Concerts

 

since 05.09.2023

 
 
On September 5, 2023, Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcast from 00:05 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. in the program New Music
with the title Die Flötistin und der Komponist (The Flutist and the Composer), a portrait of Beatrix Wagner, Gerald Eckert and the concert series contemporary music Eckernfoerde.
The program can still be heard in the Deutschlandradio Kultur media library (link above and in the picture)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

14.01.2024, 04:05 - 05:00 a.m.,

Deutschlandfunk

 

die neue Platte XL

 

On January 14, 2024, Deutschlandfunk will broadcast in the program die neue Platte XL from 4:05 a.m. to 5:00 a.m

"karg" by Natalia Solomonoff, played by the Duo Reflexion K - Beatrix Wagner, flute and Gerald Eckert, cello.

 

  

Natalia Solomonoff "karg" (2016)

for flute and violoncello

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natalia Solomomoff - © Gerald Eckert
© Txuca Pereira

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.02.2024, 08.00 p.m.
St. Nicolai-church Eckernfoerde

 

„Über das Rätselhafte“ ("About the mysterious")

 

While working on "Air mit Sphinxes", Nicolaus A. Huber had the opportunity to listen to Robert Schumann's piano work "Carnaval" live in concert and was captivated by the mysteriousness of the Sphinx melodies it contains:
The riddle of the environment, the riddle of length as a melodic tone, the riddle of repetition and also the riddle of the sphinxes' own structure, the limbs.
For him, “sphinx-like” means the high, deep, wide and full in his piece, without being wide, deep, high and full.
The enigma in Gerald Eckert's “An den Rändern des Maßes” is presented differently:
Energy states that arise from shattered sound fields and the aesthetic qualities of their remains. The interior is veiled, the sonic reality overshadows the origin and makes the core itself “virtual”. Interspersed harmonic fields show a tendency to volatilize as soon as they are created. Moments of pause are accompanied by an increase in fragility.
With a large cast, the Ensemble Reflexion tries to get to the bottom of the enigma in both works and first presents the audience with excerpts from “Air mit Sphinxes” and “An den Rändern des Maßes” before playing both compositions in full length in the concert situation presents.
 

Program:
 
Nicolaus A. Huber
"Air mit Sphinxes" (1987) for large ensemble
 
Gerald Eckert
"An den Rändern des Maßes" (2005/ 11) for two enseble groups
 
 

Ensemble Reflexion K and guests
 
Beatrix Wagner, flute
Enrico Raphaelis, oboe

Joachim Striepens, clarinet
Jakob Meyers - bassoon

Delphine Gauthier-Guiche, horn

Halleyn Ruiz Polo, tummpet

Matthias Jann, trombone

André Wittmann, percussion
Jonathan Shapiro, percussion
Lara Meyer-Struthoff, harp
Daria-Karmina Iossifova-Molier, piano
Rui C. Antunes - violin
Desheng Chen, violin
Christiane Veltman, viola

Uschik Choi, violoncello

Heiko Maschmann, contrabass

Gerald Eckert, direction
 

 
 
 
 
 
© Ines Herzmann

22.02.2024, 12:05 - 01:00 a.m.

Deutschlandradio Kultur

 

 

On 22. February 2024, Deutschlandradio Kultur will broadcast from 12:05 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. in the series Neue Musik

excerpts from the two concerts of the Duo Reflexion K - Beatrix Wagner, flute and Gerald Eckert, violoncello - at the Klangwerkstatt Festival in Berlin on 18. and 19. November 2023

 

  

Stefan Streich "Gran Duo" (2021 - 2023) (excerpts)

for flute and violoncello

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© André Fischer/Klangwerkstatt Berlin

09.03.2024, 10.05 - 10.50 p.m., DLF (Deutschlandfunk)
The broadcast Atelier neuer Musik

 

The Deutschlandfunk broadcast can still be listened for 30 days: 
Atelier neuer Musik

Randzonen, Erstarrungen, Brüche - Gerald Eckerts neuere Ensemblemusiken

 

"späte Gegend" for orchestra
"Sopra di noi... (niente)" for orchestra
"Kisalpah" for ensemble and electronics
"ferne Tiefe" for contrabassflute, orchestra, live-electronics and tape
"Nacht, die fallende" for violoncello, orchestra and live-electronics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.03.2024, 08:00 p.m.
St. Nicolai-church Eckernfoerde

 

and 

 

25.04.2024, 08:00 p.m.
Vonderau Museum, Fulda

 


„Über dunkle Energien und leere Räume“ ("About dark energies and empty rooms")

 

Dark energies are the starting point for the work cycle “energeia aphanés” by Michael Quell. In astrophysics, this mysterious phenomenon serves as a hypothetical attempt to explain the observed increasing speed of expansion of the universe, which otherwise stands in clear contradiction to the gravitational effects caused by matter. Its existence has not yet been proven, so it itself cannot be observed, but, like dark matter, it essentially determines the space-time structure of the universe.
In the works of the same name, this idea becomes a symbol of a musically aesthetic world whose actual control principles remain consistently hidden, but whose results determine the world of experience. Space, time and the idea of ​​time dissolution play a central role.


Program:

Michael Quell
"energeia aphanés II" (2018) for contrabassclarinet and accordion
 
Gerald Eckert
"außen, von tief innen" (2015) for bassflute, contrabassclarinet and violoncello
 
Farzia Fallah
"Posht-e Hichestan" (2015) for flute solo
 
Michael Quell
"energeia aphanés III - physis" (2019)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and accordion
 
Gerald Eckert
"instead of (empty rooms II)" (2019)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, (percussion) and electronics
 
 

 
Ensemble Reflexion K and guests

Beatrix Wagner, flute
Joachim Striepens, clarinet
Neza Torkar, accordion
Sungkum-Jennie Yang - violin
Uschik Choi - violoncello
Gerald Eckert - violoncello/ direction


 
 
 

27.04.2024, 07:00 p.m.
Schöppingen, Artist village, gallery

 

and 

 

07.06.2024, 07:30 p.m.
Lauenburg, Artists Residence

 


"personæ"

 

Works by the current composition scholarship holders Zara Ali and Gerald Eckert from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen and the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg with connections to their teachers and other composers who are close to their thinking and composing or who also form a great contrast to it.
 


Program:

Zara Ali
"Red City" (2020) for electronics/ tape
 
Farzia Fallah
"Posht-e Hichestan" (2015) for flute solo
 
Gerald Eckert
"Schemen - Feld 30" (2017) for contrabassclarinet, electronics and tape
 
Mark Barden
"personæ" (2009) for bassflute and bassclarinet
 
Gerald Eckert
"außen, von tief innen" (2015) for bassflute, contrabassclarinet and violoncello
 
Nicolaus A. Huber
"Blanco y Verde" (2018) for flute and clarinet 
 

 
Ensemble Reflexion K

Beatrix Wagner, flute(s)
Joachim Striepens, clarinet(s)
Gerald Eckert, violoncello and electronics
 
© Ensemble Reflexion K
 

 

 

 

 

Tues. 30.07.202408:00 p.m.

St. Nicolai-church Eckernfoerde

  

 

„Über das Rätselhafte II“ ("About the enigmatic II")

 

 

The world is beautiful and cruel, simple and mysterious at the same time. “Über das Rätselhafte II” tries to make this audible: the delicate lines of a single flower as well as the dawn transformed into a rush of sound.  Superposition of waves, in water as well as in sound, their pulsation and their entanglements. 

And again and again man, striving for knowledge and enlightenment and yet so destructive in his actions.

 

 

Program:

 

Anna Korsun 

„Pulsar“ (2014) for organ and voice

 

Gerald Eckert

„Verschränkung – ins Offene“ (2023/ 24) for contrabassflute and electronics (german premiere)

 

Makiko Nishikaze 

„a solitary flower comes out“ (1997) for altflute and violoncello

 

Gerald Eckert

“Interferenz I” (2004) version for flute, organ, violoncello and electronics

 

Pablo Araya 

„37“ (2023) for bassflute and violoncello 

 

Gerald Eckert

„Aube“ (2006) for organ

 

 

performer:

 

Katja Kanowski, organ

Beatrix Wagner, flute

Gerald Eckert - violoncello

 

 

Concert introduction to the “Nach dem Markt” series on Saturday, July 27th. 2024 at 12:30 p.m in the Schleswig-Holstein Artists’ Residence “Otte 1”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27.09.2024, 08:00 p.m.
St. Nicolai-church Eckernfoerde


„Über zeitlose Augenblicke“ (About timeless moments)


 
Timeless moments - we can experience them in moments of greatest concentration or total relaxation, of incredible happiness or deep sadness, while experiencing great art or nature, with others or in absolute solitude.
The works selected for this program by Lisa Streich, Pablo Araya, Gerald Eckert, Pablo Olabarria, Stefan Streich and Iannis Xenakis oscillate between the greatest density in the smallest space and breathless delicacy and fragility, between liveliness and rigidity, between artistry and naturalness. 
 

Program:

Lisa Streich
"Asche" for clarinet and violoncello

Stefan Streich
"ritorno" for flute and viola

Gerald Eckert
"Nachtwindbewegtes" for bassflute, contrabassclarinet and viola
 
Pablo Araya
"Entre Palmira y Tikal hay una bóveda de mosaicos […]" for bassflute, violin and violoncello

Gerald Eckert
"Klangräume II" for piccolo and tape

Pablo Andoni Olabarría
"Naturlaut" for Violin and electronics

Iannis Xenakis
"Charisma" for clarinet and violoncello
 
 

Ensemble Reflexion K
 
Beatrix Wagner, flute

Joachim Striepens, clarinet
Rui C. Antunes - violin
Christiane Veltman, viola


Gerald Eckert, violoncello, electronics

 

 

 

 

 

© Ines Herzmann

02.11.2024, 06:00 p.m.
St. Nicolai-church Eckernfoerde

Night of literature

 

„Atemwende“


 
In the spaces between tracing sounds and words, this event leads from the spatial-poetic side of contemporary music (Luigi Nono, Gerald Eckert) to the linguistic power of the poems by Hilde Domin, Paul Celan and Else Lasker-Schüler.
 

Program:

Gerald Eckert
In Sich Ohne Ausweg (1994)
for 2-(4)-channel-tape

Gerald Eckert
Noema (1992)
for violoncello

Gerald Eckert
Schemen - Feld 30 (2017)
for contrabassclarinet and electronics

Luigi Nono
A Pierre. Dell azzurro silenzio, inquietum (1985)
for contrabassflute, contrabassclarinet and live-electronics

Gerald Eckert
Aux mains de l’espace (1993)
for 4-channel-tape

Gerald Eckert
außen, von tief innen (2015)
for bassflute, contrabassclarinet and violoncello
 

 
Dirk Homrighausen - Rezitation
 

Ensemble Reflexion K
 
Beatrix Wagner, flute

Joachim Striepens, clarinet

Gerald Eckert, violoncello, electronics

 

 

Luigi Nono - © Niederländisches Nationalarchiv

 

 

 

 

08.11.2024 08:00 p.m.

St. Nicolai-church Eckernfoerde

 
„Sopra di noi“
 
 
The Solistenensemble Reflexion K presents sound universes with a large ensemble: microtonal movements and swirls on the iridescent sound surface in Liisa Hirsch's Autarkes (2020), sounds of great depth and power in Elnaz Seyedi's Questo che a notte balugina (2023) and an exuberant wealth of timbres with constantly changing sound states in Gerald Eckert's Sopra di noi… (niente) (2014). In addition, Trichter, Klee und Amsel (Funnel, Clover and Blackbird), a new work by Stefan Streich takes up Eckert's specific and large orchestration and leads it into completely different sound spaces.
 
 
Program:
 

Elnaz Seyedi "Questo che a notte balugina" (2023)

for large ensemble (fl, 2 clar, 2 perc, Hrp, acc, pf, vln, vla, vc, cb)

 

Liisa Hirsch "Autarkes" (2020)

for large ensemble (2 clar, bsn, perc, pf, vla, 2 vc, cb)

  

Stefan Streich "Trichter, Klee und Amsel" (2024)   UA

for orchestra (1 bassfl/ flute, 2 clar (1: clar/ cb-clar; 2: cb-clar), 1 contrabassoon, 1 hrn, 1 trp, 2 trb (1: bass-trb;

2: bass-trb or cb-trb), acc, pf, 2 perc, 1 vln, 2 vla, 5 vc, 1 cb)

 

Gerald Eckert "Sopra di noi... (niente)" (2014)

for orchestra (1 bassfl/ flute, 2 clar (1: clar/ cb-clar; 2: cb-clar), 1 contrabassoon, 1 hrn, 1 trp, 2 trb (1: bass-trb;

2: bass-trb or cb-trb), acc, pf, 2 perc, 1 vln, 2 vla, 5 vc, 1 cb)

 
 
Ensemble Reflexion K und Gäste
 

Beatrix Wagner, flute
Joachim Striepens, clarinet & double bass clarinet
Matthias Badczong, clarinet & double bass clarinet
Ari Schuirmann, bassoon & contrabassoon
Delphine Gauthier-Guiche, horn
Norbert Fabritius, trumpet
Matthias Jann, trombone
Karsten Süßmilch, trombone
Andre Wittmann, percussion
Arian Robinson, percussion
Lara Meyer-Struthoff, harp
Christine Paté, accordion
Daria-Karmina Iossifova-Molier, piano
Rui C. Antunes, violin
Christiane Veltman, viola
Nikolaus Schlierf, viola
Christine Meißner, violoncello
Anne Gayed, violoncello
Ulrike Brand, violoncello
Clara Franz, violoncello
Katrin Maschmann, violoncello
Heiko Maschmann, double bass

 

Gerald Eckert, direction

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
© Reinhard Frank

10.11.2024 08:00 p.m.

Berlin, Kunstquartier Bethanien

  
 
 
„Sopra di noi“
 
 
The Solistenensemble Reflexion K presents sound universes with a large ensemble: microtonal movements and swirls on the iridescent sound surface in Liisa Hirsch's Autarkes (2020), sounds of great depth and power in Elnaz Seyedi's Questo che a notte balugina (2023) and an exuberant wealth of timbres with constantly changing sound states in Gerald Eckert's Sopra di noi… (niente) (2014). In addition, Trichter, Klee und Amsel (Funnel, Clover and Blackbird), a new work by Stefan Streich takes up Eckert's specific and large orchestration and leads it into completely different sound spaces.
 
 
Program:
 

Elnaz Seyedi "Questo che a notte balugina" (2023)

for large ensemble (fl, 2 clar, 2 perc, Hrp, acc, pf, vln, vla, vc, cb)

 

Liisa Hirsch "Autarkes" (2020)

for large ensemble (2 clar, bsn, perc, pf, vla, 2 vc, cb)

  

Stefan Streich "Trichter, Klee und Amsel" (2024)   UA

for orchestra (1 bassfl/ flute, 2 clar (1: clar/ cb-clar; 2: cb-clar), 1 contrabassoon, 1 hrn, 1 trp, 2 trb (1: bass-trb;

2: bass-trb or cb-trb), acc, pf, 2 perc, 1 vln, 2 vla, 5 vc, 1 cb)

 

Gerald Eckert "Sopra di noi... (niente)" (2014)

for orchestra (1 bassfl/ flute, 2 clar (1: clar/ cb-clar; 2: cb-clar), 1 contrabassoon, 1 hrn, 1 trp, 2 trb (1: bass-trb;

2: bass-trb or cb-trb), acc, pf, 2 perc, 1 vln, 2 vla, 5 vc, 1 cb)

 
 
Ensemble Reflexion K and guests
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

15.11.2024, 08:00 p.m.,

Berlin, Kunstquartier Bethanien
 
 
 
„NONO 100: Fragmente – Stille“
 
 
 
Program:
 

Luigi Nono "Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima" (1979/ 80)

for string quartett

 

Florian Neuner  Reading

  

Luigi Nono "A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum" (1985)

for contrabassflute, contrabassclarinet and live-electronics

 
 
 
Sonar Quartett
 
and
 
Ensemble Reflexion K
  

Beatrix Wagner, contrabassflute
Joachim Striepens, contrabassclarinet

Gerald Eckert, live-electronics

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
© Klangwerkstatt Berlin

23.11.2024, 06:00 p.m.,

Artists Residence Eckernfoerde, Ottestr.1
Night of Music
 
„On the in-between“
 
 
Starting with the music of this year's otte 1 composition scholarship holder Hed Bahack, the Ensemble Reflexion K spins a web of connecting lines to works by Mark Barden, Alessio Rosato, Pablo Araya and others.
 
 
Program:

 

Hed Bahack "Studies in walking away from…" (2021/ 2024)  fp
version for bassclarinet


Alessio Rosato "si páame" (2024)
for contrabassflute and electronics


Gerald Eckert "Verschränkung - ins Offene" (2023/ 24)
for contrabassflute, electronics and tape


Gerald Eckert "Nen VII" (2007)
for flute, violoncello and tape


Mark Baden "personæ" (2009)
for bassflute and bassclarinet

 
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Ensemble Reflexion K
   

Beatrix Wagner, flute
Joachim Striepens, clarinet

Gerald Eckert, violoncello/ electronics

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22.11.2023, 00:12 - 02:00 a.m.,

Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR 2)
 
 
broadcast of "Sopra di noi... (niente)" for orchestra by Gerald Eckert
Ensemble Reflexion K and guests
direction: Gerald Eckert
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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