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2011
12.03.2011 Deutschlandfunk
Keys, Hands, Neural Networks- Radio Portrait
Performance/Interview with pianist Heather O'Donnell
23.03.2011 RBB
MUSIK DER GEGENWART- Radio Portrait
Performance/Interview with pianist Heather O'Donnell
27.03.2011 MaerzMusik, Berlin
Ken Ueno- portrait concert
Heather O’Donnell, piano
Kyoko Kawamura, Koto
Kim Kashkashian / Wendy Richman, Viola
Greg Oakes, clarinet
Robin Hayward, Tuba
Robyn Schulkowsky, Percussion
Ken Ueno, voice
ensemble unitedberlin
Stanley Dodds, conductor
The rest of 2011 is reserved for family and personal development.
Please check back in 2012.
Thank you.
03.01.2010 Deutschland Radio
Radio Documentary- A short history of memory
Interviews with an actress, Buddhist monk and pianist on the role of memory in their work
20.02.2010 Villa Elisabeth , Berlin
Entlöse- for piano & string trio
by Jean-Luc Hervé
with the Kairos Quartett
23.02.2010 Clavier Cabinett, Berlin
Concerts in the Box
J.S. Bach- Partita for keyboard in C-minor
Ives- Sonata no. 2 for violin & piano
Stravinsky- Suite italienne for violin & piano
with Daniella Strasfogel, violin
26.02.2010 The Japan Foundation, Cologne
Kaleidoskop Amerika Japan
Shoko Shida-Prediction for marimba (WP)
Ken Ueno- Disabitato for piano (GP)
Morton Feldman- Nature Pieces for piano
Roger Reynolds- Autumn Island for marimba
Toshio Hosokawa- Reminiscence for marimba
Shoko Shida- Yogen (Oracle) for piano (WP)
Alejandro Viñao- Riff for piano and marimba (GP)
with Kunihiko Komori, Marimba
live broadcast by Deutschlandfunk
5.03.2010 Siemen's Villa , Berlin
Resonant Space- Oliver Schneller
recording for wergo
with ensemble mosaik
25.03.2010 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Recital- MaerzMusik Festival
Alvin Curran- Inner Cities no. 11
Frederic Rzewski- The People United will Never be Defeated
36 variations on the Chilean song ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Sergio Ortega
03/04.04.2010 Radialsystem, Berlin
The Book of Wellness
Eliav Brand
Book of Wellness: your guide to better life I
Pierre Jodlowski
Respire (2008)
Johannes Kreidler
for a Solo Western Man
Morton Feldman
For Samuel Beckett
with KNM Berlin, Michael Wendeberg, conductor
27.04.2010 BKA, Unerhörte Musik , Berlin
Sidney Corbett at 50, birthday concert
world premieres by Chris Adler, Harold Bedoya, Markus Bongartz, Nikolaus Brass, Martin Bresnick, Hanna Cho, Moritz Eggert, Panos Iliopoulus, Georg Katzer, Sarah Nemtsov, Rainer Rubbert, Oliver Schneller, Klaus Schöpp, Iris ter Shiphorst, Manfred Stahnke, Walter Zimmermann, Sidney Corbett
with Gesa Hoppe, soprano
Yoriko Ikeda, piano
Klaus Schöpp, flute
Matias de Oliveiro Pinto, cello
Gerhard Scherer, accordion
Heather O'Donnell, piano
05.05.2010 Cuvilliés-Theater, Munich
new work- Oliver Schneller
Ernst von Siemens prize ceremony
with Bettina Junge, flute
Roland Neffe, percussion
Heather O'Donnell, piano
21.05.2010 Music Academy, Rheinsberg
Doppelklänger- for prepared and amplified piano
by Clara Maïda
23.05.2010 Music Academy, Rheinsberg
Recital- works for flute & piano
with Carin Levine, flute
Heather O'Donnell, piano
31.08.2010 Hauptbahnhof (Central Train Station), Berlin
Piano Recital
works of Ravel, Gershwin, Adams, Tenney, Schneller
07.09.2010 Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Portrait concert- Oliver Schneller
with Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
09.09.2010 UP Abelardo Hall Auditorium, Manila
Portrait concert- Oliver Schneller
works of Oliver Schneller, Charles Ives, and James Tenney
11.09.2010 The Podium, Manila
Piano Recital
works of Ravel, Schumann, Chopin, Adams, Gershwin
17.09.2010 Shanghai Square Times, Shanghai
Piano Recital
works of Ravel, Schumann, Chopin, Adams, Gershwin, Schneller
29.09.2010 Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Cantabile- Liedgesang im Wandel der Zeit
works of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Dowland, Bach, Reynaldo Hayn, Ravel, Mompou
with Corinna Pregla, soprano
Heather O'Donnell, pianist
9.10.2010 Heidelberger Biennale, Heidelberg
Blick verzaubert...- Wolfram Schurig
Yuunohui- Julio Estrada
with Kairos Quartett
15.10.2010 Sinus-Ton Festival, Magdeburg
Klänge aus dem Äther
Music for theremin, piano, percussion, and electronics by Ennio Morricone, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Peter Gahn, Juliane Klein, Tom Schneller (world premiere)
with Barbara Buchholz, theremin
Heather O’Donnell, piano
Matthias Engler, percussion
Oliver Schneller, sound projection
16.10.2010 Sinus-Ton Festival, Magdeburg
Bird Concerto with pianosong- Jonathan Harvey
with Ensemble United Berlin
Heather O'Donnell, piano
19.11.2010 Studio Niculescu, Berlin
portrait concert- works of Ursula Mamlok
with Sonar Quartett
Helge Harding, clarinet
Heather O'Donnell, piano
25-27.11.2010 Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
recording- works of Ursula Mamlok
with Sonar Quartett
Helge Harding, clarinet
Heather O'Donnell, piano
29.11.2010 DENK-ANSTÖSSE, Wuppertal
Klang der Stille, contemporary music with texts by Meister Eckhardt
Corinna Pregla, singer
Heather O’Donnell, piano
Joachim Berger, moderation
4.12.2010 Union Bank Auditorium, Amman Jordan
Piano Recital
works of Bach, Ravel, Schumann, Chopin, Adams, Gershwin, Schneller
benefit concert for Theodore Schneller School
5.12.2010 German-French Culture Week, Zarka Jordan
Piano Recital
works of Bach, Ravel, Schumann, Chopin, Adams, Gershwin, Schneller
2009
11.01.2009 Bröhan Museum, Berlin
Vernissage- Atmospheric landscapes. Paintings by Walter Leistikow
Zimlinsky- Fantasien über gedichte von Richard Dehmel
13.01.2009 Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
Radio Broadcast
Young China Festival
with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
20.01.2009 Klavier Cabinett, Berlin
solo recital
Debussy- Reflets dans l'eau
Schumann- Davidsbündlertänze, op.6
Charles Ives- Concord Sonata
12.02.2009 Manhattan School of Music, New York
lecture
Responses to Ives Project
01.03.2009 An Die Musik, Baltimore
solo recital
Debussy- Reflets dans l'eau
Schumann- Davidsbündlertänze, op.6
Charles Ives- Concord Sonata
04.03.2009 Le Poisson Rouge, New York
James Blackshaw, 12-String Guitar
Charles Ives- Concord Sonata
Heather O'Donnell, pianist
Meg Baird, Folk Singer
29.03.2009 Arte Television
Die Gezeichneten- Silent Film by Carl Theodor Dreyers (1922)
Bernd Thewes, composer
Dietmar Wiesner, flute
Erik Borgir, cello
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
Heather O'Donnell, piano
07.04.2009 Deutschlandfunk
Radio Documentary
Responses to Ives Project
Heather O'Donnell, piano
14.04.2009 University of the Arts, Berlin
Portrait Concert
Walter Zimmermann at 60
Voces Abandonadas, Wüstenwanderung, The missing nail (at the river)
plus "Sonic Gifts", new pieces for piano in honor of WZ from
Dieter Schnebel, Kevin Volans, Christian Wolff, Cathy van Eck, Alvin Curran, Boudewijn Buckinx, Makiko Nishikaze, Erhard Grosskopf, Oliver Schneller, Nils Günther, Frederic Rzewski, Klarenz barlow, Edu Haubensak, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Daniel Wolf, Friedrich Goldmann, Daniel N. Seel, Peter Sabat, Marc Sabat, Stefan Bartling, Barbara Monk Feldman, Sarah Nemtsov, Hauke Harder, Werner Heider, Wolfgang von Schweinitz
Heather O'Donnell, Daniel Ott, pianos
19-20.04.2009 MDR, Leipzig
Recording of Dimitri Terzakis' Beaudelaire-Zyklus
with Brigitte Fassbaender
Ensemble Courage
16.05.2009 Tage der Neuen Musik, Bamberg
solo recital
Piano Works of Walter Zimmermann
Voces abandonadas
Wüstenwanderung
The missing nail (at the river)
4.06.2009 MDR, Leipzig
Radio-Documentary of Dimitri Terzakis' Beaudelaire-Zyklus
with Brigitte Fassbaender
Ensemble Courage
5.06.2009 Konzerthaus, Berlin
Niebla
Elena Mendoza-Lopez, composer
Matthias Rebstock, director
with Ensemble Courage- Titus Engel, conductor
13-14.06.2009 Konzerthaus, Berlin
Niebla
Elena Mendoza-Lopez, composer
Matthias Rebstock, director
with Ensemble Courage- Titus Engel, conductor
17.06.2009 Villa Elizabeth, Berlin
Music of Jennifer Walsh & Michael Maierhof
Erik Drescher, flute
Heather O'Donnell, piano
Claudia Sgarbi, percussion
20-21.06.2009 Teatro del Canal, Madrid
Niebla
Elena Mendoza-Lopez, composer
Matthias Rebstock, director
with Ensemble Courage- Titus Engel, conductor
27.06.2009 Het Muziekenhuis, Nijmegen
Five Imaginary Spaces for piano and live-electronics
Oliver Schneller, composer
Nico Huijbregts, paintings
07.07.2009 GEDOK, Hamburg
Music of Bunita Marcus, Pauline Oliveros, Susanne Stelzenbach, Mayako Kubo.
Erik Drescher, flute
Heather O'Donnell, piano
Claudia Sgarbi, percussion
16.08.2009 Musik 21 Festival 2009, Hannover
Piano recital
Jonathan Harvey- Tombeau de Messiaen for Piano & CD
Morton Feldman- Nature Pieces
Oliver Schneller- Five Imaginary Spaces for Piano & Electronics
25.08.2009 Mode Records
Solo-CD release
Responses to Ives
11.09.2009 Paulskirche, Frankfurt
Adorno-Prize awarded to filmmaker/writer Alexander Kluge
Piano music by Ligeti, Lachenmann, and Adorno
16.09.2009 Central Train Station (Hauptbahnhof), Berlin
Piano recital
Charles Ives- The Celestial Railroad
Oliver Schneller- Five Imaginary Spaces for piano & electronics
Charles Ives- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos, new version for piano & electronics
Morton Feldman- Nature Pieces
Oliver Schneller- and Tomorrow... for piano & electronics
21-23.09.2009 Pierre Y. Aboukhater Amphitheater, Beirut
Residency/Recital
Charles Ives- The Celestial Railroad
Oliver Schneller- Five Imaginary Spaces for piano & electronics
Charles Ives- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos, new version for piano & electronics
Morton Feldman- Nature Pieces
Oliver Schneller- and Tomorrow... for piano & electronics
+ Workshop- Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music
24.09.2009 Schneller School, West Beqaa, Lebanon
Recital- Opening of school year
Music of Bach, Schumann, Debussy, Schneller
30.09.2009 Signale, Mannheim
Works by Sidney Corbett, Wolfgang Rihm, Ernst Bechert, and Gerhard Stäbler
with Johannes M. Kösters, baritone
Dennis Kuhn, percussion
Thorsten Gellings percussion
Heather O'Donnell, piano
03.11.2009 Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Center for European Excellence, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy
Works by John Cage, B.A. Zimmermann, H.W. Henze
with Corinna Pregla, soprano
Heather O'Donnell, piano
09.11.2009 Le Poisson Rouge, New York
Recital
Walter Zimmermann- the missing nail (at the river) for piano & toy-piano
Oliver Schneller- Five Imaginary Spaces for piano & electronics
Charles Ives- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos, new version for piano & electronics
Oliver Schneller- and Tomorrow... for piano & electronics
Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall + "Responses to Ives" CD
10.11.2009 An die Musik, Baltimore
Solo-Recital
Oliver Schneller- Five Imaginary Spaces for piano & electronics
Charles Ives- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos, new version for piano & electronics
Oliver Schneller- and Tomorrow... for piano & electronics
Charles Ives- The Celestial Railroad
Robert Schumann- Fantasie, op. 17
12.11.2009 New England Conservatory, Boston
Lecture- Professional Artist seminar
12.11.2009 Goethe Institut, Boston
Solo-Recital
Oliver Schneller- Five Imaginary Spaces for piano & electronics
Charles Ives- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos, new version for piano & electronics
Oliver Schneller- and Tomorrow... for piano & electronics
Charles Ives- The Celestial Railroad
Robert Schumann- Fantasie, op. 17
15.11.2009 Ethical Society, Philadelphia
Solo-Recital
Walter Zimmermann- The Missing Nail (at the river)
Charles Ives- The Celestial Railroad
Robert Schumann- Fantasie, op. 17
19.11.2009 Georg Philipp Telemann Conservatory, Magdeburg
Portrait Concert
Music of Helmut Lachenmann (in residence)
Serynade for piano
26.11.2009 Philharmonie, Cologne
TripClubbing³
with
Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina, theremins
Nancy Laufer, accordion
Heather O'Donnell, piano
2008
19-21.02.08 Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
Responses to Ives Project
CD production
release on Mode Records in winter 2009
27-29.02.2008 Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
Instinct
Helmut Oehring, composer
Pál Frenák, choreographer
Christoph Brech, Video-artist
with Compagnie Pal Frenak
László Hudacsek, percussion
Heather O'Donnell, pianist & project conception
16.03.2008 MaerzMusik, Berlin
solo recital
Federico Mompou- Música Callada
Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
Franz Liszt- Nuages gris, Am Grabe Richard Wagners, La lugubre gondola
2-4.04.2008 La Rose des Vents, Lille
Instinct
9-10.04.2008 Cultuurcentrum, Bruges
Instinct
6-11.05.2008 Musikakademie, Rheinsberg
Residency- concerts/masterclasses
with Susanne Zapf, violin
Heather O'Donnell, piano
15.05.2008 Hochschule, Bremen
"Touch, Don't Touch!"
New works by Ali Gorji, Michael Hirsch, Juliane Klein, Gordon Kampe
with
Barbara Buchholz, theremin
Lydia Kavina, theremin
Nancy Laufer, accordion
Heather O'Donnell, piano
18.05.2008 WDR, Cologne
Radio program- WDR 3 open: Studio New Music
Beethoven-Reflexes
Nicolaus A. Huber
Weiße Radierung for Orchester; WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Conductor: Peter Rundel
Arnulf Herrmann
Privatsammlung, Variations for piano; Heather O'Donnell
Manuel Hidalgo
Beethovens Große Fuge, op. 133, arranged for
Orchestra; WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Conductor: Lothar Zagrosekr
5.6.2008 Paiais Prinz Carl, Heidelberg
solo recital
Helmut Lachenman- Serynade
Sidney Corbett- the Celestial Potatofields
Irina Federenko- 3 Pieces for Piano
6.6.2008 University of Music and Performing Arts, Mannheim
lecture
Helmut Lachenmann- Serynade
15.6.2008 RTL Television
"Primetime", Alexander Kluge in conversation with Heather O´Donnell
19.06.2008 German Technikmuseum, Berlin
Piano works of Orm Finnendahl
Regulairregulair, Versatzstücke
25.7.2008 Inventionen Festival, Berlin
world premieres for solo-piano
Clara Maïda- Doppelklänge for prepared piano
Wolfgang Suppan- Exzenter
03.8.2008 RTL Television
"Primetime", Alexander Kluge in conversation with Heather O'Donnell
15.8.2008 New China Festival, Frankfurt
new works for piano by young Chinese composers
25.9.2008 INTERFACE: BEYROUTH The Beirut of Education, Berlin
Improv Beirut International
with Joelle Khoury, piano
Heather O´Donnell, keyboards
Sabine Vogel, flute
Tony Buck, percussion
02.10.2008 Bröhan Museum, Berlin
Vernissage- Atmospheric landscapes. Paintings by Walter Leistikow
Debussy- Reflets dans l'eau
Scriabin- Feuillet d'album Op.45 No.1
04.10.2008 Piano Salon Christophori, Berlin
solo recital
Federico Mompou- Música Callada
17.10.2008 Sinus Ton Festival, Magdeburg
Chengbi An- Gediao, for piano and electronics
Alvin Lucier- (Magdeburg) Memory Space
with Karina Bellmann, violin
John Eckhardt, bass
Seth Josel, guitar
Matthias Lorenz, cello
Heather O'Donnell, piano
18.10.2008 Sinus Ton Festival, Magdeburg
New Works for Piano and Video
Inouk Demers, Shintaro Imai, Oliver Schneller, Kotoka Suzuki- composers
Luisa Greenfield, Claudia Rohrmoser- video
Ludger Bruemmer- Move, for piano, live electronics and video
7.11.2008 Klangwerkstatt, Berlin
Works of Orm Finnendahl, Malika Kishino,Oliver Schneller (world-premieres)
13.11.2008 Musik21, Düsseldorf
"Touch, Don't Touch!"
New works by Juliane Klein(WP), Sidney Corbett (WP), Peter Gahn (WP), Michael Hirsch, Gordon Kampe
with
Barbara Buchholz, theremin
Lydia Kavina, theremin
Nancy Laufer, accordion
Heather O'Donnell, piano
25.11.2008 Klangwerktage, Hamburg
New Works for Piano and Video
Inouk Demers, Shintaro Imai, Oliver Schneller, Kotoka Suzuki- composers
Luisa Greenfield, Claudia Rohrmoser- video
Ludger Bruemmer- Move, for piano, live electronics and video
xx.11.2008 PianoStation Festival, Klangpol, Oldenburg
solo recital
Chengbi An- Gediao, for piano and electronics
Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
James Tenney- Essays after a Sonata
Wolfgang Suppan- Exzenter
Oliver Schneller- And tomorrow..., for piano & electronic
11.12.2008 Piano+ Festival (ZKM), Karlsruhe
Works of Michael Beil, Sven-Ingo Koch (world-premieres), Orm Finnendahl, Malika Kishino
2.11.02 Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace- St. Petersburg
Chamber Opera
Kyle Gann
26.10.02 Dom Theater- Moscow
Alternativa Festival
Gann.
24.10.02 Dom Theater- Moscow
Alternativa Festival, Solo Recital
Adams, Corbett, Murail, Schneller, Feldman
15.10.02 Merkin Hall- New York City
Washington Square Contemporary Music Society
Schneller- 5 Imaginary Spaces
15.6.02 Espace de Projection, IRCAM- Paris
Schneller- 5 Imaginary Spaces