December 3, 2017 (11.30 am)
EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, Duisburg-Innenhafen

Matinée SILBERMOND
Music and poetry of the 20th and 21st century

...strike the ear...
for string quartet (1978/88)

Also with works by Morton Feldman, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schönberg, Kunsu Shim and Iannis Xenakis,
and poetry by Samuel Beckett, Sappho, William Blake, Richard Dehmel and Maurice Blanchot

String Sextett of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra:
Tonio Schibel and Johanna Klose, violin
Friedemann Hecker and Lolla Süßmilch, viola
Franziska Batzdorf and Anja Schröder, violoncello

Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, recitations and performances

In cooperation with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra

 

November 17, 2017 (7 pm)
Japanisches Kulturinstitut Cologne, Universitätsstraße 98

now.here - here?
Chord scraps for piano (2016)

Also with works by Sidney Corbett, Kunsu Shim, Hauke Harder and Jo Kondo

Satoko Inoue, piano

 

November 9, 2017 (Leipzig)
November 10, 2017 (Bamberg)
November 19, 2017 (Herrsching, Kurparkschlösschen)

Stillschreiend anders
for two guitars (2017)
World Premiere

Johannes Öllinger and Martin Steuber, guitar

 

October 28, 2017
Museum San, Wonju/South Korea

In the context of the 14th musicon concert series

Red Book
Music for Kyungwoo Chun's video (of the same title) for percussion (2009)

 

October 3-28, 2017
South America Tour

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the German Embassy Buenos Aires

October 26, 2017 (7 pm)
Casa Nacional del Bicentenario , Buenos Aires (Argentinien)

Cristales secos 
PerformanceConcert in the context of the concert series CNB Contemporánea  

AugenTanz/MundStücke
Performances (1999)

Winter, Blumen 
for bass flute with accessories (1995)

Hart auf hart. Improvisatorisch. Kalkulativ. 
Music for ensemble(s) (1986)

now.here? 
Chord scraps for piano (2016)

VOR·LESEN 
for flute, clarinet and piano (2017)

Also with works by Helmut Lachenmann, Kunsu Shim, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Claude Debussy and María Zegna

María Zegna, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Pablo Boltsheuer, guitar
Griselda Giannini, clarinet
Ana Ligia Mastruzzo, flutes
Bruno Mesz, piano
 

Master Classes and Concerts at the festival
monteaudio17 - recolección at the University of Music EUM Montevideo (Uruguay):

October 22, 2017 (8 pm)
El Quitapenas, Paysandú 847, Montevideo (Uruguay)

Final concert with all participants

Kókkala 
for speaker and toy piano (2013) 

Gerhard Stäbler, performance 
 

October 19, 2017 (8 pm)
Auditorio Escuela Universitaria de Música, 18 de Julio 1772, Montevideo (Uruguay)

Hart auf hart. Improvisatorisch. Kalkulativ. 
A Music for Ensemble(s) (1986)

Also with works by Kunsu Shim, Jackson MacLow, Hirato Renkichi, Lucía Chamorro, Pablo Cabrera, Nelson Tirelli, Ana Campanella, Gastón Suárez, John White, Raoul Haussmann, Earle Brown, Sebastián Nabón, Yuji Takahashi and Elena Solis

Kunsu Shim / Gerhard Stäbler / Participants of EUM, performance  
 

Oktober 17, 2017 (8 pm)
Escuela Universitaria de Música (EUM), Avda. 18 de Julio 1772, Montevideo (Uruguay)

Composers' Talk with Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler 
 

October 14, 2017 (8 pm)
Instituto Casa Bertolt Brecht, Andes 1274, Montevideo (Uruguay)

You never dream alone when you dream
A PerformanceConcert for Graciela Paraskevaidis and Coriún Aharónian

Tau und Nelke 
for voice (2017)

Cassandra III 
for voice, percussion and electronic sounds (1996)

Kunsu Shim/Gerhard Stäbler: EarMail. Performance for audience (2014)
Kunsu Shim: Collaborations I - a collective composition
    including:
    Gerhard Stäbler: Kókkala (2010)
     Kunsu Shim/Gerhard Stäbler: Areas (2016)

Also with other works by Kunsu Shim and Sofia Scheps, Guzmán Calzada, Lucia Chamorro, Marcelo Rilla

Sofia Scheps / Guzmán Calzada / Lucia Chamorro / Gerhard Stäbler / Kunsu Shim, performance
 

 

September 30, 2017 (8 and 9 pm)
Bechstein Centrum Cologne
Glockengasse 6 („Opern-Passagen“)

In the context of „Kölner Musiknacht“

Internet 1.5
for piano (1996)

Martin Tchiba, piano

 

September 23, 2017 (7.30 pm)
September 24, 2017 (11.30 am)
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz 4

BLEIB BIS DER RAUM VOLL IST
PerformanceConcert at the exhibition „SINGULAR/PLURAL“

Kunsu Shim / Gerhard Stäbler:
Singular·Plural. Performance (2017)

VERWANDELN
Septett with vocal performances (ad lib.) (2017)
World Premiere

CHANGE!
Music theatre tools for one speaker (2013)

Hitler-Choral V: „Ein' große Hilf war uns sein Maul“ (Bertolt Brecht 1934)
Paraphrase on the hymn „Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott“ by Martin Luther (1528)
for voice and ensemble (1980)

Also with works by Jed Curtis, Dick Higgins, Kunsu Shim, Kurt Johannessen, Trond Reinholdtsen and Alwynne Pritchard

Alwynne Pritchard, voice and performance
Kunsu Shim und Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Ensemble BIT20 (Bergen/Norway)

 

September 22, 2017 (7.30 pm)
EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, Duisburg-Innenhafen

VernissageConcert of the exhibition „Peter Androsch - PHONOGRAPHIE“

K·O/M¿B_I"N*A-T^E···

now.here - here?
Chord scraps for piano (2016)

Also with music by the austrian and german composers Peter Androsch, Elisabeth Harnik, Helmut Lachenmann, Bernd Preinfalk and Kunsu Shim

Ensemble CRUSH:
Karin Nakayama, violin
Kyusang Jeong, clarinet
Jongin Moon, piano

Supported by GEBAG Duisburg

 

September 16, 2017 (8 am and 8 pm)
Minoritenkirche, Historisches Museum Regensburg, Minoritenweg 9

In the context of REVERB (Internationales Festival für Hall, Raum, Musik)

8 am:
elements (acute)
Electronic music for sound installations (1999/2000)

8 pm:
Winter, Blumen
for bass clarinet solo with accessories (1996/1998)

Bernhard Zachhuber, bass clarinet
Bernd Preinfalk a.o., car horns

 

September 15, 2017 (9.30 Uhr)
EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, Duisburg-Innenhafen

Finissage of the exhibition An die Nacht
Night sculptures by Kunsu Shim

„DÉRANGEMENT“
A PerformanceMusic by and with Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

 

September 15, 2017 (8 pm)
Orchesterzentrum NRW
Dortmund, Brückstraße 47

September 2017,13 (7.30 pm)
Inner court of Albertinum Dresden

September 9, 2017 (6 pm)
Town Hall Meißen, Markt 1

In the context of Vox Populi?! The Sound of Democracy

Hitler-Choral V: „Ein' große Hilf war uns sein Maul“ (Bertolt Brecht 1934)
Paraphrase on the hymn „Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott“ by Martin Luther (1528)
for choir and electronic organ (ad lib.) (1980)

Also with works by Michael Edward Edgerton, Christian Kesten, Peter Motzkus, Harald Muenz, Agnes Ponizil, Richard Röbel, Idin Samimi Mofakham, Amir Shpilman, Johannes Voit and Steffi Weisman

AuditivVOKAL Dresden
Olaf Katzer, artistic direction

 

September 1, 2017
Museum Schloss Freistadt/Austria

In the context of the 2nd ISCM concert (TRANSIT II)

Winter, Blumen
Version for bass clarinet (1995)

Bernhard Zachhuber, bass clarinet

 

August 20, 2017 (6 pm)
Alte Brüderkirche Kassel, Brüderstraße

Vom Verschwinden der Dinge

tau und nelke (I, II)
for voice (2017)
World premiere

hyacinth, liquids.scents
for percussion (1997)

Also with works by Kunsu Shim

Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim, performance
Olaf Pyras and students of the Pädagogische Hochschule Kassel

 

August 3, 2017 (8 pm)
Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
St. Johanner Markt 24

In the context of Saarbrücker Sommermusik

now.here - here?
Chord scraps for piano (2016)

Martin Tchiba, piano

 

July 9, 2017 (11.30 am)
EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, Duisburg-Innenhafen

Finissage of the exhibition
BEST FRIENDS

An exhibition about friendship
with drawings, mangas, letters, photographs by Harue Nonaka, Ichiro Kajiki and Wilfried Krüger

from: ... leaving the gold ...
for voice (2004)

also with works by Kunsu Shim, Josef Anton Riedl, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Claude Debussy and George Brecht

EarPort Ensemble:
Harue Nonaka, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance
 

July 2, 2017 (6 pm)
Outside the „Narrenkastl“
Hauptplatz 24, Fronleiten, Steiermark/Austria

Kókkala
for one speaker

Also with works by Kunsu Shim

Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance

 

July 2, 2017 (12 noon)
KunstRaum Dorissa Lem
Geisselstraße 56, Cologne

Bruchstück
for solo voice (2015)

Also with works by Charlotte Seither, Iris Szeghy, James Weeks and Heinz-Albert Heindrichs

Irene Kurka, soprano

 

July 2, 2017 (11 am)
KulturPension in Prenning's Garten
Übelbacherstraße 161, Deutschfreistritz/Österreich

In the context of Prenninger Resonanzen 2017

CROSSING THE LINE

A·Duo - FragmenteBlöcke
for clarinet and piano (2010)

Nachtstück II
for clarinet, double bass and piano (2005)

now.here - here?
Chord scraps for piano (2016)

AugenTanz/MundStücke
Performance (1999)

VOR·LESEN³ [Reading³]
Trio for clarinet, double bass and piano (2017)
World Premiere

Also with works by Kunsu Shim, Yoko Ono und George Brecht

Ensemble Schallfeld
Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim, performance

 

June 25, 2017 (3 pm)
Lorenzerplatz and Neues Museum, Nürnberg

In the context of the Jubilee Concert 35 years Pegnitzschäfer - Klangkonzepte

demnach
An unfolded quartet for French horn and action groups with cement mixers and vacuum cleaners (2010)

Kunsu Shim/Gerhard Stäbler
...leaving the gold...
Performance (2004)
simultaneously with sound poems by Josef Anton Riedl and Paul Celan:

 

June 22, 2017
Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium
Zwerchgraben 1, Würzburg

Workshop „New Music for school orchestras“

 

June 9, 2017 (8 pm)
Institute for Aesthetics of Music, the Centre for Gender Studies and Institute 4 of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Florentinersaal, Palais Meran
Leonhardstr. 15, Graz/Austria

Concert Series Musik und Szene #2

Dry Leaves
for accordion solo (2002)

AugenTanz/MundStücke
Performance (1999)

Hart auf Hart. Improvisatorisch, Kalkulativ
Version for five players (1986)

Spices (4)
for accordion and electronic sounds (2001)

Also with works by Kunsu Shim, Yoko Ono and George Brecht

Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Marija Vukoja, Matic Lorbek, Nikolaj Zver (Accordion class Prof. Janne Rättyä, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz)
Manuel Hamdan, Lisa-Maria Jauk, Sara Kebe (Musicology/Aesthetics of Music class Prof. Christa Brüstle, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz)

 

June 1, 2017 (8 pm)
German Hygiene Museum Dresden
Lingnerplatz 1

Non.Sense?! Neue (Un)Sinnlichkeiten
Concert for the 10th anniversary of AUDITIVVOKAL DRESDEN

Gerissene Dämpfe
for six female and male voices and one speaker (2016/17)
World Premiere

Also with world premieres by Charlotte Seither, Helmut Oehring and Peter Motzkus and other works by György Ligeti, Dieter Schnebel, David Moss a.o.

 

May 31, 2017 (10 am)
German Hygiene Museum
Lingnerplatz 1, Dresden

Old New Music?!
Workshop and Outreach project with the seniors' choir of the Singakademie Dresden

EarPlugs
from: Performances for music lovers (1999)

Cassandra
Music for percussion, electronic sounds and voices (1996)

 

May 30, 2017 (7.30 pm)
Lecture Hall of the SLUB Dresden
Zellescher Weg 18, Dresden

In the context of the New Dresden Vocal School (Neue Dresdener Vokalschule)

AugenTanz
MundStücke
from: Performances for music lovers (1999)

Participant at the panel discussion „Listening in/to today's society“ (Hören in der/auf die heutige/n Gesellschaft)

 

May 23, 2017 (7.30 pm)
Burkardushaus Würzburg

In the context of the concert series FLÜGELSCHLÄGE

"Zeit.Vertikale"
PerformanceConzert with music by Gyula Bánkövi, Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler and others

EarPort Ensemble:
Martin Tchiba, piano
Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performances

 

May 20, 2017 (5 pm)
Kunstlabor Essen
Schule an der Waldlehne 111, Essen

Opening of the Exhibition 2017

PerformanceMusic by and with Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim

 

May 18, 2017 (7 pm)
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Ehrenhof 1

Vernissage of the exhibition Mythos Tour de France

GeRädert
Performance and music by George Antheil, George Aperghis, Henry Cowell, Erik Satie, Robert Schumann, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

Black Tiger Tango
for accordion (2006)

Räder
Play for spokes (2017)

HandStreiche
Performances for music lovers (1999)

Also with works by Hirato Renkichi, Raoul Hausmann, George Antheil, Kunsu Shim, Erik Satie, Nebojsa Zivkovic, Robert Schumann und Henry Cowell

Alexandra von der Weth, soprano
EarPort Ensemble:
Slavi Grigorov, accordion
Franz Rieks, piano
Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Students of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf:
Yaozong Song, piano (Schumann)
Stefan Emmerling, Markus Knoben, Nils Steinmkamp and Max Stracke, percussion

 

May 13/14, 2017 (3 pm)
C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr
UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein, Areal C [Kokerei], Mischanlage [C70]
Kokereiallee 71, Essen

In the context of Medienkunstmesse 2017

„Engelkadaver-Remix 2017“. Spoken-Word-Performance by André Chi Sing Yuen and Frank Schablewski
with music by Gerhard Stäbler:

elements (acute)
Electronic music for sound installations (1999/2000)
Realised at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, sound design: Christian Venghaus

 

May 6, 2017 (6.30 pm)
Genezarethkirche
Berlin, Herrfurthplatz 14

if not, winter
for Renaissance tenor recorder and 13-string koto (2006/07)

Makiko Goto, koto
Gabriele Bultmann, flute

 

May 4 and 5, 2017 (10.30 und 12 am)
May 6, 2017 (3 pm)
Norske Opera, Oslo

Simon
Youth opera on a text by Christopher Grøndahl

Victoria Johnson, acoustic/electronic violin and electronics
Eirik Raude, percussion and electronics
Mathias Gillebo (Simon)
Silje Marie Aker Johnsen (Mia)
Victoria Bomann-Larssen, director
Sunniva Bodvin, stage and costumes

 

May 2, 2017
The Grieg Academy , University of Bergen (Norway)
Lars Hilles Gate 3

LecturePerformance:
CHANGE! A frying pan belongs to a composer's luggage

In the context of a seminar with Prof. Jostein Gundersen and Alwynne Pritchard

 

May 2, 2017
Seoul Arts Center, Südkorea

] in myself I am
for soprano, piano, actions and scents (2016)

Duo Illegal:
Alessia Park, soprano
Marija Skender, piano

 

April 30, 2017 (11 pm)
WDR3

Radio Broadcast „His Master’s Choice" (22) with Nicolaus A. Huber

Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco
An acronym containing acoustical reminiscences of a journey for ensemble (1989-90)

Also with works by Josef Anton Riedl, Graciela Paraskevaídis, Tom Johnson, Stefan Prins and Martin Schüttler

 

April 27, 2017 (7.30 pm)
Zentralbibliothek Essen (Gildehof, Hollestr. 3)

VOR·SPIELE

Metal Seasons (I-IV)
for violin solo (1999)

Also with works by George Brecht, Morton Feldman, Adriana Hölzsky, Helmut Lachenmann, Uikyung Lee, Salvatore Sciarrino, Kunsu Shim and Giuseppe Ungaretti

Karin Nakayama, violin
Kyusang Jeong, clarinet and performance
Kunsu Shim, piano and performance
Gerhard Stäbler, recitation and performance

Supported by Cultural Office City of Essen, EarPort Duisburg and Municipal Library Essen

 

April 23, 2017 (11.30 am)
EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, Duisburg-Innenhafen

Concert and opening of the exhibition
BEST FRIENDS

An exhibition about friendship
with drawings, mangas, letters, photographs by
Harue Nonaka, Ichiro Kajiki and Wilfried Krüger

Now.Here - Here?
Chord scraps for piano (2016)

Also with works by George Brecht, Jo Kondo, Christian Mason, Helmut Lachenmann, Claude Debussy, Mieko Shiomi, Kunsu Shim and Yuji Takahashi

Ensemble CRUSH

 

March 9 and 10, 2017 (8 pm)
Concert Hall of the University of Music Würzburg, Hofstallstraße 6-8

In the context of the 4th Symphony Concert of Mainfranken Theatre Würzburg

AUSGEWILDERTE FARBEN
Concerto for orchestra
World premiere

Review (in German): here

Also with works by Beethoven and Brahms

Philharmonic Orchestra Würzburg

 

Februar 19, 2017 (12.30 pm)
Kunstmuseum Solingen
Wuppertaler Straße 160, Solingen-Gräfrath

Christian Jendreiko: PLI SCORE PLI
Action for five friends with five Synthesizers & two guests, MOSAIK
& a chord by Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim

kokkála II
for speaker (2013)

AugenTanz/MundStücke
Performances for Lovers of Music (1999)

...leaving the gold...
Version for voice (2004)

Gerhard Stäbler/Kunsu Shim:
Empfänger

Also with works by Kunsu Shim, Yoko Ono and George Brecht

with Timo Hein, Nikolai Szymanski, Stefan Werni, Volker Zander, Christian Jendreiko
Gerhard Stäbler & Kunsu Shim, performance

 

February 11, 2017 (7.30 pm)
Trier, AMG (Angela Merici Gymnasium), Neustr. 35

WIDERSTÄNDE ... voller Wärme
In the context of OPENING 17

O Muro
for soprano, drums, metal, wood, glass and ice (with tape) (1992)

Also with the premiere of MUTTER.VATER by Kunsu Shim

Truike van der Poel, soprano
Rie Watanabe, percussion
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Kunsu Shim, performance
Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Cuzmán Calzada, performance
Sophia Sheps, performance

 

February 4, 2017 (6 pm)
Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Ehrenhof 1

In the context of the Social-Media-Piano Recital WIReless
#wirelesspiano

now.here – here?
Chord snatches for piano (2016)
World Premiere

Internet 1.5
for piano (1996)

Martin Tchiba, piano

 

January 29 2017 (11.30 pm)
EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, Duisburg-Innenhafen

Finissage of the exhibition
Martin Goppelröder: Light and Darkness - Hommage à Giuseppe Ungaretti

Kunsu Shim / Gerhard Stäbler
Areas for thunder sheets

Also with poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti
and performances by Kunsu Shim

EarPort Ensemble:
Gerhard Stäbler, recitation and performance
Kunsu Shim, piano and performance

 

January 12, 2017 (7.30 pm)
Schloss Benrath, Kapelle Ostflügel
Benrather Schlossallee 100-106, Düsseldorf

Musik and Psyche IV: The Power of the Voice

Talk and concert with music from Hildegard von Bingen, Vincenzo Bellini and Luciano Berio

Alexandra von der Weth, soprano
Gerhard Stäbler, speaker
Roland Techet, speaker and piano

 

January 11, 2017 (7.30 pm)
EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, Duisburg-Innenhafen

Frequences I
351ff: The NSU Trial

A Music Lecture by Schlosstheater Moers
in collaboration with EarPort

with
Patrick Dollas, Frank Wickermann, Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim

Ulrich Grebe and Kathrin Leneke, scenic direction
Annika Stadler, concept