For the 4th time the Exilarte Center of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna awarded the Exilarte prize in the final round of the International Interpretation CompetitionVerfemte Musik 2020, which was founded in 2001 in Schwerin, Germany. Inga Balzer (soprano) and Wolf Tilman (piano) convinced the jury with their interpretation of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s song cycle Unvergänglichkeit. As part of this special prize, the duo will be invited to give a concert within the Exilarte concert series “Echo of the Unheard” in Vienna in the coming season.
Dr. Ulrike Anton, member of the jury at the International Interpretation Competition Verfemte Musik 2020 in Schwerin, presents the Exilarte prize to soprano Inga Balzer and pianist Tilman Wolf. October 11th, 2020 (Foto: Oliver Borchert)
“My Song For You”: Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura – Between Two Worlds
Exhibition of the exil.arte Center of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
WE ARE OPEN AGAIN STARTING MAY 19th 2021
Photo credits: Maria Noisternig
Simultaneous event and Livestream from the Liszt Hall of the mdw in Vienna and the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York now available on Youtube
On the occasion of the transfer of the estate of Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura to the exil.arte Center of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), an exhibition has been prepared to present the life of the opera dream couple and their friends and colleagues.
Special Guests: Ulrike Sych (President of the mdw) and Wolfgang Sobotka (President of the Austrian Parliament) World-famous tenor Ramón Vargas and Pianist István Bonyhádi
The opening will also be available on mdw Mediathek from November 9th, 2020.
Livestream from the Liszt Hall, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
This project is supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Sarajevo. Due to the current Covid-19 situation performances will partly take place online.
On September 28th, September 30th and October 4th, 2020, the WISE Soloists Ensemble & friends will present, among others, works by Julius Bürger, Hans Gál, Wilhelm Grosz and Vally Weigl, who were all forced to flee from the terror of the NS-regime. The performances are part of the 8th Vareš Classic Festival.
The three concerts will be moderated by Gerold Gruber, chairman and founder of exil.arte, and Andrea Nikolić, director of the Vareš Classic Festival.
Monday, 28.09.2020, 7 PM “A Song in EXILE” Link: https://youtu.be/azUTUpAXDtg
Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Adelaide, op. 46 Ich liebe dich, WoO 123
Josipa Bainac (soprano), David Hausknecht (piano)
Emil Cossetto (1918-2006): Cancion Sefardita de Bosnia “Los Moricos Cantan”
Josipa Bainac (soprano), David Hausknecht (piano)
Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939): A Song in Exile
Josipa Bainac (soprano), David Hausknecht (piano)
Hans Gál (1890 – 1987) : Abend auf dem Fluß, op. 33, Nr. 5
Josipa Bainac (soprano), David Hausknecht (piano)
Julius Bürger (1897 – 1995): String Quartet Nr.2
Andrea Nikolić (violin), Edua Zadory (violin), Marta Potulska (viola), Liliana Kehayova (cello)
Wednesday, 30.09.2020, 7 PM “Paradiso in EXILE“ Link: https://youtu.be/Pa98Kq0PP2g
Program:
Meinhard Rüdenauer (*1943): Concerto al Paradiso (2019)
Nataša Veljković (piano), Ivana Nikolić (oboe), Andrea Nikolić (violin), Marta Potulska (viola), Liliana Kehayova (cello)
Gabriele Proy (*1965): Amethyst for Solo Violin
Edua Zadory (violin)
Hans Gál (1890 – 1987) Concertino for Flute und String Quartet, op. 82
Ulrike Anton (flute), Andrea Nikolić (violin), Edua Zadory (violin), Marta Potulska (viola), Liliana Kehayova (cello)
Sunday, 04.10.2020, 7 PM “Women in EXILE“ Link: https://youtu.be/GUlaVpVskr8
Vally Weigl (1894 – 1982) : Bird of Life for Solo Flute VI. Bird’s Farewell to the Setting Sun
Ulrike Anton (flute)
Thea Musgrave (*1928) Night Windows for Oboe and Piano
Ivana Nikolić (oboe), Stipe Bilić (piano)
Lera Auerbach (*1973): T’filah for Solo Violin
Andrea Nikolić (Violine)
Johanna Doderer (*1969): Rosa lacrimosa
Josipa Bainac (soprano), David Hausknecht (piano)
Gabriele Proy (*1965) : Alchemilla vulgaris In memoriam Johanna Dohnal
Ulrike Anton (flute), Andrea Nikolić (violin), Marta Potulska (viola), Liliana Kehayova (cello)
Gerold Gruber, Ulrike Anton and Michael Haas are guests of Andreas Pehl from the Bayerischer Rundfunk and talk about the extraordinary life cycle and the works of the composer Hans Winterberg, persecuted by the National Socialists.
Bavarian Radio Classical, Friday, October 11, 2019, 19:05 – 20 clock A replay of the program will take place on Saturday, October 12 at 2:05 pm.
The program can be heard via the live stream of Bayerischer Rundfunk and is also available via the media library or podcast service of the BR.
The international Symposium „Jewish Music in South Germany – History, Exile, Continuance“ initiated by Tina Frühauf, took place at Munich’s University for Music and Performing Arts on July 11th and 12th 2019. It presented a wide spectrum of creativity current in Southern Germany prior to 1933, and included papers on both secular and liturgical works. exil.arte was represented by DDr. Prof. Gerold Gruber and Dr. Ulrike Anton both giving their papers on life and work of Hans Winterberg and Dr. Michael Haas, who spoke on the Kulturbund and New Zealand exile-composer Robert Fuchs. Documentation on Hans Winterberg as well as the estate of Robert Fuchs make up part of the archive of the exil.arte Center.
a.o. Univ.-Prof. DDr. h.c. Gerold Gruber
Peter Kreitmeir
Dr. Ulrike Anton
Dr. Michael Haas
Dr. Michael Haas
Keller der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Keller der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
WALTER ARLEN’S FIRST CENTURY, a documentary by Vienna-based filmmaker Stephanus Domanig, paints an affectionate and multifaceted picture of a musician exiled in 1938, who only got to see his works performed late in life.
The film accompanies Walter Arlen for a part of his journey. With ease it paints the portrait of a remarkable man, a man who went through years of darkness but never lost sight of the “blue light of the last streetcar”.
Following the 90-minute screening of the film, there was a Q&A with exil.arte’s founding Director Gerold Gruber and filmmaker Stephanus Domanig. Jeannie Im (soprano) and Dan Franklin Smith (piano) presented examples of Arlen’s musical oeuvre including “Five Songs of Love and Yearning.”
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York Mit Trio Artio, Gerold Gruber im Gespräch mit Susanne Korbel und dem Zeitzeugen George Wolff
André Singer wurde in Serbien geboren und studierte an der mdw. In der Zwischenkriegszeit konnte er sich als Komponist, Pianist und Texter einen Namen im Bereich des Wiener Kabaretts machen (Literatur am Naschmarkt). 1938 musste er in die USA fliehen und arbeitete als Kompositionslehrer an einem amerikanischen College. George Wolff, ein Freund von André Singer, wird über sein Leben und sein Werk aus seiner Sicht berichten.
