October 22-24, 2008
Petrikirche / Mülheim an der Ruhr

Utopie jetzt!

Workshop for pupils with Matthias Kaul, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

 

October 4, 2008 (5 pm)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg: MUZIEK BIENNALE NIEDERRHEIN

"passages – this sky"
Music in time and place

Works by Kunsu Shim (World premiere), Gerhard Stäbler,
Michael Oesterle (World premiere) and Franz Schubert

Kunsu Shim: LANGEN I for soprano and percussion quartet (2004)
Commissioned by Langen Foundation (Neuss)

Michael Oesterle: for kunsu shim for violine solo (2008)
World premiere

Gerhard Stäbler: SPICES (3) for three percussionists and electronic sounds (2001)

Kunsu Shim: LANGEN II for soprano and percussion quartet (2004)
Commissioned by Langen Foundation (Neuss)

Kunsu Shim: shortly – for ever for string quartet (2008)
World premiere

Franz Schubert: string quartet Nr. 12 (unfinished)

Kunsu Shim: this sky for percussion quartet (2004)
World premiere

Entrance: 5 Euro (2.50 Euro special prize)

More infos : Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum

 

Program 9 pm:
EarPort, "Garten der Erinnerungen", Duisburg Inner harbour

"here" - Performances by Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

Rita Balta, soprano
Tonio Schibel, violin
Percussion quartet Köln
Soloists of Duisburger Philharmoniker
EarPort Ensemble

Organized by EarPort, Philosophenweg 17a, 47051 Duisburg
A cooperation with Muziek Biennale Niederrhein, Foundation Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburger Philharmoniker and city Duisburg

 

September 23 (11.05 pm - 0.00 am) 
DeutschlandRadio

Polyphonie von Welten - Gerhard Stäbler, Kunsu Shim and their EarPort in Duisburg

A Feature by Florian Neuner

 

September 21, 2008 (11 am)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg

"Concert on the occasion of Bernhard Wambach´s 60th anniversary"

Gerhard Stäbler: around for piano and string trio (ad lib.) (2008)

Kunsu Shim: vom möglichen leben for piano, string instruments and performance (2008)

Jacek Klimkiewicz and Hideko Kobayshi, viola
Friedemann Pardall, cello
Bernhard Wambach, piano
Tobias Schwencke, piano
Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance

 

June 1, 2008 (6 pm)
EarPort, Duisburg Inner harbour

MusicPerformances:
FluX: l·i·e·b·l·i·n·g

Presentation in the frame of a Fluxus lecture by Achim Heidenreich at Robert Schumann
Musikhochschule, Düsseldorf

An EarPort-Cooperation
with the piano duo Aya and Kozue Hara

 

May 17, 2008 (8.05 pm - 11 pm)
WDR 3: Radio Programme with works by Stäbler and Shim

The programme refers to Stäbler´s and Shims works being presented as world premieres on April 25.

Kunsu Shim: Quell. Nacht (I and II) for splitted orchestra (2008)
Gerhard Stäbler: SAPPHO TRILOGIE I-III. Music for soloists, choir, splitted orchestra and tape (2006)

 

April 25, 2008

WDR Fest Duisburg 
Kraft·Zentrale 
Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord

6 pm: Program with music and lectures
8 pm: Main program

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Preprogramme (6 pm)

Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988) 
Riti: I Funerali d`Achille for four percussions (1962)

Panayotis Kokoras (*1974)
Breakwater for tape (2000) 
... simultaneously to the poem
Der Abstieg der Neun by Thanássis Valtinós

Sappho, Fragment Poem from Book 1 (No. 10), translated and read by Jörg Detmold

Gerhard Stäbler (*1949)
Ithaka Paraphrase on the poem by Alexandrian poet Konstantinos Kavafis (1963-1933) for 13-stringed Japanese Cither Koto (and voice) (2003)

Paul Celan (1920-1970)
Different poems (as introduction to Steinschlag·Zeit for orchestra by Kunsu Shim)

Katerina Tzedaki
Jyoti, Stereoversion of an eight channel composition with electronic sounds (2007)
... simultaneously with the Sappho fragment
Ich aber bin dem Glanz verfallen
from Book IV (No. 15) translated by Jörg Detmold

Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
Post-Prae-Ludium per Donau for Tuba solo and live elektronics (1987) 

Jiannis Ritsos (1909-1990)
Es hungern die Augen Poem

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Sequenza III for voice (1966)

Paul Celan (1920-1970)
Stehen, im Schatten Poem

Members of the young orchestra NRW
Direction: Thomas Oesterdiekhoff

Melvin Poore, Tuba

Salome Kammer, Sopran

Members of the theater GeVis&schnee from Gymnasium Voerde 
Direction: Jörg Detmold

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Main Programme (8 pm)

· WHAT YOU LOVE · Sappho
Music for soloists. choirs. orchestra. light and video. With works by Gerhard Stäbler, Dieter Schnebel/Franz Schubert and Kunsu Shim with videos by Kyungwoo Chun

Inside. Outside
Hearing, watching, smelling, tasting 

An academy project of Duisburger Philharmoniker and the young orchestra NRW in cooperation with Musikfabrik NRW.

Program (8 pm):

Kunsu Shim: Quell. Nacht (I) for splitted orchestra (2008) World premiere

Dieter Schnebel: Schubert-Phantasie for splitted orchestra (2008)

Kunsu Shim: Quell. Nacht (II) for splitted orchestra (2008) World premiere

Gerhard Stäbler: SAPPHO TRILOGIE I-III. Music for soloists, choir, splitted orchestra and tape (2006-2008) World premiere

Interpreters:
Salome Kammer, soprano
Young orchestra NRW
Duisburger Philharmoniker
MusikFabrik NRW
Chor der Universität Witten/Herdecke

 

April 17, 2008 (8 pm)
Music library in central library Essen, 
Hollestr. 3 (Gildehof) Essen-Stadtmitte

Portrait of the pianist 
SEONKYUNG KIM (I)
with the EarPort Ensemble

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata (Nr. 32) 
c-minor, Op. 111 (1821/22)
Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Arietta - Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

Franz Liszt:
1. Die Trauer-Gondel (II) for piano (1882)
2. Unstern for piano (1880/86)

Gerhard Stäbler:
... leaving the gold...
for piano, voice and CD-Players (2004)
simultaneously with Kunsu Shim´s
softspeaker for one microphone

Kunsu Shim:
Song of Wind for piano 1988 (rev. 92)

Gerhard Stäbler:
Dalí - Música mágica for piano (1995/96)

Entrance: 5,- Euro

Interpreters:
Seonkyung Kim, piano
EarPort Ensemble

 

March 29, 2008 (5 pm)
Stiftung DKM, Duisburg-Inner harbour, Philosophenweg 17a

Music by Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim (among others) presented by the koto player Makiko Goto in the frame of an exhibition by Hayato Goto (February 29 - June 22)

A ccoperation of EarPort, centre for contemporary music and the foundation DKM.

More Infos :  Stiftung DKM

 

February 3, 2008 (5 pm)
EarPort, Duisburg-Inner harbour, Philosophenweg 17a

Portrait Sueyong Hong (Composer, Corea) - Music for piano and everyday objects

Seonkyung Kim, piano
Free Entrance

 

January 6-13, 2008 
EarPort, Duisburg Inner harbour; Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg; City Hall Duisburg

EarPort WinterFestival: A week and and a day (III)

"WINTER DREAMS"

January 6 (Sunday) 
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop I, EarPort
5 pm: "WinterVoice" - Concert for voice und piano, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
Martin Lindsay, Baritone; Seonkyung Kim, Piano
7.30 pm: Vernissage of the exhibition Jan Stárek (Prague Düsseldorf), EarPort

January 7 (Monday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop II, EarPort
10.30 am: Culture trip (Registration necessary)  

January 8 (Tuesday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop III, EarPort
1 pm: EarPort Composition Prize – Award in Duisburg City Hall

January 9 (Wednesday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop IV, EarPort
7,30 pm: "Winter Piano" (I) - Concert with the Piano duo Aya and Kozue Hara

January 10 (Thursday)
7,30 pm: PerformanceConcert with Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, EarPort

January 11 (Friday)
10 - 12,30 pm: Workshop V, EarPort 
with Seonkyung Kim and Aya & Kozue Hara
7 pm: "Winter Piano (II)" - Concert with Udo Falkner, EarPort

January 12 (Saturday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop VI, EarPort
with Bernd Bleffert (Percussion)
7,30 pm: Instrumentalperformance with sound objects, EarPort
(Bernd Bleffert with participants of the workshops)

January 13 (Sunday)
10 - 12,30 am: Workshop VII, EarPort
5 pm: "WinterWind" - Concert for recorder and piano, EarPort
Gudrun Heyens, Recorder; Seonkyung Kim, Piano
Followed by a finissage of the exhibition Jan Stárek