FUTURE TRADITIONS @ Akademie der Künste Berlin
May 28th, 2022

For the first time, two of the most outstanding female composers of our time will meet on this evening: Chinese composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun from New York, and Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, member of the Akademie der Künste. Both negotiate gender roles, traditions and the transitions between the arts in their works, which are often characterised by narrative and media components.

Special features of the concert evening: The two works by Olga Neuwirth will be visually mirrored in the live video by the well-known video artist Lillevan. Du Yun herself will perform as a solo performer in A Cockroach's Tarantella, staged by Roscha A. Säidow. Musicians from the Ensemble Mosaik will play.

Programm

Olga Neuwirth:
Magic flu-idity (2018, 14‘) for Flute and Typewriter with Live-Video
Flute: Kristjana Helgadóttir

Incidendo/Fluido (2000, 12’) for Piano with Live-Video

Du Yun:
A Cockroach’s Tarantella (2010, 19‘) for String-Quartett with Narrator
Narrator: Du Yun
Staging (Costume Design and Direction): Roscha A. Säidow
Costume Fabrication: Theater Luzern

Under a tree, an Udātta (2018, 9’) for Violin and Electronics

ensemble mosaik
Chatschatur Kanajan, Sarah Saviet: Violine
Karen Lorenz: Viola
Niklas Seidl: Cello
Ernst Surberg: Piano, Typewriter

Live-Video: Lillevan

With support of the American Academy.