On 4 August 2018, Olga Neuwirth celebrates her 50th birthday, and the international musical world is honouring this occasion with numerous highlights from her oeuvre during the coming concert season. The tribute begins the day after her birthday at the BBC Proms, when Claire Chase presents the UK premiere of the flute concerto
Aello – ballet mécanomorphe with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Five further performances follow with that orchestra, as well as with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble intercontemporain and the Sejong Soloists. No less impressive is the line-up of artists for portrait concerts at the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, featuring world premieres of the revised version of her “musicstallation-theater”
The Outcast and Neuwirth’s specially commissioned live score for the newly restored version of the silent film
Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City without Jews). Her highly acclaimed orchestral work
Masaot/Clocks without Hands will be performed on the US West Coast for the first time in October, with Daniel Harding conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The piece will also be heard next year in Berlin at the MaerzMusik festival, played by the Konzerthausorchester under Peter Rundel.
Upcoming performances in 2018/19
Olga Neuwirth, Aello – ballet mécanomorphe, BBC Proms, 2018
Aello - ballet mécanomorphe (2017)
for solo flute, 2 muted trumpets, string ensemble, keyboard and typewriter
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Claire Chase (fl), Thomas Dausgaard (cond)
05.08.2018 (NP), Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms)
09.08.2018 (NP), Kloster Eberbach, Eltville am Rhein (Rheingau Musik Festival)
Ensemble Modern, Dietmar Wiesner (fl), Karsten Januschke (cond)
30.10.2018, Südflügel KulturBahnhof, Kassel (Kasseler Musiktage)
Ensemble Resonanz, Claire Chase (fl), Johannes Fischer (cond)
29.11.2018, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg (Greatest Hits)
Ensemble intercontemporain, Sophie Cherrier (fl), Matthias Pintscher (cond)
16.03.2019 (NP), Philharmonie de Paris
Sejong Soloists, Claire Chase (fl)
15.05.2019 (NP), Seoul Arts Centre
fumbling & tumbling (2018)
for solo trumpet in C
11.09.2018 (WP), Prinzregententheater, Munich (Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD)
The Outcast (2010/2012)
Homage to Herman Melville
A musicstallation-theater
Revised version
ORF RSO Wien, Ilan Volkov (cond)
14.11.2018 (WP), Wiener Konzerthaus (Wien Modern)
04.03.2019 (NP), Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Hooloomooloo (1997)
für Ensemble mit Zuspielband
Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling (cond)
11.12.2018, Wiener Konzerthaus
Hommage à Klaus Nomi (1998)
Neun Songs für Countertenor und kleines Ensemble
Ensemble Modern, Daniel Gloger (Ct), Karsten Januschke (cond)
30.10.2018, Südflügel KulturBahnhof, Kassel (Kasseler Musiktage)
Klangforum Wien, Andrew Watts (Ct), Sylvain Cambreling (cond)
11.12.2018, Wiener Konzerthaus
Die Stadt ohne Juden (2017)
für verstärktes Ensemble und Zuspielung
PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond)
07.11.2018 (WP), Wiener Konzerthaus (Wien Modern)
15.11.2018 (NP), Barbican Center London
28.11.2018 (NP), Kampnagel, Hamburg (Greatest Hits)
Israel Contemporary Players, Ilan Volkov (cond)
05.01.2019 (NP), Cinematheque, Tel Aviv
!?dialogues suffisants!? (1992)
Porträt einer Komposition als junger Affe für Violoncello, Schlagzeug, Tonband und Videomonitore (ad lib.)
PHACE
30.01.2019, Wiener Konzerthaus
Masaot/Clocks without Hands (2013)
für großes Orchester
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daniel Harding (cond)
26.10.2018, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
27.10.2018, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
28.10.2018, The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
New World Symphony, Matthias Pintscher (cond)
16.02.2018, New World Center, Miami Beach
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Peter Rundel (cond)
28.03.2019, Konzerthaus Berlin (MaerzMusik)
Le Encantadas o le avventure nel maredelle meraviglie (2015)
für sechs im Raum verteilte Ensemble-Gruppen, Samples und Live-Elektronik
Ensemble intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher (cond)
18.04.2019, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Maudite soit la guerre (2014)
A film music War Requiem
London Sinfonietta, Gerry Cornelius (cond)
01.11.2018, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Pallas/Construction (1996)
für drei Schlagzeuger und Live-Elektronik
ZAUM_percussion
23.11.2018, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
Orlando (2018)
08.12.2019 (WP), Wiener Staatsoper
Photos: Harald Hoffmann (Neuwirth); BBC/Chris Christodoulou (BBC Proms)