Event Archive

Join us and enjoy musical performances by our pupils, students, and lecturers! Coffee and cake will be served. Our open stage opens at 5:00 p.m.

Admission free

Postponed until February 8, 2026 due to illness!

"Rausch" - A song recital about spirituals and spirits with arias, songs and piano works from the 11th-21st century (H. v. Bingen, Händel, Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, Moser, N. Hagen, Strauß, Weil, Porter, Staffel and others)

Margarete Huber (soprano)
Andreas Staffel (piano)

Admission: 15 Euro | 10 Euro

At their concerts, the CheeChees, a girl group from the wild south of Berlin, throw themselves into their mission to charm the world with heroic dedication, singing like a handbag full of rainbows. The CheeChees welcome the Swedish Girl Åsa Okutani as a guest, supported on guitar and mandolin by Christian Bauer. Both have brought their very own Swedish sound world with them, which sounds excitingly "different" to German ears and dramatically expands our image of Sweden.

Åsa Okutani: Vocals, Piano, French Horn
Christian Bauer: Guitars, Mandolins

Die CheeChees sind:
Robert Farrar: Vocals, Guitar and Style
Achim Krämer: Mini Casio, Vocals and Attitude

Admission: 15 Euro | 10 Euro

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

Piano: Wolfgang Gangkofner

Born in Lower Bavaria, Wolfgang Gangkofner is a composer, pianist and teacher with international training - including in Munich and Stockholm. After working in Sweden and Berlin, where he also became known for his popular house concerts in Winterfeldtdtraße, he has been teaching composition and piano at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg since 2021.

Wolfgang Gangkofner plays works by César Franck, Claude Debussy, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Fryderyk Chopin at Ohrpheo.

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!