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About

For the composer and pianist Hauschka, the essence of his work lies in constantly challenging himself to new musical experimentation.

Music
Music
About
Music
Nature
Curious
My Kids Live on Mars
Hashima Island
Yufuin Part 1
Elizabeth Bay
Radar (Michael Mayer Remix)
Krakow
Black 6
Radar
Alexanderplatz
Blue Bicycle
Kleine Dinge
Kein Wort
Fragile
Projects
Projects
Music
Projects

Silfra

Hilary Hahn & Hauschka

Silfra, named for the geographic feature near Reykjavik, Iceland, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, represents the breathtaking locale where the album was recorded but also signifies the unfamiliar terrain where these two distinct musical minds met to collaborate. Spending ten days at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik in May 2011, “we felt that we could go anywhere we wanted within the music if we created it in an environment that allowed us the freedom and independence to explore,” Hilary Hahn and Hauschka wrote in the album’s liner notes. That prepared piano and violin could sound so perfectly suited is surely indicative of the musical chemistry that their groundwork and setting created.

Violin
Hilary Hahn
Piano
Hauschka

Pieces for String Quartet

Alma Quartet & Hauschka

Among his many collaborations is Hauschka‘s work with the Alma Quartet, an ensemble made up of musicians from Amsterdam’s two top orchestras, which he originally met in the Dutch capital’s legendary techno club Trouw. Commissioned by the Composition Commission Fund of The Royal Concertgebouw, Hauschka composed and arranged several pieces for the string quartet, with whom he debuted at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, followed by concerts at the Elbphilarmonie and Konzerthaus Berlin.

1st violin
Marc Daniel van Biemen
2nd violin
Benjamin Peled
viola
Jeroen Woudstra
cello
Clément Peigné

An Encounter of Improvised Music & Dance

Hauschka & Edivaldo Ernesto

Dancer Edivaldo Ernesto (Sasha Waltz & Guests) and Hauschka met on stage for the first time in 2013. In their performance, the duo enters into an artistic dialogue and performs without the security of composition and choreography. They present an improvised interplay of sound and movement – without the constraints of a fixed programme, and ready to welcome surprising discoveries, spontaneity and mutual inspiration.

Piano + Electronics
Hauschka
Dance
Edivaldo Ernesto

ANNNA³. The Worlds of Infinite Shifts

Alexandra Waierstall & Hauschka

In Alexandra Waierstall’s choreography, three female dancers pass through various emotional and existential processes. They appear and disappear, rise up and succumb, cling and release. They summon forth physical landscapes replete with toppling stabilities. Actions and situations seem pre-ordained by fate. Scenarios arise on what might or should have been. The prepared piano, an elemental part of the stage set, creates sounds and moods, rhythms and tempos. Physicality itself becomes an object of reflection.

Choreography
Alexandra Waierstall
Composition
Volker Bertelmann
Dance
Sita Ostheimer
Anna Pehrsson
Karolina Szymura

Totality in Parts

Lukas Timulak & Hauschka

In this creation, choreographer Lukáš Timulak and set designer Peter Bil’ak explore organisational principles of nature by looking closely at relationships between elements defined both by mathematical algorithms as well as seemingly free expression. Timulak scrutinises the inseparability of individual from group behaviour. Using minimalistic graphic eypression, the piece invites the public on a journey to study the outside world but also to get to know themselves better.

Choreography
Lukáš Timulak
Set Design
Peter Biľak
Music
Volker Bertelmann/Hauschka

Where There’s Form

Aszure Barton & Artists / Hauschka

Canadian choreographer Aszure Barton and her dancers embarked on a collaboration with Hauschka accompanied by cellist Insa Schirmer, performing a live score that explores an intensive dialogue between dance and music. This transatlantic collaboration takes place against the backdrop of increasing dystopian rhetoric worldwide, in which language serves to escalate, discredit and sabotage a real debate. Barton and Hauschka, however, reveal passionate, smart bodies and sounds, which demonstrate humanity’s capacity for coexistence.

Choreography
Aszure Barton
Composition and Piano
Hauschka
Light & Stage
Nicole Pearce
Dance
Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry
Lara Barclay
William Briscoe
Ana Maria Lucaciu
Brett Perry
Alexander Andison
Jessica Muszynski
Jake Tribus
Cello
Insa Schirmer
Concerts
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Concerts
Contact

Management Ass.

HAUSCHKA

nina.ditscheid@hauschka-net.de

Booking

Ralf Diemert - von der haardt

ralf@vdhaardt.com

Film Agent Worldwide (without GAS)

Patty Macmillan — Allegro Talent Group

pattymac@allegrotalentgroup.com

Film Agent GAS / Stage & Orchestral Music

Annette Gentz — Music & Film Arts

ag@annettegentz.com
About
Scores
About

Volker Bertelmann is an internationally-acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician.

Scores
Compositions
Scores
Er war's nicht
Ammonite-Fossils
Your Honor - End Credits
Rescue Me
Telefonat aus Deutschland
Buying the Mill
Feuer
Escape Chase Tunnel
Endtitle
Game 5
Opening Title
Newborn
Firefly Tunnel
Cemetry
About
Compositions
Dates
Compositions

Cascades

MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

The fundamental, melancholic feeling of being in a state of floating, somewhere indefinable between loss and departure, is the subject of Volker Bertelmann’s orchestral work Cascades, a triptych commssioned by mdr, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, consisting of the movements Loss (for large mixed choir), From Ashes (for large orchestra) and Perspective (for large orchestra and mixed choir). World premiere: 20 January 2015, Gewandhaus Leipzig, conducted by Kristjan Järvi

Duration: 29 min

Drowning

MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra & múm

Commssioned by mdr, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and premiered with Germany’s oldest Radio Symphony Orchestra directed by Kristjan Järvi at Gewandhaus Leipzig, Drowning was composed and performed with the Icelandic band múm. The work consists of 7 interlinking parts: individual pieces weaved together in a thematic and atmospheric whole, each with a different orchestration.

I – In Daylight (múm)
II – In Rippling Ink (Volker Bertelmann)
III – In a Bathtub on a Hilltop (múm)
IV – In Your Flesh (Volker Bertelmann)
V – In Anonymous Waves (múm)
VI – In Hushed Decent (Volker Bertelmann)
VII – In Nightlight (múm)

Duration: 45 min

Prepared piano
Hauschka
Electronics and various instruments
múm - Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason / Gunnar Örn Tynes
Drum Kit
Samuli Kosminen

Materials

Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen

Commissioned by Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, Volker Bertelmann’s composition for prepared piano, percussion, string ensemble and tape had its world premiere at Zeche Zollverein in January 2017 in a former coal mine with steel plant and was subsequently performed in Hellerau, Berlin, and Szczecin, Poland. The work reflects on phase transitions between solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter and is staged with live visuals by WARPED TYPE.

I Slag and Coke
II Phase Transition 1
III Octenol
IV Phase Transition 2
V Iron

Lost

for Nicolas Altstaedt

Inspired by Federico Fellini’s script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G. Mastorna (1965/66), Volker Bertelmann composed Lost for cellist Nicolas Altstaedt – a 41 minute piece for string ensemble, solo cello and prepared piano. Co-commissioned by VivaCello Festival Liestal, Duisburger Philharmoniker and Kings Place London.

Flood and Drought

for Avi Avital

Commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Volker Bertelmann composed the piece Flood and Drought, dealing with natural catastrophes that reveal human powerlessness. This 20 minute piece for mandolin and string quartet was first performed at SHMF in summer 2017 by mandolinist Avi Avital and the vision string quartet.

Scores
Contact
Contact

Management Ass.

Nina Ditscheid — Volker Bertelmann

nina.ditscheid@hauschka-net.de

Film Agent Worldwide (without GAS)

Patty Macmillan — Allegro Talent Group

pattymac@allegrotalentgroup.com

Film Agent GAS / Stage & Orchestral Music

Annette Gentz — Music & Film Arts

ag@annettegentz.com

Booking

Ralf Diemert - von der haardt

ralf@vdhaardt.com
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