> Events Season 2025_2026
June 2, 2026 (8 pm)
Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf, Jacobistraße 6A
A Promenade Concert - inside and outside
with the Kunsthalle at Malkasten Düsseldorf
Music by John Cage, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Dieter Schnebel, Robert Schumann,
Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler
Performances, a.o. by Shim and Stäbler as premieres
AuditivVokal Dresden
Olaf Katzer, musical direction
Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
May 31, 2026 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
DAS UNSTILLBARE
PerformanceKonzert for the opening of the exhibition Gerhard Losemann: ZEITSPUREN
Kunsu Shim: Das Unstillbare for 2 singers (2025) Premiere
Kunsu Shim: Zwei Halbmonde (version for 2 singers, 2016)
Gerhard Stäbler: Zwei Sappho-Gesänge for 2 singers and percussion (2025) Premiere
Gerhard Stäbler: Bruchstück für Luigi Nono for singer and audience (2015)
Bohyun Kim: New work for 2 sopranos Premiere
Morton Feldman: Only (after Rilke's Sonette an Orpheus, 1947)
a.o.
Soloists of AuditivVokal Dresden:
Anne Stadler (soprano)
Katharina Salden (soprano)
Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Supported by the City of Duisburg
May 31 until mid-September, 2026
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
Exhibition Gerhard Losemann: ZEITSPUREN
Supported by the City of Duisburg
May 21, 2026 (8 pm)
Zentralbibliothek Essen, Hollestr. 3 (Gildehof)
THE PURPOSE OF ART – de Sade and the idea of freedom
A musical-literary-performative concert as a farewell from the music library Essen at Gildehof Center
With words and music a.o. by Pierluigi Billone, Maurice Blanchot, Katharina Gross, Helmut Lachenmann, Jug Markovic, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler
Thomas Krause, recitation and theatrical action
Ensemble S201 (Essen):
Heni Hyunjung Kim, clarinet
Filip Erakovic, accordion and performance
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
An event by AKTIVE MUSIK Essen in cooperation with the music library of Zentralbibliothek Essen
supported by the City of Essen and EarPort Duisburg
March 22, 2026 (12 noon)
Akademie der Künste Berlin, Hanseatenweg
March 26, 2026 (7 pm)
Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Lothringerstraße 20 (Austria)
Archipelagic Sounds
Gerhard Stäbler: Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco. An acronym from acoustic memories of a journey (1988/1990)
Laure M. Hiendl: New work for ensemble Premiere
Bernhard Lang: Songbook II.2 – Retextured for baritone and ensemble (2019) (only 24.3.)
Luxa M. Schüttler: i wd leave leaf & dance for orchestra & artificial traces (2022; version for ensemble 2026) Premiere
Klangforum Wien
Holger Falk, baritone
Markus Wallner, sound
Vimabyi Kaziboni, conductor
February 24, 2026 (8 pm)
KM28, Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin
Kunsu Shim: A Few Brief Moments for three players (2021)
Sehyung Kim: Sijo_011115 for sax and piano with e-bow (2015)
Sehyung Kim: Sijo_020517 [Geori] for daegeum and piano with e-bow (2017)
Geori: collective composition (2026)
Geori:
Dasom Baek, saegeum
Jung Jae Kim, saxophone
Jared Redmond, piano
February 16, 2026
Aichi University of the Arts
1-114 Yazakosagamine, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1194 (Japan)
Gerhard Stäbler: Engelkadaver for soprano solo and electronic sounds on a poem by Frank Schablewski (2020) Premiere
Karera Fujita, Sopran
February 8, 2026 (8 pm)
Angela Merici Gymnasium, Neustr. 35, Trier
In the context of OPENING26 – International Festival for contemporary Sound Art in Trier
ÜBERGÄNGE
Kunsu Shim: LUFT·INNERES (II) for string quartet (2025) Premiere
Kunsu Shim: DAS UNSTILLBARE I for string duo (2025) Premiere
Kunsu Shim: DAS UNSTILLBARE III for string trio (2025) Premiere
Gerhard Stäbler: SICH VER·SCHREIBEN for string quartet (2025) with a video by Taejoong Kim
Gerhard Stäbler: WIDERSCHEIN for string quartet (2025) Premiere
… simultaneously with
Kunsu Shim: A·Symmetrical Action for two performers (2025)
Kunsu Shim: Flower Fist. Performance with the video by Kyungwoo Chun (2009)
Anton Lukoszeviece: Tree Sounding for video and cello
Luna Quartet:
Janneke van Prooijen & Heleen Hulst, violin
Elisabeth Smalt, viola
Katharina Gross, cello
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
January 25, 2026 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
SCHATTENSPIELE
PerformanceConcert for the opening of the exhibition zwanglos.beisammen by artists from the Rhineland
Gerhard Stäbler: Zwanglos·Beisammen. Performance with audience (2026)
Arnold Marinissen: Un temps inhabitable for vibraphone and recording (2024)
Kunsu Shim: Auf der Kleinseite I for trio (2017)
Henryk Golden: Sprechen Sie Musik? for two speaker-singers (2022)
Kunsu Shim: My Lit(tle) I, II for voice and vibraphone with additional instruments (2023)
Katharina Gross: Shadow Piece No. 2 (Hear) for trio (2024)
Kunsu Shim: Auf der Kleinseite II for trio (2017)
Arnold Marinissen: Fallen Leaves No. 2 (Blatt und Humus) for trio (2019)
Gerhard Stäbler: Vor·Lesen. Version for 2 singers and percussion (2017)
Bohyun Kim: Ta, Da, Ça for two voices (2026) Commissioned by Earport/Premiere
Katharina Gross: Shadow Piece No. 3 (Touch) for duo (2025)
Franz Schubert: Der Doppelgänger for voices and piano
Kunsu Shim: Auf der Kleinseite III for trio (2017)
Kunsu Shim: Toccata Nr. 4 for piano (key player and string player)
Fallen Leaves Trio:
Vizma Zvaigzne, mezzosoprano
Sean Haid, countertenor
Arnold Marinissen, percussion
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia and the City of Duisburg
January 25 until mid-May 2026
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
zwanglos.beisammen
Group exhibition of artists from the Rhineland
With works by Hildegard Bauschlicher / Stacey Blatt / Christina Böckler / Susan Feind / Martin Gensheimer / Gerhard Hahn / Brigitta Heidtmann / Ute Huck / Horst Keining / Michael Kiefer / Alexandra Kosmidou / Evangelos Koukouwitakis / Barbara Koxholt / Lothar Krüll / Britta Lauer / Gerhard Losemann / Claudia Maas / Kerstin Müller - Schiel / Luis Neuenhofer / Ute Nowak / Dagmar Schenk-Güllich / Walter Schernstein / Daniel Schmuck / Friedrich Schmuck / Kunsu Shim / Wolfgang Vetten / Hans-Jürgen Vorsatz / Alexander Voß / Ulrike Waltemathe / Klaus Wiesel
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia and the City of Duisburg
January 24, 2026 (1 pm & 3 pm)
Mozarteum University, Schwarzstraße 36, Salzburg (Austria)
Rituals
Kunsu Shim/Gerhard Stäbler: attraction for two performers (2009)
Also with works by Georges Aperghis, Luciane Berio, John Cage, Iris Szeghy, Iannis Xenakis
and premieres by students of the composition classes
Florian Gfüllner and Felicitas Zähringer, performance
Students of instrumental and vocal education, of the Orff Institute and the vocal department
Angelika Luz, concept, musical and stage direction
January 12,2026 (6.30 pm)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
VOM ZUSAMMENLEBEN
Last night of the exhibition SCHATTENSÄUME by Martin Goppelsröder
Kunsu Shim: sense of measure for trombone (1999)
Gerhard Stäbler: Drei Malaiische Liebeslieder on three poems by Ivan Goll (2020/21)
Kunsu Shim: DAS EIGENE I. Performance with plastic bottles (2026) Premiere
Kunsu Shim: sense of measure for trombone (1999)
... at the same time ...
Kunsu Shim: TOCCATA Nr. 3 (Shadows) for piano (key player and string player)
Irene Kurka, soprano
Bruce Collings, trombone
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia
December 21, 2025 (3 pm)
Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam (NL)
In the series Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam
Kunsu Shim: Vegetationen for string quartet (2019)
Alison Isadora: Sharing Space (with a river) for string quartet(2025)
Luna Quartet:
Janneke van Prooijen & Shannon Lee, violin
Elisabeth Smalt, viola
Katharina Gross, cello
December 13, 2025 (6 pm)
Europäische Kunstakademie Trier, Aachener Straße 63
PerformanceConcert „70+50“ (for the 70th birthday of Bernd Bleffert)
Gerhard Stäbler: AugenTanz/MundStücke from: Performances for lovers of music (1999)
Gerhard Stäbler: SCHWELLEN. A Phantasy. Audio-Visuals for voice solo (2017)
Kunsu Shim / Gerhard Stäbler: AUF DEM WASSER, EIN GESICHT for Koto solo (2005)
a.o.
Naoko Kikuchi, Koto
Gerhard Stäbler, performance
November 9, 2025 (3 pm)
Municipal Library Düsseldorf, Konrad Adenauer Platz (KAP) 1
Nikolaus Brass: today
Snezana Nesic: Premiere for two vocalists
Adriana Hölsky: Monolog
Robert HP Platz: piu di un sogno for doublebass flute
Kaija Saariaho: for the grammar of dreams for two vocalists
George Aperghis: Recitation, simultaneously with Hustenscherzo by Kurt Schwitters (audience participation)
John Cage: Litany for a Whale
Gerhard Stäbler: Tau und Nelke. Three actions for solo voice (2017)
Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen: Fantastiera for 2 toy pianos and wastepaper baskets
Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen: Alles Erworbene bedroht die Maschine for 2 sopranos and doublebass flute Premiere
Irene Kurka, soprano
Angelika Luz, soprano
Stefan Oechsle, doublebass flute
Carter Williams, electronics
November 7, 2025 (7.30 pm)
CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, PLATFORM-L
11 Eonjuro 133gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06053, Korea
Youngkwang Yang: phantasmagoria for viola (2025)
Byungmoo Lee: Ellipse for two violins (2001)
Bohyun Kim: In Each Case for String trio (2025)
Junsu Kim/Huiyeon Bang/Jun Lee/Haeun Lee: Happening for Walkers and Junk (collective composition/performance, 2025)
Sebastian Claren: A Sentimental Journey (Air on the G-String) for violin (1998/2016)
Kunsu Shim: Vegetation II for string quartet (2019)
Gerhard Stäbler: SICH VER·SCHREIBEN for string quartet with typewriter, audience and a video by Taejoong Kim (2025)
Kim Yukyung and Park Shinye, violin
Byun Kyungin, viola
Yoon Seckwoo, cello
Junsu Kim/Huiyeon Bang/Jun Lee/Haeun Lee, performance
The guest performance included a master class with seminars, workshops and lectures.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia
November 6, 2025 (7.30 pm)
Eisenhower Saal of the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Campus Westend
In the context of the Annual Meeting of the Büchner Society
Gerhard Stäbler: Capricci I–V for violin solo (2022)
Annette Reisinger, violin
October 24, 2025 (6 pm)
Dock 4, Untere Karlsstraße, Kassel
„…und vor allem komme ich von hier“. A Collage from music, film and text
Gerhard Stäbler: A·Duo. Fragments for clarinet and piano (2010)
Also with film material by Joey Arand and music by Violeta Dinescu, Franz Schubert, Noriko Kawakami, Kaija Saariaho and others
Stefan Hülsermann, clarinet
Ji-Youn Song, piano
Christine Ostermayer, recitation
September 28, 2025 (7 pm)
Salon des Amateurs, Grabbeplatz 4, Düsseldorf
Heterotopie – Places that are both real and perceptibly different
Catherine Lamb: open-scape for violin solo (2008)
Gerhard Stäbler: ] in myself I am for soprano, piano, actions and scents (2016)
deok-Vin lee: up to (version 2.2) for performer and motors (2025) Premiere
Morton Feldman: Voice, Violin & Piano (1976)
Marco Stroppa: Ninnananna (Lullaby) from Miniature estrose for piano solo (1991-2001)
project ensemble morph:
Mabel Yu-ting Huang, piano
Sungkum-Jennie Yang, violin
Theresa Szorek, soprano
deok-Vin lee, composer-performer
Moonsun Shin, concept/project leader
Supported by Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
September 28, 2025 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
PerformanceConcert for the opening of the exhibition
SCHATTENSÄUME – New Paintings by Martin Goppelsröder
Introduction: Prof. Dr. Karin Stempel
Salvatore Sciarrino: Trio Nr. 2 for violin, cello and piano (1987)
Aleksandr Skryabin: Vers la Flamme. Poème op. 71 for piano (1914)
Kunsu Shim: ... a few brief moments for three players with any instruments (2021)
Gerhard Stäbler: Auf nacktem Rand. Actions for violin, cello, piano and performers (2025) Premiere
Trio Présence:
Karin Nakayama, violin
Niklas Seidl, cello
Roland Techet, piano
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia and the City of Duisburg
September 28, 2025, until January 19, 2026
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
Exhibition
SCHATTENSÄUME – New Paintings by Martin Goppelsröder
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia
September 24, 2025 (7 pm)
Zentralbibliothek Düsseldorf, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1
Archiv aktuell – Musikoriginale im Fokus (Archive Update – Focus on Original Music Manuscripts)
Eine Feierstunde zum Rheinischen Musikarchiv (A Ceremony for the Rhenish Music Archive)
Welcome address: Miriam Koch, councillor for Culture and Integration
Kunsu Shim: BUCH for three players (2006)
Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler and Elisabeth von Leliwa, performance
Panel discussion with Manfred Hill (Städtischer Musikverein zu Düsseldorf) and Ute Langanky (painter and photographer)
June 29 until September 21, 2025
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A
Claudia Maas: KÖRPER.ZEICHEN. Drawings and Performance
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia
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