KAMMER-SPIELE

Oscar Bianchi: Ante Litteram

for six voices a cappella (2012/13)

Elena Rykova: a hollow heart full of holes
for five voices and electronics (2024/25) ^WP

Thomas Kessler: Voice Control

for three voices and live electronics (1994)

Anna Sowa: Entrecôte

Music theater piece

for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass and electronics (2025) ^WP

Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte*

Fernando Manassero: The slow cancellation of the future
for six voices and electronics (2024)

Neue Vocalsolisten

Johanna Vargas, soprano

Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano

Helena Sorokina, mezzo-soprano

Martin Nagy, tenor

Guillermo Anzorena, baritone

Andreas Fischer Bass

Live electronic realization/sound direction:

Thomas Hummel, SWR Experimentalstudio

They are researchers, explorers, adventurers, and idealists. And they are world class: for 25 years, the Neuen Vocalsolisten have been THE chamber ensemble for experimental vocal music, working intensively with composers from all over the world, making artistic excursions into a wide variety of disciplines and musical cultures, and combining curiosity, a love of experimentation, and virtuosity with a great desire to perform. It is not uncommon for chamber music works to give rise to veritable miniature dramas. This is also the case in this Swiss program: in a fast-paced narrative, Oscar Bianchi uses David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest to search for the reasons »that prevent humanity from self-knowledge and the path to consciousness.« Fernando Manassero questions »The Golden Age of Leisure«: is everything really golden when robots take over all the work? And Elena Rykova exposes manipulative powers with Yoko Ogawa’s novel The Island of Lost Memory. But »memories are much tougher than you think. Just like the hearts that carry them.«