HELMUT OEHRING
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2020 (selection)
NEW INSTRUMENTAL CYCLE
House burning down (August 11th 1965 / April 29th 1992)
House Burning Down I String Quartet No. 3 UA 2020/21 Apartment House London
House Burning Down II String Quartet No. 4 UA 2020/21 ensemble01 Klangwelt Chemnitz
House Burning Down III for wind quartet
NEW AUDIOVISUAL WORKS
erased (The magical places of the Tongva and you Disappear)
camera + Composition: Helmut Oehring
... burning down (Watts/South Central Los Angeles 1965/1992)
camera + Composition: Helmut Oehring
2020 Villa Aurora Los Angeles / United States
Excellence fellow Villa Aurora / Thomas Mann House
works in progress
SCRIPT + SCORE
LEX – Kacksau /actually Alex
( Pull your finger and cash in – The story of the deaf-mute bank robber and fugitive from the republic, Alexander W.)
cinematic sequel to the autobiography With different eyes. From the child of deaf parents to the composer
30 January 2020 KPFK Pacifica Radio Los Angeles
Angelus Novus II collage instrumental-vocal mis-en-scène (excerpts)
AscheMOND or The Fairy Queen Opera (excerpts)
The D'Amato System Musical Theater (Excerpts)
The Blue Sea (from: Retreat) (Excerpts)
MEERE for contrabass clarinet + orchestra (Excerpts)
GOYA III for string orchestra (excerpts)
Philipp for trumpet (excerpts)
LIVE (from: Androgynous) for voice + instrumental ensemble (excerpts)
wrong . ROCK – EAT – JUICE (AUS: CRAZY OFFENSIVE)
for a deaf signing soloist + instrumental ensemble (excerpts)
The silence falls for voice (excerpts)
With different eyes Audio play (excerpts)
Helmut Oehring in an interview with John Schneider
8 February 2020 Saarland State Opera Saarbrücken
May 2020 State Theater Wiesbaden POSTPONED
End of 2020 Zurich Opera
Longing – recital with Dagmar Manzel
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere)
Version for voice + accordion + pre-recorded tapes
stuffed emptiness for accordion
With: Dagmar Manzel + Felix Kroll
6 March 2020 22:03 SWR 2 (original transmission)
what god! (dog son)
Audio piece based on texts from Ludwig van Beethoven letters and with original sounds from interviews
Helmut Oehring + Stefanie Wördemann + Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Gregor Wiest and others as well as music by Helmut Oehring + Ludwig van Beethoven
+ BUG ROZER
12 March 2020 KPFK Pacifica Radio Los Angeles
LIVE (from: Androgynous) for voice + instrumental ensemble (excerpts)
The D'Amato System Musical Theater (Excerpts)
wrong . ROCK – EAT – JUICE (AUS: CRAZY OFFENSIVE)
for a deaf signing soloist + instrumental ensemble (excerpts)
The silence falls for voice (excerpts)
Das Blaumeer (from: Einkehrtag) for orchestra (Excerpts)
Melencolia I for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc (excerpts)
Helmut Oehring in an interview with John Schneider
POSTPONED ON MAY 2 0 2 1
May 2020 Brahms Festival 2020 Lübeck University of Music
With different eyes Audio pieceInstallation
what god! (dog son) Audio pieceInstallation
EURYDICE? volume 1 audio video installation
POSTPONED ON MAY 2 0 2 1
7 May 2020 19:30 Brahms Festival 2020 Great Hall of the Musikhochschule Lübeck
GOYA IV for soloists + chamber choir + woodwinds + piano + percussion (world premiere)
With: students + Lecturers at the Lübeck University of Music
POSTPONED ON MAY 2 0 2 1
10 May 2020 5 p.m Brahms Festival 2020 Brahms Villa Lübeck
Workshop Audiovisual Choreography + concert reading I speak in my tones
with Texts from Helmut Oehring's autobiography With other eyes. From the child of deaf parents to the composer
and works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg and Helmut Oehring
KLEEmusic Version for bass clarinet
Der Vogelweiß Song for a female voice based on a poem by Johannes Bobrowski
Melencolia I for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc on the engraving Albrecht Dürer and Heinrich Heine's poems
PHILIP Version for oboe
SOLO from SEA for bass clarinet on the song Die Meere by Johannes Brahms
LIVE (live or die) for female voice + violin + cello + piano on texts by Anne Sexton
Two sonnets from the opera AscheMOND for countertenor + soprano on texts by William Shakespeare
come not near for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc based on texts by William Shakespeare
Candlestick (from: briefly poked in the garbage) Version for oboe + cello + piano
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere) for a female voice
With: Helmut Oehring + students + Lecturers at the Musikhochschule Lübeck
POSTPONED ON MAY 2 0 2 1
15 May 2020 Frequency Festival 2020 Kiel
concert reading I speak in my tones
Melencolia I for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc on the engraving Albrecht Dürer and Heinrich's Poems heines
LIVE (live or die) for female voice + violin + cello + piano on texts by Anne Sexton
come not near for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc based on texts by William Shakespeare
Candlestick (from: briefly poked in the garbage) Version for oboe + cello + piano
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere) for a female voice
With: Helmut Oehring + students + Lecturers at the Lübeck University of Music
POSTPONED
16 May 2020 John Heartfield House in Waldsieversdorf
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere)
for a female voice / tape + dancer
With: Katja Erfurth
10 June 2020 21-22 h rbb culture music of the present
Editor + moderator: Margarete Zander
Between Sunset Boulevard and exile tradition: Helmut Oehring at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles
LIVE (from: Androgynous) 18 songs on one Poem by Anne Sexton for soprano + violin + violoncello + prepared piano/keyboard
coma for orchestra
locked in for guitar + string trio
wrong . ROCKING - EATING - JUICE (AUS: IRRENOFFENSIVE) for a deaf signing soloist + instrumental ensemble
6 – 18 June 2020 7 p.m. Societaetstheater Dresden Le Parcours
χώρος (CHORUS) for 24 voices + one dancer (world premiere)
Text + gesture choreography + composition: Helmut Oehring
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Winner of the Art Prize 2020 City of Dresden
POSTPONED ON MAY 2 0 2 1
13 June 2020 Beethoven Anniversary 2020 Forum of the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (world premiere)
BEETHOVEN? The Redemptive Mistake (...where am I not wounded, cut up?!)
for one deaf dancer/signature soloist/vocalist + instrumental ensemble + video + 8.1 channel audio + live electronics
on Texts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters and conversation books and using motifs from his music
as well as texts by Helmut Oehring
Helmut Oehring + Stefanie Wördemann + Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
POSTPONED
14 June 2020 Evangelical Hospital Church in Stuttgart
21 June 2020 Elisabeth Schneider Foundation Freiburg
5 September 2020 concepts of doing Festival, Studio Boernestraße 45 Berlin
silence.wind for three trombones + tuba
With: Composers Slide Quartet
19 + 20 June 2020 But everything remains the same HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts
χώρος (CHORUS) for 24 voices + one dancer
Text + gesture choreography + composition: Helmut Oehring
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Winner of the Art Prize 2020 City of Dresden
26 June 2020 NDR culture New music
Editor + moderator: Margarete Zander
The American Nightmare: Mass Riots Against Persistent Racism and Police Brutality
Helmut Oehring researched the downsides of the American dream in LA in 2020 as the guest of honor at Villa Aurora
LIVE (from: Androgynous) 18 songs on one Poem by Anne Sexton for soprano + violin + violoncello + prepared piano/keyboard
coma for orchestra
locked in for guitar + string trio
wrong . ROCKING - EATING - JUICE (AUS: IRRENOFFENSIVE) for a deaf signing soloist + instrumental ensemble
11 July 2020 21 h Main stage of the Stuttgart State Opera
Radio show No 6: Sound of Silence
Moderation: Barbara Eckle + Miron Hakenbeck
EYE for electronics + gesture choreography (world premiere )
ZUNGE for contrabass clarinet (world premiere )
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere)
Version for voice + accordion + pre-recorded tapes
With: Helmut Oehring + Paul Kreitz
September 6th 2020 Villa Wigman Dresden
A portrait for violin + dancer (world premiere )
Choreography: Katja Erfurth
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfuth
September 11 2020 Societaetstheater Dresden, Gutmann Hall
A portrait for violin + dancer
Choreography: Katja Erfurth
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfuth
13 September 2020 HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts , Dresden
Open Monument Day
χώρος (CHORUS) for 24 voices + one dancer
Text + gesture choreography + composition: Helmut Oehring
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Winner of the Art Prize 2020 City of Dresden
18 Sept 2020 Potsdam
19 September 2020 Eberswalde
September 20th 2020 Bochum
mashara for a guitarist/voc and string trio/voc (world premiere )
With: Andreas Willers + Biliana Voutchkova + Nicholas Schlierf + Cosima Gerhardt
11 October 2020 Richard Wagner sites Graupa, Pirna
A portrait for violin + dancer
Choreography: Katja Erfurth
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfuth
17 October 2020 Japanese palace / Saxon Academy of Arts Dresden
Long Night of the Arts
A portrait for violin + dancer
Choreography: Katja Erfurth
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfuth
13 November 2020 Klangwerkstatt Berlin / Festival for New Music
glitch / AMO K for two accordionists (world premiere )
With: Susanne Stock + Felix Kroll
November 15, 2020 5 p.m Muncheberg Parish Church
The bird knows (With different eyes)
Autobiographical concert reading
Melencolia I version for bass oboe/voc + accordion/voc
prelude for bass oboe solo
AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere) Songs for guitar/voc + bass oboe/voc + accordion/voc
Candlestick (from: briefly poked in the garbage) Version for guitar + Bass oboe + accordion
The bird knows composure for guitar/voc + bass oboe + accordion
stuffed Void for accordion
Angelus Novus II So nice from the musical theater in Arrangements for guitar/voc + bass oboe + accordion
Come not near Version for bass oboe/voc + accordion/voc
Helmut Oehring + Antje Thierbach + Felix Kroll
8 December 2020 20 h Unheard of Music, BKA Theater Berlin
Melencolia I version for bassoon/voc + prepared piano/voc
With: Ensemble Adventure
2021 (Selection)
January 15 – 17, 2021 Frau am Ufer Societaetstheater Dresden
κάθαρσις (KATHARSIS) for violin + multi-channel tape + dance choreography (world premiere )
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
10 February 2021 Zeitstrom Festival Darmstadt
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin (world premiere )
With: Adumá Quartet + Susanne Kohnen
30 March 2021 Academy of Arts in Hanseatenweg, Berlin
31 March 2021 Exploratorium Sarottihoefe Mehringdamm, Berlin
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin
With: Adumá Quartet + Susanne Kohnen
Spring 2020 Tuesdays at Monk Space / Brightwork newmusic Los Angeles/USA
How fragile we are
Melencolia I for trumpet/voc + prepared piano/voc
Philipp for contrabass clarinet
Sexton A for cello
Leuchter (from: briefly poked in the garbage) version for bass clarinet + cello + piano
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere) for soprano / for trumpet
LIVE (from: Androgynous) for soprano + violin + violoncello + piano/keyboard
come not near for bass clarinet/voc + prepared piano/voc based on texts by William Shakespeare
Starring: Helmut Oehring + Stacey Fraser + Nic Gerpe + Adrianne Pope + Jennifer Bewerse + Brian Walsh + Dan Flores + Aron Kallay
25 + 26 April 2020 Pitch Festival HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden
EURYDICE? volume 2 (Premiere)
Dance requiem for deaf dancer/vocalist + violinist/dancer/vocalist + guitarist/dancer/vocalist
+ electric guitar + vocal instrumental ensemble + Video + 8.1 channel audio + live electronics
Helmut Oehring + Stefanie Wördemann + Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Emily Yabe + Mia Carla Oehring + Lennart Dohms + Ensemble El Perro Andaluz + prisoners of the JVA Dresden and Bautzen
Commissioned by HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, sponsored by the Ernst by Siemens Music Foundation
30 April – 2 May 2020 Villa Wigman Dresden
100 years Wigman School
A portrait for violin + dancer
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere) new version for three voices + dancer
The bird knows song to a poem by Johannes Bobrowski, new version for three voices + dancer
Choreography: Katja Erfurth
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth + auditory vowel
May 2021 B rahms Festival 2020 Great Hall of the Musikhochschule Luebeck
GOYA IV for Soloists + chamber choir + woodwinds + piano + percussion (world premiere )
With: students + Lecturers at the Lübeck University of Music
May 2021 Brahms Festival 2021 Music Academy in Lübeck
With different eyes Audio pieceInstallation
what god! (dog son) Audio pieceInstallation
EURYDICE? volume 1 audio video installation
May 2021 Brahms Festival 2021 Brahms Villa Lübeck
Workshop Audiovisual Choreography + concert reading I speak in my tones
with Texts from Helmut Oehring's autobiography With other eyes. From the child of deaf parents to the composer
and works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg and Helmut Oehring
KLEEmusic Version for bass clarinet
Der Vogelweiß Song for a female voice based on a poem by Johannes Bobrowski
Melencolia I for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc on the engraving Albrecht Dürer and Heinrich Heine's poems
PHILIP Version for oboe
SOLO from SEA for bass clarinet on the song Die Meere by Johannes Brahms
LIVE (live or die) for female voice + violin + cello + piano on texts by Anne Sexton
Two sonnets from the opera AscheMOND for countertenor + soprano on texts by William Shakespeare
come not near for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc based on texts by William Shakespeare
Candlestick (from: briefly poked in the garbage) Version for oboe + cello + piano
The silence falls Song from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere) for a female voice
With: Helmut Oehring + students + Lecturers at the Musikhochschule Lübeck
28 May 2021 Villa Elisabeth Berlin
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin
With: Adumá Quartet + Susanne Kohnen
30 May 2021 Forum of the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
BEETHOVEN? The Redeeming Mistake (...where am I not wounded, cut up?!) (world premiere)
for one deaf dancer/signature soloist/vocalist + instrumental ensemble + video + 8.1 channel audio + live electronics
on Texts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters and conversation books and using motifs from his music
as well as texts by Helmut Oehring
Helmut Oehring + Stefanie Wördemann + Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
17 June 2021 ArtCultureChurch Frankfurt aM
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin
With: Adumá Quartet + Susanne Kohnen
IN PLANNING
naked lunch / BACH music theater
A portrait black/green for Anton Lukoszevieze / cello + tape
Untitled (Polaroid) for Andreas Winkler / violin