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3RD INTERNATIONAL CALL #LIEDINNOVATION
The 3rd edition of our #LIEDINNOVATION competition creates space for your vision of the art of song in the 21st century: What does song – poetry, chamber music, voice, instrument, intimacy – mean to us today? We are looking for young concepts that break new ground, think contemporarily and meet the audience in their living environment.
JURY STATEMENT
The RHONEFESTIVAL FOR LIEDKUNST is pleased to announce this year’s finalists as part of the 3rd #LIEDINNOVATION call for entries. Five outstanding ensembles were awarded, which have distinguished themselves in particular through the following four criteria:
artistic quality / innovative strength / mediation / contextualization
The RHONEFESTIVAL and the jury would like to thank everyone for their time, effort and creative ideas. The commitment of each individual application is of great value for the art song genre, its discourse and audience retention. The diversity and the consistently high artistic quality of the concepts submitted were particularly impressive, as was the reference of the applications to the values of the RHONEFESTIVAL. In addition, the high-quality and original application videos provided a valuable look behind the scenes of the concepts and the artists involved.
The question of innovation and the art song in the 21st century was answered in a variety of ways through subject matter, concept, transdisciplinarity and the linking of arts and science. In this context, we understand the #LIEDINNOVATION call for entries as a fruitful interaction between music and other arts and artistic research as well as a solution for progressive mediation and social contextualization. We were particularly impressed by the non-musical examinations of the genre, during which concert conventions were broken up and the art song was given a new context. This is how the finalists of this year’s #LIEDINNOVATION all make a statement on the innovative power of the genre.
The award ceremony for the winning project melaTONin by the ensemble TRIO.S will take place as part of the 5th RHONEFESTIVAL FOR LIEKUNST in MAY 2022.
Statement of this year’s jury consisting of Toni Ming GEIGER, Lea Luka SIKAU & Franziska HEINZEN
WINNER ENSEMBLE 2022
melaTONin. A MUSICAL-SPATIAL SLEEP CYCLE
SUSAN JEBRINI, mezzosoprano
SONJA CATALANO, alto
GORAN STEVANOVIC, accordion
Sleep is a basic need. During “melaTONin” the audience lives through a sleep cycle with all its phases. Falling asleep, light sleep, deep sleep and REM phases are translated into an extraordinary concept of space, sound, text and video installation.
The jury was convinced by the high artistic quality, the tonally interesting cast, the contrasting program and the space design and staging. The program includes the art song in a wide spectrum from the Romantic period to chansons, contemporary works and original compositions. A large part of the program was specially arranged by ENSEMBLE TRIO.S for its cast.
The multimedia examination of the subject of sleep enables the audience to experience the music in a holistic way. The dissolution of the traditional concert into the atmospheric (“space stage”), large-scale video installations and the merging of sound and space deepen the musical experience. The jury considers it particularly forward-looking that the TRIO.S ensemble sees itself both as artists and as scientists.
The jury therefore has chose the ENSEMBLE TRIO.S with its “melaTONin” project as the winning ensemble for 2022!
FINALISTS 2022
MUSICAL ADVENTURE
DUO DALUNA
SPECIAL PRIZE LIEDERGARTEN 2022
REMY BURNENS, tenor
CLÉMENCE HIRT, piano
With its concept MUSICAL ADVENTURE the DUO DALUNA received the possibility to perform at the LIEDERGARTEN 2022. The public decided which way – lakes, fields, forests or villages – the protagonist should go.
DAS AUGE DER ZEIT
COLLIDE QUARTETT
SOPHIA KÖRBER, soprano
BENJAMIN HEWAT-CRAW, baritone
LARA SÜß, performer
FRANZISKA STAUBACH, piano
DAS AUGE DER ZEIT (“The eye of time”) is a scenic song recital for two voices, piano and actress. In terms of content, it deals with timecycles, in other words with the sense of time at different stages of life through works from the beginnings of the art of song with Franz Schubert to the late romantic repertoire of Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler to contemporary compositions by Aribert Reimann or Moritz Eggert. Together with the scenic improvisation elements, they make this concept appealing.
The focus is on questions about the subjective experience of time, the memory of special life events and the emotions associated with the events. What time might sound like is an innovative question that is rarely brought into focus in the temporal art of music. The recital truly looks time in the eye and offers a space for reflection on what is really important in life.
DAS AUGE DER ZEIT is a concert of high musical quality, stringently staged with a balanced mixture of old and new repertoire. The topic is brought into the present through performative elements of scenic improvisation. Language and electronics expand the evening into a multimedia experience between the past and the future. Especially the collision with performance art emphasizes the performativity of the art song in an exciting way.
WO DER SAFRAN IM HERBST BLÜHT
JOHANNES WORMS, baritone
HANNAH BAUMANN, oboe
FRANZISKA HILLER, performer
NASTI SOKOLOVA, piano
WO DER SAFRAN BLÜHT (“Where saffron blooms in autumn”) is a performative examination of the geographical and sociological identity of Brig, Valais and its inhabitants. The thematic approach from afar, the view of the region from outside and its musical processing create interesting points of contact for an examination of the topics of identity, home, community, nature and change. The space familiar to the local audience is deconstructed into a mountain landscape to create a new experience in the same space – without any separation between performers and audience. In the quartet cast of vocals, voice, oboe and piano, GODOT KOMPLEX declines the various formation and epoch possibilities as well as the electronic elements and Valais folk songs.
All four artists have been dealing intensively with the art of song and new formats for a long time. The work that was done for the application is impressive: the ensemble collected voice messages from the Upper Valais, which served as inspiration for the project. The examination by means of an installation is innovative, in which the audience is not a consumer, but an active part of the event. The ensemble embarks on research in the local context and uses the auditive outside of the song for reflection. By breaking up the concert framework, the site-specificty becomes the starting point for the musical debate.
FIVE NEW STORIES
DUO GOGGLES
ESTHER-ELISABETH RISPENS, soprano
WIM PELGRIMS, percussion
The DUO GOGGLES with WIM PELGRIMS (percussion) and ESTHER-ELISABETH RISPENS (soprano) performs with great musicality, sensitivity for chamber music and sympathy. In the in-depth examination of the contemporary repertoire that goes beyond the presented concept FIVE NEW STORIES, an attitude of playful curiosity is particularly striking: WIM PELGRIMS – percussionist, performer and curator – acts and performs on an equal footing with the singer ESTHER-ELISABETH RISPENS, who has dealt intensively with the interpretation of contemporary roles throughout her career. This experience is reflected in light-footed interpretation with a great instinct for chamber music.
In FIVE NEW STORIES, the DUO GOGGLES interprets high-quality repertoire with contemporary works by Lior Navok, Jessie Marino, François Sarhan and Thierry Tidrow. Together with an original composition or reinterpretation by Hugo Wolf, these were put together to form a pointed, playful program with theatrical elements. The merging of musician, composer and performer is particularly innovative.
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