Open, Closed, Open – Multimedia Installation at the European Academy of Fine Arts 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.
European Academy of Fine Arts, Aachener Straße D-54294 Trier, Germany

A full evening with four short music-theater works by Amir Shpilman including the world premiere of Situation Object 4 at the Kontraklang concert series in collaboration with choreographer Johannes Bönig.

Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 4, 10115 Berlin, 20:00

Giving a guest talk at Berklee College of Music about my works and spatio-temporal composition techniques.

12 performances of Inversion of a Future (2021) performative installation at the Ural Biennial for Contemporary Art with opera singers, stunt-doubles, riggers, and live electronics. Co-directed by Amir Shpilman and Shiran Eliaserov in collaboration with artist and stuntwoman Helga Wretman, the team explores extreme situations and the inevitability of physical experiences to reflect on resilience and fragility, seen as shaping factors of our evolution.

Circus arena Ekaterinburg, Ulitsa 8 Marta, 43, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, 620142

World Premiere of CIRCLES, large scale outdoor performance at Die Irritierte Stadt Festival that incorporates live audio-visual spectacle with hundreds of performers, music-choreography, live aerial video projection and live electronics.
Pariser Platz, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany, start time: Sunset at last light (approx. 19:00)

Working with Masters students of the Human Factors program at Berlin Institute of Technology to develop the CIRCLES online platform as part of the TU HUMAN-MACHINE initiative.

World premiere of electroacoustic, binaural sound-walk at the Podium Festival, Esslingen, Germany.

Podium festival composition residency for the creation of an electroacoustic sound walk.

Online Hackathon
Participating at OPERA HACK 2.0 for music, theater, and technology hosted by the San Diego Opera.

Live Stream
Second performance of Situation Object 3 “Delivery” at Unerhörte Music festival by Soprano Sirje Viise.
Live stream from BKA theater, Berlin 20:00

Working with students of the Human Factors program at the TU University to develop the CIRCLES online platform as part of the TU HUMAN-MACHINE initiative.

Residency at ADK electronic studio, recording vocal soloists and opera singers for the creation of a new virtual instrument.

Live Stream
Teaching an online masterclass in music composition at Ezra Guitar, New York

Broadcast of an interview with me by journalist Nora Bauer with excerpts of my works on   WDR 3, Germany.

Movement and voice experimentations at Katapult and Trauma Bar studios
with dancers, singers and stunt doubles as part of Inversion of a future, an artistic research funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., and Berliner Senat.

World premiere of Situation object 3 "Delivery" (2020) for solo soprano performed by Sirje Viise at Festival Concepts of doing / Berlin edition.
Börnestraße 45, 13086 Berlin, Germany 18:30

Opening event of CIRCLES at Die Irritierte Stadt Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, 20:00 Uhr.

Movement and voice experimentations at Studio Eden with stunt doubles as part of Inversion of a future, an artistic research funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., and Berliner Senat.

Live Stream
Online performance and premiere of Désir, a commissioned by AuditivVokal Dresden
As part of their project Schützraum – ein musikalisches Äthernettheater-Webzert, 19:30 Uhr.

World premiere of Esh (2019) for chamber choir performed by Junges Ensemble Dresden
Weinbergskirsche, Albert-Hensel-Straße 3, 01129 Dresden 17:00 Uhr

Guest lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
Topic: Arranged Compositions of Spatio-Temporal Processes
An interactive talk about storytelling through movement and music, creating sounds based on emergent complex behaviors, and discovering listening techniques to observe them.
Gottwald-Saal, Rienößlgasse 12, 1040 Wien, 09.45-12.30h

Giving a full evening presentation with live performances and demonstrations of recent electro-acoustic works and artistic developments at Amann Studios, AIR 2 hEar – composers’ encounters.
Amann Studios, Neustiftgasse 68, 1070 Wien, 20:00 Uhr

World Premiere of Spins 2 (2019) for Solo Flute and Electronics at the VienModern Festival, commissioned by Ensemble Platypus and Kulturkontakt, Austria, performance by Iva Kovač - Flute and Lukas Froschauer - Electronics.
Reaktor, Geblergasse 36-40, 1170 Wien, 11:00 Uhr

Composer in residence of the Federal Austrain Chancellery and Kulturkontakt.

World premiere of Entangled (2019) for trio of open instrumentation performed by Ensemble Mosaik with Martin Losert - Sax., Chatschatur Kanajan - Violin, Mathis Mayr - Cello and electronics by Ernst Surberg
Acker Stadt Palast, Ackerstr. 169/170, 10115 Berlin, 20:30 Uhr

Ensemble diX perform Die Weiße Stadt (2019) at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg.
Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5, 06108 Halle (Saale), 19:00 Uhr

New version of Klangmøbil with Ensemble Interface at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

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.

Second performance of Die Weiße Stadt (2019) by Ensemble Dix as part of the project “White City” in marking of 100 years of the Bauhaus movement.
Galerie Nemtsov&Nemtsov, Witzlebenstr. 38 14057, Berlin, 19:30 Uhr

Ensemble Reconsil perform Echad (2014) at Reaktor, Geblergasse 40; 1170 Wien, 19:00

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

World premiere of a new composition for ensemble and dynamic speakers.
Ensemble Mosaik – Augmented Instruments,
kesselhaus kulturbrauerei, Berlin 20:00

World premiere of Die Weiße Stadt (2019) for woodwind quartet.
Commission of Ensemble Dix in celebration of 100 years of the Bauhaus movement.
Lindenau-Museum-Altenburg, 15:00 Uhr

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

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

Speaker at MOST WANTED: MUSIC conference.
5 GALLERIE Alte Münze, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin, 18:30-20:30

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

World premiere of Tiferet at Maxim Gorki Theater, Studio Я, 70min interactive musical performance with dancers, vocal soloists, 30 voices choir and electronic music.

Debut concert of Duo Axe and Pile with Guitarist Seth Josel and Percussionist Michael Weilacher performing Spins (2016) at Lettrétage, Berlin 20:00.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teaching workshop about contemporary vocal ensemble music as part of chor.com festival. Kongresszentrum, Saal 3, 11:30-13:00.

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.

AuditivVokal premiere Malleable Images for eight vocal soloists and performance of Malleable Cycle for hundred singers at the Albertinum Museum, Lichthof, 19:30.

World premiere of a piece for hundreds voices in a circle. Coached by AuditivVokal Dresden at the Chorfestival Meißen klingt, Germany.

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.

Residency at DordtYart, Netherlands center for contemporary art with Ensemble Interface and artist Hans van Koolwijk.

– 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”

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.

Mduo premieres Pose un Lapin (2017) for Paetzold Bass Recorder with electronics and Percussion with Miako Kleinand Michael Weilacher at Lettretage, Berlin.

Ensemble Nikel performs Spins (2016) for Saxophone with electronics and No input mixer at the Zurich International Saxophone festival.

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.

Conductor, Mekomot Projekt: Görlitz, Germany.

Conducting-composers masterclass with Peter Eötvös, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Balázs Horváth and THReNSeMBLe at the Budapest Music Center (BMC), Hungary.

World premiere of new work for 80 movers and space, Hellerau Center, Dresden, Germany.

Guest teacher at the 14th International Eurhythmics Workshop, Hellerau Center, Dresden, Germany.

World premeiere of a new work for Ensemble Nikel at the Tzlil Meudcan Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel

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.

European Capital of Culture
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.

Conductor, Mekomot Project: Warsaw, Poland.

Conductor, Mekomot Project:Hainsfarth, Kippenheim, Binswangen, Ichenhausen.

Conductor, Mekomot Project: Erfurt.

Conductor, Mekomot Project: Forum neuer Musik – Deutschlandfunk Köln – Festivaleröffnung.

Conductor, Mekomot Project Essen.

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.

Conducting Orte/Mekomot project premiere.

Conductor in mekomot project: Dresden.

Conductor, Mekomot project: Stavenhagen and Hagenow, Germany.

EMP engagements

Conducting Masterclass with Pierre Andre Valade
Ensemble Meitar and members of Ensemble Modern
at the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv

Broadcast of Hedef and Sh’ma
by Kol Hamusica
Israel National Classical Music Radio
program editor Amit Dolberg.

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/

FREEDOM Tour
Conducting Ensemble Moto Perpetuo and AuditivVokal
in a collaboration tour in Washington, Boston and New York
including performances of Situation Object.

Live Broadcast of Situation Object by Radio Bremen
with AuditivVokal
from Theater Delmenhorst in Bremen, Germany.

German premiere of As if these clouds at Donaueschinger Musiktage with Echtzeit Ensemble and conductor Christof M Löser.

World premiere of Iridescent Stasis at La Biennale di Venezia , Teatro alle Tese.

rehearsals of Iridescent Stasis with Ensemble Intercontemporain and conductor Jean Michael Lavoae.

Performance of Echad by El Perro Andaluz
at Hochschule fur Musik Carl Maria von Weber.

World Premiere of Echad revised version at the Stadtmuseum by El Perro Andaluz.

World premiere of Situation Object with soprano Mary Mackenzie at Town Hall Seattle.

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.

Israeli premiere of Echad with Ensemble Meitar and conductor David Greilsammer at the Israeli Conservatory.

Conducting a fully staged theatrical performance of Here I am, Send me!
at the 250th anniversary celebrations of Akademie der Bildende Künste, Dresden.

Artistic Director of Philippe Manoury Portrait concerts with Ensemble Moto Perpetuo at Lang Recital Hall.

Collaboration with the students of Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Aragon
Performance of Sheketak.

rehearsals and performances of Sheketak and Echad
World premiere with Matthias Pintscher and Ensemble Meitar.

Israeli premiere of Hedef with Ensemble Meitar and conductor Matthias Pintscher.

World premiere of Here I am, Send me!
at the 14th Street Y Theater LABA Festival.

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.

Artistic Director of “Ramifications of Trauma: A Journey”
At 14th Street Y theater
Ensemble Moto Perpetuo in collaboration with Ensemble Meitar.

– 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

Artistic Director, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo
Ear Heart New Music Series, at Roulette
in Collaboration with the New Chamber Ballet and Sospeso Ensemble.

Artistic Director, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo
Season Opener at TEMP Art Space in SoHo.