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VOICES Festival: EVENTS New Vocal Soloists
October 15, 2023 @ 20:30 - 22:00
The dialectic of freedom and oppression runs as a guiding theme through the diverse artistic programme of this concert by the Neue Vocalsolisten. Works written especially for the Neue Vocalsolisten will be performed and presented publicly for the first time. The memories of women who witnessed the revolution in Belarus in 2020, recorded by the artist Olga Bubich, form the basis of the new piece by Sergei Nevsky. The quiet but distinct voices of women protesting in Istanbul's Taksim Square are echoed in Turkish composer Zeynep Gedizlioglu's Kelimeler. Ukrainian-born, Berlin-based composer Alexandra Filonenko transforms Heiner Müller's "Hamlet Machine" into a metaphor for the emergence of language from breath and noise. Finally, the world premieres of the outstanding composers Maksim Kolomiiets and Vladimir Rannev, whose cycle "EREIGNISSE" is based on Thomas Bernhard's short stories of the same name and describes the suppression of individual freedom: a poetic but clear response to the challenges of our time.
Programme
Duration: 70 minutes without break
Vladimir Rannev
EVENTS based on selected texts by Thomas Bernhard (world premiere)
Sergei Nevsky/Olga Bubich
Art of (not) Forgetting for four voices and video (world premiere)
Alexandra Filonenko
Nude for countertenor
Maxim Kolomiiets
New work for six voices (world premiere)
Zeynep Gedizlioglu
Kelimeler
"Art of (not) forgetting" by Sergei Nevsky / Olga Bubich was commissioned by Music of the Centuries and PlatformB.
Maxim Kolomiiet's new work for six voices was commissioned by Music of the Centuries.
"EREIGNISSE" by Vladimir Rannev was commissioned by Musikfonds and Neustart Kultur.
Work texts in German, English, Ukrainian and Turkish, with translation of the texts in the program booklet.
Performers
New vocal soloists
Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano
Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano
Daniel Gloger, coutntertenor
Martin Nagy, tenor
Guillermo Anzorena, baritone
Andreas Fischer, bass
The singers of the Neue Vocalsolisten see themselves as explorers and discoverers: in exchange with composers, they are constantly searching for new forms of vocal expression. One focus is on collaboration with artists who virtuously exploit the possibilities of digital media, with a delight in networking, in playing with genres, in dissolving space, perspectives and functions. Thus, idiosyncratic interdisciplinary formats between music theatre, performance, installation and concert staging characterize the projects of the ensemble, whose work, with more than 30 premieres annually, is considered worldwide to be leading and unique in the field of contemporary vocal music.
Olga Bubich
Photographer
Belarusian author, photographer, lecturer and curator has written three photography books and more than 300 essays, reviews and interviews published in Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, Georgian, German, Austrian, Swedish, British and American media. For 13 years she worked at the Belarusian State University teaching English and visual communication. Since 2014 she has been a team member of "The Month of Photography in Minsk" - the only independent photography festival in the country. Since 2021 she has been engaged in memory research, the topic to which she dedicated her latest photo book The Art of (Not) Forgetting and a series of exhibitions and essays. Currently Olga lives in Berlin as an ICORN fellow.
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