Tora Augestad: world premiere in Bergen

On 25 January 2025 the mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad will sing the new work Áneš-Ovllá by the Norwegian composer Andreas Gundersen at Troldsalen in Troldhaugen, Bergen. The BIT20 Ensemble will perform this concert together with her. The new composition has been commissioned by the KODE Museum in Bergen, where Andreas Gundersen is an artist in residence. Tora Augestad is a regular guest in her hometown Bergen, recent concert performances let her again to the Bergen International Festival and to the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. 

(published on 14 January 2025)

Anna-Lena Elbert: Debut in Vienna

On 23 January 2025 the soprano Anna-Lena Elbert will make her debut in the context of the festival Resonanzen at the Wiener Konzerthaus. In the remarkable baroque programme entitled Walking she will sing arias and songs like Robert Jones Love wing'd my hopes, Whither runneth my sweetheart, William Corkine Walsingham, Pavin, Tobias Hume Fain would I change that note, What greater grief, Thomas Ford Musicke of Sundrie Kindes, Robert Jones Dreams and Imaginations, Fie fie and John Dowland If my complaints could passions move. Her musical partners will be Friederike Heumann (Viola da gamba, Lyra-Viol), Evangelina Mascardi (Renaissance lute) and Angélique Mauillon (baroque harp).

(published on 13 January 2025)

Vanessa Porter: Debut Ultraschall Festival 

On 16 January 2025, the percussionist Vanessa Porter will perform a solo concert at the invitation of Ultraschall Festival Berlin at the Radialsystem V Berlin. This Late-Night-concert will mark her debut at the Ultraschall Festival and will focus on Rebecca Saunders’ remarkable work dust in combination with Georges Aperghis’ extraordinary pieces The Messenger, Graffitis and Le corps a corps. Aperghis dedicated The Messenger explicitly to Vanessa Porter for her ECHO Rising Stars tour in 22/23, it’s tailor-made for her. In Saunders‘ dust, minimalistic sounds are created on the most unusual instruments and objects – the result is a fascinating cosmos that Vanessa Porter brings on stage demonstrating her versatility and outstanding musical skill.

(published on 17 December 2024)

Sarah Maria Sun in Munich & Antwerp

On 12 December 2024 the soprano Sarah Maria Sun will sing the Munich premiere of Enno Poppe‘s Augen as well as the world premiere of Alban Berg‘s Lulu Suite - Drei Bruchstücke in a transcription/new version selected and arranged for soprano and chamber orchestra by Eberhard Kloke at the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Bas Wiegers will lead the Münchener Kammerorchester as well as the further works H. I. F. Biber’s Serenade Der Nachtwächter and Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz. Harald Hieronymus Hein and Andreas Mangold are the other soloists of this evening.

On 20/21 December 2024 Sarah Maria Sun will slip into the role of Lady Dianna in Jannik Giger’s & Leo Hofmann’s Queen of Hearts at the Theaterstudio at De Singel in Antwerp. Silvester von Hösslin will be her stage partner, Benjamin van Bebber created the staging and video and Lea Burkhalter designed the set and the costumes.

In January, further concerts with the Münchener Kammerorchester and Jörg Widmann will be presented: She will sing Widmann’s Versuch über die Fuge on 22 January 2025 at the Konzerthaus Ravensburg and on 23 January 2025 at the Himmelfahrtskirche Munich-Sendling. Additional works by J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart and L. v. Beethoven will complete the concert programme. She has sung this piece many times already to great acclaim.

(published on 9 December 2024)