Creative diversity
Third concert by the Department of New Music and Jazz moves between Liszt and Latin jazz
Once a year, the Department of New Music and Jazz at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar presents the full kaleidoscope of its creative work. On Monday, 20 January at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, you are invited to experience a colourful musical spectrum ranging from accordion solos to a large jazz ensemble. Admission is free!
‘The Department of New Music and Jazz is associated with a particularly creative diversity, as the accordion, jazz, composition and electroacoustic music programmes are all combined in this department,’ says the director of the department and accordion professor Claudia Buder. ’These subjects work to a particularly innovative and unusual degree. It is a unique opportunity to experience all this stylistic diversity in one concert.’
Three students will be representing the Accordion Department. Kseniva Orlova will play two short movements from the Erz cycle by Finnish composer Jukka Tiensuu, while her fellow student Amrita Decaëns Singh from Paris will show what Franz Liszt sounds like on the accordion.
Ingmar Rosenthal will perform an extraordinary composition by American bandleader and composer John Zorn: in ‘Road Runner’, the accordion becomes a magic box for musical cartoons.
The Jazz department will be represented by an interdisciplinary ‘Large Ensemble’, among other things. The ensemble ‘Don't worry, it's out of control’, under the direction of Nicklas Koppe, wants to look at the current climate crisis from the perspective of the year 2100. Musically, it moves between Latin jazz, contemporary music and classical harmony.
In addition to drums and guitars, instruments such as the clarinet, saxophone and trombone can also be heard on stage. There is also a ‘loop ensemble’ under the direction of Prof. Michael Schiefel.
Paulina Sofie Kiss represents the field of new music. She has been studying electroacoustic composition at the ‘Studio for Electroacoustic Music’ under Prof. Maximilian Marcoll since 2018. Under the pseudonym ‘PS:Kiss’, the student uses concept-based improvisation to explore what she describes as the ‘infinite vastness of the modular system, in a mixture of composition and free improvisation’.
[15 January 2025]