September 6 – November 29 | Vienna
Composer in residence of the Federal Austrain Chancellery and Kulturkontakt.
August 17 | Berlin
World premiere of a new work for Ensemble Mosaik, Up to Three project at Acker Stadt Palast,
Berlin, Time: TBD
July 6 | Moritzburg
Ensemble Dix perform new work at Moritzburg Halle
Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5, 06108 Halle (Saale), 18:00 Uhr Einführung, 19:30 Uhr
June 22 | Frankfurt
New version of Klangmøbil with Ensemble Interface at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
June 20 – August 11 | Berlin
Open, Closed, Open – Art Installation at the Jewish Museum Berlin in collaboration with Sculptor and Designer Yair Kira and Painter Liat Grayver.
The work reflects on the question of Jewish Identity today using sound, immersive objects, and video installation. Opening event ceremony June 20.
June 19 | Berlin
World premiere of a new work for Ensemble Dix as part of the project “White City” in marking of 100 years of Bauhaus.
Galerie Nemtsov&Nemtsov, Witzlebenstr. 38 14057, Berlin, 19:30 Uhr
June 6 | Vienna
Ensemble Reconsil perform Echad (2014) at Reaktor, Geblergasse 40; 1170 Wien, 19:00
June 1 | Dresden
AuditivVokal perform new version of Malleable Images (2017) with 100 singers in a circle around the audience at the Dresdner musikfestspielen.
Albertinum Museum – Lichthof – Galerie Neue Meister Dresden, 19:00
May 22-23 | Berlin
World premiere of a new composition for ensemble and dynamic speakers.
Ensemble Mosaik – Augmented Instruments,
kesselhaus kulturbrauerei, Berlin 20:00
March 19, 22 | Berlin
Maerzmusik, Querklang
A Premiere of new experimental work, composed in collaboration with and performed by a Berlin-based class of twenty 1st graders (7 years old) students.
Concerts: Haus der Berliner Festpiele, March 19, 18:00
Kammermusiksaals der Philharmonie – Foyer, March 22, 18:00
March 14 | Berlin
Premiere of a new version of Malleable Cycle (2017) accapella choir by singers of the Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper Berlin, Conductor Raymond Hughes.
Villa Elisabeth, Berlin 17:00
November 8 | Berlin
Speaker at MOST WANTED: MUSIC conference.
5 GALLERIE Alte Münze, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin, 18:30-20:30
November 7 | Berlin
Winner of the 2018 Jewish Museum and Dagesh KunstLab Art Prize for the work Open, Closed, Open, in collaboration with Liat Grayver and Yair Kira. Award ceremony at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Nov 7, 19:00
November 2 | Berlin
Soprano Angela Wingerath perform Situation Object (2014) at Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Festival für Neue Musik as part of the program No Border, No Boredom with AuditivVokal.
Kunstquartier Bethanien, 19:00
September 9 | Dresden
Soprano Katja Fischer performs Situation Object (2016) at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Großer Saal in a vocal concert by AuditivVokal. Also on the program composers Hans Joachim Hespos, Erwin Schulhoff, and John Cage.
Hellerau European Center for the Arts, Großer Saal, 3 performances: 12:00, 14:00, 16:00
September 8 | Utrecht
A new performance of Klangmobil, at Gaudeamus Festival, Netherlands. Collaboration with Ensemble Interface, composer Beat Gysin, Sergey Khismatov and Sound Artist Hans Van Koolwijk.
Theaterzaal Het Huis Utrecht, 3 performances: 15:00, 16:00, 17:00
June 24 | Magdeburg
Malleable Cycle (2017) and Malleable Images (2017) performed at the Magdeburg Contemporary Art Museum, by Conductor Olaf Katzer, the Dresdner Kammerchor and AuditivVokal. Dated from 1015 the unique acoustics of the building promises a moving performance experience. The event celebrates the opening of a new concert hall in place of the old cathedral at the cloister. Regierungsstraße 4, 39104 Magdeburg, 5 pm.
June 9 | Berlin
Performance and presentation as part of Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften (Long Night of the Sciences) for demonstrating the various features of the Dynamic Speakers ©. In cooperation with Hybrid Plattform and Pecha Kucha Berlin.
May 18-19 | Berlin
Touch Space, an immersive music installation in Buttons, a 72 hours party line in one of Berlin’s most known nightclubs – About Blank.
Touch Space was created jointly with Designer Yair Kira, Trumpet Player Matthew Conley, DJ James Passfield, and ASMR artist Annie Gå.
May 7 | New York
Cantos, sound installation as part of CANTO XVIII, an immersive multidisciplinary salon & gala at the American Irish Historical Society, NYC. Curated by Seol Park. Entrance by invitation only.
December 6 | Berlin
Debut concert of Duo Axe and Pile with Guitarist Seth Josel and Percussionist Michael Weilacher performing Spins (2016) at Lettrétage, Berlin 20:00.
December 2 | Berlin
Presentation at the 28. Deutscher Kongress für Perinatale Medizin in City Cube Berlin and closing party of the International Gynecological Society at Clara Angela Foundation. Collaboration with Dr. Birgit Arabin.
November 12 | Berlin
World premiere of Tiferet at Maxim Gorki Theater, Studio Я, 70min interactive musical performance with dancers, vocal soloists, 30 voices choir and electronic music.
November 5 | Stolpen
Second performance of Inmitten des Lebens large work for Baroque Orchestra (period instruments), mixed choir and six vocal soloists. Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble and conductor Albrecht Koch, Festival Sandstein und Musik, Germany.
November 4 | Freiberg
World premier of Inmitten des Lebens large work for Baroque Orchestra (period instruments), mixed choir and six vocal soloists in marking of the 500 years of the protestant reformation.
Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble and conductor Albrecht Koch, Freiberger Dom, Germany.
September 22-23 | Berlin
Ensemble LUX:NM and singer Claudia Van Hasselt perform the world premiere of TaxiMusic, musiktheater production of FrauVonDa at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin.
Works by Amir Shpilman, Sarah Nemtsov, Eleftherios Veniadis, Amen Feizabadi, and Zigan Aldi.
September 16 | Dortmund
Teaching workshop about contemporary vocal ensemble music as part of chor.com festival. Kongresszentrum, Saal 3, 11:30-13:00.
September 15 | Dortmund
AuditivVokal performs Malleable Images and performance of Malleable Cycle for hundred singers at Chor.Com, Germany’s largest international choirs convention. 20:00, Orchesterzentrum NRW, Dortmund, Germany.
September 13 | Dresden
AuditivVokal premiere Malleable Images for eight vocal soloists and performance of Malleable Cycle for hundred singers at the Albertinum Museum, Lichthof, 19:30.
September 9-10 | Meißen
World premiere of a piece for hundreds voices in a circle. Coached by AuditivVokal Dresden at the Chorfestival Meißen klingt, Germany.
August 19 | DordtYart
World premiere of klangmøbil including new composition for newly built instruments jointly designed by composers Amir Shpilman, Sergey Khismatov, Beat Gyssin Ensemble Interface and Hans van Koolwijk.
August 14-18 | Dordrecht
Residency at DordtYart, Netherlands center for contemporary art with Ensemble Interface and artist Hans van Koolwijk.
August 11-14 | Dresden
– Teaching a workshop at Hellerau Center “Arranged Compositions of Spatio-Temporal Processes II”
– Experimenting new movement ideas of emergent complex behavior systems at the 15. Internationale Rhythmikwerkstatt “Dalcroze 2017”
April 29 | Radio Broadcast
DeutschlandFunk broadcasts a portrait program about my work including interviews and excerpts of my music at Forum Neuer Musik with journalist and musicologist Egbert Hiller.
March 30 | Berlin
Mduo premieres Pose un Lapin (2017) for Paetzold Bass Recorder with electronics and Percussion with Miako Klein and Michael Weilacher at Lettretage, Berlin.
March 4 | Zurich
Ensemble Nikel performs Spins (2016) for Saxophone with electronics and No input mixer at the Zurich International Saxophone festival.
December 18 | Poland
Excerpts of Destruction for choir and large orchestra performed at Niebo, the closing ceremony of the European Capital of Culture at Hala Stulecia, Wroclaw, Poland.
November 6 | Görlitz
Conductor, Mekomot Projekt: Görlitz, Germany.
October 16-20 | Budapest
Conducting-composers masterclass with Peter Eötvös, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Balázs Horváth and THReNSeMBLe at the Budapest Music Center (BMC), Hungary.
August 20 | Germany
World premiere of new work for 80 movers and space, Hellerau Center, Dresden, Germany.
August 16-23 | Germany
Guest teacher at the 14th International Eurhythmics Workshop, Hellerau Center, Dresden, Germany.
July 13 | Israel
World premeiere of a new work for Ensemble Nikel at the Tzlil Meudcan Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
July 11 | Radio Broadcast
Featured in SWR2 – music now in a program titled “ad libitum – free spaces in music” by Journalistin Friederike Kenneweg.
The program includes interesting interviews and music examples of composers Jennifer Walshe , Amir Shpilman and pianists Tomas Bächli and Christoph Grund.
June 5-12 | Wroclaw, Poland
Commission by the city of Wroclaw, Poland as part of the project “European Capital of Culture 2016”
for large Symphonic Orchestra of 200 players with Symphonic Choir of 400 singers. Premiere in open air concert on the banks of the Odra River June 11 2016.
Commission by Ensemble Interface, Frankfurt in collaboration with the sound Sculptor Hans van Koolwijk, Amsterdam and composers Beat Gysin and Sergey Khisamov.
http://www.ensembleinterface.com/de/projekte/klangmobil/
June 2 | Poland
Conductor, Mekomot Project: Warsaw, Poland.
May 25-28 | Ichenhausen
Conductor, Mekomot Project:Hainsfarth, Kippenheim, Binswangen, Ichenhausen.
May 5 | Erfurt
Conductor, Mekomot Project: Erfurt.
April 7 | Deutschlandfunk Köln
Conductor, Mekomot Project: Forum neuer Musik – Deutschlandfunk Köln – Festivaleröffnung.
April 4 | Essen
Conductor, Mekomot Project Essen.
March 31 | Berlin
Conductor, Mekomot Project: „Raum für Kunst und Diskurs“ Berlin.
Commission by Deutschlandfunk for the project Orte/Mekomot.
In addition for writing a new work for the project Amir will function as conductor of the 22 concerts tour around Germany and Eastern Europe during 2015/16.
October 10 | Berlin
Conducting Orte/Mekomot project premiere.
October 3 | Dresden
Conductor in mekomot project: Dresden.
September 10-October 3 | New York
EMP engagements
September 16-17 | Germany
Conductor, Mekomot project: Stavenhagen and Hagenow, Germany.
July 28 – August 6 | Tel Aviv
Conducting Masterclass with Pierre Andre Valade
Ensemble Meitar and members of Ensemble Modern
at the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv
April 29 | Tel Aviv
Broadcast of Hedef and Sh’ma
by Kol Hamusica
Israel National Classical Music Radio
program editor Amit Dolberg.
November 13-21| New York, Boston, Washington D.C.
FREEDOM Tour
Conducting Ensemble Moto Perpetuo and AuditivVokal
in a collaboration tour in Washington, Boston and New York
including performances of Situation Object.
November 11 | Delmenhorst
Live Broadcast of Situation Object by Radio Bremen
with AuditivVokal
from Theater Delmenhorst in Bremen, Germany.
October 17 |Donaueschinger Musiktage
German premiere of As if these clouds
at Donaueschinger Musiktage with Echtzeit Ensemble and conductor Christof M Löser.
October 11 | Venice
World premiere of Iridescent Stasis at La Biennale di Venezia , Teatro alle Tese.
October 6-9 | Paris
rehearsals of Iridescent Stasis with Ensemble Intercontemporain and conductor Jean Michael Lavoae.
September 26 | Dresden
Performance of Echad by El Perro Andaluz
at Hochschule fur Musik Carl Maria von Weber.
September 11 | Dresden
World Premiere of Echad revised version
at the Stadtmuseum by El Perro Andaluz.
June 24 | Seattle
World premiere of Situation Object
with soprano Mary Mackenzie
at Town Hall Seattle.
June 19 | New York
Conducting US premiere of Hommage anden Klimerkasten by Hannah Eimermacher
with Ensemble Moto Perpetuo’s concert
at the German Consulate in New York
US Premiere of Darkness with Soprano Frauke Aulbert and Pianist Natalie Tenenbaum.
June 10 | Tel Aviv
Israeli premiere of Echad with Ensemble Meitar and conductor David Greilsammer
at the Israeli Conservatory.
May 4-5 | Dresden, Germany
Conducting a fully staged theatrical performance of Here I am, Send me!
at the 250th anniversary celebrations of Akademie der Bildende Künste, Dresden.
May 2-3 | New York
Artistic Director of Philippe Manoury Portrait concerts
with Ensemble Moto Perpetuo
at Lang Recital Hall.
March 24-27 | Zaragoza, Spain
Collaboration with the students of Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Aragon
Performance of Sheketak.
March 15-20 | Heidelberg Spring Festival
rehearsals and performances of Sheketak and Echad
World premiere with Matthias Pintscher and Ensemble Meitar.
September 30 | Tel Aviv
Israeli premiere of Hedef with Ensemble Meitar and conductor Matthias Pintscher.
June 1-2 | New York
World premiere of Here I am, Send me!
at the 14th Street Y Theater LABA Festival.
June 1 | New York
Artistic Director of “Action Painting: The Edges of Sound”
at Baruch Performing Arts Center
Ensemble Moto Perpetuo with guest conductor Jean Philippe Wurtz and composer Raphael Cendo
In collaboration with Ensemble Linea of Strasbourg.
April 1-7 | Heidelberg Spring Festival
– World premiere of Hedef with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Asasello Quartet and Conductor Matthias Pintscher.
-Giving portrait lecture about my music and personal influences including live performances of my works with Flutists Eric Lamb, Oboe Nick Shay Deutsch, Horn Saar Berger, pianist Dimitri Vassilakis, Conductor Scott Ellaway and more
April 23 | New York
Artistic Director of “Ramifications of Trauma: A Journey”
At 14th Street Y theater
Ensemble Moto Perpetuo in collaboration with Ensemble Meitar.
March 19 |New York
Artistic Director, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo
Ear Heart New Music Series, at Roulette
in Collaboration with the New Chamber Ballet and Sospeso Ensemble.
February 22 | New York
Artistic Director, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo
Season Opener at TEMP Art Space in SoHo.