HELMUT OEHRING
NEU
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)
Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
based on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
Hagen Klennert
Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Godfather Death accompanied by two Lamettastallions
GraphicPhotoCollage 2022
KAVALA (to: Recep Tayyip Erdogan und an Istanbul Criminal Court)
Ode to Osman Kavala and the Gezi Park Protests
for 100voiced mixed choir and 27 percussionists
dedicated to the European Union
This is torture. This is calculated cruelty.
Cultural promoter and cosmopolitan Osman Kavala is sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment – means: to solitary confinement without any possibility of probation – by an Istanbul criminal court on Monday the 25th April 2022. When the sentence was pronounced, the spectators' tenseness encharged.
They reacted with loud hissing and heckling.
Kavala belongs to no political party, organisation or movement.
Taksim is everywhere. Everywhere is resistance.
10 März 2022 Wigmore Hall London
House Burning Down II (April 29th 1992)
String Quartet No. 4 (World Premiere)
Locked-In for guitar + violin + viola + violoncello
Ensemble Apartment House London
13 March 2022 5 pm Concert Hall Freiburg
CHARITY CONCERT FOR UKRAINE
Melencolia I (Night laid upon my eys)
based on the copperfield engraving by Albrecht Duerer
and poems by Heinrich Heine
Version for bassoon/voice + prepared piano/voice
Ensemble Aventure – Wolfgang Rüdiger + Akiko Okabe
25 + 26 März 2022 20 h Künstlerhaus œnm-Atelier, Salzburg
27 März 2022 11 h Künstlerhaus œnm-Atelier, Salzburg
Melencolia I (Night lay upon my eyes)
based on the copperfield engraving by Albrecht Duerer
and poems by Heinrich Heine
Version for oboe/voice + prepared piano/voice
Markus Sepperer + Alexander Bauer
œnm - œsterreichisches ensemble fuer neue musik
Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia, copperplate engraving 1514
März 2022 CD Release bei Edition Zeitklang
https://www.discogs.com/artist/732240-Helmut-Oehring
AURORA (aus: Nachtschatten)
for Saxophon Quartett + Theremin
Adumá Saxophonquartett + Grégoire Blanc
25 + 26 March 2022 9:30 pm Villa Wigman / Big Hall, Dresden
zwischenORT A FilmEssay
About the no more existing Albert-Theatre
AudioVideoInstallation for violin + dance choreography (Release)
composition + camera + film direction: Helmut Oehring
audio/video production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p
artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
violin: Florian Mayer
An event of Societaetstheater
25 + 26 März 2022 20 h Villa Wigman / Großer Saal, Dresden
wWoman without a bank
κάθαρσις / KATHARSIS for violin + multichannel auioplay + dance choreography
Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
An event of Societaetstheaters
6 April 2022 20 h Osterfestival Tirol / Salzlager, Hall
ENSEMBLE & ELECTRONICS Shifting Mirrors
LOCKED-IN Version for guitar + violin + viola + violoncello
Ensemble PHACE
26 + 27 + 29 + 30 April 2022 6 – 8 pm Marienbridge Dresden
... DA / SEIN ... 7 episodes in public space – round through Dresden town center
Brücke (aus: Stille / Tage) for dancer + vocal + violin (World Premiere)
composition: Helmut Oehring
choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
Katja Erfurth + Julia Böhme + Florian Mayer
An event of Societaetstheater
30 April 2022 Hof Quillo Nordwestuckermark
Walzer for Septett (World Premiere)
Ensemble Quillo
9th May 2022 30th Brahms Festival 2022 Villa Brahms Luebeck
Workshop Audiovisual Choreography
Portrait Concert AugenHören
with texts from Helmut Oehring's autobiography With other eyes. From child of deaf parents to composer
and works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg and Helmut Oehring
Solo Vocalise for soprano + signpoetic choreography
from Vokalise eines Untröstlichen Engels for soprano, electric guitar and orchestra
AUGE for electronics and signpoetic choreography
ZUNGE for contrabass clarinet
KLEEmusik Version for bass clarinet
Der Vogel weiß Song for female voice based on a poem by Johannes Bobrowski
Melencolia I for oboe/voc + prepared piano/voc on the engraving of Albrecht Duerer and poems by Heinrich Heine
PHILIPP Version for oboe
SOLO from MEERE for bass clarinet on the song Die Meere by Johannes Brahms
LIVE (live or die) for female voice + violin + violoncello + 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
Leuchter (aus: kurz im Müll gestochert) Version for oboe + violoncello + piano
Die Stille stürzt Song from the music theater AGOTA? Die Analphabetin (Gestern/Irgendwo) for female voice
Helmut Oehring + students + lecturers from Musikhochschule Lübeck
12 May 2022 7:30 pm Statetheatre Wiesbaden
Longing – Song Recital with Dagmar Manzel
Die Stille stürzt Song from the musictheatre AGOTA? Die Analphabetin (Gestern/Irgendwo)
Version for voice + accordion + preproduced audioplay
gestopfte Leere for accordion
Dagmar Manzel + Felix Kroll + Frank Schulte + Arnulf Ballhorn + Ralf Templin + Daniela Braun
20 Mai 2022 GES-2 Moskau
Dokumentaroper (fr: Irrenoffensive) (Russian Premiere)
VAC Foundation Moscow / Venice
2 June 2022 8 pm Small Broadcasing Hall of the NDR Hannover
Realities
Foxfire Eins (natriumpentothal) for guitar
Ulf Mummert / Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART
12 June 2022 Chemnitz
Portrait Talk+Concert+Reading
House Burning Down I (August 11th 1965) String Quartet No. 3 (World Premiere)
... Gestern ... for solo violin
Contact for voice + violin based on a poem by Inger Christensen
The Sea for voice + violin based on a poem by Gunnar Ekelöf
audio/video excerpts from the audiovisual stage works EURYDIKE? volume 1 + Angelus Novus I + Angelus Novus II + KUNST MUSS (zu weit gehen) oder Der Engel schwieg + AscheMOND + BEETHOVEN? The Redemptive Fault + Massaker. Hört ihr, MASSAKER! (an Racep Tayyip Erdogan) Helmut Oehring + Andreas Winkler + ensemble01
19 June 2022 3 pm John Heartfield House Waldsieversdorf
AURORA (from: Nachtschatten)
for saxophone quartet + theremin
Adumá Saxophone Quartet + Grégoire Blanc
An event of the Academy of The Arts Berlin and the John Heartfield friendship circle celebrating the 131th birthday of John Heartfield
6 September 2022 Marienchurch Kassel
documenta 15
For F. (in memoriam) for electric guitar + organ (World Premiere)
Francesco Palmieri
Hagen Klennert Self-Liberator Grafic 1994
9 September 2022 8 pm project space / Old Fire Station, Berlin
Liberation Tribute
8cht Kompositionen von Helmut Oehring
as part of the 9th Week of the Arts of Communal Galeries and the exhibition
Hagen Klennert SELF-LIBERATOR II ATTEMPT AT A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW
PHILIPP version for oboe
ZUNGE for oboe
gestopfte LEERE for accordion
Melencolia I version for bass oboe / voc + accordion / voc
Leuchter (aus: kurz im Müll gestochert) version for bass oboe + accordion + guitar
Come not near version for bass oboe / voc + accordion / voc
Der Vogel weiß version for bass oboe + accordion + guitar
Die Stille stürzt version for bass oboe + accordion + guitar
bass oboe + voice: Antje Thierbach
accordion + voice: Felix Kroll
22 September 2022 Elisabeth Schneider Foundation, Freiburg
28 September 2022 Luis Angel Arango Recital Hall, Bogotá
Angelus Novus I
New version for oboe + clarinet + bassoon + violin + viola + violoncello + drums + piano + e-guitar
(World Premiere)
Ensemble Aventure
24 September 2022 Galery Weise, Chemnitz
gestopfte LEERE for accordion
Susanne Stock / Comtemporary Insights Ensemble
2 Oktober 2022 12 am mumok / MQ, Museumsplatz 1, Wien
CHAMBER MUSIC & ELECTRONICS taming and framing
LOCKED-IN version for guitar + violin + viola + violoncello
Ensemble PHACE
23 October 2022 Parish Church Muencheberg
The Bird knows (With different Eyes) Concert+Reading
Melencolia I version for bass oboe/voc + accordion/voc
Prelude for bass oboe solo
AGOTA? Die Analphabetin (Gestern/Irgendwo) Songs for guitar/voc + bass oboe/voc + accordion/voc
Leuchter (aus: kurz im Müll gestochert) version for guitar + bass oboe + accordion
Der Vogel weiß Version for guitar/voc + bass oboe + accordion
Die Stille stürzt version for bass oboe + accordion + guitar
gestopfte Leere for accordion
Angelus Novus II Sonnet from the music theatre in arrangements for guitar/voc + bass oboe + accordion
Come not near Version for bass oboe/voc + accordion/voc
Alex (from: The Deaf Giant) for bass oboe + accordion + guitar
bass oboe + voice: Antje Thierbach
accordion + voice: Felix Kroll
30 October 2022 8 p.m. Villa Wigman / Großer Saal, Dresden
still . schweigen composition + poetic sign choreography
choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
as part of SOLO2
Hagen Klennert
Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Godfather Death accompanied by two Lamettastallions
GraphicPhotoCollage 2022
4 November 2022 Klangwerkstatt Berlin
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)
Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
based on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
(world premiere)
idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring
audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.
collective lovemusic Strasbourg
bassflute: Emiliano Gavito
bassclarinet: Adam Starkie
violoncello: Lola Malique
e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano
Commissioned by Klangewerkstatt – festival for new music Berlin and LVMSC lovemusic Strasbourg
5 November 2022 Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
Tuesdays @ Monk Space presents
Eclectic Salon: The music of Helmut Oehring
Melencolia I for trumpet/voc + prepared piano/voc
PHILIPP version for contrabassclarinet
Sexton A version for violoncello
Leuchter (aus: kurz im Müll gestochert) version for bassclarinet + violoncello + piano
Die Stille stürzt Song for soprano from the musictheater AGOTA? Die Analphabetin (Gestern/Irgendwo)
LIVE (aus: Androgyn) 18 songs for soprano + violin + violoncello + piano/keyboard
Come not near version for bassclarinet/voc + prepared piano/voc
voice: Stacey Fraser
contra/bassklarinette: Brian Walsh
trumpet: Dan Flores
violin: Adrienne Pope
violoncello: Mia Barcia-Colombo
piano: Nic Gerpe
curator: Aron Kallay / Brightwork newmusic
https://brightworknewmusic.com/event/eclectic-salon-the-music-of-helmut-oehring-at-villa-aurora
22 November 2022 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
25 November 2022 Arsenal de Metz
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)
Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
based on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring
audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.
collective lovemusic Strasbourg
bassflute: Emiliano Gavito
bassclarinet: Adam Starkie
violoncello: Lola Malique
e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano
Commissioned by Klangewerkstatt – festival for new music Berlin and LVMSC lovemusic Strasbourg
4 December 2022 3 pm dance museum Cologne
zwischenORT A FilmEssay
About the no more existing Albert-Theatre
AudioVideoInstallation for violin + dance choreography (Release)
composition + camera + film direction: Helmut Oehring
audio/video production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p
artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
violin: Florian Mayer
archiving advise: Thomas Thorausch
28 February 2022 9 pm BKA-Theater, Berlin
Unheard Music
LostDOG for a performer + preproduced audioplay
audioconception + -production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
Alwynne Pritchard
15 + 16 April 2023 cinema + concert hall Quillo
SEE THE WORLD WITH DIFFERENT EARS
SignDanceMusicReadingFilm
EURYDIKE vol.1 film + live performance for deaf dancer + dancer/performer + violinist/performer
Wrong II (Alexander kehrt zurück) for deaf sign+vocal soloist/dancer + dancer/performerin + violinist/performer + septet (world premiere)
concert+reading with eight compositions for solo, duo to septet
BEETHOVEN? The redemptive fault DanceMusicFilmDrama
AUGE for electronics + SignMimoChoreography
ZUNGE new version for bass flute (world premiere)
Panel discussion
Ensemble Quillo
celesta + keyboard + musical direction: Max Renne
bass flute: Ursula Weiler
percussion: Dominic Oelze
e-guitar: Daniel Göritz
violoncello: Luise Rau
accordion: Felix Kroll
violin + performance: Meike Lu Schneider
sign+vocal solo + dance + performance: Kassandra Wedel
dance + performance: Mia Carla Oehring
choreography + direction + concert guitar + dobro + reading: Helmut Oehring
dramaturgy + co-direction: Stefanie Wördemann
audio+ video production + sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.
18 + 19 + 20 + 21 May 2023 6 pm Societhaetstheater Dresden
... DA / SEIN ...
CITY.HISTORY.DANCE
Brücke (aus: Stille / Tage) for dancer + voice + violin
composition: Helmut Oehring
artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
voice: Julia Böhme
violin: Florian Mayer
22 + 23 April 2023 HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Great Hall
EURYDIKE? volume 2
DanceMusicFilmInstallation for three dancers + violin + accordion trio + multi-channel video + 8.1-channel audio (World Premiere)
idea + composition + choreography + direction + camera + film editing: Helmut Oehring
text book + dramaturgy + photography + codirection: Stefanie Wördemann
audio+video production + film editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
dance: Kassandra Wedel + Katja Erfurth + Mia Carla Oehring
violin: Florian Mayer
accordion trio: Felix Kroll + Susanne Stock + Silke Lange
choir: 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
12 October 2023 Zeitgenuss Festival Karlsruhe
CHOROS II for four guitarists and signchoreography (world premiere)
Dedicated to Aleph Guitar Quartet on the occasion of their 30th birthday in 2023
Aleph Guitar Quartet
14 + 15 + 16 December 2023 HELLERAU – European Centre of the Arts Dresden
WANDELN
new work for dancer + violin + preproduced audioplay
composition: Helmut Oehring
audio-production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.
artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
violin: Florian Mayer
IN PLANNING / WORK IN PROGRESS
Brzezinka/Oświęcim (Dorf in Polen)
multichannel composition for mixed choir + electronics
based on Gerhard Richter's cycle of paintings Birkenau
The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell (No drama)
with texts by Aldous Huxley + Laura Archeri-Huxley
and musical quotes of The Doors and Igor Strawinsky
dedicated Aldous Huxley on the 60th day of his death
naked lunch / BACH
music theater with texts by William S. Borroughs
A portrait black/green
for Anton Lukoszevieze / violoncello + audioplay