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3 November 2018 | Anthracite Fields

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“[Anthracite Fields] captures not only the sadness of hard lives lost… but also the sweetness and passion of a way of daily life now also lost. The music compels without overstatement. This is a major, profound work.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times.

Haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical, Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields is an oratorio about coal miners and a fitting recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Inspired by miners living in the Pennsylvania coal region, Wolfe uses oral histories, interviews with miners and their families, speeches, children’s rhymes, and other sources to create a powerful cantata that speaks of the American worker’s experience.

Bang on a Can All-Stars
·· Ashley Bathgate, Cello and Voice
·· Robert Black, Bass
·· Vicky Chow, Piano and Keyboard
·· David Cossin, Drums and Percussion
·· Anna Koch, Clarinets
·· Mark Stewart, Guitar and Voice

Cantus Domus
Ralf Sochaczewsky, Conductor

Saturday, 03. November 16:30 and 20:00

Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche
Zossener Straße 65
10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg

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21 & 23 September 2017 | Platypus turns 10

platypus turns ten
three concerts at echoraum
lots of good music

 

Platypus turns 10: Pickup/Prospect

21.September 20:00
A portrait concert of the artists-in-residence at KulturKontakt Austria Enrique Mendoza Mejía and Piyawat Louilarpprasert

Programme:
Johannes Maria Staud : Für Bálint Andras
Varga Enrique Mendoza Mejía : La Sombra
Piyawat Louilarpprasert : Groaning Song
Tomasz Skweres : 5 Miniaturen
Enrique Mendoza Mejía : Del adíos
Piyawat Louilarpprasert : Maschine… Atem

Ensemble Platypus :
Iva Kovac, Flute | Theresia Schmidinger, Anna Koch, Clarinets
Marianna Oczkowska, Violin | Stefanie Prenn, Tomasz Skweres, Cello
Brigitte Helbig, Piano | Jaime Wolfson, Piano, Conductor

 

Platypus turns 10!

23.September 19:30

1.Concert for Werner
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong : chromatic aberration 2
                                           for albert ayler [trópico-tránsito unplugged]
VAR 1.3
Petra Stump-Linshalm : Wändelesen, neue Fassung
Katharina Klement : Lokus Fokus
Bernard Lang : Echoes in Space: Loops for Werner (UA)

2.Platypus Birthday – 20 Miniatures
Daniel Moser : Petit Galop Chromatique
Ruud Roelofsen : Seelenklänge II
Kaveh Azimi : Algae
Sandra Lemus : Ekbriloj
Piyawat Louilarpprasert : Tiki-Tica-Tico
Fernando Riederer : n.n.
Daniela Fantechi : 7:30 a.m.
Zesses Seglias : untitled
Benjamin Isaacs : Tintering
Enrique Mendoza Mejía : atom
Shayan Moktharami : Klangstudie II
Rafaele Andrade : Êx
Rojin Sharafi : Macguffin
Juan de Dios Magdaleno : Morphing Impulses
[ka’mi] : Freed(om) of Choice
Hannes Dufek : Elementartropismus oder Der unbewegte Beweger
Mathias Schmidhammer : *stups*
Jean-Patrick Besingrand : Aux couleurs du couchant reflété par mes yeux
Simon Vosecek : Werksinn
Valentín Pelisch : ENSEMBLE

Ensemble Platypus :
Kaoko Amano, Sopran | Marianna Oczkowska, Violin
Sophia Goidinger-Koch, Violin, Viola | Iva Kovac, Flutes
Stefanie Prenn, Tomasz Skweres, Cello
Theresia Schmidinger, Anna Koch, Clarinets
Brigitte Helbig Piano, E-Piano | Katharina Klement, Piano
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Turntables
Hannes Dufek, Synthesizer, Objects
Jaime Wolfson, Piano, Conductor

Ensemble Platypus
Echoraum

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