HELMUT OEHRING
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Angelus Novus I – III
audiovisual work cycle on Walter Benjamin's Historical Thesis IX
+ Paul Klee's drawings series on the Angel of History
excerpts from [iɱˈfɛrno] (aus: MAPPA) collective lovemusic 25 November 2022 Arsenal de Metz
ANGELUS NOVUS I
Ensemble study on Walter Benjamin's Historical Thesis IX + Paul Klee's drawings series on The Angel of History + docupoetical texts by Helmut Oehrings
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann
version for 11 instrumental soloists
wp 2015 Tonhalle Zürich
Collegium Novum Zürich
version for oboe + clarinet + bassoon + violin + viola + violoncello + percussion + piano + e-guitar
wp 2022 Luis Ángel Arango Recital Hall Bogotá
Ensemble Aventure
ANGELUS NOVUS II
Collage instrumental-vocal mis-en-scène on drawings by Paul Klee
+ texts by Walter Benjamin + Charles Baudelaire
for vocal + instrumental soloists + jazz quartet + orchestra
+ SignMimoChoreography + live electronics + video
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann
wp 2015 University of The Arts / Dampfzentrale Bern
David Moss + Kai Wessel + Matthias Bauer et al.
artistic direction Helmut Oehring
musical direction: Lennart Dohms
staging: Angela Koerfer-Bürger
stage design: Mirella Weingarten
ANGELUS NOVUS III
on Walter Benjamin's Historical Thesis IX + Paul Klee's drawings series on The Angel of History + docupoetical texts by Helmut Oehrings
for ensemble + orchestra + SignMimoChoreography + live electronics
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann
wp 2016 Theater Freiburg
Ensemble Aventure + Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg
musical direction: Daniel Carter
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I – III
audiovisual work cycle on Dante Alighieri + Sandro Botticelli
excerpts from [iɱˈfɛrno] (aus: MAPPA) collective lovemusic 25 November 2022 Arsenal de Metz
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I Contrapasso I – V
(to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
original version for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + e-guitar
+ SignMimoChoreography + preproduces audioplay
UA 2022 collective lovemusic * Klangwerkstatt Berlin * Arsenal de Metz * 2023 Conservatório de Música de Coimbra * la musica Strasbourg * Gare du Nord Basel 2024 Le Lieu Unique Nantes * rainy days Phiharmonie Luxembourg
version for violin + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp n.n.
version for violoncello + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp n.n.
version for violin + violoncello + bass flute + bass clarinet + percussion + prepared piano / keyboard + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp n.n.
Hagen Klennert
Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Godfather Death accompanied by two Lamettastallions
GraphicPhotoCollage 2022
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) II Contrapasso VI – VIII
(to: Patriarch Kyrill I / Wladimir Michailowitch Gunjajew + Archpriest Andrej Jurjewitch Tkachev)
original version for three (contra)bass clarinets + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp 2024 Sabina Matthus-Bébié + Horia Dumitrache + Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson + Helmut Oehring
Weimar Spring Festival for New Music
Version for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp 2025 Teresa Doblinger + Helmut Oehring * Music Theater Days Vienna
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) III Contrapasso IX – XIII
(tp: Sergej Coushugetowitsh Shoigu + Andrej Remowitsch Beloussow)
original version for oboe / English horn + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp / CD production 2024 Antje Thierbach
version for flute / bass flute + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp n.n.
GOYA I – V
audiovisual work cycle on Françisco de Goya + Ludwig van Beethoven
Three Graphics / ink on paper (2008) by Hagen Klennert on GOYA II Yo lo vi
GOYA I
on Les Desastres de la Guerra by Françisco de Goya
using music of Ludwig van Beethoven
for orchestra
wp 2007 * SWR Symphony Orchestra * conductor: Rupert Huber * Donaueschingen Music Days
GOYA II Yo lo vi
memoratorio on drawings by Françisco de Goya and texts of Hermann Kesten + Fédérico Garçia Lorca using music of Manuel de Falla + Hans Werner Henze
for vocalist / double bassist + boy soprano + electric guitar + Spanish guitar
+ male signsoloist + mixed choir + large orchestra + live electronics
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto + dramaturgy: Stefanie Woerdemann
audioconception + -produktion: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
commissioned by German Symphonic Orchestra
wp 2008 German Symphony Orchester + Broadcasting Choir Berlin + Matthias Bauer + Jörg Wilkendorf + Daniel Göritz * conductor: Ingo Metzmacher * Philharmonie Berlin
GOYA III Veía la mano, pero como alelado
on Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartet No 14 c sharp minor op. 131
for 18 string instruments
UA 2014 Ensemble Resonanz * Beethovenfest Bonn / Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main / Laeiszhalle Hamburg
GOYA IV late / early
based Françisco de Goya's late drawings + Ludwig van Beethoven's late string quartets
for string quartet + SignMimoChoreography
IN PLANNING / wp n.n.
GOYA V WE?
multimedial ChoirRequiem in the late works by Françisco de Goya + Ludwig van Beethoven
with excerpts by Paul Éluard's poem Liberté, Ludwig van Beethoven's letters
and texts by Helmut Oehring
for vocal+instrumental soloists + deaf sign language solists + dancers + mixed choir + orchestra / big ensemble + SignMimoChoroegraphy + live elektronis + multichannel audio + multichannel video
idea + composition + stage direction: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto + dramaturgy: Stefanie Woerdemann
audioconception + -production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
IN PLANUNG / UA n.n.
CHANT OF A WAR PIMP graphic / ink on paper (2015) by Hagen Klennert
EURYDIKE?
audiovisual work cycle on Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
excerpts from EURYDIKE? vol. 1
EURYDIKE? vol. 1
AudioVideoInstallation + Performance for a deafmute dancer/voice + a violonist/dancer/voice + a guitarist/dancer/voice
composition + direction + camera + film editing: Helmut Oehring
dramaturgy + co-director + photography: Stefanie Wördemann
audio production + camera + film editing + sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
wp 2019 Kassandra Wedel + Emily Yabe + Mia Carla Oehring * Tonlagen festival HELLERAU Dresden * SPOR festival Århus * Kontraklang festival of the Academy of Arts Berlin
EURYDIKE? vol. 2
original version as audiovisual DanceRequiem
for a deafmute dancer/voice + a violonist/dancer/voice + a guitarist/dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
wp n.n.
version as DanceMusicVideoInstallation
for 3 female dancers + violin soloist + 3 accordion soloists + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography + direction + camera: Helmut Oehring
audio+video production + sound direction + film editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
text book + dramaturgy + photography: Stefanie Wördemann
release FILM 2023 Katja Erfurth + Kassandra Wedel + Mia Carla Oehring + Florian Mayer + Felix Kroll + Silke Lange + Susanne Stock * european Centre of The Arts HELLERAU Dresden in collaboration with male prisoners and choir of prison Dresden
EURYDIKE? vol. 3
original version for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay + video
UA 2025 Teresa Doblinger + Helmut Oehring * Musiktheatertage Wien
excerpts fromEURYDIKE? vol. 2
not FREEZE
audiovisual work cycle
not FREEZE I (fāId)
original version for electric guitar + keyboard / prepared piano + drumset
wp 2023 Pony Says * ZeitGenuss Festival Karlsruhe * Art Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg Stuttgart
26 January 2025
release debut album (vinyl + digital)
Pony Says
Ghost Notes Records
not FREEZE II
original version for instrumental solist + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024 Manos Tsangaris + Helmut Oehring * Academy of Arts Berlin
Pony Says * Felix Nagl + Lucas Gerin + Thilo Ruck
foto copyright: Philip Mallmann
[tʁoɡloˈdyːt] not FREEZE III
version for percussionist / voice + SignMimoPerfomer + audioplay
Dominic Oelze + Helmut Oehring
excerpts of nicht ERSTARREN II Manos Tsangaris + Helmut Oehring 17 July 2024 Academy of Arts Berlin
not FREEZE IV
original version for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
wp 2025 Teresa Doblinger + Helmut Oehring * Music Theater Days Vienna
not FREEZE II
original version for contrabass clarinet + preproduced audioplay
wp 2025 Teresa Doblinger + Helmut Oehring * Music Theater Days Vienna
BEETHOVEN? The redemptive Fault
MusicFilmDanceDrama
original version as audiovisual DanceRequiem
for a deafmute dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
wp n.n.
version as MusicFilmDanceDrama
for a deafmute dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
idea + composition + choreography + direction + camera + cut: Helmut Oehring
textbook + filmscript + dramaturgy + edition: Stefanie Wördemann
audio+video-produktion + camera + cut: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.
FILM RELEASE 2022 bthvn2020 / WDR3 * Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
EYE / TONGUE
audiovisual duo
original version for contrasbass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2020 Paul Kreitz + Helmut Oerhing * Staatsoper Stuttgart
version für bass flute + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2023 Ursula Weiler * Ensemble Quillo * Rofinpark Eberswalde
premiere France + Taiwan 2024 Mu-Xuan Lin * Pavillon de la Sirène Paris * Players Theatre of the National Taiwan University Taipeh
Aperture Duo * Adrianne Pope + Linnea Powell
WORLD PREMIERE
edge dramma per musica
for violin / voc + viola / voc + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay + video ad libitum
commissioned by Aperture Duo
autumn 2025 Aperture Duo * Adrianne Pope + Linnea Powell * Los Angeles
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Violinist and visual artist Adrianne Pope is a chamber musician and new music promoter who is a member of the Grammy-nominated new music collective Wild Up in Los Angeles and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, with whom she has performed with legendary artists such as Diana Ross, Violent Femmes, Earth, Wind & Fire, Randy Newman, Kool & The Gang and Cyndi Lauper.
Violist Linnea Powell is a member of the new music collective Wild Up and an orchestral, chamber and studio musician and performer of new chamber music. As a music educator, she directs the Conejo Valley chapter of the Junior Chamber Music School and was a founding member of the LA Philharmonic's Youth Orchestra at the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts.
Aperture Duo curates fearless programs that explore new sounds, voices and techniques through the lens of violin and viola chamber music. It has been praised by the music press for its “precision and interpretation” as well as its “strong sense of unity and independence”. Equally at home performing early and new music, it actively commissions new works to expand the repertoire for violin and viola duos. Aperture Duo has been invited to perform at the California Institute of the Arts, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Las Positas College, Black House SoCal New Music Workshop, Eureka! Musical Minds of California Graduate Student Conference, and educational concerts with Grammy-nominated new music collective Wild Up and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. His performances include Tuesdays @ Monk Space, the Carlsbad Music Festival, Music at Boston Court, L.A. Signal Lab, LA Downtown Art Walk, Brooklyn's Home Audio Concert Series, UC Santa Barbara Summer Music Festival, Window Concert Series at the Craft in America Center, and Hear Now Music Festival. www.apertureduo.com
ACTUAL CONCERT READING
ConcertReading To see the world with different ears Helmut Oehring + Ensemble Quillo 20 Years Quillo - Happy Birthday
foto copyright: Tom Schweers
TO SEE THE WORLD WITH DIFFERENT EARS
ConcertReading
with texts from Helmut Oehring's autobiography WITH DIFFERENT EYES
and his new AssemblyNovel + Screenplay ALEXander
compositions for solo to sextet
Ensemble Quillo
bass flute: Ursula Weiler
violin: Julia Yoo Soon Gröning
violoncello: Luise Rau
accordion: Felix Kroll
concert guitar: Daniel Göritz
voice + guitar + SignMimoPerformance: Helmut Oehring
κάθαρσι / KATHARSIS III Julia Yoo Soon Gröning + Helmut Oehring 12 October 2024 ConcertReading 20 Years Quillo - Happy Birthday
foto copyright: Tom Schweers !
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Warm Summer Sun and other songs
on texts by Marc Twain + Helmut Oehring et.al.
for soprano + violin
wp 2025/26 Stacey Frazer * Los Angeles
Seven Songs
on texts by William Shakespeare + David Foster Wallace + Helmut Oehring
for mezzosoprano + violin + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2025/26 Chemnitz
FEAR (Responsorium)
szenic-oratoric PASSION
using music of Johann Sebastian Bach
for narrator + countertenor + boy soprano + instrumental-vocal soloists
+ female choir (hearing + nonhearing) + SignMimoChoreography + dancers
+ orchestra + iive elektronics
wp nn.n.
WANDERER (EastWestSouthNorth)
on works of Alfred Doeblin + Johannes Theodor Baargeld
and autobiographic documents of the contributors
for double bassist / narrator / performer + instrumental+vocal soloists / quintet + SignMimoChoreography
for Aleksander Gabryś + Ensemble Quillo in an artistic encounter
with Polish musicians + audio+video artists
commissioned by + in collaboration with Pomerania e.V.
wp 2025/26 Szczecin/Poland
Without title (Beetles) 1920
Graphic by Johannes Theodor Baargeld
NEW ON CD
A production of
Grammy winner John Schneider +
Grammy nomminé Aron Kallay
MicroFest Records Los Angeles
The silence falls
Song from the music theatre
AGOTA? The Analphabet (yesterday / somewhere)
on texts by Ágota Kristóf
Stacey Fraser soprano
Aron Kallay piano
Brightwork Ensemble
NEW ON NETFLIX
LULLABY
Johann Feindt + Tamara Trampe director
Johann Feindt + Jule Cramer camera
Stephan Krumbiegel editor
with: Helmut Oehring + Detlef Jablonski
+ Apti Bisultanov a.o.
2010 zero one film a coproduction with ZDF + ARTE
