Oktober 26-30, 2026
Tour Istanbul (Turkey)

TRANSITIONS · ÜBERGÄNGE 

October 28, 2026 (7.30 pm)
ARTER MUSEUM (Karbon)
Irmak Avenue No: 13, Beyoglu, Istanbul (Turkey) 
PerformanceConcert
With music and videos by Kyungwoo Chun, Paul Hindemith, Taejoong Kim, Anton Lukoszeviece, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

Hezarfen String Quartet (Istanbul): 
    Özcan Ulucan, violin & speaker
    İmge Tilif Yalçınkaya, violin
    Ulrich Mertin, viola 
    Mehmet Gökhan Bağcı, cello

EarPort Ensemble (Duisburg):
    Elisabeth von Leliwa, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance

October 30, 2026 (11 am)
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (İTÜ) MIAM (Centre for Advanced Studies in Music)
Maçka Cd. 4, Şişli İstanbul
PerformanceLecture

Hezarfen Ensemble
EarPort Ensemble

 

September 26 and 27, 2026
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A

EarFest TURKEY

September 26, 2026 (7 pm)
AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (THE EDGE OF HEAVEN)
Music, poetry and film
by Fatih Akin, Bülent Arel, Joseph Byrd, Alican Çamcı, Hilmi Yavuz and Taygun Yıldız

September 27, 2026 (11 am)
VERSCHWINDEN UND SEHNSUCHT (DISAPPEARANCE AND LONGING)
OpeningConcert of the exhibition the same name with woodcuts by Inessa Emmer
with music and poetry by Paul Hindemith, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Kunsu Shim (premiere),
Gerhard Stäbler (premiere) and Hilmi Yavuz

Hezarfen String quartet (Istanbul): 
    Özcan Ulucan, violin & speaker
    İmge Tilif Yalçınkaya, violin
    Ulrich Mertin, viola 
    Mehmet Gökhan Bağcı, celloSupported by the 

 

June 6, 2026 (2 pm)
Musis Balcony Room, Velperbinnensingel 15, Arnhem (Netherlands)

No. II from Capricci I–V
Version for cello solo (2023)

Also with works by Louis Andriessen, Cecilia Arditto Delsoglio, Erika Vega and Kate Moore

Katharina Gross, cello  

 

June 2, 2026 (8 pm)
Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf, Jacobistraße 6A

PromenadeConcert 
In cooperation with the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Künstlerverein Malkasten

Licht bin ich: ach, daß ich Nacht wäre!

INS OFFENE III „wechselseitig“ 
for soprano, mezzosoprano and baritone (2008)

BECOME A VOICE 
for two singers and percussion (2025)

VOICE OF LONGING 
for 2 singers (2025)

Gerissene Dämpfe
for six female and male voices and a speaker (2016/17)

Cassandra
Solo für three triangles (1996)

Also with music by John Cage, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Jackson MacLow, Dieter Schnebel, Franz Schreker, Robert Schumann, Kunsu Shim and Emmett Williams

AuditivVokal Dresden:
    Anne Stadler & Lidia Luciano, soprano
    Stefan Kunath, altus
    Kyle Fearon-Wilson, tenor
    Benjamin Mahns-Mardy, baritone
    Ferenc Sipos, bass
Nicolas Kuhn, musical direction and performance
Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
EarPort Ensemble:
    Elisabeth von Leliwa, Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance     

Supported the Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia 

 

May 31, 2026 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A


DAS UNSTILLBARE 
PerformanceKonzert for the opening of the exhibition Gerhard Losemann: ZEITSPUREN

BECOME A VOICE 
for two singers and percussion (2025)

VOICE OF LONGING 
for 2 singers (2025)

ANGEZÄHLT 
for percussion (2026) Premiere

from Kokkala 
for voice (2013)

Also with music and texts by Nanni Balestrini, Morton Feldman, Brion Gysin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pauline Oliveros, George Orwell, Josef A. Riedl, Diter Rot, Sappho, Kurt Schwitters and Kunsu Shim

Soloists of AuditivVokal Dresden:
    Lidia Luciano, soprano
    Anne Stadler, soprano 
Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance  

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

 

May 29, 2026 (7.30 pm)
Pusan National University, Art Center

PerformanceConcert
Emptiness and Image

Videos by Taejoong Kim on works by Kunsu Shim (Dich in allen Dingen for guitar quartet) and Gerhard Stäbler (Heiss! for organ)
and others

Ensemble musiCon

 

May 23, 2026 (8 pm)
Kunsthalle Trier / EKA – Europäische Kunstakademie 

INSIDE – CELLOMONDO 4

No. I & No. II from Capricci I–V
Version für cello solo (2023)

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

Katharina Gross, cello 

 

May 21, 2026 (8 pm)
Central Library Essen, Hollestr. 3 (Gildehof)

THE PURPOSE OF ART – de Sade and the idea of freedom
A musical-literary-performative concert as a farewell from the music library Essen at Gildehof Center 

THE PURPOSE OF ART
for accordion solo (2022)

Also with words and music a.o. by Pierluigi Billone, Maurice Blanchot, Katharina Gross, Helmut Lachenmann, Jug Markovic, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

Thomas Krause, recitation and theatrical action
Members of Ensemble S201 (Essen):
    Heni Hyunjung Kim, clarinet
    Filip Erakovic, accordion and performance
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance

 

May 2, 2026 (7.30 pm)
Pusan National University, Art Department

Three-Person Dialogue

About the work and cooperation of Taejoong Kim (video), Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler (composition)

Korean Composers’ Association

 

April 28, 2026 (6 pm) 
Chugye University Seoul (South Korea)

Lecture/Workshop

Gerhard Stäbler: about the string quartets of the past four decades
Kunsu Shim: about Das Unstillbare (Duo for two violins) and Luft.Inneres (string quartet)

 

March 22, 2026 (12 noon)
Akademie der Künste Berlin, Hanseatenweg
March 26, 2026 (7 pm)
Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Lothringerstraße 20 (Austria)

Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco
An acronym from acoustic memories of a journey (1988/1990)

Also with works by Laure M. Hiendl, Bernhard Lang (only 24.3.) and Luxa M. Schüttler

Klangforum Wien
Vimabyi Kaziboni, conductor

February 16, 2026 
Aichi University of the Arts 
1-114 Yazakosagamine, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1194 (Japan)

Engelkadaver
for soprano solo and electronic sounds on a poem by Frank Schablewski (2020)
Premiere 

Karera Fujita, Sopran

 

February 8, 2026 (8 pm)
Angela Merici Gymnasium, Neustr. 35, Trier

ÜBERGÄNGE
In the context of OPENING26 – International Festival for contemporary Sound Art in Trier

SICH VER·SCHREIBEN
for string quartet (2025)
with a video by Taejoong Kim

WIDERSCHEIN
for string quartet (2025)
Premiere

Also with works by Kyungwoo Chun, Anton Lukoszeviece and Kunsu Shim 

Luna Quartet:
Janneke van Prooijen & Heleen Hulst, violin
Elisabeth Smalt, viola
Katharina Gross, cello

Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance

 

January 25, 2026 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A

PerformanceConcert
for the opening of the exhibition zwanglos.beisammen by artists from the Rhineland

with works by Henryk Golden, Katharina Gross, Arnold Marinissen, Franz Schubert, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

Fallen Leaves Trio:
Vizma Zvaigzne, mezzosoprano
Sean Haid, countertenor
Arnold Marinissen, percussion

Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance

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

 

January 24, 2026 (1 pm & 3 pm)
Mozarteum University, Schwarzstraße 36, Salzburg (Austria)

Rituals

Kunsu Shim/Gerhard Stäbler:
attraction for two performers (2009)

Also with works by Georges Aperghis, Luciane Berio, John Cage, Iris Szeghy, Iannis Xenakis
and premieres by students of the composition classes

Florian Gfüllner and Felicitas Zähringer, performance
Students of instrumental and vocal education, of the Orff Institute and the vocal department
Angelika Luz, concept, musical and stage direction 

 

January 12, 2026 (6.30 pm)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A

VOM ZUSAMMENLEBEN 
Last night of the exhibition SCHATTENSÄUME by Martin Goppelsröder

Drei Malaiische Liebeslieder
on three poems by Ivan Goll (2020/21)

Also with works by Kunsu Shim

Irene Kurka, soprano 
Bruce Collings, trombone 
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance

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