, warmed up the room with a few notes. We felt the bass tones in our hearts, and the sound was filling the room. She has been virtuosic and at the same time deeply connected with the music and the composers that wrote it.
It has been a very special concert, and we all took with us something precious in our hearts.

Thank you for being there. And thank you Martina, for coming back to where it all began. 🤍

Four strings. Four backgrounds. One stage.

The Exira Quartet brings Berlin’s chamber music scene into the Lab: founded in 2025, shaped by intensive mentorship from Daniel Barenboim, Michael Barenboim, Mihaela Martin, and Rainer Honeck, and already at home on the stage of the Pierre Boulez Saal. Their repertoire moves between the classical canon and music rooted in the cultures their members come from — Turkey, Lebanon, and Russia — treating these not as additions to the programme but as part of the same conversation.

Don’t miss this unique event!

🎟️ Get your tickets in the link in our bio!

Live at Lab. Every time, it reminds us what this space is for. Ambre Ciel played the Elbphilharmonie, then came here. A Berlin living room, close enough to hear her breathe. She calls her music ‘music that breathes.’

In that room, it did.

Thank you !

Next on our Classic series: Les Miroirs du coeur

Arianna Manganello, Mezzo-soprano
Elda Laro, Piano

On May 24, mezzo-soprano Arianna Manganello and pianist Elda Laro come to Lab der Musik.

Arianna is a member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she has built a repertoire that spans Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, and more. She made her debut at 16 alongside Leo Nucci at Teatro Regio di Parma, and has since sung on stages from Belgrade to Naples.

Elda Laro is her ideal counterpart: coach, pianist, and conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin, a musician whose career stretches from the Berliner Philharmonie to the Salzburger Festspiele, from Tokyo to New York.

Don’t miss this unique event!

🎟️ Get your tickets in the link in our bio!

Our Classic series continues, and this one is personal.

Martina Biondi returns to Lab der Musik for a solo cello recital. Some of you might remember her from the very first concerts we ever hosted, when she played here with Duo Evocaciones. This time she comes back alone — just her and the cello. She recently recorded Max Reger’s three Suites for solo cello for Brilliant Classics. An evening worth clearing your Sunday for.

This is a donation based concert! Registration required — link in bio.