On stage with Vokalsystem Berlin again! We will be appearing as an opera choir this week for the first time, embodying the Trojan and Carthaginian people in Niccolò Piccinni’s blockbuster Didon, a tragédie lyrique that amounted to over 250 performances in the late 18th century. The semistaged spectacle is part of this year’s programme of Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg on 25, 27, and 28 July, with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Forck. If you’d fancy an enjoyable lakeside opera experience, see here for tickets.
Electronic Concert by Vokalsystem
Warm invitation to this summer’s performances of Vokalsystem Berlin! We are presenting an electronic choral concert programme named [ˈkʁiːzə] (crisis), featuring music by Claudio Monteverdi, Benjamin Britten, Melissa Dunphy, Caroline Shaw, Ted Hearne, Radiohead, and others. Johannes David Wolff and Artschi Loyan are already bursting with playfulness and creativity, and I’m sure it will be a blast. Tickets at €14 / €9 are still available for the events on Friday 12 July, 8 pm, or Saturday 13 July, 6 pm and 8 pm, at the former distillery Monopol Berlin (a really cool space for vocal performances, by the way). Please refer to this website to book your ticket.
Streaming Releases #10–12
A selection of my piano music, composed during my years of study and adjunct teaching, is now available on all relevant streaming platforms. Performances all by myself. Please leave a fav or playlist add if you feel like it!
- Skulpturen, a four-part piano cycle (2009), represented here by the etude-like number Drei
- Novemberklage (2013), an extensive lament in sombre autumnal mood
- Kinderkaleidoskop (2015), a collection of short pieces dedicated to my then-four-year-old daughter
GMTH Lecture on Music Notation
Dear friends and colleagues, this is an invitation to attend the forthcoming event in the international online lecture series of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, taking place next week on Monday, July 1, 2024, 19:00 CEST. We are pleased to welcome Robert Komaniecki (University of British Columbia) who will present a talk entitled »Sheet Music Goes Viral: On the Past and Present of Music Notation as an Object of Aesthetic Significance«. This promises to be a both insightful and entertaining lecture, so please join us! Registration is possible via the GMTH website.
GMTH Panel on Political Pressure
Exciting discussion upcoming: In the framework of the international lecture series of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, which I have the pleasure of co-organising, there will be an online panel on the topic »Political Pressure and Abuse of Power in Academia and Music Institutions« next Thursday, 13 June, at 7 pm CEST. The composers Stefan Pohlit and Vladimir Rannev will discuss their experiences of ideological influence, discrimination, and institutional violence executed by their former employers in Türkiye and Russia. We are pleased to have music theorist Ellen Bakulina as a session chair.
Looking forward to an intriguing and possibly controversial exchange of thoughts! If you would like to join, please register via the GMTH website in order to receive the Zoom link.