HELMUT OEHRING
2022 WALTZ
for septet
duration: ca. 8'
world premiere 2020 Hof Quillo Nordwestuckermark
Ensemble Quillo
2018 MARTEAU [ buˈlɛz]
miniatures for alto voice + instrumental ensemble
on Le marteau sains maitre by Pierre Boulez
duration: 12'
world premiere 2017 Konzerthaus Vienna
Isabel Pfefferkorn + PHACE
musical direction: Simeon Pironkoff
2017 KRUNK (WAR/inside) When we put him in the coffin he was light as a bird
for quintet + live electronics
duration: 60'
world premiere 2017 Radialsystem V Berlin
Marc Sinan + David Moss + Ayumi Paul + Karen Lorenz + Zoe Cartier
2014 LimeWORKS
for double bass/voice + string quintet based on the novel by Thomas Bernhard
using music by Franz Schubert
duration: 30'
LOWmusicMOL
world premiere 2014 Klangwerkstatt Berlin
Matthias Bauer + ensemble mosaic
Hagen KlennertCHANT OF A WAR PIMP Ink on Papier 2015
2013/14 GOYA III. Veía la mano, pero como alelado
for 18 string instruments on Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
duration: 35'
LOWmusicMOL
world premiere 2014 Beethoven Festival Bonn / Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main / Laeiszhalle Hamburg
Ensemble Resonanz
2014 Angelus Novus I
ensemble study based on a series of drawings by Paul Klee with texts by Walter Benjamin
duration: 20'
version for 11 instrumental soloists
world premiere 2015 Tonhalle Zurich
Collegium Novum Zurich
version for oboe + clarinet + bassoon + violin + viola + violoncello + drums + piano + electric guitar
world premiere 2022 Luis Ángel Arango Recital Hall Bogotá
Ensemble Aventure
2013 Angelus Novus
Study on a painting by Paul Klee for soprani + alti (6/6) + string quartet
duration: 12'
LOWmusicMOL
world premiere 2013 Panonhalma Festival Hungary
Sound Forum Vienna
Paul Klee Angelus Novus drawing 1920
2013 SEVEN SONGS for Sunrise
concert version for vocalist + octet on F. W. Murnau's silent film Sunrise. Song for Two Humans
duration: 75'
world premiere 2013 Le Capitole Lausanne / IRCAM Center Pompidou Paris / Archipel Festival Genève
David Moss + Le Quatuor Sine Nomine
musical direction: Jürg Henneberger
2013 Vom Nachteil geboren zu sein
for mixed choir (6/6/6/6) on texts by Emil Cioran
duration: 15'
world premiere 2013 SWR
Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart
2012 IBSEN / Et vers (Tvertimod)
for 15 instruments / speakers
duration: 20'
LOWmusicMOL
world premiere 2012 Borealis Festival Bergen
BIT20 ensembles
2011 The Lake
for septet + vocalist on a poem by Helmut Oehring
duration: 15'
LOWmusicMOL
world premiere 2011 Music Gallery Toronto
Ensemble contact
2009 How fragile we are
for six instrumentalists/vocalists
Commissioned by the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv to celebrate the centenary of the city of Tel Aviv
duration: 25'
world premiere 2009 Ultraschall Festival Berlin
Ensemble Nikel Tel Aviv + Ensemble mosaik Berlin
2008 Mühsams Musike
for narrator + instrumental ensemble on poems and rhymes by Erich Muehsam
duration: 15'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2008 Konzerthaus Berlin
Ensemble of the music school Marzahn-Hellersdorf
musical direction: Jobst Liebrecht
2007 Pushkin's Stone Guest
for narrator + 15 instrumentalists on texts by Alexander Pushkin
duration: 20'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2007 Schouwburg Arnhem
Ernhem ArtEZ Ensemble
musical direction: Helmut Oehring
2007 surPOING
for double bass + saxophone + accordion + scene + film + live electronics
duration: 35'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2007 New Music Oslo
Ensemble POING
2005 BENN
semi-staged music for 4 – 6 percussionists + deaf sign language soloist + e-guitar
with preproduced audioCD + live electronics based on two poems by Gottfried Benn
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 25'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2005 Small broadcasting hall in the House of Broadcasting in Berlin
Christina Schoenfeld and others
2002 ER.eine She (aus: 5ÜNF/ Haare – Opfer)
semi-staged music for three sign soloists + soprano (also bass flute) + violoncello + live electronics
based on the drawing I'm so glad by Hagen Klennert
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 23'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2002 Donaueschinger Musiktage Arsenale
Christina Schönfeld + Giuseppe Giuranna + Natalia Pschenichnikova + Anton Lukoszevieze
2002 Furcht und Begierde
drama in music for sign soloist + soprano (also bass flute) + electric guitar + ensemble + live electronics
on texts by Ottavio Renuccini
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 15'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2002 Venice Biennale / Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
Christina Schönfeld + Natalia Pschenitschnikova + Jörg Wilkendorf + Ex-Novo-Ensemble
musical direction: Giorgio Bernasconi
2001 rumgammeln + warten
for voice + sign soloist + ensemble + live electronics
co-composition: Iris ter Schiphorst
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 23'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2001 European Culture Month Basel
Salome Kammer + Christina Schönfeld + Ensemble Aventure
2000 Der Ort ist nicht der Ort
music-theatrical action for three soloists + ensemble + live electronics
co-composition: Iris ter Schiphorst
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
graphics: Hagen Klennert
duration: 65'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 2000 German Pavilion at EXPO Hanover
Ensemble Adventure
musical direction: Christian Hommel
2000 ETIUS (Ensemble-Version Als ob: Suite)
for ensemble + live electronics
co-composer: Iris ter Schiphorst
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 60'
world premiere 2000 Oldenburg
oh ton ensemble
1998 Mischwesen
for sign language soloist + ensemble
on the poem Silence by Anne Sexton and texts by Helmut Oehring and Iris ter Schiphorst
co-composition: Iris ter Schiphorst
duration: 20'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1998 Art Center Ghent
Christina Schoenfeld + Asko Ensemble
musical director: Roland Kluttig
1998 REQUIEM
for three countertenors + 12 instruments + live electronics
on the nine Psalms O Ye Tongues from The Death Notebooks by Anne Sexton
co-composer: Iris ter Schiphorst
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 50'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere Festival d'Automne Paris / Donaueschingen Music Days / Brussels
Ictus Ensemble
musical direction: George E. Octors
1998 7IEBEN (aus: Der Spalt)
for narrator + male soprano + three signing soloists + trombone + electric guitar + live electronics
on texts by Helmut Oehring
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
graphics: Hagen Klennert
duration: 55'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1998 Bonn Opera
artistic direction: Helmut Oehring
1997 Prae-Senz (Ballet Blanc II)
for violin + violoncello + prepared piano/sampler
co-composer: Iris ter Schiphorst
duration: 35'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1997 Hebbeltheater Berlin
Ictus Ensemble
1997 LIVE (aus: Androgyn)
18 songs for solo voice + ensemble + live electronics on texts by Anne Sexton
co-composer: Iris ter Schiphorst
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 25'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1997 Witten Days for New Music
Salome Kammer + Chamber Ensemble New Music
1997 Silence Moves II
for solo voice + violin + violoncello + e-bass + prepared Keyboard/sampler + tape
co-composer: Iris ter Schiphorst
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 12'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1997 Centro Recherchi Musicali Rome
Ensemble intros
1996 POLAROIDS
melodrama for sign soloist + countertenor + 12 instruments + live electronics
co-composition: Iris ter Schiphorst
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 20'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1996 Donaueschingen Music Days
Christina Schönfeld + Arno Raunig + Ensemble Modern
musical direction: Jörg Wyttenbach
1995 Einfache Dinge / IRIS
for 15 instruments + audio tape + CDs
audio conception+ production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 15'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1995 Alte Oper Frankfurt aM
Ensemble Modern
musical direction: Ingo Metzmacher
1994 SELF-LIBERATOR (from: mad offensive)
for two sign language soloists/voices + solo trumpet + ensemble + live electronics
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 18'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1995 Berlin Philharmonic
Ensemble Modern
musical director: Roland Kluttig
Hagen Klennert Self-Liberator Grafik 1994
1994 Leuchter (from: briefly poked in garbage)
for trio + live electronics
duration: 12'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1994 Konzerthaus Berlin
Aulos Trio
1993/94 Wrong . SWINGING – EATING – JUICE (aus: Irrenoffensive)
version for deaf sign language / vocal soloist + instrumental ensemble + live electronics
audio conception + production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH smp
duration: 20'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1994 Konzerthaus Berlin
Chamber Ensemble New Music
musical director: Roland Kluttig
version for dance performer + deaf sign language / vocal soloist + instrumental ensemble + live electronics
world premiere 2015 BALLHOF ZWEI Hanover
Mia Carla Oehring + Christina Schönfeld and others
version for deaf dancer/voice + violinist/dancer/voice + performer/dancer/voice
+ oboe + bass clarinet + electric guitar + drums + live electronics
world premiere 2019 KONTAKTE X KONTRAPUNKTE Festival Academy of Arts in Berlin
Kassandra Wedel + Emily Yabe + Mia Carla Oehring + Ensemble El Perro Andaluz + Lennart Dohms
version for violinist/dancer/voice + viola + violoncello + flute + clarinet + piano + drums + concert guitar
+ live electronics
world premiere 2019 Seoul
Emily Yabe + Helmut Oehring + Ensemble El Perro Andaluz + Lennart Dohms
1992 Locked-In
for guitar solo + string trio
duration: 14'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1993 Schoenberg Festival Duisburg
Chamber Ensemble New Music
1992 Nr. 2 (from: Coma) Rapid-Eye-Movement
for 15 instruments
duration: 17'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1993 Konzerthaus Berlin
Chamber Ensemble New Music Berlin
musical direction: Roland Kluttig
1992 ASCHE
for octet (oboe + English horn + trombone + percussion + piano + viola + violoncello + double bass)
duration: 15'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1993 Music Biennale Berlin
Group New Music Hanns Eisler
1990 Nr. 3 (from: Coma)
for 15 instruments
duration: 15'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere University of the Arts Berlin
Boris Blacher Ensemble
musical direction: Friedrich Goldmann
1990 Nr. 1 (from: Coma)
for 15 instruments
duration: 13'
Boosey & Hawkes
world premiere 1990 University of the Arts Berlin
Boris Blacher Ensemble
musical direction: Friedrich Goldmann
1987 ... and everything beautiful / Marriage Announcements
for soprano + alto + tenor + bass + percussion
world premiere open