Schedule – Archive 2022

1 February 2022 | Concert | Reaktorhalle, Munich, 7 p.m.
New Music and Improvisation
Bach/Hübner: it is enough
Daniel Schnyder: Ad Parnassum
Conduction: ensemble improvisation with Gregor Hübner (premiere)
Jan Müller-Wieland: Libero, fragile with improvisation (UA)
Konstantia Gourzi: Vibrato 1 and Vibrato 2 with improvisation (UA)
Gregor Hübner: Changing times
ensemble oktopus & jazz musicians
Conductor: Konstantia Gourzi

4-13 February 2022 | Exhibition | Luminous Eye Athens
One Photo – One Wish for 2022
Konstantia Gourzi as a photographer in a Group exhibition

11 February 2022 | Concert | Toppan Hall, Tokyo, 3 p.m.
Konstantia Gourzi: messages between trees for viola and bourdon
viola: Nils Mönkemeyer

12 February 2022 | Concert | Boulez Hall, Berlin, 7:30 p.m.
Whispers
wind whispers for piano
evening at the window II for prepared piano and percussion instruments
call of the bees for viola and piano
messages between trees for viola and bourdon
a love song for viola and piano
melodies from the sea for viola, piano and percussion instruments
viola, bourdon: Nils Mönkemeyer
piano, percussion instruments: William Youn
piano, percussion: Konstantia Gourzi
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16 February 16 2022 | Concert | De Singel, Antwerp, 8:30 p.m.
Von Bingen meets Cage
Konstantia Gourzi: messages between trees
recorder: Dorothee Oberlinger
viola: Nils Mönekemeyer
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16 February 2022 | Concert | Megaron, Athens, 8:30 p.m.
The repatriation of the Diaspora
Works by Minas Borboudakis, Dimitris Terzakis, Georgia Koumara, Argiris Kounadis
Konstantia Gourzi: Néome
Ergon Ensemble
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26 February 2022 | Competition | Carl-Orff-Auditorium, Munich, 3-15.15 p.m.
Compulsory piece: Konstantia Gourzi: “between the lines” for zither solo

26 February, 2022 | Concert Premiere | Studio Odradek, Montesilvano (PE), 8 p.m.
Works by Johannes Brahms, Arvo Pärt, Franz Schubert and
Konstantia Gourzi: Aria for violin solo
Violin: Johannes Fleischmann

27 February 2022 | Prize Winner Concert | Reaktorhalle, Munich, 5 p.m.
Konstantia Gourzi: “between the lines” for zither solo

4 March 2022 | New album release Whispers by Sony Classical
Works dedicated to nature for viola and piano
Viola: Nils Mönkemeyer
Piano: William Youn

18 March 2022 | Exhibition | Abbaye de la Celle, France
La Rose et l ́Olivier – photo exhibition by Barbara Luisi
Music by Konstantia Gourzi
a lullaby for a rose for violin and organ (world premiere)
nine lullabies for a new world for violin solo
Violin: Barbara Luisi
Organ: Yihang Qu

18 March 2022 | Youtube: Die Sendung mit der Kunst! (The show with the art!) | Live from the Künstlerhaus Bamberg Villa Concordia, 6:30 p.m.
Link to the online premiere (in German)

29 March 2022 | Concert | Reaktorhalle, Munich, 7 p.m.
Composers Portrait Minas Borboudakis
Krámata
diffracted thoughts
Constellation
ROAI I
Photonic constructions I
ensemble oktopus
Conductor: Konstantia Gourzi

13 April 2022 | Concert | Auditorium C. Pollini, Padova, 8:15 p.m.
Works by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konstantia Gourzi: Hommage a Mozart – three dialogues for viola and piano
viola: Nils Mönkemeyer
piano: William Youn
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8 May, 2022 | World Premiere + Recording Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Konzerthalle, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, Bamberg, 5 p.m.
Konstantia Gourzi: Variation 21 for orchestra
Composition commissioned by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for “The encore! project
Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Cristian Macelaru

18 May, 2022 | Concert + Recording BR Bayerischer Rundfunk | Reaktorhalle, Munich, 7 p.m.
George Crumb: Metamorphoses for piano solo
Piano solo: Ji Eun Park
Tania León: Indígena for ensemble, Ritual for piano solo
Beat Furrer: Gaspra for ensemble, three piano pieces for piano solo
Konstantia Gourzi: Vibrato 1 & 2, Aiolos Wind for piano solo
Iannis Xenakis: EONTA
piano solo: Amadeus Wiesensee
Munich Tetra Brass
ensemble oktopus
Conductor: Konstantia Gourzi

A collaboration with the Paul Sacher Foundation – Basel
BR-Klassik will record the concert

21 May, 2022 | Concert – Art Inauguration | Villa Jacobs, Potsdam Berlin
Philharmonic String Quartet
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 (2nd movement)
Erwin Schulhoff: 5 pieces for string quartet
Konstantia Gourzi: Anájikon, the Angel in the Blue Garden

2 June, 2022 | Radio Concert | Concert Broadcast Deutschlandfunk Kultur from May 8, 2022
Konstantia Gourzi: Variation 21 (world premiere)
with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Cristian Măcelaru

9 June, 2022 | Exhibition and Concert | Long House Reserve, New York, 5 p.m.
Sculpture presentation by artist Alexander Polzin, talk and concert
Konstantia Gourzi: Anájikon – the Angel in the Blue Garden for string quartet , Nine lullabies for a new world for solo violin, one touch for string quartet
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata 6, prelude, allemande and gig
John Dowland: ‘Flow my tears’ for solo violin
Joseph Haydn: Op. 76, No. 5, Largo for string quartet
String quartet: Hammermusik Quartet with Eoin Andersen, David Cunliffe, John Macfarlane and Aurélien Fort Pederzol
Solo Violin: Barbara Luisi and Owen Pallet

3 June, 2022 | Concert – World Premiere | Reaktorhalle, Munich, 7 p.m.
Summer Concert – Percussion Class University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
Works by Iannis Xenakis, Minas Borboudakis and others
Konstantia Gourzi: The Dance of 21, version for 6 percussionists

24 June, 2022 | Concert | Museum Kleines Klingental, 7 p.m.
Paul Sacher Foundation – Basel
Eigenmusik Composing-Conducting-Interpreting in personal union
Tania León: Indígena for ensemble, Ritual for piano solo
Beat Furrer: Gaspra
for ensemble, three piano pieces for piano solo
Konstantia Gourzi: Vibrato 1 & , Aiolos Wind for piano solo
piano solo: Amadeus Wiesensee
ensemble oktopus
conductor: Konstantia Gourzi

1 July, 2022 | Concert | Staatstheater Mainz, Großes Haus | 8 p.m.
Konstantia Gourzi: Warchild Soundrack – Senada meets Aida
Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz
Soprano: Alexandra Samouilidou
Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

3 July, 2022 | Concert | Dom Kultury Zgorzelec, Poland, 7 p.m.
The Greek side of the city
New Lusatian Philharmonic Orchestra
Works by Greek composers
Konstantia Gourzi: Variation 21
Conductor: Ewa Strusinska

12 July, 2022 | Radio Concert | Concert broadcast from May 18, 10:05-23:00 p.m.
Horizons – the radio series for new music on BR-KLASSIK

28 – 31 July 2022 | Choir Festival Vocal Sinn
Conducting and concert design course Lightgestalten
Event Forum Fürstenfeld
Works by Konstantia Gourzi and others: excerpts from “Der Engel der Eewigkeit”
Young Chamber Choir Lucente
Design: Ilka Seifert
Conductor: Inga Brüseke

15 August, 2022 | Concert – Premiere| Prélude, Grafenegg Festival-Schlosshof, 4.30 p.m.
Compositions by Konstantia Gourzi
Whispers – Musical poems for nature
wind whispers for piano solo
call of the bees for viola and piano
messages between trees for viola and bourdon
night whispers in a walnut tree for piano solo. A commissioned work of the Grafenegg Festival, world premiere
melodies from the sea for viola, piano and percussion instruments
viola, bourdon: Nils Mönkemeyer
piano: William Youn
piano, percussion: Konstantia Gourzi

17 August, 2022 | Chamber Concert Celler Summer Concerts 2022 | Rittersaal Schloss Celle, 7 p.m.
“New world from nothing”
Work by Konstantia Gourzi: melodies from the sea
viola: Nils Mönkemeyer
Piano: William Youn
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24 August – 9 September, 2022 | Festival Kryżowa Music – Viviane Hagner and guests in Kreisau
Konstantia Gourzi, Composer in Residence
ALL Summer Concert Dates

25 August, Krzyżowa-Music Season Opening Concert / Koncert Otwarcia 2022 in Krzyżowa (Kreisau), 18 Uhr
Der Engel der Eewigkeit, Sieben Blicke – Hommage à Adolf Wölfli, 2017 (op. 71), Polish Premiere
For mixed Choir. Parts: I: Ankunft, VI: Eewigkeit, VII: Abschied
Choir: Europa Chor Akademie
Conductor: Jan Hoffmann

27 August, Krzyżowa-Music Evening Concert / Koncert Otwarcia 2022 in Krzyżowa (Kreisau), 6 p.m.
noch fürcht´ ich, 1993 (op. 8), Polish Premiere
7 Miniaturen for Piano Solo
Piano Solo: Amadeus Wiesensee

 ich fürcht´ nicht, 2018, (op. 74), Polish Premiere
7 Miniaturen für Ensemble
Flute: Alberto Acuna Almela
Clarinet: Reto Bieri
Piano: Amadeus Wiesensee
Violin: Sueye Park
Violoncello: Annie Jacobs Perkins

1 September, Krzyżowa-Music Evening Concert / Koncert wieczorowy in Teatr Zdrojowy Szczawno-Zdrój (Bad Salzbrunn), 6 p.m.
Call of the bees, 2019 (op. 77), Polish Premiere
Duo for Cello and Piano
Violoncello: Jonathan Swensen
Piano: Julia Hamos

2 September, Krzyżowa-Music Evening Concert / Koncert wieczorowy Peace Church Jawor / Kościół Pokoju w Jaworze, 7 p.m.
Gedicht Nr.1: Die Sommertage sind schnell vorbei, 1994, rev. 2022 (op. 11), Premiere
For Ensemble
Flute: Alberto Acuna Almela
Clarinet: Pablo Barragan
Piano: Adam Golka
Violin: Viviane Hagner
Viola: Karolina Errera
Violoncello: Adrian Brendel

3 September, Krzyżowa-Music Evening Concert / Koncert wieczorowy in Krzyżowa (Kreisau), 6 p.m.
a song for peace, 2016 (op. 70), Polish Premiere
Duo for Violin and Piano
Violin: Stephen Waarts
Violoncello: Irena Josifoska

4 September, Krzyżowa-Music Final Season Concert / Koncert finałowy in Krzyżowa (Kreisau), 6 p.m.
Beauty, 2017, rev. 2022 (op. 67), Premiere
For large Ensemble

4 September 2022 | Concert | Konzerthaus, Berlin, 7 p.m.
Works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel,
Konstantia Gourzi: Recitative Antigone
Soprano: Mengqi Zhang
Piano: Marlene Heiss
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10 September 2022 | Concert | Druckereihalle, Basel, 8 p.m.
Works by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig von Beethoven, Witold Penderecki,
Konstantia Gourzi: music flows across the sea, op. 60a
Viola: Agnès Mauri
Cello: Mateusz Paweł
Piano: Benedek Horváth

25 September 2022 | Concert and live recording | Rudi Müller Hall in the Haus des Gastes, Bad Kreuznach| SWR-Kreuznach Klassik, 6 p.m.
Claude Debussy: Beau Soir, song for voice and piano L 6
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for viola and piano E flat major, op. 120 No. 2
Konstantia Gourzi: melodies from the sea, op. 86
César Franck: Sonata in A major for viola and piano
Viola: Nils Mönkemeyer
Piano: William Youn
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7 October 2022 | Concert | Teatro Kursaal de Melilla (Spain), 8 p.m.
Piano recital with works by M. Borboudakis, A. Diaz de la Fuente, R. Sierra, K. Tanaka, C. Corea, S. Gubaidulina and K. Gourzi
K. Gourzi: Aiolos wind
Piano: Ricardo Descalzo

13 October 2022 | Semifinale August Everding Music Competition 2022 | “Next to the lover I will lie as a lover”
Compulsory piece by Konstantia Gourzi Recitative Antigone for voice and piano

14 October 2022 |Finale August Everding Music Competition 2022 | “Next to the lover I will lie as a lover” | Allerheiligen Hofkirche of the Munich Residence, 8 p.m.
Compulsory piece by Konstantia Gourzi Recitative Antigone for voice and piano

20 October 2022 | Radio Concert broadcast from May 18, 10:05-11:00 p.m.
Horizons – the radio series for new music on BR-KLASSIK
Iannis Xenakis: Eonta with Tetra Brass Ensemble
Konstantia Gourzi: Aiolos Wind.
Piano: Amadeus Wiesensee

27 October 2022 | Concert| “Le Salon de Helen Buchholtz”, Bridderhaus, Esch (Luxemburg), 8 p.m.
Ladies’ Night
Works by  Amy Beach, Anna Bon di Venezia, Helen Buchholtz, Konstantia Gourzi, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, Marie Jaell, Catherine Kontz and Kaija Saariaho
K. Gourzi: Wind Dances
Piano: Cathy Krier
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3 November 2022 | Radio Concert | Deutschlandfunk Kultur | 8.03 p.m.
Krzyżowa-Music: Meeting Place Krzyżowa/Kreisau
Konstantia Gourzi: “noch fürcht‘ ich” op. 8 – Seven miniatures for piano
“ich fürcht’ nicht” op. 74 – Seven miniatures for piano quintet
“A song for peace” op. 70
Musicians of the Krzyżowa-Music Festival
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8 November 2022 | Concert | Reaktorhalle, Munich, 7 p.m.
Openness – Award of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation to Elena Mendoza
Cathy Berberian: Stripsody
Elena Mendoza: Se hace saber & One day everyday
Iñigo Giner Miranda: Entre nosotros
Georges Aperghis: Le corps a corps
Soprano: Isabella Gantner
mezzo-soprano: Julie Catherine Eggli
percussion: Deng Wenhui
ensemble oktopus – 20th anniversary
Conductor: Konstantia Gourzi

18 November 2022 | Concert | Reaktorhalle, Munich, 7 p.m.
Remembrance – Stefan Wolpe, Ben-Haim and students
A collaboration with the Musicological Institute of the
HMTM, with the Institute for Musicology of the LMU Munich, with
the Ben-Haim Research Center of the HMTM and with the Paul Sacher
Foundation in Basel
Stefan Wolpe: Quartet
Morton Feldman: The viola in My Life 2
Ursula Mamlok: Concert Piece for Four
Haim Alexander: Six Israeli Dances
Paul Ben-Haim: Divertimento Concertante
Shulamit Ran: Concerto da Camera I
Tzvi Avni: Mirage after paintings by Joan Miro
ensemble oktopus – 20th anniversary
Conductor: Konstantia Gourzi

22 November 2022 | Radio broadcast | Bayern 2 | 00:10-02:00 a.m.
Concerto bavarese – Bavarian composers
K. Gourzi: “P-ILION”, op. 33, no. 2
Violin: Valentin Sanchez Pinero, Pascal Schwab
Viola: Michael Falter
Violoncello: Aikaterini Constantinou

28 November 2022 | Concert | Gran Teatro La Fenice, Sale Apollinee, Venice, 8 p.m.
Danze e Canti – Ex Novo Musica 2022
Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Corrado Rojac, Igor Stravinskij, Emanuele
Casale, Roverto Gottipavero, Béla Bártok
Konstantia Gourzi: melodies from the sea for viola and piano
Ex Novo Ensemble
viola: Carlo Lazari
piano: Aldo Orvieto

28 November 2022 | Concert | Megaron, Athens, 8 p.m.
The sea in us and around us – songs from the Mediterranean tradition for guitar and soprano
Works by G. B. Pergolesi, A. Cesti, M. Ravel, E. Granados, T. Rosopoulos, N. Taylor, A. Evangelatos, G. Konstantinidis, M. de Falla
Konstantia Gourzi: The little Hydriot (To Idraiopoulo) for guitar and
Soprano (2022) from Hydra – The Rock of Freedom.
Text: Wilhelm Müller, translation: Vassilis Voutos, Konstantia Gourzi
guitar: Korina Vougiouka
Soprano: Alexia Voulgaridou

30 November 2022 | Concert | Tonhalle Düseldorf, Helmut Heinrich Hall, 8 p.m.
Just listen…! New music from southern Europe
Works by Iannis Xenakis, Konstantia Gourzi, José Maria Sanchez Verdú, Maxim Kolomiiets, Laura Marconi, Bruno Maderna.
Gourzi: Néome for piano, clarinet and percussion
notabu ensemble
clarinet: Holger Busboom
piano: Yukiko Fujieda
percussion: Salome Amend
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