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heather o'donnell                                                  schedule

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

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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

 

24.9.2008 Beyrouth Festival, Berlin

Impovisations

with Joelle Khoury, piano
Heather O´Donnell, keyboards
Sabine Vogel, flute
Tony Buck, percussion

 

04.10.2008 Piano Salon Christophori, Berlin

solo recital

Maurice Ravel- Gaspard de la nuit
Federico Mompou- Música Callada

 

18.10.2008 Sinus Ton Festival, Magdeburg

Piano optophonique

New Works for Piano and Video

 

7.11.2008 Klangwerkstatt, Berlin

Ensemble 2x2

Works of Orm Finnendahl, Malika Kishino,Oliver Schneller (world-premieres)

 

November 2008 Klangwerktage, Hamburg

Piano optophonique

New Works for Piano and Video

 

11.12.2008 Piano+ Festival (ZKM), Karlsruhe

Ensemble 2x2

Works of Michael Beil, Sven-Ingo Koch (world-premieres), Orm Finnendahl, Malika Kishino

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2007

 

 

25/26.01.2007 "Piano optophonique" Project

Ultraschall Festival, Berlin

New works for piano and video/film, world premiere

with Inouk Demers, Shintaro Imai, Oliver Schneller, and Kotoka Suzuki, composers
Anna Geyer, film maker
Claudia Rohrmoser, video artist

Heather O'Donnell, pianist & project conception

video from concert
photos from concert

 

16.02.07 Bode Museum, Berlin

Solo Recital

Mozart- Sonata in F-Major, K. 332
Liszt- Saint François d'Assise, la prédication aux oiseaux
Debussy- Image, bk. 1
Ives- the Celestial Railroad
     Transcriptions of songs- "Mists", "Afterglow", "Thoreau" (trans. H. O'Donnell)
     Study no. 21- "Some South-Paw Pitching"

 

01.03.07 Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Oliver Schneller- Track & Field
audio-visual composition for piano, 4 loudspeakers, accessories, and video projection
Maxim Seloujanov- Suonata Petri

 

09.03.07 Rotes Rathaus, Berlin

Memorial for poet Oscar Pastior

Wolfgang von Schweinitz- O-Ton "Automne" – Linguistikherbst

with Ksenija Lukic, soprano
Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Heather O'Donnell, piano

 

10.03.07 Ars Nova Festival (SWR), Rottweil

Helmut Lachenmann
Fünf Variationen über ein Thema von Franz Schubert
for solo piano

Juliana Hodkinson- THE RECITAL PIECE: A REMIX
performance piece for pianist and musician with reel-to-reel tape machine, LP-player and CD-player
Heather O'Donnell, piano; Ekkehard Windrich, DJ

Mark Andre
asche
with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

 

2-4.04.07 Deutschlandfunk, Cologne

Responses to Ives Project

CD production
release on Mode Records TBA

 

20.04.07 Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Witten

debut concert of ensemble 2x2

Benjamin Kobler, piano
Heather O'Donnell, piano
László Hudacsek, percussion
Rie Watanabe, percussion

Oliver Schneller- Resonant Space

commissioned by WDR Radio

 

22.04.07 Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Witten

ensemble 2x2

Benjamin Kobler, piano
Heather O'Donnell, piano
László Hudacsek, percussion
Rie Watanabe, percussion

Jérôme Combier- Sables de vieux os
Paul Usher- Lines of Drift

commissioned by WDR Radio

 

09.05.07 Het Muziekenhuis, Nijmegen

Solo Recital

"The Birds"

Messiaen- Le Traquet Rieur
Ravel- Oiseaux Tristes
Messiaen- L'Alouette Calandrelle
Couperin- Le Rossignol en-amour
Liszt- Saint François d'Assise, la prédication aux oiseaux
Finnissy- Nashville Nightingale
Oscar Peterson- Bye-bye Blackbird (trans. H. O'Donnell)

with improvisations based on bird song by Fred van Duijnhoven, percussionist

 

11.05.07 Piano Salon Christophori , Berlin

Solo Recital

"The Birds"

 

12.05.07 Shinkel-Saal , Magdeburg

Solo Recital

"The Birds"

 

01.06.07 Beijing Modern Music Festival, Beijing China
Central Conservatory of Music

Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
Arnulf Herrmann- Privatsammlung
Charles Ives- the Celestial Railroad

 

13.06.2007 Concert Hall of Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt

Portrait Concert- Walter Zimmermann

A wife has a cow a Love story
The Echoing Green
Wüstenwanderung

Heather O'Donnell, Ulrich Murtfeld, piano
Annette Reisinger, violin

 

19-23.06.07 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, Boston

Masterclasses, Recitals

Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
Walter Zimmermann- the missing nail at the river
Arnulf Herrmann- Privatsammlung
Bernhard Lang- DW12 "cellular automata"

 

7/8.08.2007 Sziget Festival, Budapest

World Premiere- Instinct

Helmut Oehring, composer
Pál Frenák, choreographer
Christoph Brech, Video-artist

with Compagnie Pal Frenak
László Hudacsek, percussion
Heather O'Donnell, pianist & project conception

 

13.08.2007 Muffathalle, Munich

Instinct

 

29.09.07 - 01.10.07 KunstForum Hellerau, Dresden

World Premiere- Niebla

Elena Mendoza-Lopez, composer
Matthias Rebstock, director
with Ensemble Courage- Titus Engel, conductor

 

10.10.07 WDR, Cologne

CD Production

Arnulf Herrmann- Privatsammlung
Helmut Lachenmann- Fünf Variationen über ein Thema von Franz Schubert
for solo piano

 

24.10.07 Max Planck Institute, Berlin

Lecture Concert, Physiology of the Piano

Bernhard Lang- DW12 "cellular automata"
Frederic Chopin- Nocturnes op. 27

Discussion with Julia Kursell, Heather O'Donnell, Bernhard Lang, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Joseph Vogl.

 

04.11.07 Klangwerkstatt Festival, Berlin

"Touch, Don't Touch!"
World-premieres by Michael Hirsch and Ali Gorji

with

Barbara Buchholz, theremin
Lydia Kavina, theremin
Nancy Laufer, accordion
Heather O'Donnell, piano

 

05.11.07 Jüdische Gemeinde, Würzburg

"Touch, Don't Touch!"

 

06.11.07 GMZ-Festival, Aachen

"Touch, Don't Touch!"
Werken von Gordon Kampe (UA) und Juliane Klein

 

08-12.11.07 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

 

13.11.07 Signale, Mannheim

"Touch, Don't Touch!"

 

20.11.07 Espace des arts, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

Instinct

 

25.11- 15.12. 2007 The Banff Centre, Canada

residency/concert

Responses to Ives Project

 

13.12. 2007 The Banff Centre, Canada

'Responses to Ives'

Piano works by Charles Ives, Michael Finnissy, Frederic Rzewski, James Tenney, Oliver Schneller, Sidney Corbett, George Flynn, Walter Zimmermann

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2006

 

 

14.12.06 Konzerthaus, Berlin

Wolfgang von Schweinitz- O-Ton "Automne" – Linguistikherbst
Oliver Schneller- And Tomorrow. . .
Samuel Tramin- Lepidopteraphilie

with Ksenija Lukic, soprano
Wolfgang von Schweinitz, piano

 

08.12.06 Musik der Zeit (WDR), Cologne

Arnulf Herrmann- Privatsammlung (world premiere/commissioned by WDR)
Charles Ives- the Celestial Railroad
Bernhard Lang- DW12 "cellular automata"

Live broadcast on WRD3 Radio, 23:00

 

08.11.06 Romanian Cultural Institute "Titu Maiorescu", Berlin

Gabriel Iranyi- Bird in Space
Franz Liszt- Deux Légendes-
    St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
    Saint François d'Assise, la prédication aux oiseaux
Charles Ives- the Celestial Railroad
Ives- Set of Five Take-Offs
Ives- Emerson Transcriptions

 

27.10.06 Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Hector Parra- Wortschatten

with Ekkehard Windrich, violin
Cosima Gerhardt, cello
Heather O'Donnell, piano

 

03.10.06 Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin

Maurice Ravel- Trio
Gabriel Iranyi- Bird in Space for piano solo (world premiere)
Jose Antonio Elguezabal- Short pieces for cello and piano

with Biliana Voutchkova, violin
Agnieszka Dziubak, cello
Heather O'Donnell, piano

 

17.09.06 Musica Sacra Festival, Maastricht

Live-Broadcast on KRO Radio 4

Piano Recital- "Away from the World: Hermits and Cloisters"

Liszt- Deux Légendes-
    St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
    Saint François d'Assise, la prédication aux oiseaux
Satie- Prélude le la Porte Héroïque du Ciel
Water Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung

 

16.09.06 Musica Sacra Festival, Maastricht

Live-Broadcast on KRO Radio 4

Charles Ives- Concord Sonata

 

1-8.09.06 Elisabethkirche, Berlin

with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

"Faraday's Cage"

Morton Feldman- Durations 1, Durations 2, Durations 4
John Cage- Seven

project in collaboration with Berlin visual artist's collective LOSE COMBO

 

20.07.06 World New Music Festival, Stuttgart

with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

Works of Zhu Shi-Rui, Chico Mello, and Arthur Kampela

 

16.07.06 World New Music Festival, Stuttgart

Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
György Ligeti- Etude n. 6- "Automne a Varsovie",

Heather O'Donnell, piano


Oscar Carmona- Nebula VII
Claude Lenners- Apollo
Ari Ben Shabetai- Deus ex Machina

Irvine Arditti, Violin

 

10.06.06 Villa Massimo, Rome

Oliver Schneller- And Tomorrow. . .
Maxim Seloujanov- Suonata Petri (world premiere)

 

30.05.06 Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich

with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

Touch! Don't Touch! Thereminvox-Electronic meets Acoustic meets Multi-Media

with Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina, Theremin

compositions by Juliane Klein, Moritz Eggert, Caspar Johannes Walter, Vladimir Nikolayev, Iraida Yusupova, Olesia Rostovskaya, Anja Bachihina

 

27.05.06 Piano Salon Christophori, Berlin

Juliana Hodkinson- THE RECITAL PIECE: A REMIX
performance piece for pianist and musician with reel-to-reel tape machine, LP-player and CD-player
Heather O'Donnell, piano; Ekkehard Windrich, DJ

 

15.03.06 Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin

"Music and Text"

Ravel- Gaspard de la Nuit
Ives- the Celestial Railroad
S. Corbett- from "Piano Valentines"
G. Iranyi- Bird of Wonder
M. Finnissy- Song of Myself

 

15.01.06 Brandenburger Theater, Brandenburg

"Lachenmann, Zimmermann, and the League of King David"

Helmut Lachenmann- Serynade
Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
Robert Schumann- Davidsbündlertänze (sel.)

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2005 (selected)

 

10.11.05 Manhattan School of Music, New York

Lecture

Helmut Lachenmann- Serynade

 

28.10.05 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

"Lachenmann, Zimmermann, and the League of King David"

Helmut Lachenmann- Serynade
Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
Robert Schumann- Davidsbündlertänze (sel.)

 

01.10.05 Music Instrument Museum, Brussels

with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

Touch! Don't Touch! Thereminvox-Electronic meets Acoustic meets Multi-Media

with Lydia Kavina, Barbara Buchholz, Theremin

compositions by Juliane Klein, Moritz Eggert, Caspar Johannes Walter, Vladimir Nikolayev, Iraida Yusupova, Olesia Rostovskaya, Anja Bachihina

 

08.09.05 Villa Concordia, Bamberg

Debussy- Reflets dans l'eau

Chopin- Ballade in G minor

Oliver Schneller- Five Imaginary Spaces for piano and live-electronics

Oliver Schneller- And Tomorrow...

 

25.8.05 Ostrava Days, Czech Republic

Ives- Concord Sonata

Boulez- Structures, Book 2
Rebecca Saunders- Choler
with Joseph Kubera, piano

Eric Satie- Vexations
with Louis Andriessen, Joseph Kubera, Heather O'Donnell, Mei-Fang Lin, Christian Wolff and Guests, Piano

 

21.8.05 Ostrava Days,Czech Republic

Cage- Winter Music

 

05.07.05 BKA, Berlin

Five Imaginary Spaces for piano and live-electronics

Oliver Schneller

 

17.06.05 New Music Days, Bamberg

Solo Recital, Lecture by Oliver Schneller

Ives- Concord Sonata

 

27.05.05 Goethe-Institut, Boston

"Lachenmann, Zimmermann, and the League of King David"

Helmut Lachenmann- Serynade
Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
Robert Schumann- Davidsbündlertänze (sel.)

 

25.05.05 Columbia University, New York

"Lachenmann, Zimmermann, and the League of King David"

Helmut Lachenmann- Serynade
Walter Zimmermann- Wüstenwanderung
Robert Schumann- Davidsbündlertänze (sel.)

 

20.05.05 DePaul University, Chicago

DePaul Composers Concert

George Flynn- Remembering

 

02.05.05 Musikhochschule, Freiburg

"Tradition, Revolution" Festival

Solo Recital

Charles Ives- Concord Sonata

 

10-12.3.05 Hebbel Theater, MaerzMusik Festival, Berlin

with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

Chamber Opera, "Heart's desire" by Chico Mello

 

08.02.05 Villa Concordia, Bamberg

The Birds

Messiaen- Le Traquet Rieur
Poglietti- Aria bizzara del rossignolo
Murail- La Mandragore
Ravel- Oiseaux Tristes
Messiaen- L'Alouette Calandrelle
Couperin- Le Rossignol en-amour
Lucier- Bird and Person Dyning
Iranyi- Bird of Wonder
Finnissy- Nashville Nightingale
Oscar Peterson- Bye-bye Blackbird (trans. H. O'Donnell)

 

27.1.05 Eclat Festival, Stuttgart

Bernhard Lang- DW 12 Cellular Automata for piano

world premiere

 

21.1.05 Cultural Institute Titu Maiorescu, Berlin

The Birds

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2004 (selected)

 

22.12.04 Radio Portrait, NRD Radio

Program about 'Responses to Ives' Project with Heather O'Donnell and Oliver Schneller

 

22.11.04 Nordic Music Days,The Royal Library, Copenhagen

with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

works by Strindberg, Nilsson, Hodkinson, Talvitie, Hedelin

 

06.09.04 Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Solo Recital

Die Stare über Berlin Festival

Messiaen- Le Traquet Rieur
Poglietti- Aria bizzara del rossignolo
Murail- La Mandragore
Ravel- Oiseaux Tristes
Messiaen- L'Alouette Calandrelle
Couperin- Le Rossignol en-amour
Lucier- Bird and Person Dyning
Iranyi- Bird of Wonder
Finnissy- Nashville Nightingale
Oscar Peterson- Bye-bye Blackbird (trans. H. O'Donnell)

 

05.07.04 Indaba Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa

Masterclass Rhodes University Composition Students

 

04.07.04 Indaba Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa

Solo Recital Ives- Concord Sonata

 

04.07.04 Indaba Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa

Solo Recital 'Responses to Ives'

 

22.06.04 Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

Solo Recital 'Responses to Ives'

 

21.03.04 MaerzMusik Festival, Studios Nalepastrasse, Berlin

Solo Recital Ives- Concord Sonata

 

21.03.04 MaerzMusik Festival, Konzerthaus Berlin

Solo Recital 'Responses to Ives'

World Premieres of works written in honor of Ives by Finnissy, Rzewski, Tenney, Schneller, Corbett, Flynn, Zimmermann

 

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2003 (selected)

 

20.9.03 Festival ContemporaneaMente, Lodi

Solo Recital

Zimmermann, Schneller, Corbett, Hackenberg

 

19.9.03 Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin

Solo Recital

Iranyi, Zimmermann, Corbett, Murail, Schneller

 

12.7.03 Peterhof Festival, St. Petersburg

Solo, Chamber Music Recital

Beethoven, Mozart

 

11.7.03 St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra

Gershwin

 

04.7.03 American Voices Abroad, Berlin

Benefit concert

Gershwin, Gospel Music with Louey Moss

 

18.6.03 Al-Hussein Benefit Concert, Amman

Chamber Music Recital wih Agnes Bashir, Lenora Brown

Gershwin, Saint-Saens, Arnold

 

12.6.03 Concert Hall of Union Bank, Amman

Solo Recital

Mozart, Debussy, Pinto, Scriabin, Chopin, Adams

 

23.5.03 Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik/SWF, Stuttgart

'Elektronische Nacht'

Schneller

 

30.4.03 Schloss Proschwitz, Zadel über Meissen

Solo Recital

Debussy, Ives, Schumann

 

16-17.4.03 AmerKlavier Festival, DePaul University, Chicago

Recital, Lecture Ives

 

13.3.03 Ploiesti State Philharmonic, Romania

Gershwin

 

1.3.03 Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin

Duo recital with soprano Ulrike Sowodniok

 

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2002

 

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

Festival Agora

Schneller- 5 Imaginary Spaces

 

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