Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in Berlin - listening cities : kyiv

In listening cities : kyiv, we learn from PR & communications specialist Nataliia Druhak how cultural identity and diversity are not incompatible in Ukraine.

Program:
Music by: Maxim Kolomiiets | Alvin Lucier | Theo Nabicht | Alexandre Babel
Media by: Ensemble KNM Berlin
Conversation with: Nataliia Druhak, Maxim Kolomiiets, Albert Saprykin, Thomas Bruns

With: Ensemble KNM Berlin
Rebecca Lenton (flute, live)
Theo Nabicht (bass clarinet, recording)
Alexandre Babel (percussion, recording)
Nataliia Druhak (guest speaker, live)
Maxim Kolomiiets (speaker, recording)
Albert Saprykin (speaker, recording)
Thomas Bruns (moderation)

Tickets: 7 €
Combiticket for both concerts "listening cities + so they grow like sunflowers": 16 € (limited number)
online via www.elisabeth.berlin/billetto or at the box office.
Free choice of seats.

Organizer: Ensemble KNM Berlin
listening cities is a project by the Ensemble KNM Berlin in cooperation with Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, Kultur Büro Elisabeth, Fahrbereitschaft and One More Festival Taipei. The Ensemble KNM Berlin is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
The Ensemble KNM Berlin is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Project is funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Also in the program on 01.07.23 by the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in Berlin:

Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in collaboration with Ensemble KNM Berlin present a concert of new music by Ukrainian and other European composers featuring the Kyiv-based soloist Nazarii Stets (double bass).

Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in Berlin - “...So They Grow Like Sunflowers” - concert with the Ensemble KNM Berlin featuring Nazarii Stets | 01.07.2023 | 8 pm

The program includes ensemble and solo works by acclaimed European composers Rebecca Saunders, Clemens Gadenstätter, and Kaija Saariaho, as well as a younger generation of Ukrainian artists Anna Korsun, Anna Arkushyna, Anton Koshelev, and Adrian Mocanu. The concert highlights bass instruments—double bass and contrabass clarinet—to explore the differences in their perception as solo instruments and their interaction with the ensemble.

Program:
Kaija Saariaho - Folia, for double bass solo, 1995
Anna Korsun - Plexus, for ensemble, 2014
Anna Arkushyna - "... So They Grow Like Sunflowers", for harp and string quartet, 2022
Clemens Gadenstätter - le goût du son, for double bass clarinet solo, 2010
Anton Koshelev - complex personality, for ensemble, 2020
Adrian Mocanu - les chevaux de feu, for ensemble, 2021
Rebecca Saunders - Fury II, concerto for double bass and ensemble, 2009/2010

With:
Nazarii Stets (double bass)
Stephan Winkler (conductor)

Ensemble KNM Berlin:
Rebecca Lenton (flute)
Antje Thierbach (oboe/English horn)
Theo Nabicht (clarinet/bass clarinet/contrabass clarinet)
Michael Weilacher (percussion)
Justine Eckhaut (piano)
Anna Steinkogler (harp)
Christine Paté (accordion)
Theodor Flindell (violin)
Wolfgang Bender (violin)
Kirstin Maria Pientka (viola)
Zoé Cartier (violoncello)
Jonathan Heilbron (double bass)

Tickets: 13 €
Combiticket for both concerts "listening cities + so they grow like sunflowers": 16 € (limited number)
online via www.elisabeth.berlin/billetto or at the box office.
Free choice of seats.

Organizer: Kyiv Contemporary Music Days & Ensemble KNM Berlin in cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth.
Project realized in partnership between Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, Ensemble KNM Berlin, ensemble mosaik, initiative neue musik Berlin / field notes.
Funded by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, GvL – Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten, and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe fellowship program “Weltoffenes Berlin.”