Fernweh in Pullach
Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 7:00 pm
vodeon is the winner of the Bavarian Artists’ Advancement Award (Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis). The group interprets music as an innovative formation of soloists with an ever-changing lineup. Their joy in finding new expressive possibilities combined with their broad horizons spark collaborations with artists of all genres — from instrumental music to dance to drama. Conductor Clayton Bowman and singers Berthold Schindler and Hana Katsenes make up a core trio. Around this core they bring together groups of artists which correspond precisely to diligently designed concert programs. Despite this remarkable versatility, each project includes vodeon’s unmistakable thumbprint: the highly artful performance of vocal music with the aesthetic of the solo voice. In the space between solo and tutti, individuality and voice blending, con and senza vibrato, the ensemble finds its characteristic sound.
Influenced by the various artistic biographies of the musicians, vodeon’s repertoire has but one criterion: regardless of style, era, or language, it must be music into which the artists can breathe life, and by which the audience can be moved. Their quest for unheard programs has brought vodeon to partner with eminent artists such as the singers Anna-Lena Elbert and Israel Martins, the pianist Amy Brinkman-Davis, the poet Fee Brembeck, the baroque orchestra Concerto München under the direction of Johannes Berger, and the composer Johannes X. Schachtner.
HIOB (JOB): Ritual-Opera for four voices, chamber ensemble and electronics
In September of 2023, vodeon recorded excerpts of the new opera by Christopher Verworner with a libretto by Konstantin Parnian. Follow us on Social Media to see and hear our recordings soon!
Christopher Verworner, Composition & Musical Direction
Konstantin Parnian, Libretto & Dramturgy
Antonio Di Martino, Hiob (Job)
Berthold Schindler, Die andere Stimme Hiobs (Job’s other voice)
Henrike Henoch, Die Botschaft (The Message)
Hana Katsenes, Die Erzählung (The Narration)
Ronja Sophie Putz, Violin
Jakob Roters, Cello
Anna Werner, Horn
Jakob Rumpf, Trombones
Janko Rašeta, Guitar
Maximilian Hirning, Bass
Philip Dornbusch, Drumset
Patrick Stapleton, Percussion
Benedikt Kurz, Timpani
Paul Bießmann, Synthesizer
Benjamin Geyer, Synthesizer
Elli Neubert, Director & Staging Concept
Johanna Winkler, Costume & Staging Concept
Anima Henn, Performance & Staging Concept
Felix Miller, Live Video
Stefan Schnurr, Sound Engineer
Hans Weiß, Lights & Tech Management
Richard Schwartz, Production Management
On January 15, 2023 vodeon presented The Orchestra of Pianos in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence. All three of Munich’s major newspapers reviewed the event!
Münchner Merkur - not available online
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Hymne au soleil by Lili Boulanger
An Oxford Elegy by Ralph Vaughan Williams
“La Biche” from Six Chansons by Paul Hindemith
vodeon rehearses “I Praise the Tender Flower” by Gerald Finzi
Palestrina: A Global Prayer to the People - live from the Augsburg Cathedral 2020
vodeon performs John Cage’s “Story” from Living Room Music while under lockdown, Munich 2020.
