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04/2025

Arbeit am Schmäh

Arbeit am Schmäh - this is the title of the... ...

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03/2025

Guitar storms in Tokyo

The contemporary music performing scene in Tokyo can be very ...

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Hildegard with red roses

Three red roses: symbol for the young woman, water: symbol.. ...

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I don't want to follow these rules!

- is the title of the theater performance. It's almost... ...

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Stumbling Stones in Boston

A Stumbling Stone is a concrete block about ten centimeters. ...

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1000 warsongs!

I am currently composing several pieces entitled War Songs. ...

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Neukölln in Japan

A song cycle "Neuköllner Haiku" is a satire and was... ...

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01/2025

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What is a strip of land?

A narrow gap, a space in between, a place full... ...

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Foreign or native language?

Even if you have no difficulty with a foreign language,... ...

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Berlin 1989 - Vienna 2025

The premiere of the Berliner Tagebuch finally comes to Vienn ...

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12/2024

Don Mee Choi

Youtube "Ahn Hak-sóp#5"

Inspired by the poem "Ahn Hak-sóp#5" by Don Mee ChoiDuo... ...

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Foto: Hartmut S. Bühler

YouTube "3 War Songs"

The poems by Suji Kwock-Kim: The Ministry of Truth Rebrands. ...

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11/2024

Help find Hildegard in Kabul!

When I think of our womensright fighters, I am ashamed... ...

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10/2024

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Striking the harp and pulling chains

Don Mee Choi Don Mee Choi's work is like the... ...

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Suji Kwock Kim

Notes from the North

What are contemporary poets writing today? I recently stumbl ...

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09/2024

Many small encounters make up life

Perhaps life consists of a series of many small encounters.. ...

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Kubus Kollektiv

Premiere string quartet No. 4 in Vienna

To kick off the season, an exciting concert is taking... ...

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A baby took its first steps

My first publication, "3 Studies for Piano", was published b ...

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08/2024

New Composition for Guitar

"The Watchman Who Fell Asleep" is the title of the... ...

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Foto: Anait Sagoyan

24-hour- piano marathon

We often hear about 24-hour art marathon, but is there... ...

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04/2024

Portrait concert

Spring is finally here and we're all in the mood... ...

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03/2024

Foto: Vogt-Sarah Harzer

Unsolvable Footprints

We discover our footprints whether we want to or not.... ...

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Salzburg! Salzburg!

Mister Bernhard, we are coming to Salzburg and want to... ...

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Foto: Nektarios Perogiannakis

Love, Revenge, Eternity

In the Japanese myth “Izanagi and Izanami” I read about... ...

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02/2024

HWK

Since January I have been living in HWK Delmenhorst, 16... ...

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01/2024

Foto: Daniel Mayer

GEMA – Writer’s Prize

For outsiders, GEMA is a mysterious organisation. It represe ...

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Falling asleep while lying in wait

The old knight lying in wait has fallen asleep. We... ...

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Science Year 2024

2023 passed like a breeze. Hardly any time to think... ...

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10/2023

Foto: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

I still remain angry!

Music is often interpreted as protest, irrespective of the c ...

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Foto: Kai-Uwe Wudtke

Ursula Mamlok

The Berlin composer Ursula Mamlok would have turned 100 this ...

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Foto: Andrej Grilc

Children’s Songs

Folk songs are often terrifying. Today I am red /... ...

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09/2023

Chains chain

The German word for chains, "Kette", is strange, because it. ...

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08/2023

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Ernst-Reuter-Platz

Open-air cinema in summer is already popular and you can... ...

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07/2023

(Foto: Suji Kwock Kim)

War poems

Homer wrote the Iliad about the Trojan War. Killing and... ...

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Foto: Andrej Grilc

Fukio Saxophone Quartet

When I was writing "Today I am red" for a... ...

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Titelseite: Frauen im Bauhaus hrsg. Von Patrick Rössler und Elizabeth Otto

Women in Germany

Almost 100 years ago, the first women studied at the... ...

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06/2023

Foto: Hartmut S. Bühler

Has the sky gone dark?

We look at the sky. Then we have to realise... ...

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05/2023

Foto: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

New Music for children

Writing music for children is an important task for me.... ...

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Berlin and Wild garlic (Baerlauch)

Early spring is the time for wild garlic. Every year,... ...

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04/2023

1923

The year 1923 was a crisis year like this year... ...

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03/2023

Foto: Robert Paul Kothe

Shakuhachi or Harpsichord

Shakuhachi or harpsichord, which instrument is closer to me? ...

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02/2023

© Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

Continue to stay be angry

For Thomas Bernhard, God evokes dark thoughts and the psalm. ...

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Listening to night dust

Listening to one's own composition is difficult, because it ...

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01/2023

Night Dust

In contrast to vocal composition, composing a string quartet ...

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12/2022

Foto: Erick-Jan Ouwerkerk

Strong women

Here are eight strong women from the Berlin Women's Vocal... ...

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11/2022

Understanding through talk concert

New music is often left to the experts. Classical music... ...

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Advanced Octatonics

The young people have finally found the octatonic! And they' ...

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I want to be angry!

After two years of Corona forced break, the new composition. ...

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10/2022

Women who worked at the Bauhaus

When I came to Europe 50 years ago, I was... ...

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09/2022

Bogliasco

"Ah! For man's wild breast no home is possible" -... ...

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Richard & Co.

The composers' collective Atonale e. V. was commissioned by ...

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Poetry of the female composers

What does music interpreted dyadically sound like? A female ...

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08/2022

Be Women

Not only women composers, but also all other women do... ...

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Trostfrauen – Comfort women

The Japanese Women's Initiative Berlin in cooperation with A ...

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05/2022

Foto: Gaby Bultmann

Spring Festival Concert

The cherry blossom season is finally here. I always get... ...

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03/2022

Makiko Goto

Encounters can begin and end in an instant. After being... ...

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Foto: Katrin Talbot

Composer´s incompetents

What on earth can a composer do? It's as if... ...

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02/2022

Ensemble Wiener Collage

Vienna remains my homtown

Vienna is still my second home. When I am in... ...

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Ö1 - Radio programme

It was only by chance that I noticed that Ö1... ...

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01/2022

Foto: Katrin Talbot

Footprints

When we walk, we intentionally or unintentionally leave our ...

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12/2021

Octatonic?

Small experiment in octatonic that's what I called my new... ...

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Foto: Joe Meijer

Black Pencil Prize

Just in time for my birthday, I received the Black... ...

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Foto: Hartmut S. Bühler

New Music in the Church

It is beautiful when new music is heard in a... ...

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Foto: M. Kubo

2÷3=?

What can a contemporary composer write for the children? Edu ...

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10/2021

Pianist: Masako Ohta (Foto: Eva-Marlene Etzel/Thanks, Universe!)

The aftershocks still continue

I wrote "Sanriku Songs“ for the victims of the East-North... ...

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09/2021

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Siemensstadt and John Rabe

How is John Rabe's biography connected to the rise of... ...

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Foto: Michael Jungblut

Concert for crickets and butterflies

More and more concerts are taking place outdoors because con ...

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Foto: Patrick Schmidt

New Music at the Marketplace II

In the second concert of Market- Music my composition "Herbs ...

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Synke Köhler

The Fox in the City

The duo concert was supposed to take place a year... ...

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08/2021

Foto: Mayako Kubo

Farewell and New Beginning - Kaddish for Yossi

The concert series "Mazel Tov International" is now celebrat ...

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Foto: Erik-Jan Ouwerkirk

Finally with the audience!

Finally we could play music in front of the audience... ...

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Foto: Michael Jungblut

Music in the marketplace

If we are only allowed to play music outdoors, what... ...

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© Gisela Weimann, 2020

The Garden of Women Composers

My long-time comrade and tireless visual artist, Gisela Weim ...

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Freundliche Genehmigung von Thomas Rabe

John Rabe - End of the Line Siemensstadt

John Rabe was in Nanjing during the Second World War... ...

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My Britzer Garden

For more than one year I am feeling isolated. In... ...

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11/2020

Anna Korondi, Foto: Baris Cihan

City Fox

In Berlin you will often encounter beautiful foxes with thei ...

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Who is Alusrursula?

Alusrurusula is the title of my solo piece for bassoon,... ...

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Nay-Sayer

Composing for key instruments is not easy, especially when y ...

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09/2020

Not Darkened

Maybe Irene Kurka is one of those musicians who never... ...

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Ursula or Alusru

To survive as a composer I need humor, self-criticism, and.. ...

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08/2020

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Awakening from Corona Hibernation

After a long, forced break, creative life resumes. I am... ...

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03/2020

Jugend musiziert

“Jugend Musiziert” [“Youths Play Music”] is one of the most. ...

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Music for Silk Spiders

What kind of music am I supposed to write about... ...

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International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day has been a public holiday in Berli ...

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02/2020

Michiko 1923 -2018

Michiko’s Life

Michiko came to Naples from Yokohama by ship in 1953.... ...

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Design: Carola Ludwig

Discovering Weinberg

Our concert cycle “Mazel Tov International” has an important ...

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Noten: VNM 2442

Dialogue with young musicians

Some works are running independently, other go straight to s ...

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Foto: Mayako Kubo

Geras Variationes in Vienna

My everyday life is normally rather boring: compose, take wa ...

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01/2020

Goodbye and New Beginning

Life is really a series of meetings and goodbyes. After... ...

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Foto: Gisela Weimann

Izanagi in Vienna

The myth of the Japanese Orpheus, Izanagi, always sparks new ...

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Who’s Knocking at the Door?

2020 is the year of Beethoven. We’re knocking at his... ...

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12/2019

Real-Time Music 70 Years Ago

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of my teacher... ...

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11/2019

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Lullaby for Rapauke

Playing music for little children is an everyday thing now.. ...

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Verlag Neue Musik

Review of “Schnee”

Is composed music no longer the in thing? Writing notes... ...

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The Best of Tomorrow

Noga Baake has won one of the awards at the... ...

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“I Will Be Angry” – Psalms Text by Thomas Bernhard

I discovered this author while I was the “artist in... ...

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Foto: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

Snow’s Over?

The performance of “Snow” at the Parochial Church was so... ...

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10/2019

Foto: Lixui Lin

Where the Border between East and West Disappears

The sound of the koto – the Japanese zither –... ...

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Foto: RSB/Robert Niemeyer

Who is Rapauke?

Rapauke Makes Music. That is the name of a project... ...

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09/2019

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March of the women

After a long and hot summer, concert season is finally... ...

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05/2019

Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

Snow in May

Finally there will be snow in May, including in the... ...

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Foto: Mayako Kubo

“Today I am Red” for Saxphonequartet – Review

“Poly-stylistics of anecdotal character move against and wit ...

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Checkmate

When a young musician performs my composition so perfectly a ...

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04/2019

Foto: Jeremy Knowies

Berlin Diary in the Hands of an Azerbaijani Pianist

Berlin is indeed teeming with international artists. A young ...

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Foto: Hartmut S. Bühler

Melancholia in Times of Cherry Blossoms

When the time of cherry blossom and cherry blossom festivals ...

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03/2019

Finally in Brno

Finally I get to travel to the city of Janáček,... ...

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New Music in Church

During the show, the host mentioned a quote by Toru... ...

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What Remains in the End?

Izanagi and Izanami have been a long-standing part of my... ...

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Foto: Bernd Hohnstock

New Music in Church

Buddhist temples and Christian churches are often venues for ...

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01/2019

Foto: Ira Weinrauch

Xenon Saxophone Quartet

Cologne remains the high seat of contemporary music after al ...

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Foto: Christian Weische

The new Singing Bowl in Bielefeld

The singer Irene Kurka wrote: Has anyone had that happen... ...

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12/2018

© Mayako Kubo

The Singing Bowl with a Cold

The singing bowl has a cold. Extreme temperatures have proba ...

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11/2018

© Mayako Kubo

Can you learn composition?

Once a month there is a large round table of... ...

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Foto: Gisela Weimann

Izanagi dances in Prague

Izanagi is my life’s work. Old Japanese mythology combined w ...

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Design: Carola Ludwig

Mazel Tov International

There are a few numbers that immediately give us goosebumps: ...

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© Mayako Kubo

Finally: “Susanne”

There will finally be a premiere of my composition “Susanne” ...

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10/2018

Shipwrecked in St. Petersburg

My great guitar solo “Shipwrecked” was written in remembranc ...

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Sapporo Otani University

Otani University has its beginning in 1665, when it was... ...

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© Andreas Schild

“darkened” at St. Matthews Church

St. Matthews Church stands in the middle of the Kulturforum, ...

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Journey to Hokkaido

It's not going to happen to me, is something you... ...

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Autumn in Japan

The term “home” is very vague and emotional. Japan is... ...

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Cologne Guitar Quartet

The Cologne Guitar Quartet speeds through China

The industrious Chinese people might not have time to come.. ...

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09/2018

© Mayako Kubo

Susanne

The summer of 2018 was hot and long. In the... ...

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My Traces: Tracking a Composer

It is a documentary overview of scenic music up to... ...

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Narayama Suite I - IV

The ancient Japanese legend “Narayama Bushi Koh” is an impor ...

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Singing Bowl

The singing bowl is a mystical instrument. It connects the.. ...

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For Diotima

The viola solo “For Diotima” comes from the musical theater. ...

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06/2018

© Christian von Steffelin

When will the opera Ovartaci have its premiere?

The Berliner Atonale has 12 composers as its members; and... ...

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© Michael Jungblut

Today am I red

In music, even the most terrible things are sung so... ...

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5th Mazel Tov International

Collaborating with the viola player Yossi Gutmann isn't easy ...

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Only my voice remains on youtube

At the end of the premiere of Nur meine Stimme... ...

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05/2018

© Ezry Keydar

Phasma

A new recording of my guitar quartet Atempause (“Breathing S ...

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© Hartmut S. Bühler

Voice and Singing Bowl

After the successful concert in Paris, soprano Irene Kurka r ...

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Original Notes for Children

My first music for children was a violin concerto I... ...

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How Many Strings on a Koto?

Japan offers many more art forms than just sushi and... ...

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03/2018

darkened...

Visual expressions like light, dark, green, colorless can ap ...

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© Uwe Arens

Encore! PianoDuo

The Japanese-German piano duo Takahashi/Lehmann performs my ...

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01/2018

PianoDuo

The Japanese-German piano duo Takahashi/Lehmann performs my ...

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Parisian Life in the Rain

When it rains in Berlin, I know exactly where to... ...

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12/2017

Design: Carola Ludwig

Mazel Tov International

The chamber music series Mazel Tov International is growing, ...

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Foto: Erik Ouwerkerk

Turning Points in My Life

My path was never a straight one, not in Japan... ...

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11/2017

© Gisela Weimann

Soprano Quartet “Life of a Woman Artist”

Life of a heroine or life of a woman artist?... ...

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10/2017

Cologne Guitar Quartet

Breathing Space at the Stadtgarten

As part of the concert series TRIPCLUBBING of the Cologne... ...

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09/2017

Foto: Vogt-Sarah Harzer

Geras in Amsterdam

The new festival “Nieuwenoten-Amsterdam” under the artistic ...

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DLF-K Portrait Mayako Kubo „But I can do it through notes“

Mayako Kubo is a free composer in every sense of... ...

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06/2017

Midnight Murder Mystery on the Radio “But I do it through notes”

Instead of listening to a midnight murder mystery on the... ...

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For Diotima

I am not a passionate reader of German literature, with... ...

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Musical Dialogues in Paderborn

The German youth music contest “Jugend musiziert” will be he ...

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05/2017

Foto: M. kubo

A Song for Marianne

I had the great fortune of finally meeting a woman... ...

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Trip to Tel Aviv

I constantly hear news from the Near East and deep... ...

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Ovartaci Museum

Ovartaci returns home without a bicycle

Ovartaci loved riding his bicycle. He was allowed to ride... ...

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04/2017

Ovartaci in Aarhus

A small clip on Youtube, from the performance “Puma stays Pu ...

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Foto: Neues Museum (Anna Seibel)

After 60 Seconds

A colleague said to me: „Many of the music pieces... ...

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03/2017

„CHARINKO!“

„Charin, Charin...!“ is how the Japanese describe the s ...

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02/2017

Foto: Kubo

What comes after a festival?

During the famous Awa folk dance festival in Shikoku there.. ...

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01/2017

Foto: Tanja Langer

12 Composers Write an Opera

The chamber opera “Ovartaci” is an experiment. 12 ...

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What, How, and for Whom

What do I compose? How do I compose? These are... ...

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11/2016

Beethoven meets Mayako Kubo

Who is my role model? For me, almost all the... ...

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10/2016

Cologne Guitar Quartet

Breathless „Breathing Space“

„Atempause“ („Breathing Space“) is literally composed of the ...

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