HELMUT OEHRING
Season 2020/21 (selection)
September 6th 2020 Villa Wigman Dresden
A portrait for violin + dancer (world premiere )
Choreography: Katja Erfurth
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfuth
11 September 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 / CHORÓS 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 Erfurth
13 November 2020 Klangwerkstatt Berlin / Festival for New Music
glitch (AMO K) for two accordionists (world premiere )
With: Susanne Stock + Felix Kroll
1 December 2020 Leibnitzsaal der Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Berlin
Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House night
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin (Preview)
With: Adumá Quartet + Susanne Kohnen
8 December 2020 20 h Unheard of Music, BKA Theater Berlin
Melencolia I version for bassoon/voc + prepared piano/voc
With: Ensemble Adventure
8 December 2020 20 h Gewandhaus / Conne Island Leipzig
Solo from MEERE for bass clarinet (world premiere of the original version)
With: Volker Hemken
18 December 2020 Potsdam
PHILIP Version for bass clarinet
With: Sabine Matthus-Bibié
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
POSTPONED ON GAME TIME 2 0 2 1 / 2 2
26 May 2021 20 h Lili Wiesbaden, in cooperation with ARTist/Kooperative New Jazz
May 27, 2021 7:30 p.m. KunstKulturKirche Frankfurt/Main
28 May 2021 19:30 Villa Elisabeth Berlin
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin
With: Adumá Quartet + Susanne Kohnen
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
4 July 2021 Morgner Archive Chemnitz
... yesterday ... for violin solo (world premiere)
With: Andreas Winkler
Season 2021/22 (selection)
Fall 2021 Frau ohne Ufer Societaetstheater Dresden
κάθαρσις / CATHARSIS for violin + multi-channel tape + dance choreography (world premiere )
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
Autumn 2021 Villa Wigman Dresden
100 years Wigman School
Κασσάνδρα / KASSANDRA (tongue – to tear) (preview / excerpts)
Dance theater for a dancer, + eight 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
κάθαρσις / CATHARSIS for violin + multi-channel tape + dance choreography
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
September 2021 movie release
BEETHOVEN? The Redeeming Mistake (...where am I not wounded, cut up?!) (world premiere)
DanceMusicFilmDrama for a deaf dancer/signature soloist/vocalist + instrumental ensemble + video + 8.1 channel audio + live electronics
based on texts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters and conversation notebooks and using motifs from his music
as well as texts by Helmut Oehring
Composition + choreography + camera + direction: Helmut Oehring
Text book + dramaturgy + coregie: Stefanie Wördemann
Audio + video studio production + sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
3 September 2021 Rofinpark Eberswalde
SEVEN SONGS for Sunrise on FW Murnau's silent film Sunrise - Songs of Two Humans
Version for voice/gesture/guitar + flutes + violoncello + accordion + guitar + piano/keyboard + 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)
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, Festspielhaus Great Hall
Κασσάνδρα / KASSANDRA (tongue – to tear) (Premiere)
Dance theater for a dancer, + eight 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
Version for voice/gesture + flutes + guitar + violoncello + double bass + keyboard + drums
With: Ensemble Quillo + Helmut Oehring
6 + 7 November 2021 Frau ohne Ufer Societaetstheater Dresden
κάθαρσις / CATHARSIS for violin + multi-channel tape + dance choreography
With: Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
14 November 2021 5 p.m. Parish Church Müncheberg
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
20 January 2022 20 h Exploratorium Berlin
AURORA (from: nightshade) for saxophone quartet + theremin
With: Adumá Quartet + Grégoire Blanc
4 – 6 February 2022 HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Festspielhaus Great Hall
EURYDICE? volume 2 (Premiere)
Dance requiem for deaf dancer/vocalist + violinist/dancer/vocalist + guitarist/dancer/vocalist
+ instrumental ensemble + 2ch video + 8.1ch audio + live electronics
Composition + choreography + camera + direction: Helmut Oehring
Text + dramaturgy + photography + direction: Stefanie Wördemann
Audio+video production + live electronics + sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
With: Kassandra Wedel + Mia Carla Oehring + Helmut Oehring and others
+ Inmates of the JVA Dresden and Bautzen and others
Commissioned by HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden
financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation
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
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
May 2022 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
13 November 2021 11 a.m. 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
May 2022 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 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 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
Season 2022/23 (Outlook)
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
IN PLANNING
naked lunch / BACH music theater
A portrait black/green for Anton Lukoszevieze / cello + tape
yesterday for Andreas Winkler / violin