Mountain & Maiden

Steven Daverson: Simulacrum (2025)
Uraufführung / World Premiere

Huihui Cheng:  Breaking Mirrors (2025)
Uraufführung / World Premiere

Elena Rykova: Amber Blackcurrant Time (2024)

Patrick Stadler (Saxofon / Saxophone)

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Sarah Nemtsov: Mountain & Maiden für Keyboard solo mit verstärktem Klavier und Stimme nach einem Film von Shmuel Hoffman & Anton von Heiseler (2019)

Georgia Koumará: Wolpertinger für Solo Synthesizer (2020)

Małgorzata Walentynowicz (Klavier / Piano, Keyboard & Synthesizer)

How the sound of an instrument can be expanded through and with other media is not a banal question – but rather the result of constant research and openness to new and unknown solutions. Pianist Małgorzata Walentynowicz and saxophonist Patrick Stadler – both tutors at this year's Darmstadt Summer Course – are absolute experts in this search for expansion.

Patrick Stadler regularly works with electronics, as in the three works in this concert: while Steven Daverson refers to current paintings by Johannes Tassilo Walter in Simulacrum and creates an equivalent methodical approach through the use of electronic resources, the electronics in Huihui Cheng's Breaking Mirrors analyze, reflect and transform the saxophone sounds. Amber Blackcurrant Time in turn musically evokes happy childhood memories. With her two presented pieces, Małgorzata Walentynowicz literally uses a variety of different keyboards: In Mountain & Maiden by Sarah Nemtsov – a composition for the film by Shmuel Hoffman and Anton von Heiseler about the arduous life of a ten-year-old girl in New Delhi – it is the keyboard and amplified piano. For Georgia Koumará's Wolpertinger, she resorts to a virtual Minimoog synthesizer, which crosses analog functions of the original instrument (oscillators, filters) with digital sound enhancements in the spirit of the eponymous enigmatic Bavarian mythical and hybrid creature.