Marina Khorkova (*1981)  •  string quartet [2010]

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953)  •  In iij. Noct. – String Quartet No. 3 [2001]

The Kairos Quartet gave the world premiere of In iij. Noct. at the Klangspuren 2002 and championed this remarkable work ever since, resulting in 20 more performances throughout Europe and in Mexico.

Two of them also coached student string quartets for performances at the Hochschule Lucerne; three of Haas' string quartets including In iij. Noct. were performed at the Weingarten Days of New Music 2006.

In iij. Noct. is performed in Hanover for the first time. It needs the complete absence of light while the string quartet is positionened in the four corners around the audience playing 45 – 60 minutes from memory. It also needs a very quiet and supporting audience, and it needs a hall with acoustical properties that make it possible to always tell from which corner a sound travelled.

John Zorn (*1953)  •  The Dead Man 13 specimen for string quartet [1990]
Morton Feldman (1926–1987)  •  Structures [1951]
Oğuz Büyükberber (*1970)  •  Don’t Faint with video [2015] URAUFFÜHRUNG*
Orm Finnendahl (*1963)  •  Fälschung (Fake) für Streichquartett, Ghettoblaster und Live-Elektronik [2003]
Giacinto Maria Scelsi (1905–1988)  •  3. Streichquartett [1963]

Kairos Quartett
Markus Bongartz – Elektronik/Technik

Die Uraufführung wurde ermöglicht von der ausKlang KG (Wolfgang Gribb)

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THE BLOCK

Paintings, Video Art and Music Performance – Concept by Andrea Conrad
Paintings – Gunnar Conrad
Musical Concept and Performance – Claudius von Wrochem

Since 2013 THE BLOCK confronts Kollwitz’ emotions and nightmares which – placed at the crossroads of two world wars – speak to us in surreal imagery of her artistic development up to her larger–than–life sculpture "Trauerndes Elternpaar" (Grieving Parents) which is located in Vladslo / Belgium. In 1914 Kollwitz' son parted from her for the Belgian front to die a little later in Flanders.

THE BLOCK consists of nine cycles, each starting from her diaries ... and including workshops with teenagers from the State of Brandenburg.
This performance at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin is the 4th cycle in preparation of a staged multimedia performance to come.
Andrea Conrad works at places steeped in German and European history. She curates the European project PHYSIS for interdisciplinary art, process oriented and conceptual work in Greece and Italy.

Die Junge Deutsche Philharmonie feiert und hat ihre ehemaligen Mitglieder, zu denen auch die Bratschistin des Kairos Quartetts Simone Heilgendorff gehört, eingeladen, mit ihren Ensembles zum Fest beizutragen.

Unser Auftritt mit dem Sechsten Streichquartett von Georg Friedrich Haas musste kurzfristig ausfallen.

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The German Student Orchestra is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a house full of music and has invited its former members and their ensembles to join. Our violist, Simone Heilgendorff who served in the orchestra during her studies brings the Kairos Quartet along for Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 6.

Our performance was cancelled. Sorry for the short notice!

Music Circus A House full of Music

The Kairos Quartet will contribute:

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953)  •  String Quartet No. 2 [1998]
John Cage (1912-1992)  •  Thirty Pieces for String Quartet [1983]

Dieter Schnebel (*1930)  •  Erinnern, Wiederholen, Durcharbeiten (Remembering, Repeating, Working through) [2006/7] Austrian Premiere
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)  •  Quartettsatz [1820]

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953)  •  In iij. Noct. – String Quartet No. 3 [2001]

The second part of the recital will take place in total darkness.

Osterfestival Homepage

Sampo Haapamäki (*1979)  •  Connection for string quartet [2007]

Reading Silent Film As A Score: Films by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp
musical concepts by the Kairos Quartet

International Concert Project on Identity, Technology, and Tradition

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953) • String Quartet No. 4 w/ Live Electronics [2003] First German Performance
Marco Stroppa (*1959) • Spirali per quartetto d’archi “proiettato” nello spazio [1987-88]
Roberto David Rusconi (*1976) • De Imago (Materia) Sonora. Fourth String Quartet [2012] First German Performance

Experimental Studio of the SWR
Thomas Hummel and Simon Spillner (sound projection)

Carlo Laurenzi (Electronic Gestures of Spirali)

Website of Konzerthaus Berlin

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953)  •  In iij. Noct. – String Quartet No. 3 [2001]

In iij. Noct. – Streichquartett Nr. 3

SWR-Homepage

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953) • String Quartet No. 4 w/ Live Electronics [2003]
Marco Stroppa (*1959) • Spirali per quartetto d’archi “proiettato” nello spazio [1987-88]
Roberto David Rusconi (*1976) • De Imago (Materia) Sonora [2012] WP

Experimental Studio of the SWR
Thomas Hummel and Simon Spillner (sound projection)

Marco Stroppa (Live Electronics of Spirali)

Accompanied by a workshop with Roberto D. Rusconi

Introduction by BBC 3 Journalist Ed McKeon

Review in The Guardian by Andrew Clements

Concert 2

Julio Estrada    Yuunohui'ensemble containing the WP of Yuunohui'ehecatl [2012] for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, trumpet and cello

Erik Drescher (Fl), Cathy Milliken (Ob), Laura Carmichael (cl), Paul Hübner (Tr), Claudius von Wrochem (Vc), Julio Estrada (concept)

Concert 3

Knut Müller          Zeug [1999] for string quartet

Martin Schüttler     schöner leben 1 for counter tenor with E-Piano etc.

Stefan Prins         Infiltrationen [2009] for 4 E-Guitars and live-electronics

Alan Hilario         wait here for further instructions [2011] for projected score, silent audience, and improvising players

Giorgio Netti      ) place ( [2001/02] for string quartet

Kairos Quartett, Daniel Gloger (Counter), ZWERM (Quartet of E-Guitars), Stefan Häussler (vl), u.a.

23.09. 10:00 Public Rehearsal

24.09. 18:00 Recital in the "Shoe Factory"

    Hosokawa: Landscape I
    Xenakis: ST/ 4
    Scelsi: String Quartet No. 3
    Sammoutis: Rhymes
    Haas: String Quartet No. 2

25.09. Workshop for composers and string players (free passive attendance)

Courtesy of the Pharos Arts Foundation in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Cyprus

Recording of A. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet with Angelika Luz, soprano

Konzert mit Live-Zeichnungen / Concert with Motion Drawings

Knut Müller (*1963)  •  Thorn [1996]
Julio Estrada (*1943)  •  Yuunohui'ensemble [1983-90]
Gordon Williamson (*1974)  •  Miniaturen [2012] UA
Giorgio Netti (*1963)  •  ) place (  (ciclo dell' assedio) [2001]

Kairos Quartett
Morgan O'Hara, Aktions-Zeichnungen/Motion Drawings

Visionen Homepage

zum Veranstalter

Go to venue

String Quartet I [1995]
Rasch for cello solo [2005]
String Quartet III ...récrit-écrit [2002]

Erik Satie (1866-1925)  •  Avant–dernières pensées [1915/2011] arr. f. Streichtrio von C.v.Wrochem
                                            I. Idylle, à Debussy

Laudatio (Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen)

Erik Satie  •  Avant–dernières pensées
                                            II. Aubade, à Paul Dukas
                                            III. Méditation, à Albert Roussel

Sackgasse oder Königsweg?
Perspektiven der Interpretationsforschung
(Karol Berger, Beatrix Borchard, Peter Gülke, Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, John Rink)

Julio Estrada (*1943)  •  Yuunohui'se'ome'yei [1983-90]

Gratulation

Persönliche Würdigung

Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)  •  Dritte Sonate für Klavier

Mitglieder des Kairos Quartetts:    Stefan Häussler
                                                  Simone Heilgendorff
                                                  Claudius von Wrochem

Christoph Keller, Klavier

Coaches
Wolfgang Bender (vl), Claudius von Wrochem (vc) – Kairos Quartet
Sebastian Hamann (vl), Erik Borgir (vc) – Hochschule Lucerne

This master class is for established or newly formed string quartets enrolled at a German–speaking Hochschule or university.

Literary Recital
Martina Gedeck and the Kairos Quartet

»Start For The New World«
Texts by Franz Kafka, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mircea Eliade,
Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Joseph Roth
Georg Friedrich Haas: String Quartet No. 2
György Kurtág: Quartetto per archi op. 1
John Cage: Thirty Pieces for String Quartet

Route

Giacinto Maria Scelsi (1905-1988)  •  String Quartet No. 3 [1963] 20'
György Kurtág (*1926)  •  Quartetto per archi [1959] 15'

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953)  •  String Quartet No. 2 [1998] 20'30''

(supported by the Goethe Institut Moscow)

Simone and Claudius are presenting new developements in string quartet composition from Europe:

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953)  •  Streichquartett Nr. 1 [1997]

Giorgio Netti (*1963)  •  ) place (  (ciclo dell' assedio) [2001]