December 12, 2024
Music Library of the Zentralbibliothek Essen, Hollestraße 3 (Gildehof)

PerformanceConcert
For the 85th birthday of Nicolaus A. Huber

HEINE, ERLEUCHTUNG
for solo voice, accompanied by several players with plastic bottles (2022)

SPIEGEL 17/11
for voice and piano (2011)

Also with works by Nicolaus A. Huber, Hanns Eisler, Kunsu Shim a.o.

Alessia Hyunkyung Park, soprano
Catherine Vickers, piano
Filip Erakovic, accordion
Bruce Collings, trombone/tuba
Gerhard Stäbler, performance

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Essen and the City Library of Essen

    

 

November 21, 2024 (6.30 pm)
Consulat général d'Autriche, Strasbourg (France)
29, Avenue de la Paix-Simone Veil

Capricci
for cello solo (2022/2023)

Also with works by Kate Moore, Cecilia Arditto, Seung-Won Oh and Kunsu Shim

Katharina Gross, cello

 

November 17, 2024 (4 pm)
Galerie Marzee, Markt 3, Nijmegen (Niederlande)

As part of the concert series Moderne Muziek Nijmegen

Capricci
for cello solo (2022/2023)

Also with works by Rozalie Hirs, Dimitris Andrikoupoulos, Füsun Köksal İncirlioğlu, Kaija Saariaho, Kunsu Shim and Tobias Klein

Katharina Gross, cello

 

November 17, 2024 (5.30 pm)
Igreja do Colégio, Ponta Delgada (Portugal/Azores)

November 15, 2024 (7 pm)
Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere, Weimar (Germany)

Music of (Dis-)Quiet

Taubes Schwarz
for 9 players (2021)

Also with works by José Carlos Sousa, João Madureira, Jorge Peixinho and Kunsu Shim

Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa
Joan Pagés Valls, conductor

 

October 26, 2024 (5 pm)
Meeting point: Neue Musik Zentrale, Viehofer Platz 18, 45127 Essen

In the context of the festival NOW!

THE PURPOSE OF ART
for accordion solo solo (2022)

Filip Erakovic, accordion

 

September 29, 2024 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17a

GEHEIMES LEBEN. FRAGMENTE (SECRET LIFE. FRAGMENTS)
Opening of the photo exhibition Markus Bydolek

Gestochen scharf
Performance on a quote by Byung-chul Han (2024)
Premiere

Also with music by Domenico Gabrieli, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mieko Shiomi and Kunsu Shim

Tonio Schibel, violin
Mathieu Joqué, cello
Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia

 

September 23, 2024 (7.30 pm)
Duisburger Kulturkirche Liebfrauen, König-Heinrich-Platz 3

MAGISCHE SPIELE
For the 80th birthday of Christoph Brockhaus and the 75th birthday of Gerhard Stäbler

MAGISCHE SPIELE (2021, version for 4 pianos 2023):
DisContinuum
IN HARMONIE VERWIRRT
SIGNATURES
QUICK RESPONSE
    ... inbetween ...
    Kunsu Shim: Three Intermezzi for four pianos (2024) Premiere

Also with sound installations by Bernd Bleffert

Paulo Alvares, Itxaso Etxeberria, Martin von der Heydt and Roland Techet, piano

Supported by the City of Duisburg and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia

 

September 7, 2024 (11 am)
September 8, 2024 (11 am and 5 pm)
Altes Salzamt, Hallstatt, Salinenplatz 1 (Austria)

In the context of salz kammer gut 2024
European Capitel of Culture Bad Ischl/Salzkammergut

Gerhard Stäbler: PROLOG for Ensemble (from: SALZ) Premiere

FIRST FLOOR

STAIR CASE to the SECOND FLOOR

Gerhard Stäbler: ZUSAMMENGEZWUNGEN (2nd movement from: – – ] ERZÄHLEN ... for string quartet (2018/19)

SECOND FLOOR

Kunsu Shim / Gerhard Stäbler: SALZ·TAU (Part I). Performance with salt
Kunsu Shim: VEGETATIONEN II for string quartet (2018/19)
Kunsu Shim / Gerhard Stäbler: SALZ·TAU (Part II). Performance with salt
Hermann Schneider: TEXT IV (from: SALZ)
Gerhard Stäbler: LIED DER FRAU III (from: SALZ) for soprano and accordion

GROUND FLOOR

Gerhard Stäbler: SICH MITEINANDER REALISIEREN (3rd movement from: – – ] ERZÄHLEN ... for string quartet (2018/19)
Kunsu Shim: VERBINDEN (2021). Performance

 

March 14 and 15, 2024 (6 pm)
Stiegenhaus im Alten Rathaus (Old Townhall)
Salzburg, Kranzlmarkt 1 (Austria)

In the context of Stiegenstück – a transdisciplinary performance

Zaubersprüche
from Letzte Dinge (2007)

Also with improvisations, dance and works by Georges Aperghis, Carola Bauckholt, John Cage, Reinhard Febel, Erhard Karkoschka, Rafael Nassif, Willem Wander van Nieukwerk and Kajia Saariaho

Students of the Orff Institute, University Mozarteum Salzburg
Angelika Luz, concept, stage and co-director

 

March 7, 2024 (6.30 pm)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum Krefeld, Joseph-Beuys-Platz 1

KunstImPuls "Gut in Form"
Guided and Concert Walk through the exhibition

Hart auf hart. Red on Black (1986)
Version for flute solo in dialogue with paintings by Günter Fruhtrunk

Also with works by Claude Debussy, Edgar Varèse, a premiere by Pia Marei Hauser and texts by Karl Ernst Osthaus

Pia Marei Hauser, flute
Helmut Wenderoth, recitation

 

February 14, 2024 (7.30 pm)
MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Philosophenweg 55, Duisburg

In the context of the concert series Klang und Performance im Dialog mit Bild und Raum 2 – Duisburger Philharmoniker spielen im MKM

AugenTanz / MundStücke
from Performances for music lovers (1999)

SCHWELLEN. Eine Phantasie
Audio-Visuals for voice solo (2017)

Also with works by Otto Oromszegi, Louise Alenius/Andreas Borregaard, Heinrich Biber, David Lang, Tan Dun, Sofia Gubaidulina, Elvis Suarez and improvisations by Veronika Vitazkova

Players of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Andreas Borregard, accordion
Veronika Vitazkova, flutes

 

February 8, 2024

Deutscher Musikautorenpreis (German Music Authors’ Prize) 2024
for Gerhard Stäbler
the category „composition percussion“

 

February 4, 2024 (7 pm) 
Kunsthalle Trier, Achenerstrasse

MITTEL OHNE ZWECK (MEANS WITHOUT PURPOSE)
A  „borderline“ PerformanceConcert for 5 players and sound installations

Phantasiestück
for accordion solo (2011)

The Purpose of Art
for accordion solo (2022) World Premiere

also with works by Bernd Bleffert, Oded Geizhals, Kunsu Shim and texts by Heinrich Heine, Giorgio Agamben and Kunsu Shim

Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, Performance
Bernd Bleffert, sound objects
Filip Erakovic, accordion
Oded Geizhals, percussion   

 

January 26 - 28, 2024
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17a

EarFest 2024
with the opening of the exhibition Martin Goppelsröder

January 26, 2024 (7.30 pm)
NO(THING) – Performances

MundStücke
from Performances für Liebhaber (1999)

Also with works by Ben Vautier, Yoko Ono, Tomas Schmit, Alison Knowles, George Brecht and Kunsu Shim

Jaume Darbra Fa, flute
Moritz Koch, percussion

January 27, 2024 (7.30 pm)
IM ECHO DES ANDEREN

Tau und Nelke
Three actions for solo voice (2017) Premiere

Improvisation after an idea from Gerhard Stäbler’s EarPlugs
by Angelika Luz

Also with works by Hildegard von Bingen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giacinto Scelsi, Georges Aperghis, Nicolaus A. Huber, Adriana Hölszky and John Cage

Angelika Luz, soprano/voice

January 28, 2024 (7.30 pm)
SO SEIDIG, SO SUBTIL
Opening of the exhibition Ein Gastspiel, das uns die Fremde bringt: New paintings by Martin Goppelsröder

– – ] erzählen
A panoptic string quartet (2018/19)

Also with string quartets by Kunsu Shim

Luna Quartet Amsterdam

Supported by the City of Duisburg and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia

 

January 21, 2024 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17 A

Talk, poetry and performance
BilderSprache

Finissage of the exhibition was uns verbindet ...
with pictures and objects by Hildegard Bauschlicher, Bernd Bleffert, Alexandra Kosmidou, Evangelos Koukouwitakis, Britta Lauer, Gerhard Losemann, Claudia Maas, Dagmar Schenk-Güllich, Friedrich Schmuck, Daniel Schmuck, André Schweers and Kunsu Shim

Schwellen
Performance
(simultaneously with Kunsu Shim: Zeichnungen for the inside of a piano)

Gerhard Stäbler/Kunsu Shim:
Kontakte
Audience performance with mobile phones

With a lecture about architecture and colours by Prof. Friedrich Schmuck

Supported by the City of Duisburg and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia