Sunday, September 21, 2008

Concerts 2008

January 20 - Köln,Festival "Musik in der Häusern der Stadt "
with Rick Kam, Dancer
Improvisations plus solos by Harue Kondoh, Gordon Sherwood
February 9 - Muenster, Festival "KlangZeit"
with Norbert Kraemer, percussion
Yoshihiro Kanno -Deep Sea Maze for flute and percussion (premiere),, Harue Kondoh, Noriko Nakamura
March 25 - Tokyo TWS Gallery in Shibuya. with Kiyoshi Shimizu, pantomime, Fujio Fujimori, masks and direction, music by Camilla Hoitenga, KenIchiro Kobayashi, Shoko Shida
April 11 - Clermont Ferrand, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Arie van Beek, conductor
Kaija Saariaho "Aile du songe"
April 27 - Hamburg NDR Symphony Orchestra, Suanna Mällki, conductor
Kaija Saariaho "Aile du songe"
April 28 - Hamburg "From the Grammar of Dreams", with Melanie Walz, soprano, Jean-Baptiste Barrriére, video
Works by Kaija Saariaho
May 10 - Dresden, "Dresdner Festspiele" with Bryan Wolf, sound design
Works by Zoltan Jèney, Gergely Ittzès, Pèter Koeszeghy, Bryan Wolf, Anne LeBaron Way of Light (premiere),, Claude Debussy
May 21 - Hlucin, In Bona Fide 2nd International Flute Festival, with Lewis Mitchell, flute
Works by Kaija Saariaho, Pèter Köszeghy Eisblüten (premiere), Ivan Fedele, Georges Bizet, Richard Rodney Bennett
July 11 - Munich Festival "Festspiel+" with Jean-Baptiste, video
works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kaija Saariaho
August 23 - Köln, Stockhausen in Memoriam
Works by Pèter Eötvös Kadenz aus "Shadows" (premiere), Mike Svoboda Music from "Something Bigger" (premiere), Karlheinz Stockhausen and Kraut und Rüben, an improvisation with Mary Bauermeister
August 30 - Köln, Gallery Claudia Delank, Finissage for Raffi Kaiser Exhibit
Improvisations by Camilla Hoitenga
September 9 - Köln, "Ökumenischen Kirchenmusikfestivals Köln", with Norbert Kraemer, percussion
Music by Noriko Nakamura
September 20 - Köln, "Kölner Musiknacht"
Works by Kaija Saariaho, Jovanka Trbojevic, Willam Brooks
September 27 - Parma, "From the Grammar of Dreams", with Rachel Kennedy, soprano, Jean-Baptiste Barrriére, video
Works by Kaija Saariaho
October 18 - Dusseldorf, new music for flute and contrabass by Michael Barolsky, with Achim
Tang, Contrabass
November 9 - Münster, 3rd International Guitar Festival, mit Benjamin Kradolfer, Actor; Stephan Schomaker, Guitar; Gereon Voss, Percussion and mixed ensemble
Gordon Kampe Information aus den Gamma Quandranten (premiere)
November 11-24 - Concerts in the United Arab Emirates with Gabriele Malzahn, Soprano and Stephen Aston, Piano
November 29, 30 - Barcelona, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Catalonia, Ernest Martinez Izquierdo , conductor
Kaija Saariaho "Aile du songe"
December 2 - Clermont Ferrand, "From the Grammar of Dreams", with Rachel Kennedy, soprano, Jean-Baptiste Barrriére, video
Works by Kaija Saariaho

Thursday, May 29, 2008

home again

29 May 2008
After concerts in Hamburg, Dresden and Hlucin (CZ!) I'm looking forward to a month of being (more or less) home in Cologne. Priorities: updating information on my websites and catching up on correspondence!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Preview of upcoming concerts


April 11 Clermont-Ferrand, France Kaija Saariaho's Aile du songe
Arie van Beek, conductor

April 25 Hamburg, Germany Kaija Saariaho's Aile du songe
Susanna Mälkki, conductor

April 26 Hamburg, Germany Kaija Saariaho's Grammar of Dreams
with Melanie Walz, soprano, Jean-Baptiste Barriere,
multimedia

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

March 19, 2008

Greetings from Tokyo! As a "Creator-in-Residence" here, I am collaborating with artists as varied as the master Noh-mask maker and theater director Fujio Fujimori and his actors, as well as master photographer/light-designer/graffiti-artist (etc.) Christopher Noelle (aka TOFA) with his electronic music. During our presentation of these "works in progress" at the TWS Shibuya gallery on March 25, I will also discuss the history of my involvement with Japanese culture and play classic "EastWest" solos by Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and Shoko Shida.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

from Camilla...

Well, obviously my web-site issues are not yet sorted out, so here is some news:
December 6--last concert of season, in a series in Pforzheim (a city in southern Germany known for centuries for their production of fine jewelry). under the title of "fantasies and journeys", I'll be alternating Telemann Fantasias with modern music for flute and CD/live electronic (this part handled by composer and sound-projectionist Bryan Wolf) by some of my favorite composers: Anne LeBaron, Pèter Köszeghy, Bryan Wolf and Kaija Saariaho. I've had a special request from the producers to end with Debussy's Syrinx--gladly!

For more information, also about the program, check out this web address:
http://www.pz-news.de/kultur/konzerte/97193/

The first concert of 2008 will be another appearance at the festival "Music in the Houses of the City". This time I'll be cooking up something with the dancer/choreographer Rick Kam. The word "house" is used more to describe the ambience of the concerts rather than the venues. We, for example, will be performing in the not-yet-completed new space being built for Microsoft near the Rhine river. (January 20, 2 p.m.).

All for now--Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Concerts 2007

2007
* January 19 - Moscow (Russia) International Music Festival "Christma at the Kremlin"
Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Micha Rachlevsky, conductor
Arvydas Malcys, Vox Clamantis in Deserto, for flute and Chamber Orchestra (1995)

* February 3 – Cologne (Germany) Musik in den Häusern der Stadt: Hotel “The New Yorker”
The Soul of the Flute
Works by Telemann, Stamitz, Karg-Elert, Malcys (premiere), Hoitenga, Saariaho, Stockhausen

* February 24 – Vilnius (Lithuania)
National Symphony Orchestra, Robertas Servenikas, conductor
Arvydas Malcys, Vox Clamantis in Deserto, for flute and Chamber Orchestra (1995)

* March 8 - Helsinki (Finland)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam, conductor
Pèter Köszeghy, Soulflight for flute and orchestra World premiere

* March 12 - Bergen (Norway) Borealis Festival
Kaija Saariaho, Noa Noa, Laconisme de l’aile, Couleurs du vent, Dolce Tormento

* May 1 - 16 Tour (Japan)
2-6 Biwako Competiton
9 Recital, Create Center, Ibaraki, with Shigenori and Yoko Takahashi
16 Recital, Waseda University, Tokyo, with Yoshihiro Kanno, piano
works by Jakub Sarwas, Pèter Koeszeghy, Karg-Elert, Quantz, Stockhausen, Mario
Lavista

* May 21 & 22 - Marseilles (France)
Festival "Les Musiques Marseilles"
Jean-Baptiste Barriere, "Deux songes de Maeterlicnk d'après Brugel" Premiere

* May 26 - Wroslaw (Poland) Musica Electronica Nova 2007
with Anssi Karttunen, cello, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Wladimir Kiradijew, cond.
Kaija Saariaho, ... à la fumée

* June 26 - – Cologne (Germany), Japanese Cultural Institute
with Norbert Krämer, percussion
SOUNDS OF TIME
Works by Noriko Nakamura, Miyuki Ito, Shoko Shida, Claude Lenners, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Michio Kitazume

* July 23-27 Pärnu (Estonia) Oistrakh Festival
July 23 Kuldar Sink, Concerto, St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra , Alexander Mayer, conductor
July 24 Galina Grigoryeva, quasi niente for flute and percussion, with Madis Metsamart (Estonia)
July 25 Borne, Carmen Fantasie, St. Petersburg and Pärnu Philharmonic orchestras, Erki Pehk, conductor
July 26 Mozart D-major Quartet, with the Collegium String Quartet (Ukraine)

* August 18 Münster (Germany) Lange Nacht der Musik
Improvisation with Erhard Hirt, electric guitar

* August 25 Münster (Germany) Black Box series
Music for flute and electronic CD by Anne LeBaron, Pèter Koeszeghy, Takahiko Suzuki, Zack Browning

* September 23 Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw Fall Festival
Concert playing solo flute in the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

* October 19 Donaueschingen (Germany)
Concert playing solo flute in the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Works by Klaus Huber, Younghi Pagh Paan, Helmut Oehring, Makiko Nishikaze

* November 22 Vilnius (Lithuania)
St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Donatus Katkus, conductor
Concertos by Quantz, Raminta Serksnyte World premiere, Malika Kishino World
premiere, C.P.E.Bach

Monday, September 3, 2007

...à la fumée



Kaija Saariaho's ...à la fumee, concerto for alto flute and cello

Camilla Hoitenga & Anssi Karttunen with the Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by
Wladimir Kiradijew (May 2007)