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A mobile festival with premieres

The duo Simolka-Wohlhauser from Basel specializes in the interpretation of current contemporary vocal music and tours Switzerland and several larger cities in Europe every year. The basic aim is to perform current vocal music from the field of contemporary music and thereby give this genre new impulses for further development.


The programs contain vocal works of various styles from the field of current contemporary music: from musical theatrical and funny to contemplative to sophisticated, from sound-poetry experiments to poem settings to language games, a wide range of possible musical and linguistic forms of expression are opened up. Staged performance as well as improvisation, theatricality and electronics are also popular highlights.

A large part of the program consists of numerous works written especially for the duo as world premieres, which arise from intensive collaboration with composers from various European countries (including Romania, Albania, Azerbaijan, Poland, Germany, France, England and Switzerland), and which thus present an exciting inventory of various approaches to contemporary composition for discussion. The program, which is presented with enthusiasm, is therefore at the heart of current artistic creation.


You will hear compositions by:

René Wohlhauser (Basel), Christian FP Kram (Leipzig) Susanne Stelzenbach (Berlin), Thomas Leppuhr (Leipzig), Thorsten Gubatz (Münster), Ghenadie Ciobanu (Chişinău), Vlad Răzvan Baciu (Iaşi), Roman Vlad (Bucharest), Jean-Claude Wolff (Paris), Violeta Dinescu (Bucharest/Oldenburg)


Christine Simolka, soprano – René Wohlhauser, baritone/piano
Additional information
We do apologize that the following information is currently only available in German.
Dates
September 2024
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