In October 2023 Offene Ohren e.V. was awarded the Federal APPLAUS Prize in the category “Best Small Venue or Concert Series”. We are very happy, because – thanks to the associated bonus – we can offer additional concert highlights for you in our anniversary year 2024.
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Tizia Zimmermann, accordion (CH)
Chris Pitsiokos, alto saxophone (USA)
Photo: YouTube video (see below) © DonMount, (RedHook New York City June 22, 2023)
Chris Pitsiokos (*1990) is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser. His music combines the intensity and immediacy of extreme rock forms and noise with the lyricism and forward propulsion of jazz and the abstract detail of contemporary classical composers Iannis Xenakis and Helmut Lachenmann.
Tizia Zimmermann (*1995) has been playing the accordion since she was eight years old. She studied classical music with Teodoro Anzellotti at the Bern University of the Arts, where she completed her master's degree in performance with honors in 2020. Tizia Zimmermann plays in a variety of formations with a focus on contemporary and improvised music as well as experimental noise and was active on the board of WIM Zurich (Workshop for Improvised Music).
In their duo, the two musicians explore the details of this unusual
combination of instruments, between minimalism, melodies and brutal
Outbursts of violence in seamless transitions. And sometimes all of that
happens at the same time.
Get a listening impression from June 2023 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50dQPby1SAA
Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro
Photo © top left to right:
Ulrich Phillipp (bass) © Erika Enders
Angelika Sheridan (flutes) © Niclas Weber
Julien Pontvianne (saxophone) © Michel Jublou
Photo © below left to right:
Judith Wegmann (piano) © Pierre Pallez
Burkhard Schlothauer (violin) © Gino Dambrowski
The Tian project brings together five musicians from Germany, France and Switzerland who share an affinity for silence, slowness and intensive listening to sounds:
Ulrich Phillipp (Bass / D), Julien Pontvianne (Saxofon / F), Burkhard Schlothauer (Violine / D), Angelika Sheridan (Flöten / D), Judith Wegmann (Piano / CH)
They use traditional and experimental instrumental playing styles and forego solo gestures in favor of a communal sound. A collective music of ascetic sensuality emerges.
Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro
This concert is made possible also by the Federal Culture Prize Applaus, which Offene Ohren e.V. was awarded in autumn 2023.
Elija Creighton Wallace, piano (USA)
Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to his own projects, he works with other like-minded artists; together with Drew Wesely he curates the interdisciplinary performance series Invocation.
His work as a pianist displays his vast milieu of experiences from classical, jazz, free improvisation studies, and extensive piano preparation, while his compositions employ notational strategies to broaden the manner in which sounds are created and the ways in which musicians interact.
Over the past decade he has appeared on dozens of albums and has performed at such esteemed venues as The Stone, New York, NY, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, and the Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, CA.
Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro
The friends of improvised music of the Offene Ohren e.V. would like to thank the Kulturreferat München for its continuous help allowing to present improvised music in Munich.