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Join us to enjoy musical contributions from our students and faculty! For refreshments we will have coffee and cake. Weather permitting, there will be a barbecue outside!

Admission free

Lecturer: Dr. Pavlos Antoniadis

The composer and architect Iannis Xenakis would have turned one hundred years old on 29.5.2022. Throughout his life, the performances of his highly complex orchestral works, such as Metastasis, have caused a sensation. The great importance of the Messiaen pupil for the music of the twentieth century is undisputed, as is his influence on subsequent generations. As a long-time assistant to the architect Le Corbusier, he also supervised important building projects worldwide. Highly worth seeing and recommending as a first approach to Xenakis' music is the excellent documentary Xenakis Revolution. Baumeister des Klangs in the Arte Mediathek.

Speaking on today's edition of Course in New Music is musicologist, pianist and Xenakis compatriot, Dr. Pavlos Antoniadis, who is a close associate of the Paris Ircam and the Xenakis Foundations.

Free admission, donations requested!

Pavlos Antoniadis | Piano

A piano recital celebrating the centenary of the birth of Greek composer and architect Yannis Xenakis. Highly worth seeing and recommending as a first approach to Xenakis' music is the excellent documentary Xenakis Revolution. Baumeister des Klangs in the Arte Mediathek.

Ort | Location
Wabe Berlin
Danziger Straße 101
10405 Berlin

Tickets
15 € | 12 € | 10 €

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

In the seventh part of our series "Course in New Music" we will focus on the important composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992).

Admission free, donations requested!

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

In this module we look in depth at Bartok's Suite op 14 (1916) and the ballet music for The Miraculous Mandarin (1926) as well as Hindemith's Suite 1922 and its Kammermusik 1 (1922).

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

Due to limited seating, reservations are recommended by calling info@ohrpheo.de.

Admission free/donations requested

Due to a Covid 19 illness of Andreas Staffel, the event cannot be held. The course will be made up in April.

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

In this module we look in depth at Bartok's Suite op 14 (1916) and the ballet music for The Miraculous Mandarin (1926) as well as Hindemith's Suite 1922 and its Kammermusik 1 (1922).

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

Due to limited seating, reservations are recommended by calling info@ohrpheo.de.

Admission free/donations requested

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 Roslavez, Mossolov, Lourie and others.

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

Due to limited seating, reservations are recommended at 030-25048799 or info@ohrpheo.de.

Admission free/donations requested

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

Twelve-tone compositions of the Second Viennese School and by Josef Matthias Hauer.

Due to limited seating, reservations are recommended by calling 030-25048799 or info@ohrpheo.de.

Admission free/donations requested

Euphoria Ensemble
Georg Thauern, vocals
Matan David, clarinet
Zeynep Akdil, violoncello
Tatjana Neufeld, piano

Program

1. L. Spohr – Zwiegesang
2. J. Brahms – Es war eine schöne Judin
3. J. Brahms – Erlaube mir
4. R. Schumann ...

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

The First World War was a major caesura and had a great impact on the work of composers of that time. Exemplary for this are the music theater work 'Die Geschichte vom Soldaten' (1917) by Igor Stravinsky and the opera Wozzek (1925) by Alban Berg, in each of which a soldier is the main character.

Both works will be the focus of our evening. In addition to excerpts played on the piano, historical recordings will also be heard. Furthermore, we will experience the fascination of the so-called "golden twenties" in jazz-oriented piano works by Schulhoff and Hindemith.

Admission free/donations requested

The Kurs auf Neue Musik series was launched in 2012 on the initiative of composer and pianist Andreas F. Staffel. Since then, regular events have been held every year, in which the different periods of New Music history are brought closer to a colorful audience consisting of amateurs and music connoisseurs. A special interest lies in the introduction of a younger audience. Starting in 1907, the year of birth of modern music, Andreas F. Staffel, alternating with colleagues, will explain the different epochs and stylistic transformations in the past one hundred and fifteen years.

Admission free/donations requested

Andreas F. Staffel | Piano

As part of the scholarship program of the German Music Council, Andreas F. Staffel plays the complete cycle of Douze Études (1915) by Claude Debussy and gives insights into his instrumentation of some of these masterpieces. The concert will conclude with C-A-D-E-B-an own homage to the important French composer.

Program

Andreas F. Staffel: CADEBES for Piano Solo (2018)

Claude Debussy: Twelve Etudes for Piano (1915)

I. For the five must-be's after Monsieur Czerny
II. For the Thirds
III. For the Quarts
IV. For Sixts
V. For Octaves
VI. For Eight Fingers

Break

VII. For the chromatic degrees
VIII. For the pleasures
IX. For the repeated notes
X. For the opposite sonorities
XI. For the compound arpeggios
XII. For the chords

Event kindly supported by the scholarship program "NEUSTART KULTUR KLASSIK" of the German Music Council.

Free entrance / Suspension allowed!

Due to limited seating, reservations are recommended by calling 030-25048799 or info@ohrpheo.de.

Under the motto: I feel air from another planet, works by Mahler (Tenth Symphony) and Schoenberg (Second String Quartet) will be analyzed in the first module, both on the piano and with rare sound recordings.

Lecturer: Andreas F. Staffel

Admission: free (donations requested)