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kyiv contemporary music days

01.07.23

… SO THEY GROW LIKE SUNFLOWERS

» … SO THEY GROW LIKE SUNFLOWERS«: KNM BERLIN FEAT. NAZARII STET
Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in Berlin

 

01.07.2023, 20 Uhr
Villa Elisabeth Berlin

Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in collaboration with Ensemble KNM Berlin present a concert by Ukrainian and other European composers that highlights bass instruments – double bass and contrabass clarinet – to explore the differences in their perception as solo instruments and their interaction with the ensemble.
 
Featuring the Kyiv-based soloist Nazarii Stets (double bass) and conductor Stephan Winkler

Works by Rebecca Saunders, Clemens Gadenstätter, and Kaija Saariaho, as well as younger artists Anna Korsun, Anna Arkushyna, Anton Koshelev, and Adrian Mocanu.

Ensemble KNM Berlin & guests

Info: https://en.kcmd.eu/events/so-they-grow-like-sunflowers

Ticktets

1.7.2023, 20 Uhr
Villa Elisabeth Berlin

listening cities : kyiv

01.07.23

listening cities : kyiv

listening cities : kyiv
im Rahmen der Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in Berlin

01.07.23, 18:30 - 19:30 Uhr
Villa Elisabeth Berlin

In listening cities : kyiv, we learn from PR & communications specialist Nataliia Druhak how cultural identity and diversity are not incompatible in Ukraine. We discuss beauty in times of war, listen to impressive sound experiences of the composers Albert Saprykin and Maxim Kolomiiets and hear how Alexandre Babel (percussion) and Theo Nabicht (contrabass clarinet) (re)interpret them.


Nataliia Druhak, guest (live)
Rebecca Lenton, flute (live)
Thomas Bruns, host (live)
With music by Maxim Kolomiiets and Alvin Lucier as well as video recordings.

Info: https://en.kcmd.eu/events/listening-cities

Tickets

1.7.2023, 18:30 Uhr
Villa Elisabeth Berlin

listening cities

Listening cities is the name of KNM Berlin's new sound magazine, dedicated in 2023 to music from three very different metropolitan regions of the world: Kyiv, Lima and Taipei.

Listening to a city does not only mean perceiving its acoustic signatures. The city is first and foremost an organism of human activities and social-cultural agreements.
listening cities therefore asks current composers and artists from the above-mentioned metropolises about the geographical, social, political and historical context of their art. Kyiv, Lima and Taipei are currently in the media spotlight. Whether the Russian war in Ukraine, the violent unrest in Peru, which is primarily based on the social discrimination of the indigenous rural population, or the threatened invasion of mainland China in Taiwan - it is always also about the violation, rejection and erasure of cultural identities.

In listening cities : kyiv, we learn from PR & communications specialist Nataliia Druhak how cultural identity and diversity are not incompatible in Ukraine. We discuss about beauty in times of war, listen to impressive sound experiences of the composers Albert Saprykin and Maxim Kolomiiets and hear how Alexandre Babel (perc) and Theo Nabicht (bkl) (re)interpret them.

Nataliia Druhak, guest (live)
Rebecca Lenton, flute (live)
Thomas Bruns, host (live)
With music by Maxim Kolomiiets and Alvin Lucier as well as video recordings.

listening cities

01. Juli 2023, 18:30 - 19:30 Uhr
Villa Elisabeth

listening cities : kyiv
im Rahmen der Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in Berlin

KNMs Klang-Magzin


 

listening cities is a project by the Ensemble KNM Berlin in cooperation with the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, Villa Elisabeth, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT and One More Festival Taipei.
Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.