Festival Voices

Sun 15.10.23, 20:30CET

Radialsystem
Berlin

Incidents

Vladimir Rannev: Incidents

for six voices after selected texts from the cycle by Thomas Bernhard

Sergej Newski/Olga Bubich: New Work

for four voices (2023) ^WP

Alexandra Filonenko: Naked

for Countertenor solo (2013)

Maxim Kolomiiets: New Work

for voices (2023) ^WP

Zeynep Gedizlioglu: Kelimeler (Words)

for five voices (2013/14)

Neue Vocalsolisten

Background

Vladimir Rannev: EREIGNISSE (EVENTS)

Maxim Kolomiiets: Im Spiegel … Kerzen. Annotation

Zeynep Gedizlioğlu: Kelimeler

Additional Information

The dialectic of freedom and oppression runs as a guiding theme through the diverse artistic program of this concert by the Neue Vocalsolisten. Works written especially for the Neue Vocalsolisten will be performed and presented publicly for the first time.

The memories of women who witnessed the revolution in Belarus in 2020, recorded by the artist Olga Bubich, form the basis of the new piece by Sergei Nevsky. The quiet but distinct voices of women protesting in Istanbul’s Taksim Square are echoed in Turkish composer Zeynep Gedizlioglu’s Kelimeler.

Ukrainian-born, Berlin-based composer Alexandra Filonenko transforms Heiner Müller’s »Hamlet Machine« into a metaphor for the emergence of language from breath and sound. Finally, the world premieres of the Ukrainian composer Maksim Kolomiiets and his Russian colleague Vladimir Rannev, whose cycle »EREIGNISSE« is based on Thomas Bernhard’s short stories of the same name and describes the suppression of individual freedom: a poetic but clear response to the challenges of our time.

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Art of (not) forgetting” by Sergei Nevsky/Olga Bubich was commissioned by Music of the Centuries and PlatformB.

Maxim Kolomiiiet’s new work for six voices was commissioned by AFF Projects.

»EVENTS« by Vladimir
Rannev was commissioned by Musikfonds and Neustart Kultur.