Event Archive

Enjoy the musical contributions of our pupils, students and lecturers with us! There will be coffee and cake for refreshments. Our Open Stage opens at 17:00.

Free admission

Sufian Ararah, Oud
Paul Rittel, Cello

The filmmaker and oud player Sufian Ararah (sufianararah.com) presents compositions and films from his hometown Tripoli.

Sounds from Tripoli is a live performance blending music, film, and poetry to evoke the spirit of Tripoli in Libya. The oud and cello intertwine in rich, rhythmically diverse compositions, drawing from Mediterranean, North African, Jazz, and Classical traditions. Accompanied by visuals and photography by Sufian Ararah, born and raised in Tripoli, the performance offers an intimate window into a city shaped by memory, sound, and place. An evening to listen, to feel, to remember – and to explore.

Admission: 15,- Euro/10,- Euro

Presentation of the new volume of poetry "Häuser-Zeilen-Umbrüche"

Lydia Gebel and Herbert Hellendoorn, recitation
Andreas F. Staffel, piano

JEDER BEZIRK DIESER STADT IST EIN TEIL MEINES KÖRPERS
DIE LINIEN VON S- UND U-BAHN SIND MEIN BLUTKREISLAUF
JEDE PFÜTZE IST MEIN SPIEGEL

Lydia Gebel and Herbert Hellendoorn read from Andreas F. Staffel's texts, the composer and pianist Andreas F. Staffel plays suitable piano pieces by Bach, Debussy, Evans, Liszt and his own compositions.

"For all those who understand literature as a multi-layered resonance chamber, poetic, musical and radically honest"
(Lydia Gebel)

Admission: 15 € | 10 €

Arno Waschk | Klavier

Arno Waschk ist ein echtes Allround-Talent. Er ist Dirigent, Pianist, Komponist und Arrangeur. Als Konzertpianist begeistert er sein Publikum mit einem breiten Repertoire, das von klassischer Musik bis hin zu experimentellen Formen des Konzerts und der Performance reicht. Unter anderem begleitet er Klaus Maria Brandauer bei musikalischen Lesungen.

Admission: 15 Euro | 10 Euro

Programm

Brahms Variationen über ein eigenes Thema op. 21/1 D-Dur

Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit

    Ondine
    Le Gibet
    Scarbo

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Ligeti aus den Etudes:

    Fanfares
    Automne à Varsovie

Beethoven Sonate op. 111 c-moll

Jan Gerdes, piano

Following his successful album "Songs and Improvisations", which was released by XJAZZ in 2023, Jan Gerdes presents new pieces at the interface of classical, jazz and new music.

Listen to Songs and Improvisations:

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/0MRwQ5w4FITUm786yNrXo4

Admission: 15.- Euro/10.- Euro

Andreas F. Staffel (piano), Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (clarinet), Nikolaus Schlierf (viola)

Part One: Homage to the one hundred and fiftieth birthday of Arnold Schoenberg | Schoenberg and his students. Part Two: "Lascia Vibrare..." (Music from the planned CD by Andreas F. Staffel).

Admission free: donations for the CD Andreas F. Staffel, Solostücke I - Lascia Vibrare... allowed!

Exhibition and vernissage with Merlot and music by Ulf Voigt

Admission free/donations permitted

Tomas Bächli and Petra Ronner in pairs at a piano (www.vierhaende.ch)

In conventional tonal music, dissonance creates tension and its resolution into consonance creates relaxation. In the various pieces of music in our program, tension and relaxation manifest themselves in the most diverse parameters. The exception is contrasted with the norm; the listener's expectation with surprise.

Matthias Bruppacher (1948) Rondo (2020) für Klavier vierhändig
Heinz Holliger (1939) gespi(ge)lt – gesun/d/gen (2015)
...

Admission 15 €/10 €

Join us to enjoy musical contributions from our students and faculty! For refreshment, there will be coffee and cake. From 6 p.m. Open Stage.

Admission free

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

We will experience how differently the events of the Second World War shaped the work of the composers of the time. The program includes works such as Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" (which was composed in a prisoner of war camp in Görlitz), a funeral march from the sonata "27 April 1945" by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (dedicated to the Dachau "protective custody prisoners"), the melodrama "A Survivor from Warsaw" by Arnold Schoenberg and the "2nd Symphony" by the twenty-two-year-old Hans Werner Henze.

As always, explained at the grand piano and with historical sound and film recordings.

Admission free/donations permitted!

A lecture (with film sequences)
Speaker: Dr. Michael Schenk

When experiencing a film intensively - whether in the cinema, on the Internet or on TV - sound often plays a significant role in how we perceive the entire event from narrative, visual and acoustic levels. Music - whether specially composed or included in the visuals - or integrated sounds and languages form a special network for our ears.

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

About the violin concerto Dem Angedenken eines Engels (1935) by Alban Berg, Mathis der Maler by Paul Hindemith (1935) and Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936).

The 1930s were overshadowed by the rise of dictatorships and the premonition of impending catastrophes. We will talk about three exemplary works by three different composers that were written during this time.

As always, explained at the piano and with historical sound and film recordings.

Admission free/donations permitted!

Christoph Peters reads from his novel "Krähen im Park"
Andreas F. Staffel and students of the Ohrpheo composition class: piano and electronics

Admission free/donations permitted!

One day, an entire city: the razor-sharp portrait of a society in upheaval - the new great novel by Christoph Peters.

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

We experience the fascination of the first symphony of the only nineteen year old Dmitri Shostakovich and deal with some outstanding composers of the so-called silver age like Krein, Mossolov, Lourie and others.

As always, on the grand piano and explained with numerous historical examples.

Reservations at 030-25048799 or info@ohrpheo.de are recommended.

Admission free/donations requested

In this popular series, friends of Ohrpheo present their favorite pieces of music at regular intervals. The songs and instrumental compositions are accompanied by witty stories and questions from the audience are answered.

In the first edition in 2024, Jan Gerdes and Torsten Lund, who have known each other since their school days, present their personal favorites!

Admission free/donations welcome