How does the music of our accumulated yesterdays continue to write itself into today? This year a three-part showcase dedicated to the German composer Isabel Mundry positions her music as a dialogue between times. It opens with an evening featuring the Ensemble Musikfabrik and pieces that explore and open up the historical echo chambers of Gregorian chant and the Baroque. Late in the evening, a new virtuoso piece for solo cello by Georg Friedrich Haas will be performed: “Hochwald” was written especially for the exceptional up-and-coming Austrian cellist Valerie Fritz, who will not only play the cello.
Isabel Mundry (*1963)
Noli me tangere (2019/20)
for percussion and ensemble
Commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain with the support of Radio France, Kunststiftung NRW and Ensemble Musikfabrik
Schwankende Zeit (Komplettzyklus, 2006 – 09)
for large ensemble
1. Non mesuré with Louis Couperin I (2008/09)
2. Schwankende Zeit (2007/08)
3. Gefächerter Ort (2007/09)
4. Non mesuré with Louis Couperin II (2008/09)
5. Je est un autre (2009)
Figura (2022 – 2024)
Duo for 2 B trumpets
world premiere of the final version
Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte. New and extended version commissioned by Marco Blaauw / Global Trumpets, supported by Musikfonds e.V. and Kunststiftung NRW
Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953)
Hochwald (2024)
for singing, speaking, whispering cellist
German premiere
Artists/Collaborators: Bas Wiegers, Dirk Rothbrust, Marco Blaauw, Hannah Weirich, Valerie Fritz, Thomas Wegner, Markus Schwind