December 11, 2008 (8 pm)
Staatsoper Hamburg, opera stabile

"The Link to today's music"

Xmess for voices, instruments, kitsch and action (2002)

ensemble Intégrales

 

December 2008 (8.30 pm) 
Sophienkirche Berlin

"HALT'S MAUL" – vocal concert with works in physical borderlands

drüber... 
for eight active screamers, cello, synthesizer and tape (1972/73)

Performers: Maulwerker Berlin

Further information:  Maulwerker

 

November 23, 2008
Kulturzentrum Schützi/Theater Studio Olten

Corvidea
a piece for one dancer
performed and created by Anja Gysin
with music of Gerhard Stäbler

 

November 15, 2008
Galerie Packschuppen, Glashütte

"5. Cottbusser Musikherbst"

...im Spalier... Musical thoughts to the fantasies by John Bull and Don Carlo Gesualdo for brass (1990)

Brass-Invent

Further information:  Brass Invent

 

November 14, 2008
Spittal, Österreich

DRAU FESTIVAL

Internetx2/scrap 
for viola, guitar and tape (1995-2001/2008)
World premiere

Maurizio Barbetti, viola
Francesco Cuoghi, guitar und live electronics

 

November 9, 2008 
Marburger Kunstverein

Internetx2/scrap (2002/05)

simultaneous performance of:

purple rugs 
for marimbaphone (2005)
and 
Winter, Blumen 
for saxophone (1995)

Nikola Lutz, soprano/saxophone 
Armin Sommer, percussion/voice

Further information:  Marburger Kunstverein

 

November 1 and 2, 2008
Schloss Ringenberg 

"happy for no reason"
Workshop - Performance - Talk

Meeting the composers Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim

Programme November 1:
Workshop with children, studying a new performance (4 pm)

Programme November 2: 
Last rehearsal of the performance given as final presentation of the workshop (11 am); "Open workshop" for visitors of an exhibition in the castle Ringenberg (12 am) and ConcertPerformance (5 pm)

Further information:  Schloss Ringenberg

 

October 22-24, 2008
Petrikirche / Mülheim an der Ruhr

Utopie jetzt!

Workshop for pupils with Matthias Kaul, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

 

October 4, 2008 (5 pm)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg: MUZIEK BIENNALE NIEDERRHEIN

"passages – this sky"
Music in "time" and "space"

Works by Gerhard Stäbler, Kunsu Shim, Michael Oesterle and Franz Schubert.

Kunsu Shim: LANGEN I for baritone and percussion quartet (2004)
Commissioned by Langen Foundation (Neuss)

Michael Oesterle: for kunsu shim for violin solo (2008)
World premiere

Gerhard Stäbler: SPICES (3) for three percussions and electronic sounds (2001)

Kunsu Shim: LANGEN II for baritone and percussion quartet (2004)
Commissioned by Langen Foundation (Neuss)

Kunsu Shim: shortly – for ever for string quartet (2008)
World premiere

Franz Schubert: String quartet No. 12 (unfinished)

Kunsu Shim: this sky for percussion quartet (2004)
World premiere
 

Entrance: 5 Euro (2.50 Euro special prize)

 

Program 9 pm:
EarPort, "Garten der Erinnerungen", Inner harbour Duisburg

"here" - Performances by Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

Rita Balta, soprano
Tonio Schibel, violin 
Bernd Bleffert, sound objects
Schlagquartett Köln
Soloists of Duisburger Philharmoniker
EarPort Ensemble

Organized by EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, 47051 Duisburg. A cooperation with Muziek Biennale Niederrhein, Foundation Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Philharmonics and city Duisburg.

Further information: Muziek Biennale Niederrhein

 

September 27, 2008 (3 pm) 
Bergen, Norway: BrassWind Festival

Red on black, version for brass instruments (1986)

Manger Musikklag (Conductor Thomas Rimul)

Further information:  Brass Wind Festival

 

September 25, 2008
Sonic Fusion Festival, Napier University Edinburgh

Übungen der Annäherung 
Trio for clarinette(s) or saxophon(es), percussion and piano (2007)

blütenlos. 
Monodie for soprano, flute, violin, cello, accordion or piano (2004)

Cassandra.
Music for voice, percussion and tape (1996)

Interpreters: Research Ensemble

Further information:  Sonic Fusion Festival

 

September 23, 2008
DeutschlandRadio (11.05 pm - 0.00 pm)

Polyphonie von Welten - Gerhard Stäbler, Kunsu Shim and the EarPort in Duisburg

A Feature by Florian Neuner

 

September 23, 2008
Logos Foundation Gent

"New German Music"

Internet 1.5.
for piano (1996)

Martin Tchiba, piano

Further information:  Logos Foundation Gent

 

September 21, 2008 (3 pm)
Sonic Fusion Festival, Napier University Edinburgh

Piano Recital Mabal Kwan (Chicago)

Gerhard Stäbler: !? - Musical Essay about the limits of the possible 
for piano (2001)

Kunsu Shim: Intermezzi 1-12 
for piano (2002)

Further information:  Sonic Fusion Festival

 

September 21, 2008 (11 am)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg

Concert on the occasion of Bernhard Wambach´s 60th anniversary

Gerhard Stäbler: around 
for piano and string trio (ad lib.) (2008)

Kunsu Shim: vom möglichen leben 
for piano, string instruments and performance (2008)

Jacek Klimkiewicz, violin
Hideko Kobayshi, viola
Friedemann Pardall, cello
Bernhard Wambach, piano
Tobias Schwencke, piano
Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance

 

September 19, 2008 
Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria)

LUFTSPIEGELUNGEN. Ein Spiel für Sieben 
for trumpet, trombone, two percussions, piano, e-guitar and cello (2008)
World premiere

Ensemble Ascolta 
Commissioned by Klangspuren Schwaz.

Further information:  Klangspuren Schwaz

 

September 14, 2008 
Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria)

Gerhard Stäbler will participate a discussion in the frame of the festival "Klangspuren Schwaz" and present his new performance 
Fund.Stücke - Ein Vabanque Spiel (2008)

Gerhard Stäbler, Performance

Further information:  Klangspuren Schwaz

 

September 12, 2008 (8 pm) 
Lindenkirche Wilmersdorf (Berlin)

Windows 
for organ (1983)

Thomas Noll performing on a Bosch-Organ with more than 90 register and 5 manuals.

 

September 5, 2008 (8 pm) 
Kapernaumkirche Wedding (Berlin)

Heiß 
for organ (1988)

Thomas Noll performing on a III/39 Karl-Schuke-Organ from 1959.

 

August 17, 2008 (9 pm) 
Plakias (Crete, Greece)

International Masterclasses
Performance Workshop Concert

Gerhard Stäbler: Cassandra 
for percussion, voices and tape (1996)

Gerhard Stäbler: AugenTanz
from: performance for lovers (1999)

Kunsu Shim: Happy for no reason 
for one performer (2000)

 

July 15, 2008 (8.30 pm)
Internationale Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2008

 ...ins Offene...
Five Songs for soprano, mezzosoprano, countertenor, tenor, baritone and bass (2008)
World premiere

Commissioned by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Further information:  Darmstädter Ferienkurse

 

July 13, 2008 (5 pm)
Internationale Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2008

]upon dry land[ 
for piano and percussion (2005)
World premiere of the extended version.

DuoKonflikt: Kaya Han, piano/Isao Nakamura, percussion

Further information:  Darmstädter Ferienkurse

 

June 30 - July 4, 2008
Kunstforum Hellerau, Dresden

"Sommerakademie Dresden"

In the context of the summer academy, Gerhard Stäbler will present an interdisciplinary and experimental project, that will be performed in Dresden in 2009.

Further information:  Kunstforum Hellerau

 

July 2, 2008 
Kunstforum Hellerau, Dresden

Cassandra 
for soprano, percussion and tape (1997)

Further information:  Kunstforum Hellerau

 

June 28, 2008 (3 pm)
Brighton: Pavilion Theatre

Soundwaves Festival

"Shoot the pianist" – a collection of music by Aperghis, Fujikura, Staebler (Belfast Breakfast Songs for voice, 1996), Sorensen, Richard Thomas and Giles Swayne with pre-recorded vocal improvisations and two new spnm shortlisted works.

Loré Lixenberg (voice)

Further information: Soundwaves Festival

 

June 8, 2008 (11.30 am) 
Kassel, Ständehaus

A-cappella-Matinee "Kadenz"

PAPIER · WORT · TOD · SPUR
A vertical music as a hommage to Roberto Juarroz (1925 - 1995) for vocal ensemble (2007)

Vocalensemble Kassel (Dir. Eckhard Manz)

 

May 30, 2008 (5 pm)
Saarbrücken, Stadtgalerie

Festival of Saarländischer Rundfunk: MOUVEMENT

"Sound-Sign" - Traditional and new music for koto (Japanese cither) and shakuhachi (Japanese bambus flute) face to face to calligraphic works by master Masanori Taki.

Gerhard Stäbler: Ithaka 
for 13-string koto (and voice) (2003)

Shakuhachi-Honkyoku 
for shakuhachi solo

Krngyo Yatsuhashi: Hachi-Dan 
for koto solo 

Toshio Hosokawa: Koto-Uta 
for voice and koto (1999)

Makiko Goto, koto
Wolfgang Hessler, shakuhachi

 

May 26, 2008 
Montreal: Sala Rossa

"10 years Kore-Ensemble Montreal"

Winter, Blumen 
for violin solo with accessoires (1995)

Clemens Merkel, violin

Further information: Kore-Ensemble

 

May 25 - August 31, 2008
Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen (City), Kopstadtplatz 12

Kyungwoo Chun:
SAPPHO : OHPPAS - 2 channel video installation referring to Sappho-Trilogie by Gerhard Stäbler

Further information: Kunstverein Ruhr

 

May 25, 2008 (11.30 am)
Foundation Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Centre of international sculpture

Vernissage of the exhibition
"digital art in rooms"
in the frame of the festival "Duisburger Akzente"
with works by Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim

!? – Musikalischer Essay über die Grenzen des Möglichen 
for electric or mechanic keyboard (or accordion) (2001)

…simultaneously with

the digital film video by Pietro Sanguineti: few seconds of nature (2003)

Seonkyong Kim, piano

 

May 20, 2008 (10.05 pm - 11 pm)
Bayern 4 Klassik

Horizonte
musica viva Festival 2008

...vanishing into silence ...
for cello solo and ensemble (flute, clarinet (B), horn, trumpet (C), trombone and double-bass (2002-03)

Henrik Wiese, flute
Stefan Schilling, clarinet
Thomas Ruh, bugle
Thomas Kiechle, trumpet
Hansjörg Profanter, trombone
Sebastian Klinger, cello
Frank Reinecke, double bass

 

May 17, 2008 (8.05 pm - 11 pm)
WDR 3: Radio Programme with works by Stäbler and Shim

The programme refers to Stäbler´s and Shims works being presented as world premieres on April 25.

Kunsu Shim: Quell. Nacht (I and II) 
for splitted orchestra (2008)

Gerhard Stäbler: SAPPHO TRILOGIE I-III.
Music for soloists, choir, splitted orchestra and tape (2006)

 

May 15, 2008
Universität der Künste, Bremen

Winter, Blumen 
for theremin with accessoires (1995)

INTERNET 1.5 
for piano (1997)

Lydia Kavina, theremin

 

April 25, 2008
WDR Fest Duisburg

Kraft·Zentrale 
Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord

6 pm: Preprogramme with music, lectures and dinner
8 pm: Main program

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Preprogramme 6 pm

Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988) 
Riti: I Funerali d`Achille for four percussions (1962)

Panayotis Kokoras (*1974)
Breakwater for tape (2000) 
... simultaneously to the poem
Der Abstieg der Neun by Thanássis Valtinós

Sappho, Fragment Poem from Book 1 (No. 10), translated and read by Jörg Detmold

Gerhard Stäbler (*1949)
Ithaka Paraphrase on the poem by Alexandrian poet Konstantinos Kavafis (1963-1933) for 13-stringed Japanese Cither Koto (and voice) (2003)

Paul Celan (1920-1970)
Different poems (as introduction to Steinschlag·Zeit for orchestra by Kunsu Shim)

Katerina Tzedaki
Jyoti, Stereoversion of an eight channel composition with electronic sounds (2007)
... simultaneously with the Sappho fragment
Ich aber bin dem Glanz verfallen
from Book IV (No. 15) translated by Jörg Detmold

Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
Post-Prae-Ludium per Donau for Tuba solo and live elektronics (1987) 

Jiannis Ritsos (1909-1990)
Es hungern die Augen Poem

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Sequenza III for voice (1966)

Paul Celan (1920-1970)
Stehen, im Schatten Poem

Members of the young orchestra NRW
Direction: Thomas Oesterdiekhoff
Melvin Poore, Tuba
Salome Kammer, Sopran
Members of the theater GeVis&schnee from Gymnasium Voerde 
Direction: Jörg Detmold

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Main Programme (8 pm)

WHAT YOU LOVE · Sappho
Music for soloists. choirs. orchestra. light and video. With works by Gerhard Stäbler, Dieter Schnebel/Franz Schubert and Kunsu Shim with videos by Kyungwoo Chun

Inside. Outside
Hearing, watching, smelling, tasting 

An academy project of Duisburger Philharmoniker and the young orchestra NRW in cooperation with Musikfabrik NRW.

Program (8 pm):

Kunsu Shim: Quell. Nacht (I) 
for splitted orchestra (2008) World premiere

Dieter Schnebel: Schubert-Phantasie 
for splitted orchestra (2008)

Kunsu Shim: Quell. Nacht (II) 
for splitted orchestra (2008) World premiere

Gerhard Stäbler: SAPPHO TRILOGIE I-III.
Music for soloists, choir, splitted orchestra and tape (2006) World premiere

Interpreters:
Salome Kammer, soprano
Young orchestra NRW
Duisburger Philharmoniker
MusikFabrik NRW
Chor der Universität Witten/Herdecke

 

April 25, 2008 (8 pm)
Initiative Stolpersteine Frankfurt
Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium / Musikakademie Frankfurt am Main, Engelbert Humperdinck Saal

"MUTTERLAND WORT"
A concert with Jewish poetry from German speaking Bukowina

Bridges for mezzo soprano and accordion (1996/97)
Music based on Paul Celan´s Fernen

 

April 17, 2008 (8 pm)
Music library in central library Essen, Hollestr. 3 (Gildehof) Essen-Stadtmitte

PORTRAIT SEONKYUNG KIM (I) with EarPort Ensemble

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano sonata op. 111
c-minor (1821/22)
Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Arietta - Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

Franz Liszt:
1. Die Trauer-Gondel (II) for piano (1882)
2. Unstern for piano (1880/86)

Gerhard Stäbler: ...leaving the gold... 
for piano, voice and tape (2004)
simultaneous with
Kunsu Shim: softspeaker 
for microphone

Kunsu Shim:
Song of Wind 
for piano 1988 (rev. 92)

Gerhard Stäbler:
Dalí - Música mágica for piano (1995/96)

Seonkyung Kim, piano
EarPort Ensemble

 

April 11 (8 pm), April 12 2008 (5 pm)
Womens International Film Festival, Filmtheater Artreon 6, Seoul 

Film by Barbara Hammer with music by Gerhard Stäbler: Karas.Kräen Electronic music (1994/95) (1999/2000)

Further information: Filmfestival WFFIS

 

March 29, 2008 (5 pm)
Stiftung DKM, Duisburg-Inner harbour, Philosophenweg 17a

Music by Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim (among others) presented by the koto player Makiko Goto in the frame of an exhibition Hayato Goto (February 29 - June 22)

A cooperation of EarPort, centre for contemporary music and the foundation DKM.

Further information: Stiftung DKM

 

February 28 / March 1, 2008
Art Academy Oslo

Hart auf hart. Improvised. Calculative.
Graphic score (1986)
Version for dance and music

Direction: Thomas Rimul

 

February 22, 2008
Toronto, Music Gallery

Nadia Francavilla & D'arcy Gray
"Décagé" - PerformanceEvening

FallZeit for one or two percussions (1997)

 

February 19, 2008
Saarländischer Rundfunk

beats for percussion solo and string quartet (1998)

Dirk Rothbrust, Schlagzeug
Minguet Quartett

 

February 10, 2008 
Munich, Festival Musica Viva

...vanishing into silence... for cello and ensemble (2008) World Premiere

Members of Bayerisches Symphonieorchester

 

February 6 and 7, 2008
Dampfzentrale Bern

Corvidea
a piece for one dancer
performed and created by Anja Gysin
with music of Gerhard Stäbler

 

January 25, 2008 (8 pm)
Mainfranken Theater, Würzburg

Letzte Dinge Action with music based on a libretto by Hermann Schneider and Alexander Jansen to Paul Auster´s novel "In the country of last things" for 3 voices, percussion and tape (2007)

 

January 24, 2008 (8 pm)
Mainfranken Theater, Würzburg

Letzte Dinge Action with music based on a libretto by Hermann Schneider and Alexander Jansen to Paul Auster´s novel "In the country of last things" for 3 voices, percussion and tape (2007)

 

January 15, 2008 (6 pm)
Kammermusiksaal der Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Dechanatstraße 13-15

Concert and talk with Gerhard Stäbler

hyacinth 
for percussion (1997)

Winter, Blumen 
for violine solo (1995) 

Belfast Breakfast Songs 
for voice (1996) 

KARAS.KRÄHEN 
for accordion and tape (1994/95) 

Nadja Arnold, percussion
Quan Yuan, accordion
Johannes Haase, violine
Janina Kriszun and Max Börner, voice

 

January 8 / 13, 2008
Music Academy Stuttgart

drüber 
for eight active screamers, cello and tape (1972/73)

Students of Music Academy Stuttgart 
Angelika Luz, director

 

January 6-13, 2008 
EarPort, Duisburg Inner harbour; Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg; City Hall Duisburg

EarPort WinterFestival: A week and and a day (III)

"WINTER DREAMS"

January 6 (Sunday) 
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop I, EarPort
5 pm: "WinterVoice" - Concert for voice und piano, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
Martin Lindsay, Baritone; Seonkyung Kim, Piano
7.30 pm: Vernissage of the exhibition Jan Stárek (Prague Düsseldorf), EarPort

January 7 (Monday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop II, EarPort
10.30 pm: Culture trip (Registration necessary)  

January 8 (Tuesday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop III, EarPort
1 pm: EarPort Composition Prize – Award in Duisburg City Hall

January 9 (Wednesday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop IV, EarPort
7,30 pm: "Winter Piano" (I) - Concert with the Piano duo Aya and Kozue Hara

January 10 (Thursday)
7,30 pm: PerformanceConcert with Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, EarPort

January 11 (Friday)
10 - 12,30 pm: Workshop V, EarPort 
with Seonkyung Kim and Aya & Kozue Hara
7 pm: "Winter Piano (II)" - Concert with Udo Falkner, EarPort

January 12 (Saturday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop VI, EarPort
with Bernd Bleffert (Percussion)
7,30 pm: Instrumentalperformance with sound objects, EarPort
(Bernd Bleffert with participants of the workshops)

January 13 (Sunday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop VII, EarPort
5 pm: "WinterWind" - Concert for recorder and piano, EarPort
Gudrun Heyens, Recorder; Seonkyung Kim, Piano
Followed by a finissage of the exhibition Jan Stárek