Oktober 26 until early November, 2026
Tour Istanbul (Turkey)

TRANSITIONS · ÜBERGÄNGE 

October 26, 2026 (5 pm)
Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Conservatory
PERA SAHNE, Music Department
Seminar on string quartets by Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler
Hezarfen String Quartet, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

October 28, 2026 (7.30 pm)
ARTER MUSEUM (Karbon)
Irmak Avenue No: 13, Beyoglu, Istanbul (Turkey) 
PerformanceConcert
With music and videos by Kyungwoo Chun, Paul Hindemith, Taejoong Kim, Anton Lukoszeviece, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler

Hezarfen String Quartet (Istanbul): 
    Özcan Ulucan, violin & speaker
    İmge Tilif Yalçınkaya, violin
    Ulrich Mertin, viola 
    Mehmet Gökhan Bağcı, cello

EarPort Ensemble (Duisburg):
    Elisabeth von Leliwa, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance

October 30, 2026 (11 am)
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (İTÜ) MIAM (Centre for Advanced Studies in Music)
Maçka Cd. 4, Şişli İstanbul
PerformanceLecture followed by an internal workshop

Hezarfen String Quartet
EarPort Ensemble

 

September 26 and 27, 2026
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A

EarFest TURKEY

September 26, 2026 (7 pm)
AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (THE EDGE OF HEAVEN)
Music, poetry and film
by Fatih Akin, Bülent Arel, Joseph Byrd, Alican Çamcı, Hilmi Yavuz and Taygun Yıldız

September 27, 2026 (11 am)
VERSCHWINDEN UND SEHNSUCHT (DISAPPEARANCE AND LONGING)
OpeningConcert of the exhibition the same name with woodcuts by Inessa Emmer
with music and poetry by Paul Hindemith, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Kunsu Shim (premiere),
Gerhard Stäbler (premiere) and Hilmi Yavuz

Hezarfen String quartet (Istanbul): 
    Özcan Ulucan, violin & speaker
    İmge Tilif Yalçınkaya, violin
    Ulrich Mertin, viola 
    Mehmet Gökhan Bağcı, cello

 

June 6, 2026 (2 pm)
Musis Balcony Room, Velperbinnensingel 15, Arnhem (Netherlands)

Louis Andriessen: La Voce
Cecilia Arditto Delsoglio: Inside for solo cello – Manifest & Double
Erika Vega: Rarámuri (part I)
Gerhard Stäbler: No. II from Capricci I–V 
Kate Moore: No. VI from Suite for cello solo

Katharina Gross, cello  

 

June 2, 2026 (8 pm)
Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf, Jacobistraße 6A

PromenadeConcert 
In cooperation with the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf at Künstlerverein Malkasten

Licht bin ich: ach, daß ich Nacht wäre!

In the Stairwell 

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Neujahrslied (on a text by Johann Peter Hebel, 1844)
Kunsu Shim: Thousand Five Hundred Things (Red Orange, Yellow). An action (2005)
Gerhard Stäbler: Ins Offene III „wechselseitig“ for soprano, mezzosoprano and baritone (2008)

In the Theatre Hall

Gerhard Stäbler: BECOME A VOICE for two singers and percussion (2025)
Kunsu Shim: AUF DER KLEINSEITE I, II UND III. Version for 6 voices (2017)
Gerhard Stäbler: VOICE OF LONGING for 2 singers (2025)
Kunsu Shim: for here but for six female and male voices (2014)
Dieter Schnebel: Nostalgie. Solo for a conductor (1960-62)
    ... simultaneously with ...
    Jackson MacLow: Letter for Iris – Number for Silence for 6 voices (1961)
Emmett Williams: Alphabet Symphonie. Version for 4 players
    ... simultaneously with ...
    John Cage: Radio Music. Version for three radios (1956)
Kunsu Shim: Das Unstillbare for two singers (2025/26)
Gerhard Stäbler: Gerissene Dämpfe for six female and male voices and a speaker (2016/17)
    ... towards the end ...
    Kunsu Shim: from HAPPY FOR NO REASON (Teil III) for two performers (2000)   

In the Stairwell

Franz Schreker: Vergangenheit (1906)
Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening. Vocal performance with audience (1989)
    ... towards the end ...
    Gerhard Stäbler: Cassandra. Solo für three triangles (1996)
Robert Schumann: Sommerlied from Romanzen und Balladen IV op. 146 (1849-51)

AuditivVokal Dresden:
    Anne Stadler & Lidia Luciano, soprano
    Stefan Kunath, altus
    Kyle Fearon-Wilson, tenor
    Benjamin Mahns-Mardy, baritone
    Ferenc Sipos, bass
Nicolas Kuhn, musical direction and performance
Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
EarPort Ensemble:
    Elisabeth von Leliwa, Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance     

Supported by the Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia

 

May 31, 2026 (11 am)
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A


DAS UNSTILLBARE 
PerformanceKonzert for the opening of the exhibition Gerhard Losemann: ZEITSPUREN

Gerhard Stäbler: BECOME A VOICE for two singers and percussion (2025) Premiere

Introduction into the exhibition: Dr. Christine Vogt (Direcot of Museum Schloss Oberhausen)

Gerhard Stäbler: VOICE OF LONGING for 2 singers (2025) Premiere
Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening. Vocal performance with audience (1989)
Friedrich Nietzsche: from Ecce Homo (1888, publ. 1908)
Kunsu Shim: Das Unstillbare for two singers (2025/26) Premiere

PerformanceKomplex:

Diter Rot: And I open my mouth (ca. 1960)
Brion Gysin: I am that I am (1964)
Nanni Balestrini: Cronogramm 5 per una soluzione (1963)
Kurt Schwitters: from poems Die Blume Anna (1918-22)
George Orwell: Text fragments from the novel 1984 (1949)
Gerhard Stäbler: ANGEZÄHLT for percussion (2026) Premiere
Gerhard Stäbler: from Kokkala for voice (2013)
    ... towards the end ...
    Morton Feldman: Only from Rilkes Sonnets to Orpheus (1947)  

Soloists of AuditivVokal Dresden:
    Lidia Luciano, soprano
    Anne Stadler, soprano
Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler, performance  

Supported by the City of Duisburg
and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia

 

May 31 until mid-September, 2026
EarPort Duisburg, Philosophenweg 17A

Exhibition Gerhard Losemann: ZEITSPUREN

Supported by the City of Duisburg 
and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia 

 

May 29, 2026 (7.30 pm)
Pusan National University, Art Center

PerformanceConcert
Emptiness and Image

Videos by Taejoong Kim on works by Kunsu Shim (Dich in allen Dingen for guitar quartet) and Gerhard Stäbler (Heiss! for organ)
and others

Ensemble musiCon

 

May 23, 2026 (8 pm)
Kunsthalle Trier / EKA – Europäische Kunstakademie 

INSIDE – CELLOMONDO 4

Kunsu Shim: 12 Things for cello solo (2005)
Gerhard Stäbler: No. I & No. II from Capricci I–V. Version für cello solo (2023)

Also with works by Kate Moore, Cecilia Arditto Delsogolio and Seung-Won Oh 

Katharina Gross, cello 

 

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 

Kunsu Shim: Beim Allerkleinsten for a clarinettist with one or more clarinet(s), additional actions and installations (ad lib.) (2020)

Maurice Blanchot: from SADE, recited by Thomas Krause with a prologue, three intermezzi and an epilogue

Prologue
Gerhard Stäbler: THE PURPOSE OF ART (Part I) for accordion solo (2022)

1. Text passage

First Intermezzo
Kunsu Shim: DAS EIGENE I. Performance with plastic bottles (2026)

2. Text passage

Second Intermezzo
Pierluigi Billone: from Mani.Stereos for accordion (2008)
Kunsu Shim: from Beim Allerkleinsten 

3. Text passage

Third Intermezzo
Pierluigi Billone: from Mani.Stereos
Helmut Lachenmann: from DAL NIENTE (Interieur III)
Jug Markovic: from Fleece Beats for accordion (2022)

4. Text passage

Epilogue
Gerhard Stäbler: THE PURPOSE OF ART (Part II)

Kunsu Shim: TOCCATA Nr. 4 (Schatten) for piano (keyboard player and string player) (2025)

Thomas Krause, recitation and theatrical action
Members of 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
and by the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia

 

May 2, 2026 (7.30 pm)
Pusan National University, Art Department

Three-Person Dialogue

About the work and cooperation of Taejoong Kim (video), Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler (composition)

Korean Composers’ Association

 

April 28, 2026 (6 pm) 
Chugye University Seoul (South Korea)

Lecture/Workshop

Gerhard Stäbler: about the string quartets of the past four decades
Kunsu Shim: about Das Unstillbare (Duo for two violins) and Luft.Inneres (string quartet)

 

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 City of Duisburg and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia 

 

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 City of Duisburg and the Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine - Westphalia 

 

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