The musical intervention Threads deals with the various possible interpretations of threads, knots and nets. The program for transverse flute (also bass and glissando flute) and piano contains contemporary compositions based on lines, knots and threads as compositional elements. The potential of the thread motif as a generative principle for classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries is explored in solo pieces and in the interweaving of sounds in polyphony. The performances will take place at various locations in the exhibition THREADS.

Francesco Marzano (born in Bari, Italy) studied music and literature in Milan as well as flute, performance and musicology at the Hochschule für Tanz und Musik in Cologne and at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. He plays in numerous ensembles, including the flute ensemble of the Cologne Society for New Music. In 2023, he participated as a performance artist in the 54 Hours Performances at Museum Folkwang under the direction of Marina Abramović and Billy Zhao.

Liga Korne (born in Riga, Latvia) studied piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Peter Lawson and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Susanne Blumenthal. She has already won several prizes, including the Peter Donohoe Prize, the Patricia Cunliffe Award and the Rollo Davidson Prize. She has performed as a soloist at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Wigmore Hall in London and the Philharmonie Luxembourg.

11.30 Uhr: Alyssa Aska, Circles.lines (2020)
                 für Glissando-Flöte und Zuspielung

 

11.50 Uhr: Naomi Pinnock, Lines and Spaces (2015)
                 für Klavier [Space I, Line I]

                 Katherine Balch, Thread, unfurled (2016)

                 für Flöte und Klavier

 

12.15 Uhr: Naomi Pinnock, Lines and Spaces (2015)
                 für Klavier [Space II, Line II, Space III, Line III]

 

12.40 Uhr: Ryan Carter, Concurrent Threads (2012)
                  für Bassflöte

 

13 Uhr: Sofia Gubaidulina, Der Seiltänzer (1995)
             bearb. für Flöte und Klavier

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14.30 Uhr: Alyssa Aska, Circles.lines (2020)
                  für Glissando-Flöte und Zuspielung

 

14.50 Uhr: Naomi Pinnock, Lines and Spaces (2015)
                  für Klavier [Space I, Line I]
                  Katherine Balch, Thread, unfurled (2016)
                  für Flöte und Klavier

 

15.15 Uhr: Naomi Pinnock, Lines and Spaces (2015)
                 für Klavier [Space II, Line II, Space III, Line III]

 

15.40 Uhr: Ryan Carter, Concurrent Threads (2012)
                  für Bassflöte

 

16 Uhr: Sofia Gubaidulina, Der Seiltänzer (1995)
             bearb. für Flöte und Klavier