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Concert with Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch and members of the Berlin Philharmonic 

I cordially invite you to experience a special concert evening as part of the Nature Biennale with moderation and text by Harald Lesch and a chamber music premiere with members of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Premiere Vierzehn Arten den Klimawandel zu beschreiben oder 14 Tipping Points 
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 in Berlin
Berlin Philharmonic
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

More information about the program can be found here.

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Feature on Recycling Goncerto Workshop and the idea behind it 

I’m excited about the feature by SWR Kultur on the program “Treffpunkt Klassik.” Together with the Academy for Continuing Education Villa Waldhaus in Freiburg and SWR Kultur, I spent an inspiring day at the Recycling Concerto Workshop exploring with students the hidden musical sounds in what we usually consider waste. We gathered discarded items and brought them to life in creative ways through music.

You can listen to the feature online here.

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Insect Concerto and Recycling Concerto are now in Boosey & Hawkes publishing repertoire! 

I am very happy and thankful that these two compositions will be published by Boosey & Hawkes in the future.

Norwegian premiere "Insect Concerto"
Friday, 24th of May in Bodø
Arktisk Filharmoni
Christoph-Mathias Mueller, direction

For more informationen about Insect Concerto at Boosey & Hawkes, click here!
For more informationen about Recycling Concerto at Boosey & Hawkes, click here! 

International Hamburg Music Festival - Opening concert 

Friday, 26th of April 2024, 8pm 
Click here for the radio-livestream! 

Concert program 

Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Charles Ives
Songs My Mother Taught Me / arrangement for orchestra by Toshio Hosokawa
Tom Sails Away / arrangement for orchestra by Toshio Hosokawa
Memories: a. Very Pleasant; b. Rather Sad / arrangement for orchestra by Toshio Hosokawa
The Housatonic at Stockbridge / arrangement for orchestra by Toshio Hosokawa
The Things Our Fathers Loved / arrangement for orchestra by Toshio Hosokawa

Kurt Weill
Four Walt Whitman Songs

Arnold Schönberg
Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth) for Mixed A-Cappella Choir, Op. 13

Charles Ives
Symphony No. 4

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Philharmonic Choir Prague
Thomas Hampson baritone
Alan Gilbert, direction
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Co-conductor for Charles Ives 

LISTEN TO: 

SWR Kultur
Lost in music

The Sisters of Icarus – About aviation pioneers and high-flyers
with Insect Concerto 

Wednesday 21st of February 2024 8.05pm 
Moderation: Ariane Huml

Click here to get to the radio report. 

SIMON SANTI GUBINI - THE BLACK EXPOSITION

melting point (2013)
for flute, bass clarinet & two pianos for one player

Ensemble Musikfabrik
Susanne Peters, flute · Carl Rosman, bass clarinet · Benjamin Kobler, piano

Sound relief III (2023)
Unison Duo for amplified double bass clarinet, amplified baritone saxophone and foot pedal

The black exhibition (2018)
for amplified orchestra with nine instruments and foot pedal

Ensemble Musikfabrik
Carl Rosman, bass clarinet · Joshua Hyde, baritone saxophone
James Aylward, bassoon · Rostislav Kozhevnikov & Hannah Weirich, violin
Dirk Wietheger & Adya Khanna-Fontenla, cello · Florentin Ginot, double bass
Dirk Rothbrust, drums
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

Neo Music (2024)

Click here for the CD! 

TODAY, TOMORROW, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW in the Berlin Philharmonic: 

Kirill Petrenko conducts Schoenberg

Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor

Wolfgang Koch baritone
Daniel Behle tenor
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke tenor
Johannes Martin Kränzle baritone
Gyula Orendt baritone
Stephan Rügamer tenor
Nicola Beller Carbone soprano
Liv Redpath soprano
Jasmin Delfs soprano
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Gijs Leenaars chorus master

Thursday, 25th of January 8pm
Friday, 26th of January 8pm // Click here for tickets! 
Satuday, 27th of January 7pm // Click herefor tickets!  Livestream on Digital Concert Hall 

Concert program

Arnold Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony No. 1 op. 9

Jacob's Ladder, oratorio

For the 2024 season, Gregor A. Mayrhofer will take over the musical direction of the HIDALGO Festival. Together with Anne Keckeis (dramaturgical director), artistic director Tom Wilmersdörffer and the interdisciplinary HIDALGO collective, he will develop and perform the festival in September and October 2024.

I am incredibly curious to discover new art spaces together with this team of such motivated young artists and create unique experiences for our listeners.

At the HIDALGO Festival for young classical music, high culture, mainstream and niche are combined and boundaries between genres and art forms are broken down. Together with young top artists, classical music at the highest level is performed in unusual locations.

LISTEN TO: 

hr2 - Kultur 
Meeting point for the HR Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, 4th of November 2023 10am
Moderation: Christoph Werkhausen

Click here to go to the radio broadcast. 

LISTEN TO: 

hr2 - Kultur 
In the afternoon

Thursday, 2nd of November 2023 3:05 p.m. - 6:00 p.m
Moderation: Daniella Baumeister

Click here to go to hr2 Kultur Liveradio.

Awarding of the Federal Cross of Merit at Bellevue Palace in Berlin

Plastic bottles Cadenza from the ♻️ RECYCLING CONCERTO ♻️ was played in front of our Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Harald Lesch, Mojib Latif, Joana Malwitz and many more, who were awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for their great commitment.

Thank you to all of these wonderful people who contribute so much to our society, and a special thank you to Vivi Vassileva for bringing my piece to life so beautifully!

LISTEN TO: 

Rai Südtirol // Musica Tyrolensis
Old and New music from Tyrol with Matthias Mayr

in conversation with Gregor A. Mayrhofer 

Sunday, 1st of October 2023, 8pm 
​​​​​​
Click here to get to the live radio.

LISTEN TO: 

Belgian National Radio // Klara VRT Radio: Plastic bottle cadenza  with Vivi Vassileva 

Thursday, 05th of September 2023, 21.35pm 

Click here to get to the live radio.

I am overwhelmed to be nominated for OPUS KLASSIK in 4 different categories: 

- Young artist of the year (conductor)
- Composter of the year 
- Best music video clip 
- Most innovative concert (Recycling Concerto together with Vivi Vassileva) 

See all nominees here. 

For more information about the Recycling Concerto, click here. 

Video of the premiere of "We are earth" on 13th of November 2022 at Berlin Philharmonic
11th climate concert of the Orchestra of Change (Staatskapelle Berlin)

Secular Oratorio - We are earth - is now available on youtube.
Commissioned work for the Foundation for Cultural Renewal

With:
Orchestra of Change with musicians of Staatskapelle Berlin 
Choir of Change (Choir of Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Rias Chamber Choir, Berlin Radio Choir) 
Rinnat Moriah, soprano
Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano
Conny Thimander, tenor 
David Steffens, bass  
Markus Vogt, libretto 

Dramaturgy and text collaboration
Juliane Hendes, Matthias Fuchs, Felicitas Magdalena Pfaus, and Elisabeth Mayrhofer

Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

After more than three years of development time, I am more than happy to share with you the recording of my most important composition so far:

"We are Earth"

This "secular oratorio" describes musically the numerous crises we face (climate change, environmental pollution, social divisions between cultures, religions and between poor and rich), but also the solutions and perspectives of four different characters who can be seen as representatives of our society, or as parts of our own personality.
The piece develops a musical dialoge, that tries to overcome our inactivity by bringing together the scientific analysis of a dataist, the spiritual visions of a theist/artist, the moral appeals of a humanist and the critical view of a skepticist.

Inspired by Pope Francis' environmental encyclical "Laudato si'", the piece wants to connect people with different opinions: scientists and religious people, artists and researchers, dreamers and realists.
We wanted to make a statement to overcome all differences of culture and opinion in order to find peaceful and sustainable solutions to the urgent problems of our time.

World premiere 1st string quartet
Composition commissioned by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts 2020

16th of May 2023, 7 pm

Here's the event!

Asasello Quartet:
Rostislav Kozhevnikov, violin
Barbara Streil, violin
Justyna Sliwa, Viola
Teemu Myöhänen, cello

Moderation: Tobias PM Schneid, Thomas Larcher

Concert program

Thomas Larcher
IXXU / 2nd string quartet (1998-2004)

I. Fleeting, nervous
II. Very fast, precise
III. Quiet
IV. Presto subito

Gregor A. Mayrhofer
String Quartet (2023)

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Prestissimo con spirito

8th symphony concert // cycle nature

16th of April 2023, 11 am
17th of April 2023, 8 pm

Works by Mayrhofer, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Debussy

Gregor A. Mayrhofer, direction
Braunschweig State Orchestra

Cycle nature

Gregor A. Mayrhofer
Insect Concerto for solo violin and orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
The Hebrides, op. 26

Claude Debussy
La Mer, three symphonic sketches for orchestra

The focus is on two contemporary compositions, each with its own unique perspective on nature, as well as a classic of nature tone paintings, one of the best-known examples of musical impressionism. In 2019, composer and conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer wrote his »Insect Concerto«, the first piece that brings singing insects and classical musicians together in the concert hall. With the interaction of insects and humans, Mayrhofer points out the important role that insects play in our ecosystems. Insects, which account for about three quarters of the biomass on our planet, are at the beginning of the food chain as food for birds and pollinators for plants. Animals and humans feed on these in turn.

Musical direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer
Braunschweig State Orchestra

SWR2 evening concert (concert on April 6th in the auditorium of the New University of Heidelberg)

Heidelberg Spring Music Festival 2023

15th of April 2023, 8.03pm 
Works by Busoni, Berg, Schönberg, Webern and Zemlinsky.

Katrien Baerts, soprano
Het Collectief 
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, direction

Listen here to the concert recording! 

Concert recording SWR2 evening concert

Ferruccio Busoni
Berceuse élégiaque op. 42, arranged by Arnold Schönberg

Alban Berg
7 early songs arranged by Reinbert de Leeuw

Arnold Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9, arranged by Anton Webern

Alexander Zemlinsky
6 songs after Maeterlinck op. 13, arranged by Reinbert de Leeuw, Erwin Stein, Leonard Stein

Anton Webern
Passacaglia op. 1, arranged by Reinbert de Leeuw

A truly exclusive form of musical gatherings was practiced around 1920 by Arnold Schönberg's "Association for Private Musical Performances", which dedicated itself to the exemplary rehearsal of key works of the Second Viennese School. Clapping and other public reactions were forbidden - it was all about the art. Het Collectief from Belgium is an ensemble of exquisite soloists, reviving the association's transparent chamber music versions. As unreservedly expressive as the group performs, the key works of the founding fathers of modernism reveal their deeply romantic inner life.

Thanks to NRC for this nice review of the Dutch premiere of my ♻️RECYCLING CONCERT♻️ in Den Haag with the wonderful ensemble Residentie Orkest and the fabulous percussionist Vivi Vassileva conducted by Anja Bihlmaier. A great memory of a great concert evening!

Click here for the full article.

Insect Respect 

Insect Day - Rethink 
Environmental forum Berlin 

30th of March 2023, 7pm 

Soundinstallation Insect Concerto 

Concert debut with the Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Wednesday, 11th of January 2023 at the Bordeaux Auditorium

Piotr Illitch Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

The legendary pianist Khatia Buniatishvili will be also there.

More information about the concert is available here: Opera National Bordeaux Aquitaine 

The last days of 2022 are slowly coming to an end...

A year that I look back on gratefully and happily, a year with wonderful musical highlights, encounters with great artists and fabulous concerts in all sorts of places around the world.

I wish you all the best for the new year, health and many beautiful musical moments and concert experiences!

Yours, Gregor A. Mayrhofer

STEFAN LITWIN - PROGRAM VOL. 7 "KINDERSZENEN" 

Robert Schumann
Fantasy pieces op. 12 and Scenes from Childhood op. 15

Stefan Litwin
»Scenes from Childhoof« for 8 players and Sampler (2018)

Stefan Litwin, piano
Ensemble Ascolta
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, direction

telos music recordings (2022)

Get the CD here! 

Climate Concert // World premiere

"We are Earth" - secular oratorio inspired by the environmental encyclical "Laudato si''
Commissioned work for the Foundation for Cultural Renewal World

World premiere: 13th of November 2022 in the Berlin Philharmonic

With works by J.S.Bach, Thorsten Encke and Camille Saint-Säens

Orchester des Wandels with musicians of Staatskapelle Berlin 
Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin 
Tanja Tetzlaff, violoncello 
Rinnat Moriah, soprano
Ema Nikolovska, mezzosopran
Conny Thimander, tenor 
David Steffens, bass 
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, direction
Markus Vogt, libretto 

Dramaturgy and text collaboration
Juliane Hendes, Matthias Fuchs, Felicitas Magdalena Pfaus, Elisabeth Mayrhofer

Get your ticket now or call +49 30 / 203 545 55

Climate Concert // World premiere

You can read the interview in the Concerti here.
You can read the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung here.

"We are Earth" - secular oratorio inspired by the environmental encyclical "Laudato si''
Commissioned work for the Foundation for Cultural Renewal World

World premiere: 13th of November 2022 in the Berlin Philharmonic

With works by J.S.Bach, Thorsten Encke and Camille Saint-Säens

Orchester des Wandels with musicians of Staatskapelle Berlin 
Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin 
Tanja Tetzlaff, violoncello 
Rinnat Moriah, soprano
Ema Nikolovska, mezzosopran
Conny Thimander, tenor 
David Steffens, bass 
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, direction
Markus Vogt, libretto 

Dramaturgy and text collaboration
Juliane Hendes, Matthias Fuchs, Felicitas Magdalena Pfaus, Elisabeth Mayrhofer

Get your ticket now or call +49 30 / 203 545 55

University Mozarteum Salzburg

A wonderful concert program with works by Helmut Lachenmann, Luigi Nono and Mark Andre
Composer Helmut Lachenmann will be there himself!

6th of November 2022, 6pm

Students and alumni of the University Mozarteum Salzburg
œnm - austrian ensemble for new music
Nora Skuta, piano
Helmut Lachenmann, speaker
Gregor Mayrhofer, conductor

Click here for the event! 

NOW ONLINE: Recycling Concerto with Britten Sinfonia 

Snape Maltings Concert Hall 19th of June 2022 at Aldeburgh Music Festival 2022

Recording: Eastwood Records 
Camera Operators: Will Hazell, Guy Wingmore
Video editor: Guy Wingmore
Audio producer and Engineer: Myles Eastwood

Special thanks to Erich Fischer and the "International Foundation for the support of Culture and Civilization" who made it possible to realize this movie through their generous support.
www.internationalestiftung.de

Watch here the full video. 

"The Recycling Concerto creating a smash out of trash" writes The Big Issue in July about the English premiere of the Recycling Concerto at the Aldeburgh Festival with Britten Sinfonia and percussionist Vivi Vassileva.

The article has now been republished in the Japanese magazine The Big Issue Japan.

The full English article is available here.

"Klangspuren" in the House of Music

Great television report to the Austrian premiere of the Recycling Concerto on 21st of September at the Klangspuren Schwaz Festival with konsTellation plus and Vivi Vassileva.

Click here to watch the full Recycling Concerto report. 

LISTEN TO: 

BR-Classic Podcast Do Re Mikro: Wonderful world of small animals/insects 

Sunday, 03th of July 5:05 pm on BR Children

The Times - "The recycling concerto being played on upcycled rubbish"

It's a startling combination, but together the blend is seamless. There's drama in the music alternating with playfulness. (...) Mayrhofer and Vassileva have taken the saying "one man's trash is another man's treasure" to heart. (The Times) 

Find here the article on The Times! 

To be heard in CONCERT at the Aldeburgh Festival with Britten Sinfonia and Vivi Vassileva: 

Sunday, 19th of June 2022 at 5pm in Suffolk, Snape Maltings Concert Hall 

TO LISTEN TO: 

hr2 culture - music portrait
​​​​​​​Musikland Hessen - News, concert recordings and background information

Saturday 18th of June 2022, 3-5pm on hr2 culture

TO LISTEN TO: 

WDR 3 - music portrait 
Cricket pizzicato - the composer Gregor A. Mayrhofer

From Sabine Fringes 

Monday 6th of June 2022, 03.04pm on WDR 3

LISTEN TO: 

Contemporary positions in music on the climate crisis and the species extinction 
What consequences do contemporary musicians draw for their work? 

Monday, 23rd of May 11pm-00:05am on rbbKultur 

With excerpts from Gregor A. Mayrhofer's Recycling Concerto (recording from SWR, 7th of February 2022) 

Vivi Vassileva, percusssion
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen 
Alexander Liebreich, direction

NOW ONLINE: 

Einsamkeit Du stummer Bronnen (world premiere: 20th of October 2021) 

Live-Recording SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele on 25th of October 2021 

Julian Prégardien tenor
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker violoncello
Martin Helmchen piano

Watch here the full video. 

Triple world premiere at SWR2  NowMusic

Works of Saed Haddad, Ying Wang and Volker Heyn 

SWR Symphonieorchester 
SWR Experimentalstudio 
Pedro Carneiro, quarter tone marimba 
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer 

Fri. 4th of February 2022 - 6pm - Theaterhaus Stuttgart 
For more information, click here. 

The concert will also be streamed on 25th of February at 8.05pm on SWR2 Evening concert. 

Concert program 

Saed Haddad
World premiere: New Work for Quarter tone marimba & orchestra

Ying Wang
World premiere: 528 Hz 8ⱽᴬ. New version for orchestra with electronics

Volker Heyn
World premiere: Ferro Canto for orchestra & tape

World premiere and tour "Recycling Concerto" 

Württemberg Philharmonic Orchesta Reutlingen
Vivi Vassileva, percussion 
Direction: Alexander Liebreich 

Fri. 4th of February 2022 - 7:30pm - Tauberphilharmonie Weikersheim (UA) 
Mon. 7th of February 2022 - 8pm - Town Hall Reutlingen 
Wed. 9th of February 2022 - 7:30pm - Theatre Coesfeld 
Fri. 11th of February 2022 - 7:30pm - Town Hall Lahr 

For more information about the Recycling Concerto, click here. 

The topic of environmental destruction dominates this moment in time. In particular we must urgently decide what to do about our trash, waste and poisonous materials. The composer and conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer saw this as an opportunity to address the issues in a musical way.
Various new percussion instruments were developed for the piece, all made from recycled materials. Nothing new is purchased - all percussion sounds are created only from discarded materials that would otherwise go to waste. 

Triple premiere for the season opening in Zaryadye concert hall 

Debut with MusicAeterna - Russian debut - Russian premiere of the "Insect Concerto" 

Selected works of Britten, Dvořák and Mayrhofer 

MusicAeterna
Dir.: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

Saturday, 4th of September 2021 - 7pm - Zaryadye concert hall - Moscow 
For more information, click here. 

Concert programme: 

Gregor A. Mayrhofer: Insect Concerto
for Solo violin and orchestra 

Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes from the opera "Peter Grimes" for symphonic orchestra, op. 33a
Dawn
Sunday Morning
Moonlight
Storm
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Antonín Dvořák: The New World Symphony, op. 95
Adagio - Allegro molto
Largo
Molto vivace 
Allegro con fuoco 
 

For more information to the season opening concert, click here. 

Lucile Richardot, Mezzo-Sopran
Yves Saelens, Tenor

Het Collectief
Dir. Gregor A. Mayrhofer

20:00 Klarafestival RADIO LIVESTREAM:
https://www.klarafestival.be/en/concert/das-lied-von-der-erde

The dutch newspaper NRC voted for the best concert experiences of the year 2020.
Our Mahler Concert with Lucile Richardot, Yves Saelens and the Het Collectief was voted on to be the 3rd best, the recording even 2nd best of the year.

Link to the newspaper: www.nrc.nl

"Why is cultur relevant?"
"How important is music in a movie?"
"How influences Corona us artists?"

Read the full interview here:

Süddeutsche Zeitung "We are all lonely like a fly in the web"

NOW ONLINE:
My arrangement of John Dowland: "Weep you no more sad fountains"

sung by Teodor Currentzis and Patricia Kopatchinskaja
in the season opening of the SWR Symphonyorchestra

Youtube-Link: Currentzis / Kopatchinskaja / Dowland

Review of the Süddeutsche Zeitung

Score: Ralf Wengenmayr
Orchestra: German Movie Orchestra Babelsberg
Conductor: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

Buy here the CD with the original soundtrack

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Lucile Richardot (Mezzo-Soprano), Yves Saelens (Tenor)
Het Collectief
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

Mi. 31.09.2020  20:00 Uhr
Netherlands Radio NPO Radio 4
Listen online: NPO - Radio 4

Gregor A. Mayrhofer is Artist in Residence at BASF Culture 2020 in Ludwigshafen.

Das Präludium schlägt zurück

FR. 31.07.2020  20:00 Uhr
Kulturbühne Hinterhalt

Watch LIVE STREAM here:
https://youtu.be/DYLCn6dz2WI

Gregor A. Mayrhofer conducted the recording sessions with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg of Ralf Wengenmayr's movie score to "Jim Button and the Wild 13". The German premiere will take place at October 8, 2020.