Events

With the speculative songbook «The Last of their Kin(d)», the Trio Accanto, together with pianist Stefan Wirth and dramaturge Katinka Deecke, focuses on ten endangered animal species. Ten compositions give them a voice, accompanied by a video work by Georg Lendorff.

Sara Cubarsi explores how resonance and dissonance make the fragility of the world audible. She experiments with gut strings, instruments with resonance strings (viola d'amore, Hardanger fiddle, tromba marina) and melted wax paintings. A conversation with the artist, moderated by Marcus Weiss, rounds off the evening.

In its first concert as Ensemble of the Season, Trio Catch is dedicating a programme to composer Helmut Lachenmann on his 90th birthday. The audience can expect a musical journey full of surprises and intense moments.

The Neuen Vocalsolisten are the most versatile ensemble for experimental vocal music. Equally diverse, fast-paced or meditative, vocally acrobatic or melodious are the stories told by five Swiss composers in their works for voice and electronics this evening.

In «Lever-kühn», Polish composer Ryszard Gabryś combines Thomas Mann's «Doctor Faustus» with Schoenberg's sprechgesang. Aleksander Gabryś travels into the realm of fantasy with «Rio, mein Rio», and Arash Yazdani weaves Persian poetry and physics into traditional sound art in «Dispersion».

In «Lever-kühn», Polish composer Ryszard Gabryś combines Thomas Mann's «Doctor Faustus» with Schoenberg's sprechgesang. Aleksander Gabryś travels into the realm of fantasy with «Rio, mein Rio», and Arash Yazdani weaves Persian poetry and physics into traditional sound art in «Dispersion».

As part of the lecture series «Ein Haus...», Architectural historian Robin Schuldenfrei talks about the Bauhaus Masters' Houses in Dessau. Once the homes of the «masters» and icons of modernism, today they tell a story of displacement, rewritten history and new forms of living. The lecture combines historical research with personal impressions.

On this evening, the Proton Ensemble will present two new works by Saad Haddad and Marc Sabat, whose compositions bring together two extraordinary instruments: Nicola Vicentino's reconstructed 36-note arciorgano and the innovative lumatone with 280 hexagonal keys.

«Plankton» explores the stories of people who have decided to leave cities and industries behind to live in the heart of nature. The distance these individuals have taken from society allows them to question structures and rethink our connection to the natural world.

«Plankton» explores the stories of people who have decided to leave cities and industries behind to live in the heart of nature. The distance these individuals have taken from society allows them to question structures and rethink our connection to the natural world.