Oktober 26-30, 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 Istanbul (Karbon)
İstiklal Cad. no. 211 Beyoglu 
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
Gerhard Stäbler and Ulrich Mertin, speakers
EarPort Ensemble:
Elisabeth von Leliwa, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler, performance

 

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

EarFest

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

PromenadeConcert - inside and outside 
A Cooperation with the Kunsthalle at Malkasten Düsseldorf

Music by John Cage, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Jackson MacLow, Dieter Schnebel, Franz Schreker, Robert Schumann, Kunsu Shim (Premiere), Gerhard Stäbler (Premiere) and Emmett Williams

AuditivVokal Dresden
Nicolas Kuhn, musical direction and performance
Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
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

With music and texts by Nanni Balestrini, Morton Feldman, Brion Gysin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pauline Oliveros, George Orwell, Josef A. Riedl, Diter Rot, Sappho, Kurt Schwitters, Kunsu Shim (Premiere) und Gerhard Stäbler (Premiere)

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

Works by Kate Moore (Australia/Netherlands), Cecilia Arditto Delsogolio (Argentina), Seung-Won Oh (Korea), Gerhard Stäbler (Germany) und Kunsu Shim (Korea). 

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 

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
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