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After two fantastic concerts of Piano Spring 2013 with Christine Wodrascka & Sopie Agnel and Agustí Fernández (our 100th concert!) we are looking forward now to the pianists Elisabeth Harnik and Katharina Klement:
Katharina Klement - piano
Elisabeth Harnik - piano
There still is no common recording of the two Austrian pianists, even though their paths frequently crossed in the past. In 2006, for instance, they appeared together at the piano festival - then the contribution of Offene Ohren to ad hoc music - as part of the Austrian ensemble Soundog. At that time, alongside one piano only a clavichord was available, this time we will have two partly prepared grand pianos.
After her classical piano training, Elisabeth Harnik studied composition with Beat Furrer. Appearances as improvisor and performer of new compositions, particularly her own works, since 2000. She received many awards and grants; in 2010 she was artist in residence at OMI International Arts Center in New York. Additionally, she is involved in music education and has realized several interdisciplinary school projects.
Katharina Klement is active as composer-performer in the field of notated and improvised, electronic and instrumental music. Instrumental and electronic compositions, emphasis on spatial conceptions, crossover projects involving music, text, video, performance. Numerous multi-channel compositions in combination with instrument(s) and /or vocals show the range of her approach. Her particular interest lies on the piano and its extended playing techniques and on sound installations.
We are looking forward to this meeting of two musical concepts bound to complement each other ideally.
Location: MUG - Munich Underground at Einstein
Entrance fee: 14 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 10 Euro
Sebastian Gramss (Germany)
Barre Phillipps (US)
Tetsu Saitoh (Japan)
That's what you call luck! After securing a final gig for the tour "Double the Bass" undertaken by the bassists Sebastian Gramss and Barre Phillips, both of whom already appeared at Offene Ohren concerts, we can now announce a unique encounter of these two with yet another bassist - Tetsu Saitoh. A wonderful transcontinental summit of three masters from USA, Germany and Japan.
Tetsu and Barre have known each other for years, and there is even a CD with the same lineup (Nobuyoshi Ino playing the third bass). Tetsu recorded other CDs with Barre as well as with more performers at earlier Offene Ohren concerts, such as Michel Doneda, Joelle Léandre, Urs Leimgruber, Lê Quan Ninh.
Sebastian Gramss has Japanese ties as well: Frank Gratkowski's OirTrio features him as its second and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani as its third member.
We are looking forward to presenting this most unusual meeting of three worldclass bass improvisors in our subsonic space series!
Location: MUG - Munich Underground at Einstein
Entrance fee: 14 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 10 Euro
The concerts 2013 are organised by Offene Ohren e.V. (main organiser) and City of Munich, Department of Arts and Culture (co-organiser).