Nina Šenk, laureate of the Erste Bank Composition Award 2024, is considered a key representative of Slovenia's up-and-coming international music scene. In her works, the 1982 born composer expands the possibilities of different soundscapes, questions the traditional structures of sound formations and creates a variety of harmonic timbres.

Following the world premiere of her opera Canvas as part of the Johann Joseph Fux Competition for Opera Composition 2023, Klangforum Wien is now collaborating with Nina Šenk again and will premiere her award winning piece November Night (2024) at Wien Modern 2024 on 21 November 2024 as part of the Erste Bank Composition Award, which is being presented for the 35th time this year.

Conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, Conductor-in-Residence of Klangforum Wien, the concert will also include the national premieres of Manos Tsangaris' Das Pizzicato Mysterium (2015-2016) and Juste Janulyte's Clessidra (2023), as well as Vladimir Tarnopolski's Foucault's Pendulum (2024).

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Photo: Nina Šenk - (c) Jože Suhadolnik

Programme

Justė Janulytė Clessidra (2023 NP)

Nina Šenk November Night (2024 WP)

Manos Tsangaris The Pizzicato Mystery (2015-2016 NP)

Vladimir Tarnopolski Foucault's Pendulum (2004)

Artists

Klangforum Wien

Conductor

Vimbayi Kaziboni

Solo Pieces by Omelchuk and Nurulla "Tower of Babel", Berlin, DE

Klangforum Wien

Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni

Dortmund Zeitinsel 2024 - Sound Cosmos Beat Furrer

Dortmund Concert Hall, Dortmund

5 October ’24 | 19:30

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With Beat Furrer's extensive vocal cycle Akusmata, Klangforum Wien and the vocal ensemble Cantando Admont are premiering a composition specially created for the Konzerthaus Dortmund. Furrer, who is regarded as one of the most important composers of our time, works with literary texts by Pythagoras for this demanding cycle and creates completely new, complex soundscapes as a result.

On the occasion of Furrer's 70th birthday, the Konzerthaus Dortmund is dedicating this year's Zeitinsel to him. The festival was developed in close collaboration with the composer and conductor, and will present his major works and new compositions as well as his outstanding music theatre Begehren.

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Photo Beat Furrer: © Manu Theobald

Programme

Beat Furrer A sei voci

Solage Fumeux fume par fumée for 3 voices

Beat Furrer In mia vita da vuolp

Magister Filipoctus de Caserta De ma douleur for 3 voices

Beat Furrer Spazio immergente I

Beat Furrer Akusmata for 8 voices and 8 instruments (premiere of a new part)

Artists

Klangforum Wien

Cantando Admont

Soloists

Johanna Zimmer soprano (Spazio immergente I)

Gerald Preinfalk saxophone

Mikael Rudolfsson trombone

Conductor

Cordula Bürgi

JUBILÄUMSKONZERT „100 JAHRE RADIO IN ÖSTERREICH, 80 JAHRE MUK“

Di, 01.10.2024, 19:25 Uhr

In Kooperation mit dem Sender Radio Österreich 1 (OE1) veranstaltet die Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien („die MUK“) am 1. Oktober 2024 ein Jubiläumskonzert unter dem Motto 100 Jahre Radio in Österreich, 80 Jahre MUK.

Am 1. Oktober 1924 ging die erste staatlich konzessionierte Rundfunkgesellschaft in Österreich auf Sendung: Mit den Worten „Hallo, hallo! Hier Radio Wien!“ stellte sich die Radio Verkehrs Aktiengesellschaft — kurz RAVAG, im Volksmund als Radio Wien bezeichnet — der Öffentlichkeit vor. Das neue Medium fand mit populären Konzerten, Unterhaltungs- und Bildungsprogrammen rasch ein großes Publikum. Seit 1926 diente das Gebäude der MUK (Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien) in der Johannesgasse 4a bei der Wiener Oper als erstes Radio-Funkhaus Österreichs.

PROGRAMM: ZEITGENÖSSISCHES, AKTUELLE KOMPOSITIONEN

Das Programm dieses Jubiläumskonzerts im MUK.theater (sowie live im Kultursender Radio Österreich 1) präsentiert Musik, die von österreichischen Musiker*innen und Komponist*innen zur radiophonen Aufführung komponiert oder arrangiert worden ist. Zitiert werden aber auch Bearbeitungen von Musik Richard Wagners, die am 1. Oktober 1924 zu hören gewesen sind.

Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt dieses Konzerts liegt auf Werken von Komponist*innen, die durch die Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten alle künstlerischen und musikpädagogischen Wirkungsmöglichkeiten verloren: Komponist*innen und Musikpädagog*innen wie Vally Weigl, Hans Gál, Egon Wellesz oder Bert Silving flohen ins Exil, andere — etwa Friedrich Wildgans — wurden inhaftiert.

Der von Elke Tschaikner und Christian Scheib moderierte Konzertabend beschränkt sich indes nicht auf die Erinnerung an die Geschichte, sondern bringt auch aktuelle Kompositionen zu Gehör: Neben einer Improvisation mit Live-Elektronik von Martin Siewert und Studierenden sind nicht weniger als drei Uraufführungen von Kompositionsstudierenden bei Dirk D’Ase durch das Koehne Quartett vorgesehen.

Die heutige MUK situiert sich seit 1945 (damals als Konversatorium der Stadt Wien) im Haus Johnannesgasse 4a, dessen Theater als Spiel- und Sendeort dieses Jubiläumskonzerts fungiert.
 

Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Programmschwerpunkts „100 Jahre Radio in Österreich, 80 Jahre MUK“ mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk (VG Rundfunk).

Nähere Informationen zur Fachtagung 100 Jahre Radio in Österreich: Programmatik und Wirkungsmacht der RAVAG (23.—24. Oktober | MUK.podium)

Termin

DI, 01.10.2024, 19:25 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort

Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien, MUK.theaterJohannesgasse 4a1010 Wien

Kartenpreise

Eintritt frei

Für geladene Gäste.

Solo Recital and Ensemble Concert as a crowning ending of my masterclass at the Escuela de Artes Musicales, San Jose, Costa Rica

"A Journey Into a New Musical Space"

·      O ECCLESIA – Hildegard von Bingen (Trombone Ensemble), 4:30min

Before music was perceieved as music, in the depths of the Dark Ages, the polymath Hildegard von Bingen was writing mystic melodies for prayers, monophonic songs notated in medieval chant notation. I have adopted this beautiful chant about the Holy Ursula for several solo trombone parts accompanied by a spacial drone filling the room with a mystic feeling, almost 1000 years old.

·      FOR JOHN CAGE – Michael Nyman (10-piece Brass Ensemble), 13:30min

There is no real resemblance with John Cage in Michael Nyman’s music, just the co-incidence that he happened to finish the piece on the day John Cage passed away. So the name is more to be seen as a tribute to the great Fluxus master than anything else. Michael Nyman’s music could be called neo-classical in a way that it combines a strong rhythmical drive with harmonic lightness and brightness. Several of the beautiful solos in the slow parts of the piece are played on Flugelhorn and Euphonium, reminding us of the brass-band tradition on the British Islands he derives from.

·      ENCOUNTER – Konstantia Gourzi (Mikael Rudolfsson), 13:44 min

The piece ”Encounter” by Konstantia Gourzi is the newest in our program and was commissioned by me for my solo CD which was released earlier this year. Konstantia has taken a glissando from the lowest to the highest registers of the trombone and adopted it and developed it electronically with time-lapse technilogy. Over this background or ”canvas”, she has paints the story of an unidentified object approching the viewer (or soloist) from a distance. What is the reaction when something much bigger than oneself, something not clearly recognizable, appears? Listen and decide for yourself!

·      SEQUENZA V – Luciano Berio (Pablo Marin-Reyes), 7:00 min

Luciano Berio wrote, in the course of his immensly successful carreer as a contemporary composer, a series of solo pieces, so called ”Sequenzas” for almost all imaginable instruments, including voice. These can be looked upon not only as a beautiful red thread through his development as a composer but also as small studies of curiosity of each instrument and its abilities. For the trombone Sequenza he took his beautiful childhood memory of the clown Grock, meditated upon the clownesque abilities of the trombone, vocalized it, tweaked and bent it, and in doing so created a timeless classic, and a perpetual standard of the trombone repertoire.

·      OUTERSPACE – Pierre Jodlowski (Mikael Rudolfsson), 11:00 min

When a solo instrument meets a fantasy landscape, a video installation and an anonymus, masked player, a musical performance transforms to theater. Pierre Jodlowski writes himself:
”Composed for one trombonist, video and electronics, OUTERSPACE is questioning space: an augmented space with the development of new technologies, in which the modern individual escapes risking to get lost. This vertigo is here expressed by the video: in the back of the stage, it opens a window on a virtual space, enclosed with four black walls, inhabited by three screens which show encrypted images.
The trombonist’s movements being coordinated with the camera motion in the video, the audience discovers this cold, tight and uninhabitable space filled and congested with smog, blinding lights and, soon, avatars of the musician until it reaches the final saturation point. The trombone, as a music instrument and camera, reveals its third identity: demiurgic hole, swallowing one by one clones of the musician during a burlesque scene. In the video, nothing remains except, frozen on the screens, a frontal view of the trombone’s bell, threatening, pointing the audience.”

·      HEART OF TONES – Pauline Oliveros (Ensemble) 7–10 mins

Pauline Oliveros was a scholar of John Cage and formed the multifaceted term ”Deep Listening Music”. These are, not very much different from the Hildegard von Bingen piece from the start, opportunities to dwell, to meditate and to listen purely to what’s inside music and what’s inside yourself.

”For me Deep Listening is a life long practice. The more I listen the more I learn to listen. Deep Listening involves going below the surface of what is heard, expanding to the whole field of sound while finding focus. This is the way to connect with the acoustic environment, all that inhabits it, and all that there is.” (Pauline Oliveros)

·      EMBARKMENT FANFARE – Mike Svoboda (Trombone Octet), 2:40 min

Instead of starting the program with a fanfare, I thought of closing it with one. Because everythinng anyway is endless, the end of something is just the beginning of something different. As a tribute and as a call in the future, this short piece for eight panning trombone players was originally written by Mike Svoboda as a start to his large-scale work ”Music for Open Spaces”. Quite a fitting contribution!

Tysk tidlöshet och franska fyrverkerier - musik för trombone och orgel genom nio århundraden.
Musik av Hildegard von Bingen, Telemann, Mozart, Guilmant, Vierne och Hosokawa.

Mikael Rudolfsson, trombone
Ulfert Smidt, orgel

G.F. Haas’ massive piece for ensemble and 50 Pianos, microtonally tuned to each other. An immersive sound experience, a completely transparent wall of sound, painted in the brightest colors of spectral beauty.

50 Pianists of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam

Klangforum Wien

Bas Wiegers, musical direction

Production: Holland Festival and Klangforum Wien

Shows at 16:00 and 20:00 respectively!

Reihe "Neue Töne" in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Förderverein für Kultur und Forschung Bogen-Oberalteich e.V.
Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Call; Richard Ayres (*1965), Nr. 49; Wolfgang Rihm (*1952), Sine nomine I; Sergei Newski (*1972), Fanfare; Zaneta Rydzewska (*1991), Zauberwürfel; Bernhard Gander (*1969), insincere sermon; Beat Furrer (*1954), Studie; AndersHillborg (*1954), Brass Quintett

Hinweis:
Schüler und Studenten frei (benötigen kein Ticket).
Für Mitglieder "Konzertfreunde Straubing" gilt die Abo-Karte 2024

Weitere Infos auf der Homepage:
https://www.konzertfreunde.de

Joint concert with book presentation of the Graphic Novel »Stockhausen – Der Mann, der vom Sirius kam«.

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Tierkreis für Posaune u. Streichquartett

Konstantia Gourzi - The Encounter for solo trombone and tape

Mikael Rudolfsson, Trombone

Moritz Ter Nedden, Violin and Artistic Direction

Infos and Tickets:
https://www.parkbuchhandlung.de/event/stockhausen-der-mann-der-vom-sirius-kam/

01/2024 open music - AT

The ULYSSES network supports several emerging European ensembles, programming concerts where a new repertoire is promoted, thanks to commissions and reruns. The Schallfeld Ensemble is an international ensemble for contemporary music based in Graz. The group sparks the interest of its audience by its vivid virtuosity and refined chamber music sound, paired with interpretations that pay special attention to concert format, creating events that adapt to the specific venue while aiming for a new dimension of listening.

On 25 January 2024, Schallfeld Ensemble is invited to perform at open music, a Graz based concert series for contemporary music, associate partner of the Ulysses Network.

This programme focuses on the work of Pierre Jodlowski and invites the composer, performer and multimedia artist to Graz for the realisation of several of his compositions, with visual and staged components, as well as an improvisational First Night with Gerald Preinfalk and Martin Brandlmayr.

On the first evening, the fantastic Schallfeld Ensemble will get the chance to actively work, extensively rehearse and finally perform together with Pierre Jodlowski as well as Klangforum member Mikael Rudolfsson in their ensemble line-up.

Programme

Focus on Pierre Jodlowksi I

Pierre Jodlowksi: Time & Money, for percussion, video, electronics (2006)

Pierre Jodlowski: Criogenesis, for cello, text (2007)

Pierre Jodlowski: Outer Space, for trombone, electronics, video, lights (2018)

Pierre Jodlowski: People / Time, for 5 musicians, video, electronics (2003)

Schallfeld Ensemble

+ Mikael Rudolfsson trombone

+ Pierre Jodlowski electronics, video, lights

Date and place: January 25, 2024 at WIST Lend, Wienerstraße 58a, 8020 Graz

Beat Furrer – founder of Klangforum Wien, visionary composer and beacon of a timeless concept of the advanced. We dedicate the first concert of the new year to our founder and most profound companion – the choice of works giving a “fast-forward résumé” of his creative thought and development in anticipation of his upcoming 70th birthday. 

Programme

Beat Furrer in mia vita da vuolp

Beat Furrer studie II - à un moment de terre perdue

Beat Furrer Nuun

Beat Furrer la bianca notte for soprano, baritone and Ensemble

Soloists

Gerald Preinfalk saxophone

Joonas Ahonen piano

Florian Müller piano

Elīna Viļuma-Helling soprano

Matias Bocchio baritone

Conductor

Beat Furrer

A tradition as wonderful as it is festive: the classic New Year’s recital with organ in the Marktkirche Hannover. This year I’m lucky enough to be the guest soloist and I’m looking immensly forward to this. Music ranging from Hildegaard von Bingen to Klaus Lang. Welcome!

My dearest teacher and mentor, Jonas Bylund, turns 60 and has invited all his former students for yet another Jericho-blast at my alma mater, the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover. Happy Birthday, Jonas!

Join Klangforum and myself as soloists with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna in Rebecca Saunders’ new piece “Wound“ with conductor Bas Wiegers and my collegues from Klangforum Wien.

A new, bombastic masterpiece by the legendary G.F. Haas. Welcome to this year’s edition of Wien Modern!

Georges Aperghis - Situation

Legendary grounds, legendary piece, legendary future.

Klangforum Wien

Cond.: Emilio Pomarico

Ensemble Schwerpunkt returns to Basel - in a small trio setting and to perform a wide selection of repertoire ranging from Purcell to Xenakis in the wonderful Meriangärten.

Cecilie Marie Schwagers, Horn
Mikael Rudolfsson, Trombone
Janne Matias Jakobsson, Tuba

More Infos: https://www.meriangärten.ch/de/home.html

DLW Festival

3 June 2023, 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m
4 June 2023, 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m
Orangerie Theater, Volksgartenstraße 25, 50677 Cologne

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Music by Aperghis, Berio, Dell, Djordjević, Hurel, Jernberg, Ligeti, Lillinger, Poppe, Sørensen, Stefanovich, Wally, Westergaard and others

Sofia Jernberg (voice, composition)
Tamara Stefanovich (piano, composition)
Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard: Christopher Dell (vibraphone, composition), Christian Lillinger (drums, composition), Jonas Westergaard (double bass, composition)
Klangforum Wien: Gerald Preinfalk (saxophone), Mikael Rudolfsson (trombone), Gunde Jäch-Micko (violin), Anna D'Errico (piano)
Discussions and reading: Michael Struck-Schloen, Leonie Reineke, Gregor Dotzauer and others

Produced by Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard and bastille musique. Funded by Musikdfonds with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Very proud to be invited to be part of the festivities for the 50-Year Jubilee of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, my old institution.

A whole day’s Masterclass at my former institution, hmtmh Hannover, teaching the legendary trombone class of Prof. Jonas Bylund.

FLUCHT.PUNKT - Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik

SA 22. APRIL 2023 / 16:00 UHR / BLOTE VOGEL SCHULE, AULA

MÁRTON ILLÉS 

Werk (2023) für Streichquartett / Kompositionsauftrag des WDR / Uraufführung / 20‘

BASTIEN DAVID 

Bird (2023) für Streichquartett / Kompositionsauftrag der Stadt Witten / Uraufführung / 18’

DELL / LILLINGER / WESTERGAARD 

Axiom I (2023) für Vibraphon, Schlagzeug, Kontrabass, Posaune, Saxophon, Violine und Klavier / Kompositionsauftrag der Stadt Witten / Uraufführung / 18’

QUATUOR DIOTIMA

YUN-PENG ZHAO Violine / LÉO MARILLIER Violine / FRANCK CHEVALIER Viola / PIERRE MORLET Violoncello / 

Christopher Dell, Vibraphon
Christian Lillinger, Schlagzeug
Jonas Westergaard, Kontrabass

Mikael Rudolfsson, Posaune
Gerald Preinfalk, Saxofon
Anna D’errico, Klavier
Gunde Jäch-Micko, Violine

Vor 80 Jahren wurde das jüdische Ghetto in Warschau geschliffen. Flucht war vielen nicht möglich. Die Musik musste schweigen. Bernhard Lang evoziert einen Klang der Verstummung.

Das Konzert aus unserer Zyklusreihe BRUCH.PUNKT findet zu zwei Beginnzeiten statt: 18.00 Uhr + 20.30 Uhr.

Zwischen den Konzerten — FERMATE
In unserem neuen Gesprächsformat befragen Persönlichkeiten aus verschiedenen Disziplinen gemeinsam mit Künstler*innen und Musiker*innen das eben Gehörte.

Peter Ruzicka
– STILL. Memorial für Posaune und Kammerensemble
Galina Ustvolskaya
– Komposition Nr.1 „Dona nobis pacem”
Bernhard Lang
– A Song for Rachela (UA)

Sarah Maria Sun, Stimme
Mikael Rudolfsson, Posaune

Lorenz C. Aichner

Peter Ruzicka | Galina Ustvolskaya | Bernhard Lang

Zwei äußerst effektvolle Werke der Neuen Musik präsentieren die Symphoniker Hamburg unter der Leitung ihres Chefdirigenten Sylvain Cambreling zu Beginn des 4. Konzerts der VielHarmonie-Reihe. Den Auftakt bildet »Autoritratto nella notte« – ein »Selbstbildnis in der Nacht« –, das der zeitgenössische Komponist Salvatore Sciarrino mit faszinierenden Klangfarben und Schattierungen zeichnet.

In SOLO für Posaune und Orchester von Sciarrinos italienischem Landsmann Luciano Berio debütiert mit Mikael Rudolfsson ein trotz seines noch jungen Alters bereits ausgewiesener Experte und Star der Neuen Musik an einem selten zu erlebenden Soloinstrument beim Laeiszhalle Orchester.

Das Konzert vereint die wichtige Mission, dem Publikum auch Werke der jüngeren Musikgeschichte nahezubringen, mit dem Anspruch, zugängliches Repertoire auf höchstem Niveau darzubieten. Denn den Abschluss bildet Ludwig van Beethovens vor Humor nur so sprühende, neben ihren ‚großen Schwestern‘ aber oftmals unterschätzte Symphonie Nummer acht.

Sylvain Cambreling Dirigent

Mikael Rudolfsson Posaune

Sciarrino Autoritratto nella notte

Berio SOLO für Posaune und Orchester

Beethoven Symphonie Nr. 8 F-Dur op. 93

Classe de maître proposée par le Conservatoire régional du Grand Nancy en partenariat avec l'Opéra national de Lorraine. Né en 1987 à Stockholm, Mikael Rudolfsson s’est rapidement imposé comme l’un des solistes les plus actifs de la scène musicale contemporaine.
Après des études à Hanovre, il se produit en tant que soliste avec des orchestres et des ensembles du monde entier. Sa musicalité est diversifiée et créative. Il joue un large éventail de répertoires allant des œuvres classiques et baroques aux compositeurs de demain. Dans ses propres ensembles et interprétations, il met en valeur les différentes facettes du trombone. Parallèlement à ses activités de concertiste, il prend un grand plaisir à jouer en tant qu’acteur/musicien dans plusieurs productions théâtrales. Depuis 2017, Mikael Rudolfsson est membre du Klangforum Wien. Il enseigne également en classe d'orchestre à l'Université de Hambourg. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.