In the last two decades, Sarband created a large number of innovative programs
which set important trends and were copied by many ensembles:

2008

Origine (Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)

Cultures of Tolerance: Al-Andalus, Ottoman Empire & Europe

Alla Turca: Prussian-Ottoman Encounters 1763-1793 (& Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)

Happy Birthday: Poetic Reflections on the Birth of Mohammed, Bacchus, Buddha and Jesus

Water Roses
A Synaesthetic Performance with Turkish Water Music and Water Painting

The Fountain of Youth

Sindbad the Sailor
Chinese and Arab Musicians meet on the Silkroad of the Seas

2007

Journeys to Inaccessible Places
G. I. Gurdjieffs Mystical Piano Works
meet the Whirling Dervishes from the Golden Horn

A Great Love
Sheherazade in Paris

Frost (& Chorus sine nomine)

Jeux d'Amour
The Art of Juggling & The Game of Love in Troubadour Culture (& Ben Smalls, Juggler)

2006

An Arabian Passion
J. S. Bach's Passions in Present-Day & Arabian Metamorphoses (& Modern String Quartet)

Abduction to the Seraglio (& Da Ponte Octet)

Passions
Suffering & Passion in the Waning of the Middle Ages

Around Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca
Musical Travels & Creative Misunderstandings
between Orient & Occident (& Tom Beghin, Pianoforte)

2005

Sacred Bridges
Jewish, Christian & Muslim Psalm Settings from the 16th - 17th Cent. (& King's Singers)

Ecco la Primavera
Springtime and Rebirth in the Culture of the Early Italian Renaissance

La Vita di San Francesco
(Scenical Setting)

Nordic Spring Rites (& Ulla Pirttijärvi)

Mevlud
The Birth of the Prophet

Sema
Presence of God (& Dervishes from the Golden Horn)

2004

Sefardic Tangos (& Trio Orientacion)

The Waltz
Travels from Viennese Waltz Ecstasy to the Mystic of the Whirling Derwishes (& Concerto Köln)

2003

Sacra Rappresentazione
A 14th Cent. Italian Easter Play (Scenical Setting)

Canto dela Vida (& Pino de Vittorio)

2002

Son of the Sheik
The famous American Silent Movie with Rudolph Valentino
Accompanied by Near Eastern Live Music

2000

Dream of the Orient
"Turkish Music" by Gluck, Mozart & Kraus meets
Music from the Turkish Sultans' Seraglio (& Concerto Köln)

Jerusalem!
Jerusalem Delivered: A Literary & Musical Opera Fantasy

1999

Dance of the Ages: Danse Gothique
Music by Guillaume de Machaut & Erik Satie

Vox Feminae (Sacred Tales)
Female Paths to God in Medieval Oriental & Occidental Music

1997

Oriental Obsession
"Alla Turca" in European Music of the 16.-17. Centuries

Chants
Early Female Spiritual Music

1996

Fallen Women
Women in Medieval Sacred Music (& Osnabrück Youth Choir)

Only Peace is Sacred
Jewish, Christian & Muslim Songs from the Age of the Crusades

1995

Amor mi fa cantar
Trecento Music & Culture (Scenical Setting)

1994

Sefarad
Songs from the Lives of the Spanish Jews Around the Mediterranean

Yehudi
Jewish Music from the Sultan's Seraglio

1993

Merchants & Musicians on their way from Augsburg to Constantinople -
A Musical Voyage at the End of the 15th Century

Weltenwanderer (& Rabih Abou-Khalil)

1992

A Musical Voyage in the 15th Century from Bavaria to Constantinople

From Spain to Spain
A Voyage in Music & Dance

1991

Reformation
Music from the Age of Martin Luther

Music from the Ottoman Empire

1990

The Feast of the Donkey
A Medieval New Years Liturgy for Fools & Jugglers (Scenical Setting)

Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum
(Scenical Setting)

Love Songs from Venice & Constantinople

A Musical Voyage from Venice to Constantinople

1989

Mystiyism & Extasy (Cantico)
Sacred Medieval Music from Orient & Occident in the Tradition of St. Francis

Musik der Könige
Music from the Courts of Tamerlane at Samarcand & Federigo II at Palermo

Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

A Medieval Pilgrimns Night
Miracles of St. Niclas / Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (Scenical Setting)

Labyrinth
Medieval & Traditional Bulgarian Music
A Journey through the Labyrinth of Cultures Living and Bygone (& Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares)

Cantigas
Spanish Music from the Middle Ages

1988

Hildegard von Bingen

1987

Vox Humana
Medieval Singing(& Andrea von Ramm)

Trecento (& Andrea von Ramm)

Medieval Music from Italy, Spain and the Ottoman Empire

Çengi and Courtly Lady
Medieval Dance Music from Italy & Turkey

Pilgrims & Crusaders
Medieval and Baroque Music & Storytelling (Scenical Setting)

1986

Common Roots of Turkish, Persian, Indian & Medieval European Music

Cantigas de Santa Maria & Medieval Arabo-Andalusian Music (& Andrea von Ramm)