GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS: 11.000 SAITEN

Program

• Georg Friedrich Haas: 11.000 Saiten für 50 im Raum verteilte Klaviere im Hundertsteltonabstand und Kammerorchester (2020 EA) - 66'
  Auftrag Fondazione Busoni – Mahler Stiftung gefördert durch die Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Cast

• Klangforum Wien
• 50 Studierende des Ludwig van Beethoven Instituts für Klavier in der Musikpädagogik der mdw:
• Theresa Allinger, Filip Anic, Michi Arai, Sophie Baumgartner, Milan Begovic,:
• Christoph Bratl, Isabella Brunbauer, Donna Suenyan Chan, Rafael Diaz Marenco,:
• Aleksandrina Dimitrova, Julia Fellner, Soleil Fröhlich, Diane Michele Galioit, Toya Lukas Graff,:
• Timofey Gusev, Lucia Haab, Susanna Hanke, Ada Sophie Heinke, Jenny Hu, Alexander Koschka,:
• Maria Koutsampari, Philipp Laher, Célest Lang, Valeria Lanner, Sara Lazar, Miriam Laznia,:
• Katja Limani, Hanmei Liu, David Marihart, Toranj Mashayekhi, Seyedreza Mojtabavi, Franziska Musil,:
• Kana Okamoto, Iliyana Stoyanova, Kinga Philippzig, Antons Rosputjko, Daphne Schreiber,:
• Erika Spring, David Stadler, Katarina Stolarov, Ava Esmaeili Tehrani, Tade Laurent Theuretzbacher,:
• Julia Trifu, Alexander Vounelakos, Eva-Maria Wagner, Jessica Wang, Jingwen Wang,:
• Antonia Winklmayr, Heidrun Wurm, Ying Ying Zhou:
• Johannes Marian: Koordination Klaviereinstudierung
• Clara Sophia Murnig: Koordination Klaviereinstudierung
• Albert Sassmann: Koordination Klaviereinstudierung
• Tim Anderson: Musikalische Leitung

Fifty (yes, fifty) pianos arranged all around the hall, all tuned one hundredth of a tone apart, and a chamber orchestra – Georg Friedrich Haas takes this totally utopian basic set-up to achieve astonishing levels of intensity that tap into new dimensions even by his standards. Starting out gentle, ethereal, almost like the strains of baroque music floating in from afar, in a matter of seconds it all turns into a futurist space opera; out of nothing, the sound suddenly seems to gain mass in space, becoming now dark and menacing, now as light as a feather. Hypnotic, unreal planes of sound begin to rotate, twisting definitively into the realm of three-dimensional space. Haas leaves no doubts even in the first minutes of his new piece: 11,000 Strings takes the listeners on a kind of journey through outer space, traversing a hitherto unknown space of sound.

Produktion Wien Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ferruccio Busoni – Gustav Mahler Stiftung mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Hailun Pianos
Koproduktion mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien