At the Hidalgo Festival for Young Classical Music, high culture, the mainstream and the niche come together.  This year’s festival theme is “Pause”. The Artistic Directors are Anne Keckeis and Gregor A. Mayrhofer.

Programme

STREET ART SONG
Sat, 5 Aug | all day
Around 30 mini-concerts throughout Munich
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Song duos:
Carolin Jurkat & Hannah Hauser
Gabriella Giulietta Noble & Jasmin Allpress
Alice Dreier & Jou-Yu Shieh
Heain Youn & Seunghwan Ji
Ensemble Almanach

GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Tue, 8 Sep | 8 pm
Wed, 9 Sep | 8 pm
A promenade concert through the bedding department store, exploring the space between consumption and contemplation, devotion and action.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations (excerpts)

Krzysztof Penderecki
Prelude

Bruno Mantovani
Bug

Johnny W. Green
Body and Soul (Esperanza Spalding)

As well as further pieces ranging from jazz and classical music to improvisation.
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Hanni Liang’s class, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
CONCEPT & CONCERT DESIGN Hanni Liang’s class, HMTM, with the participation of Eva Albersdörfer
 

FALLING AND RISING
Thu, 10 Sep | 8 pm
Requiem and sound installation with flute & male voices. An evening about resilience and the strength to rise again.
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Jüri Reinvere
Requiem, Movement III: The Opposite of Thought

John Cage
from Litany for the Whale

Madli Marje Gildemann
New Work

Salvatore Sciarrino
L’alibi della parola

Monika Mattiesen
New Work for contrabass flute

Katharina Rosenberger
Recitativo II

Jüri Reinvere
Requiem, Movement IV: The Wakes in White
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FLUTE Monika Mattiesen
ENSEMBLE Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Andreas Fischer (bass)
Martin Nagy (tenor)
Guillermo Anzorena (baritone)
Daniel Gloger (countertenor)
COMPOSITION Monika Mattiesen, Madli Marje Gildemann


A PAUSE FROM THE EYE
Fri, 11 Sep | 8 pm
A concert in darkness with voice & ensemble – an evening that gives us a pause from the visual world and makes the ear our compass.
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Luciano Berio
from Sequenza III (for voice)*

George Crumb
The Night in Silence Under Many a Star

Konstantia Gourzi
from Astrolávos, the Angel at the Bottom of the Sea

Mauricio Kagel
from Schattenklänge

Josef Anton Riedl
Selected sound poems

Kaija Saariaho
Nocturne for solo violin (from Sept Papillons for solo cello)

Franz Schubert
Der Doppelgänger

Clara Schumann
Liebst du um Schönheit?

Robert Schumann
Kennst du das Land?

Hildegard von Bingen
Caritas abundat in omnia

Hugo Wolf
Heiß mich nicht reden and Nachtzauber

Alexander Zemlinsky
Geflüster der Nacht

*Arrangements by Gregor Mayrhofer
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SOPRANO Katharina Ruckgaber
ENSEMBLE der/gelbe/klang
ELECTRONICS Paul Bießmann
CONCEPT Anne Keckeis, Gregor A. Mayrhofer


7 WAYS OF DOING NOTHING
Sun, 13 Sep | 6 pm
Procrastination as a performative sound space – an evening between order and chaos, and an exploration of the underestimated art of doing nothing.
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Percussion in all its sonic colours, featuring works by Carola Bauckholt, Vinko Globokar, Daan Wilms, Tom Johnson and other composers.
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PERCUSSION Daan Wilms, Maximilian Schwarz
DANCE Sophie Haydee Colindres Zühlke
SET DESIGN Johanna Sojer
DIRECTION Stella Neuner
CONCEPT Stella Neuner, Anne Keckeis, Gregor Mayrhofer