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Tora Augestad sings concerts in Norway
On 1 November 2024, the mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad will premiere a new composition by composer Andreas Gundersen at Troldsalen in Troldhaugen, the former residence of Edvard Grieg. The concert will be performed by BIT20 Ensemble based in Bergen. Andreas Gundersen is composer-in residence of the KODE-Museum in Tora Augestad’s hometown Bergen.
On 3 November 2024, Tora Augestad will perform Eivind Buene’s Schubert Lounge at the museum Gamle Munch in Oslo. Next to singer-songwriter Eivind Buene the classical-trained baritone Halvor F. Melien will join Tora on stage and the pianist Christian Eggen will lead the Oslo Sinfonietta. The Schubert-Lounge has been presented recently at the Eclat Festival Stuttgart and at the festival Heidelberger Frühling. Buene’s composition is based on his own previous approach to the Schubertiades from a singer-songwriter-perspective and his idea that classical music can be altered. The result is a number of songs from Schubert’s œuvre as a starting point for a new autonomous ensemble piece that will complement and contrast both the original versions of these songs for voice and piano, as well as Buene’s English singer-songwriter-like versions.
(published on 4 October 2024)
Vanessa Porter at the Kasseler Musiktage
On 27 October 2024, the percussionist Vanessa Porter will make her debut at the Kasseler Musiktage and will play a recital with trumpet player Simon Höfele. On their duo-programme they will present works by André Jolivet, Brett Dean, Miroslav Srnka and Georges Aperghis. Both Vanessa Porter and Simon Höfele have performed as ECHO Rising Stars-Artists and they both share the enthusiasm, to create quiet sounds with their supposedly noisy instruments. Furthermore, they have a passion for contemporary music and regularly initiate new compositions.
On 30 October 2024, Vanessa Porter will return to the Kasseler Musiktage in the music-staged project KUNST STOFF MUSIK.The choir Studio Lev Cho:r will perform under the musical direction of Krystian Köhn, who has developed this unique cooperation together with the Studio Lev Kassel e. V.. Malte Richter and Leonie Witka will be responsible for the installations and the visuals on stage.
(published on 3 October 2024)
Holger Falk: Performances in Düsseldorf & Oxford
On 4 October 2024, the baritone Holger Falk will sing again the role of Osbert Brydon in the revival of Manfred Trojahn‘s Septembersonate at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein - Opernhaus Düsseldorf. Further performances will take place on 25 October 2024 and 15 November 2024. The press acclaimed him in the world premiere in the season 2023/24: Holger Falk [...] paints the protagonist’s self-doubts in powerful baritone voice and excellent diction (...). Das Opernglas, Thomas Molke, February 2024
On 14 October 2024, Holger Falk will make his debut at the Oxford International Song Festival in a recital with pianist Julius Drake. They will perform the renowned Hanns Eisler‘s Hollywood Songbook, that Holger already recorded on CD and sings in concerts regularly.
(published on 23 September 2024)
Sarah Maria Sun: Lied recitals in fall
On 24 & 25 September 2024, the soprano Sarah Maria Sun will be a guest at Fratopia Festival at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in a series of several short recitals. Together with her congenial trio Kilian Herold (clarinet) and Jan Philip Schulze (piano) she will perform Lieder and works by Henry Purcell, Miroslav Srnka, Stephen Sondheim, Gustav Mahler, Thierry Tidrow, Kurt Weill, Tom Waits, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, George Gershwin, Georges Aperghis, György Ligeti i.a..
On 28 September 2024, Sarah will sing a recital with the pianist Dmitri Batalov at the Swiss Festival Musical Andeer at the Reformed Church Andeer. Accompanied by Batalov she will present a programme of Lieder by Georges Aperghis, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, György Ligeti and Gustav Mahler.
(published on 22 September 2024)
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