Opening reception at Kunstraum Remise Georg Petermichl

The interdisciplinary event series klang_sprachen intertwines contemporary music and poetry and celebrates its 10th edition. For the anniversary of this innovative cooperation project of the Tyrolean Chamber Orchestra InnStrumenti with the Poetry Festival W:ORTE, the ÖGZM, the Bludenz Association for the Promotion of Art and Culture in all its forms, and the Vorarlberg State Library, the internationally renowned and multiple award-winning writer José Oliver has been secured, who will read from a selection of his works. His inspiring texts serve as the starting point for world premieres by the young composers Anto Sophia Manhartsberger and Nava Hemyari, as well as the native Vorarlberger Thomas Cornelius Desi, and a work by Gunter Schneider, also hailing from Vorarlberg. The framework for this concert evening includes two orchestral pieces by Klex Wolf, who has significantly shaped this concert format.

The compositions and the texts presented by the poet merge, and the boundaries between reading and concert blur. It is both or something entirely new, as language gains new perspectives through the new sonic context.

Program

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)/ Klex Wolf (1968-2024)
(Arr.): Variations on Variations 1. After Les Folies d’Espagne 

Anto Sophia Manhartsberger (*1991): WP for KO 

Gunter Schneider (*1954): from the sound of the void for KO 

Nava Hemyari (*1993): WP for KO (ÖGZM) 

Thomas Cornelius Desi (*1991): k:resurrection (WP) 

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)/ Klex Wolf (Arr.):
Variations on Variations 2. After Variations on a Theme by Corelli

José Oliver texts & reading
Gerhard Sammer direction
Tyrolean Chamber Orchestra InnStrumenti

In cooperation with
International Poetry Festival W:ORTE (an event by 8ung Kultur & Literaturhaus am Inn)
ÖGZM
Vorarlberg State Library / Porgy & Bess / Treibhaus Innsbruck