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2021 (selection)
10 February 2021 live stream Zeitstrom Festival of the Academy for Music Darmstadt
INVISIBLE. TOUCH#THE#SOUND
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin
With: Adumá Quartet + Susanne Kohnen
25 - 28 February 2021 Klangwerkstatt Berlin / Online Festival for New Music
glitch (AMOK) for two accordionists (world premiere )
With: Susanne Stock + Felix Kroll
10 March 2021 Music 21 on the NDR, large hall in the Landesfunkhaus Hannover
LEUCHTER (from: briefly poked in the garbage) version for bass flute + violoncello + prepared piano
With: Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART
20 April 2021 Online Concert + Talk, Facultad de Música FaM UNAM, Mexico City
LEUCHTER (from: briefly poked in the garbage) version for bass clarinet + cello + prepared piano
With: Fie Schouten + Eva van de Poll + Akeiko Shichijo
24 + 25 April 2021 Two Days and Two Nights of New Music Festival Odesa
Melencolia I version for bassoon/voc + prepared piano/voc
With: Ensemble Adventure
3 July 2021 7 p.m. + 8:30 p.m. Old Forsthaus Habichtshorst, Winsen
FOXFIRE ONE (sodium pentothal) for guitar
With: Michael Schröder / Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART
3 July 2021 Theater Wrede
4 July 2021 Lutherhaus Osnabrück
Sound - acoustic instrumental music
CAYABYAB New version for trumpet + guitar + vibraphone (world premiere)
With: oh ton ensemble - Christopher Collings + Steffen Ahrens + Michael Pattman
3 July 2021 Villa Wigman Dresden
100+1 years Wigman School
Κασσάνδρα / KASSANDRA (tongue – tear) (world premiere fragment)
Dance theater for a dancer + 7 vocalists + 8.1 channel audio
Composition + gesture choreography: Helmut Oehring
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Playback production: Torsten Ottersberg/ GOGH surround music production
With: Katja Erfurth + AuditivVokal Dresden
musical direction: Olafkatzer
4 July 2021 Villa Wigman Dresden
100 + 1 years Wigman School
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
4 July 2021 Morgner Archive Chemnitz
... yesterday ... for violin solo (world premiere)
With: Andreas Winkler
3 September 2021 Rofinpark Eberswalde
SEVEN SONGS for SUNRISE on FW Murnau's silent film Sunrise - Songs of Two Humans
new version for voice/gesture/guitar + flutes + violoncello + accordion + guitars + celesta + drums (world premiere)
With: Ensemble Quillo + Helmut Oehring (voice/signature/guitar)
11 September 2021 New art house Ahrenshoop
Contact for voice + violin based on the poem of the same name by Inger Christensen (world premiere)
The sea for voice + violin based on the poem of the same name by Gunnar Ekelöf (world premiere)
24 September 2021 Japanese Palace Dresden
Long Night of the Arts by the Saxon Academy of Arts
χώρος (CHOROS) – a fragment for 24 voices + one dancer
Text + gesture choreography + composition: Helmut Oehring
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Winner of the Art Prize 2020 City of Dresden
24 September 2021 7 p.m. KunstHaus Potsdam
resonance 2020
PHILIP for bass clarinet
With: Sabine Matthus-Bébié
1 October 2021 Listening in Winsen
LEUCHTER (from: briefly poked in the garbage) version for bass flute + violoncello + prepared piano
With: Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART
2 + 3 October 2021 HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden
Κασσάνδρα / KASSANDRA (tongue – to tear) (Premiere)
Dance theater for a dancer + 7 vocalists + 8.1 channel audio
Composition + gesture choreography: Helmut Oehring
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Playback production: Torsten Ottersberg/ GOGH surround music production
With: Katja Erfurth + AuditivVokal Dresden
musical direction: Olafkatzer
A co-production with TANZPAKT Dresden
16 October 2021 Quillo Cinema
SEVEN SONGS for SUNRISE on FW Murnau's silent film Sunrise - Songs of Two Humans
new version for flutes + cello + accordion + guitars + celesta + drums
With: Ensemble Quillo + Helmut Oehring ( guitar)
29 + 30 October 2021 youtube premiere
Music film interpretation by the ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART
LEUCHTER (from: briefly poked in the garbage) version for bass flute + violoncello + prepared piano
With: Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART
5 November 2021 7:30 p.m. Center Bagatelle Berlin
SOLO from SEA for bass clarinet
With: Matthias Badczong
6 + 7 November 2021 Societaetstheater Dresden
woman without shore
κάθαρσις / CATHARSIS for violin + multi-channel tape + dance choreography (world premiere )
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
12 November 2021 7:30 p.m. Morning Archive Chemnitz
House Burning Down I (Aug 11th 1965) String Quartet No. 3 (World Premiere)
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December 2021 release
betweenORT for a dancer + violin + film
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Composition + direction + camera + editing: Helmut Oehring
Audio/video production + editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
2022 (selection)
20 January 2022 20 h Exploratorium Berlin
12 February 2022 7:30 p.m. Villa Elisabeth Berlin
13 February 2022 8 p.m. Werner Otto Hall / Konzerthaus Berlin
18 February 2022 7:30 p.m. KunstKulturKirche Frankfurt/Main
19 February 2022 20 h LILI Wiesbaden Cooperative New Jazz
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin
With: Adumá Quartet + Grégoire Blanc
December 2021 – January 2022 www.bthvn2020.de
2 February – 2 March 2022 www.WDR3.de
BEETHOVEN? The Redemptive Mistake
MusicFilmDrama
Idea + composition + choreography + direction + camera + editing: Helmut Oehring
Text book + film script + dramaturgy + editing: Stefanie Wördemann
Audio+video production + camera + editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
2 February 2022 20:04 WDR 3
2 February – 2 March 2022 www.WDR 3.de
WDR 3 concert: Portrait broadcast via Helmut Oehring with excerpts from recordings of his works:
GOYA I for orchestra on Les Desastres de la guerra by Francisco Goya and using music by Ludwig van Beethoven
GOYA II for soloists + orchestra + choir based on drawings by Francisco Goya and texts by Hermann Kesten and Fédérico Garcia Lorca
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
what god! (Dog's son) audio piece based on texts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters and with quotes from interviews
With: SWR Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Ensemble Resonanz and others
27 February 2022 6 p.m Dresden Palace of Culture
κάθαρσις / CATHASIS III for violin + multi-channel tape + dance choreography (world premiere)
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
28 February 2022 Anhaltisches Theater / Kurt Weill Festival Dessau
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
Dagmar Manzel + Felix Kroll + Frank Schulte + Arnulf Ballhorn + Ralf Templin + Daniela Braun
10 March 2022 Wigmore Hall London
House Burning Down II (April 29th 1992) String Quartet No. 4 (World Premiere)
locked in for guitar + violin + viola + cello
Featuring: Apartment House London
25 March 2022 Villa Wigman, Great Hall
woman without shore
κάθαρσις / CATHARSIS for violin + multi-channel tape + dance choreography
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
25 March 2022 Villa Wigman, Small Hall
ZwischenORT for audio-video installation for violin + multi-channel feed + dance choreography (world premiere)
Composition + direction + camera + editing: Helmut Oehring
Audio/video production + editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
Overall artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Violin: Florian Mayer
Spring 2022 Concert Hall of the Municipal Music School Chemnitz
ConversationConcertReading
... yesterday ... for solo violin
Contact for voice + violin based on the poem of the same name by Inger Christensen
The sea for voice + violin based on the poem of the same name by Gunnar Ekelöf
Audio/video excerpts from the audiovisual stage works BEETHOVEN? The Redemptive Error + EURYDICE? volume 1+ Massacre. Listen, MASSACRE! (to Racep Tayyip Erdogan) + ART MUST (go too far) or The angel was silent
+ A scheMOND + Angelus Novus II
With: Helmut Oehring + Andreas Winkler and others
April 2022 Fairy Tale Villa Eberswalde + Farm Quillo Northwest Uckermark
waltz for septet (world premiere)
With: Ensemble Quillo
April 2022 release
... to be there ... Episodes in public space for a dancer + violin + film
Choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Composition + direction + camera + editing: Helmut Oehring
Audio/video production + editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
A co-production with the Societaetstheater Dresden
May 2022 Brahms Festival 2022 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 Schönberg 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 of Albrecht Dürer and poems by Heinrich Heine
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 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 from the Musikhochschule Lübeck
28 September 2022 Luis Angel Arango Recital Hall, Bogota
Angelus Novus I new version for oboe + clarinet + bassoon + violin + viola + violoncello + drums + piano + e-guitar (world premiere )
With: Ensemble Adventure
Fall 2022 Villa Aurora Los Angeles
ECLECTIC SALON
Melencolia I for trumpet/voc + prepared piano/voc
PHILIP Version for contrabass clarinet
Sexton A Version for cello
Candlestick (from: briefly poked in the garbage) Version for bass clarinet + cello + piano
The silence falls song for soprano from the music theater AGOTA? The Illiterate (Yesterday/Somewhere)
LIVE (from: Androgyn) 18 songs for soprano + violin + violoncello + piano/keyboard
Come not near Version for bass clarinet/voc + prepared piano/voc
Starring: Stacey Fraser + Nic Gerpe + Adrienne Pope + Jennifer Bewerse + Biran Walsh + Dan Flores + Helmut Oehring
Curator: Aron Kallay
Fall 2022 Villa Aurora Los Angeles
CONCERT READING
MOVIE RELEASE USA
BEETHOVEN? The redemptive fault / The redemptive fault
MusicFilmDrama
Idea + composition + choreography + direction + camera + editing: Helmut Oehring
Text book + film script + dramaturgy + editing: Stefanie Wördemann
Audio+video production + camera + editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
23 October 2022 Parish Church of Münchberg
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 Sonnet from the music theater in arrangements for guitar/voc + bass oboe + accordion
Come not near Version for bass oboe/voc + accordion/voc
With: Helmut Oehring + Antje Thierbach + Felix Kroll
November2022 HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Tonlagen Festival, Festspielhaus Großer Saal
EURYDICE? volume 2 (Premiere)
DanceMusicFilmInstallation for three dancers + violin + guitar + accordion trio + Multi-channel video + 8.1 channel audio
Idea + composition + choreography + direction + camera + editing: Helmut Oehring
Text book + dramaturgy + photography + co egy: Stefanie Wördemann
Audio + video production + editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Katja Erfurth + Mia Carla Oehring + Florian Mayer + Helmut Oehring + Felix Kroll + Susanne Stock + Silke Lange
+ Inmates of the JVA Dresden
Commissioned by HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden
financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation
IN PLANNING
naked lunch / BACH music theater
A portrait black/green for Anton Lukoszevieze / cello + tape