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Poetry Affairs

For POETRY AFFAIRS, five poets and five composers from ten different European countries joined forces to explore the multifaceted relationships between language and music.

Eight performances between concert, installation and music theatre were created from the most diverse perspectives of poetry and composition.

sl*p & gl*de
for 7 singers, electronics & visuals (2023/24) WP*
composition: Georgia Koumará
visuals: Flor de Fuego

 

 

Wasting my Grammar
Prisonniers des mots d’autrui
Score in ten movements for four voices (2023/24) WP
by Cia Rinne
performance: Johanna Vargas, Susanne Leitz-Lorey, Martin Nagy,
Guillermo Anzorena

 

 

Treppenhaus
with and for Truike van der Poel and Daniel Gloger (2024) WP*
composition, text, scenography, choreography, sound design,
electronics: Gemma Ragués Pujol
performance, choreography and vocal consulting: Truike van der
Poel and Daniel Gloger
audio mix: Samuel Gfeller

 

 

Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
A vocal cycle (202224)
I. Elephant
for voice and electronics
text: Deryn Rees-Jones
composition and performance: Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari
performance: Andreas Fischer

 

 

Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
A vocal cycle (202224)
III. Consider the Lilies
for five voices (2023) WP*
text: Deryn Rees-Jones
composition: Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari

 

 

Darkness
staged reading (2024) WP
poetry, concept and performance: Vera Burlak
concept and performance: Truike van der Poel and Andreas Fischer

 

 

Continuums
cycle of works by Dariya Maminova
for seven singers (2023) WP*
with texts by Cia Rinne, Maria Barnas, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Vera Burlak and Deryn Rees-Jones

 

 

ARE YOU AVOIDING THE HORSES AGAIN
A life in several panic attacks
A piece for three voices (2023/24) WP
by Maria Barnas
and a fragment of a poem by Rose Ausländer
Sag Nicht Gute Nacht
sound: Georgia Koumará
voices: Johanna Vargas, Truike van der Poel, Susanne Leitz-Lorey

 

 

Severin Dornier: An

other
Alpine Symphony
based on texts by Leta Semadeni and music by Richard Strauss (2023/24) WP*

 

 

Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Vargas, soprano/Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano/Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano/Daniel Gloger, countertenor/Martin Nagy, tenor/Guillermo Anzorena, baritone/Andreas Fischer, bass

 

All commissions for works and compositions were issued by Musik der Jahrhunderte.

*The commissions were funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Georgia Koumará: sl*p & gl*de
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Cia Rinne: Wasting my Grammar
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari: Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
Performance: Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari: Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
Performance: Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari: Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari: Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
Performance: Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Continuums. Werkzyklus von Dariya Maminova
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Continuums. Werkzyklus von Dariya Maminova
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Continuums. Werkzyklus von Dariya Maminova
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Maria Barnas: Are you avoiding the horses again
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Maria Barnas: Are you avoiding the horses again
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Maria Barnas: Are you avoiding the horses again
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Maria Barnas: Are you avoiding the horses again
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Maria Barnas: Are you avoiding the horses again
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Maria Barnas: Are you avoiding the horses again
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Severin Dornier: An[other] Alpine Symphony
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Severin Dornier: An[other] Alpine Symphony
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Severin Dornier: An[other] Alpine Symphony
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund
POETRY AFFAIRS (2024)
Severin Dornier: An[other] Alpine Symphony
Neue Vocalsolisten
© Martin Sigmund