Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone u.a.
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Taras Martynek, conductor
Portia Manyike - soul singer
Festival KulturSchlagLicht
castle Groß Schönebeck
Magdeburgische Philharmonie
august 17th 2022 09 pm 70th Ljubljana Festival
Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone u.a.
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone u.a.
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Taras Martynek, conductor
Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone u.a.
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Taras Martynek, conductor
William Kircher
Franz Benda and his musical environment
Chamber music and arias by
Johanna Krumin, soprano
new baroque trio berlin
July 08th 2022 19:30 pm
Karlova Studánka, Czech Republic
Pentecost Worship
J.S.Bach, C.F.Graun and more
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Arno Schneider, organ
june 05th 2022 10 pm
church Am Hohenzollernplatz
Classic open
air
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Alina Pronina, piano
june 03rd 2022 06 pm
Rosegarden
Britzer Garten Berlin
Sangerhauser Weg 1 D - 12349 Berlin
Orlando Louis (Broadway Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie M.) - soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - Sopran
Orlando Louis (Broadway Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie M.) - soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - Sopran
Portia Manyike
(Broadway Lion King Production) - soul singer
Orlando Louis (Broadway Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie
M.) - soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Sky du Mont - Moderation *
december 28th 2021 8 pm Heilbronn Harmonie * with Sky du Mont cancelled because of Corona
december
26th 2021 8
pm Mainz
Rheingoldhalle cancelled
because of Corona
december 25th 2021 3
pm
Stuttgart
Liederhalle Beethovensaal
cancelled because of Corona
Camille Saint-Saëns „Oratorio de Noël"
J.S. Bach BWV 36
Matthias Noack - conductor
december 11th 2021 5 pm
Hans Zimmer & Others
Portia
Manyike (Broadway Lion King Production) - soul singer
Orlando
Louis (Broadway
Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie M.) -
soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul
singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
2021 november 20th 07 pm Finland, Tampere - Tampere Hall
2021 november 17th 08 pm Finland, Helsinki - Jäähalli
Hommage á Mikis Theodorakis
Tribute Concert
B-flat Berlin
Chants Religieux
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Mathias Michaely, organ
november, 2nd 2021 7 pm
St. Marienberg-Helmstedt
Concert de muzică de film
choir and orchestra of Philharmonic State Orchestra Sibiu/Hermannstadt
october 31st 2021 7 pm
Thalia hall
Sibiu / Hermannstadt
Romania
Hans Zimmer & Others
Portia
Manyike (Broadway Lion King Production) - soul singer
Orlando
Louis (Broadway
Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie M.) -
soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul
singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
The Belarus State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yuri Karaveav - conductor
2021 october 31st 02 pm Luxembourg Rockhal Belv - postponed because of Corona
2021 october 17th 03 pm France, Paris - Salle Pleyel - postponed because of Corona
2021 october 15th 04 pm Czech Republic, Prague - Obecni dum - postponed because of Corona
2021 october 05th 07 pm Finland, Helsinki - Kulttuuritalo - postponed because of Corona
2021 october 03rd 07 pm Finland, Lahti - Sibelius Hall - postponed because of Corona
2021 september 30th 07 pm Finland, Jyväskylä - Paviljonki - postponed because of Corona
2021 september 27th 07 pm Finland, Tampere - Tampere-talo - postponed because of Corona
2021 september 26th 07 pm Finland, Turku - Logomo - postponed because of Corona
2021 september 25th 07 pm Finland, Oulo - Club Teatria - postponed because of Corona
baroque riding with opera
"Land of horses - Mongolia" installation by Jens Roetzsch
concert "Four Seasons" / A. Vivaldi
blacksmith demonstration, baroque dance and many more
Johanna Krumin, soprano & riding
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
neues konzertorchester berlin
2021 september 04th 03 pm
Castle Neuhaus Lübben - Germany
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Mathias Michaely, organ
monastery church St. Trinitatis Neuruppin
concert gala with lasershow
W.A.Mozert, A. Vivaldi, H. Purcell, K.Jenkins and more
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Simon Robinson, bariton
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
neues konzertorchester berlin
Pablo Druker, conductor
"After Concert"-Party with Band "Cube-Livemusic"
quadrille, horse presentation and many more
2021 august 21st
and
Portia Manyike (Broadway Lion King Production) - soul singer
Orlando Louis (Broadway Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie M.) - soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Yuri Karaveav - conductor
2021 august 08.08.2021 08pm Gelsenkirchen - with Sky du Mont - cancelled because of Corona
2021 august 04.08.2021 07pm Ljublana - Congress Square - cancelled because of Corona
2021 july 30th 08pm Titisee / Neustadt - with Sky du Mont - cancelled because of Corona
2021 july 18th .07.2021 08pm Leipzig - Parkbühne - cancelled because of Corona
2021 july18th .07.2021 03pm Leipzig - Parkbühne- cancelled because of Corona
2021 july 17th .07.2021 08pm Dresden - Neumarkt - cancelled because of Corona
Organ marathon 2021
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Mathias Michaeli, organ
monastery church St. Trinitatis Neuruppin
2021 june 26th noon
recording program "Twilight"
songs by R. Schumann, R. Hahn, R. Strauss
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
March 26th 2021
Music Academy Rheinsberg
Hans Zimmer & Others
Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone u.a.
Orlando Louis (Broadway Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie M.) - soul singerLinda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
The
Belarus State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yuri Karaveav / Mourat Assuil - conductor
29.03.2021 8 pm Bremen Metropoltheater - cancelled because of Corona
25.03.2021 3 pm Lübeck Musik- und Kongresshalle - cancelled because of Corona
28.03.2021 7 pm Kiel Kieler Schloß - cancelled because of Corona
24.03.2021 5 pm Flensburg Deutsches Haus - cancelled because of Corona
23.03.2021 8 pm Rhein-Mosel-Halle Koblenz - cancelled because of Corona
21.03.2021 7 pm CongressPark Wolfsburg - cancelled because of Corona
20.03.2021 8 pm Celle Congress Union - cancelled because of Corona
12.03.2021 4 pm Paris Salle Pleyel - cancelled because of Corona
08.03.2021 8 pm Oslo Konzerthaus - cancelled because of Corona
07.03.2021 7 pm Luxemburg Esch Alzette - cancelled because of Corona
02.03.2021 7 pm Bonn Brückenforum Bonn / Beuel - cancelled because of Corona
28.02.2021 3 pm Düsseldorf Capitol Theater - cancelled because of Corona
26.02.2021 8 pm Siegen Siegerlandhalle - cancelled because of Corona
25.02.2021 5 pm Hagen Stadthalle - cancelled because of Corona
20.02.2021 3 pm Nürnberg Meistersingerhalle - cancelled because of Corona
17.02.2021 8 pm Duisburg Mercator Halle im City-Palais - cancelled because of Corona
13.02.2021 8 pm Köln Musical Dome - cancelled because of Corona
12.02.2021 4 pm Regensburg Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena - cancelled because of Corona
08.02.2021 7 pm Innsbruck Congress-Saal Tirol - cancelled because of Corona
07.02.2021 7 pm Erfurt Alte Oper - cancelled because of Corona
06.02.2021 4 pm Wuppertal Historische Stadthalle - cancelled because of Corona
05.02.2021 8 pm Leverkusen Forum großer Saal - cancelled because of Corona
02.02.2021 8 pm Holzminden Stadthalle - cancelled because of Corona
22.01.2021 5 pm Würzburg Congress Centrum - cancelled because of Corona
23.01.2021 8 pm Münster Aula am Aasee - cancelled because of Corona
20.01.2021 4 pm Hamburg Laeiszhalle - cancelled because of Corona
16.01.2021 8 pm Wiesbaden Kurhaus - cancelled because of Corona
13.01.2021 8 pm Hannover Kuppelsaal - cancelled because of Corona
09.01.2021 4 pm Braunschweig Stadthalle - cancelled because of Corona
30.12.2020 8 pmMannheim Musensaal - cancelled because of Corona
29.12.2020 8 pm Mainz Rheingoldhalle - cancelled because of Corona
28.12.2020 4 pm Stuttgart Liederhalle Beethovensaal - cancelled because of Corona
27.12.2020 3:30 pm Uhr Saarbrücken Saarlandhalle - cancelled because of Corona
26.12.2020 8 pm Heilbronn Harmonie - cancelled because of Corona
25.12.2020 4 pm Darmstadt Wissenschafts- und Kulturzentrum - cancelled because of Corona
Christmas Eve Service 2020
church "Zum Heilsbronnen" Berlin
Händel, Tollet and Christmas Carols
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Sebastian Brendel, organ
Dimitri Dimitrov, organ and
Johanna Krumin, soprano
online here
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Peter Uehling, organ
Excerpts from BWV 61 (J.S.Bach), St. Cecilia Mass (J.Haydn), Messiah (G.F. Händel) and more
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt church
Onkel-Tom-Straße 80
14169 Berlin
december 13th 2020 4 pm
Sebastian Brendel, bariton
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Peter Uehling, organ
Excerpts from BWV 61 (J.S.Bach), Oratorio de Noel (Saint-Saens), St. Cecilia Mass (J.Haydn), Messiah (G.F. Händel) and more
church Zum Heilsbronnen
Heilbronner Straße 20
10779 Berlin
november 29th 2020 9 / 11 am
1st Advent: chamber music
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Peter Uehling, organ
Excerpts from BWV 61 (J.S.Bach), St. Cecilia Mass (J.Haydn), Messiah (G.F. Händel) and more
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt church
Onkel-Tom-Straße 80
14169 Berlin
november 26th 2020 1 pm - cancelled because of Corona
Chants Religieux
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Mathias Michaely, organ
november, 17th 2020 7 pm postponed because of Corona
St. Marienberg-Helmstedt
new baroque trio berlin & Johanna Krumin: J. Dowland, F. Gasparini and more
baroque riding & singing
and many more
16244 Schorfheide
Portia Manyike (Broadway Lion King Production) - soul singer
Orlando Louis (Broadway, Face of Bonnie M.) - soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
Yuri Karaveav - conductor
02.10.2020 19 Uhr Helsinki, Finnland - Hall of culture - postponed because of Corona
04.10.2020 19 Uhr Lahti, Finnland - Sibelius Hall - postponed because of Corona
07.10.2020 19 Uhr Oulo, Finnland- Club Teatria - postponed because of Corona
11.10.2020 19 Uhr Turku, Finnland - Logomo - postponed because of Corona
18.10.2020 20 Uhr Kopenhagen, Dänemark - Konzerthaus - postponed because of Corona
24.10.2020 16 Uhr Paris, Frankreich - Salle Pleye - postponed because of Corona
For me the essentials of Mikis' art for 95 years:
Many musicians do not think beyond certain limits and do not go beyond them because they think they have to be liked.
Mikis wants to reach people.
Not to be liked by them.
That frees him like only few artists are really free:
Because the meaning of art cannot be to serve life. Only to serve the stars that shine above it.*
Wild to all sides.
Chronia polla, dear Mikis.
Johanna Krumin, Athens 29.07.2020
Salon Casanova - Anna Barbara Kastelwicz, Thorsten Hansen, Johanna Krumin
Bode string quartett with W.A.Mozart, Kurt Hauschild and more
and others
july 25th 2020 2-11 pm
july 26th 2020 11 am - 5 pm
castle Neuhaus Lübben
Am Neuhaus 7
15907 Lübben
all
conzerte april / may / june
(Salon,
War
& Peace, Exultate jubilate, baroque program etc.)
cancelled because of Corona
Orlando
Louis (Broadway
Lion King Production, Face of Bonnie M.) -
soul singer
Linda Rheretyane (Lion King Production Hamburg) - soul singer
Johanna Krumin - soprano
The Belarus State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yuri Karaveav / Mourat Assuil - conductor
19.04.2020
3
pm Luxemburg Rockhal Belval -
cancelled
because of Corona
18.04.2020 8
pm
Mainz Kurfürstliches Schloss -
cancelled
because of Corona
17.04.2020 7
pm
Duisburg Mercatorhalle
-
cancelled
because of Corona
16.04.2020 8 pm Paris Salle Pleyel
-
cancelled
because of Corona
14.04.2020 4 pm Würzburg Congress Centrum
-
cancelled
because of Corona
12.04.2020 6
pm
Kieler Schloss
-
cancelled
because of Corona
11.04.2020 3 pm Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck
-
cancelled
because of Corona
10.04.2020 4
pm
Hagen Stadthalle
-
cancelled
because of Corona
08.04.2020 7
pm
Hamburg Kampnagel K6
-
cancelled
because of Corona
06.04.2020 3
pm
Flensburg Deutsches Haus
-
cancelled
because of Corona
05.04.2020 7 pm Celle Congress Union
-
cancelled
because of Corona
04.04.2020 8
pm
Hannover Kuppelsaal im HCC
-
cancelled
because of Corona
23.03.2020 7 pm Finnland-Tampere Tampere Hall -
cancelled
because of Corona
22.03.2020 7
pm
Finnland-Turku Logomo Hall -
cancelled
because of Corona
21.03.2020 7
pm
Finnland-Helsinki Kulttuuritalo -
cancelled
because of Corona
14.03.2020 4 pm Aarhus Ceres Arena
-
cancelled
because of Corona
11.03.2020 8 pm Kopenhagen Koncerthus
-
cancelled
because of Corona
10.03.2020 8 pm Kopenhagen Koncerthus - extra concert
-
cancelled
because of Corona
09.03.2020 8 pm Neubrandenburg HKB
08.03.2020 8
pm
Berlin Theater am Potsdamer Platz
06.03.2020 7 pm München Herkulessaal der Residenz
München
04.03.2020 8
pm
Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg
01.03.2020 4
pm
Vechta Rasta Dome
29.02.2020 4
pm
Siegburg Rhein-Sieg-Halle
27.02.2020 8
pm
Siegen Siegerlandhalle
26.02.2020 8
pm
Kaiserslautern Fruchthalle
25.02.2020 7
pm
Chemnitz Stadthalle
23.02.2020 7
pm
Rostock Stadthalle
22.02.2020 8
pm
Köln Musical Dome
20.02.2020 8
pm
Bielefeld Rudolf-Oetker-Halle
18.02.2020 8 pm Ravensburg Oberschwabenhalle
17.02.2020 4
pm
Bern National Theatersaal
16.02.2020 5 pm Zürich Halle 622
15.02.2020 3 pm St. Gallen Tonhalle
14.02.2020 4
pm
Turin Teatro della Concordia
13.02.2020 4
pm
Milano Teatro Nuovo
12.02.2020 8 pm Graz Stefaniensaal Congress
10.02.2020 4 pm Linz Brucknerhaus
09.02.2020 8 pm Salzburg Grosses Festspielhaus
08.02.2020 8
pm
Wien Konzerthaus Großer Saal
06.02.2020 8
pm
Bremen Metropol Theater
05.02.2020 8
pm
Paderborn PaderHalle
02.02.2020 7
pm
Mönchengladbach Red Box
01.02.2020 8
pm
Nordhorn Konzert- und Theatersaal
31.01.2020 8
pm
Oldenburg Weser-Ems-Halle
26.01.2020 6 pm Erfurt Alte Oper
25.01.2020 9 pm Bad Kreuznach Kurhaus
08.01.2020 8
pm
Dresden Palace
of Culture concerthall
04.01.2020 8
pm
Wiesbaden Kurhaus
31.12.2019 7:30 pm Uhr Oberhausen König-Pilsener-Arena
30.12.2019 7:30
pm
Uhr Mannheim Rosengarten Musensaal
29.12.2019 4
pm
Saarbrücken Saarlandhalle
27.12.2019 8 pm Stuttgart Liederhalle Beethovensaal
26.12.2019 7
pm Düsseldorf
Capitol Theater
25.12.2019 7
pm
Koblenz Rhein-Mosel-Halle
From Heaven Above - Christmas music of 4 centuries
Markus Zugehör, Klavier
Hotel Strandidyll, Usedom
24.12.2019 15 Uhr
Christmas Oratorio cantatas I-III
soloists' Choir / soloists:
Johanna Krumin, Juliane Schubert - soprano
Dörthe Haring, Antonia Glugla - alto
Stefan Gähler, Gerald Beatty - tenor
Sebastian Bluth, Simon Robinson - bass
townchurch Altlandsberg
december 1rst 2019 4 pm
music from program "neither war nor peace" (premiere 2020)
by K.Weill, H. Eisler, F.Poulenc
contribution:
Prof. Dr. Gerd Heinrich
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
november 28th 2019
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Dr. h.c. Hans-Christof Graf von Sponeck
Salon K & K
music from program "neither war nor peace" (premiere 2020)
contribution:
Dr. Michael Lüders, German-Arab Association
Dr. Gregor Gysi, Member of the German Bundestag
Dr. h.c. Hans-Christof Graf von Sponeck
Johanna Krumin, sopran
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Ulugbek Palvanov, piano
november 04rth 2019
Schlosspark Theater Berlin
Salon K & K - Theodor Fontane
Johanna
Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Ulugbek Palvanov, piano
René Hofschneider, reading
Theater
im Palais Am Festungsgraben 1 D-10117 Berlin
october 13th 2019
KMD Klaus-Jürgen Gundlach, conductor
15.9.2019 16 Uhr cultural center Templin
28.9.2019 church St. Maria Magdalena Prenzlau
church Wandlitz Breitscheidstraße 20 D-16348 Wandlitz
august 23rd 7:30 pm church Weißensee
september 01st 4 pm church Börnicke / Bernau
Julia Vander Elst - baroque riding
Salon K & K – soprano, violin, piano
castle Neuhaus Lübben
august 24./25.th 2019
Grazyna Patryn, Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, Johanna Krumin - artistic directors
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Anna Barbara Kastelwicz, violin
Duo Kapczak - cello and accordion
Rafał Lewandowski, piano
20.7.2019 castel Krokowa / Poland
Zimmer, Morricone u.a.
19th Sömmersdorf
26th castle Königsstein
27th castle Wertheim
august:
13th St. Magarethen Römersteinbruch
16th St. Blasien Domplatz
Christina Hanke-Bleidorn, organ and piano
july 06th 2019 4:30 pm
Gardens of the World Berlin - Arena
Johanna Krumin, presentation
June 23rd 2019 12 noon - 5 pm
International
Festival for Ancient Music
Antonio Vivaldi: In turbato mare,
G.F.Händel, Tollit and more
neues barocktrio berlin, Johanna Krumin
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, baroque
violin
Sarah Perl, baroque cello
Peter Uehling, harpsichord
may
14th
2019
Wrangelschlößchen/Gutshaus
Steglitz Berlin
Baroque Festival
KulturSchlagLicht at hunting lodge Gross Schönebeck
new baroque trio with Johanna Krumin
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, baroque
violin
Sarah Perl, viola da gamba
Arno Schneider, harpsichord
May
11th
2019
3 pm / 5:30 pm
Zimmer, Morricone, Doldinger and others
The
Belarus State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yuri Karaveav, conductor
soloists:
Nina Nyembwe, Liz Cunningham, Jean-Marc Lerigab
soprano: Johanna Krumin
April
2019
07. Kassel Congress Palais
08. Leipzig Gewandhaus
09. Erfurt Messehalle
11. Halle Steintor
12. Magdeburg townhall
13. Siegen Siegerlandhalle
15. Köln Philharmonie
16. Karlsruhe concert hall
17. Rostock townhall
18. Kiel castle
20. Hannover Theater am Aegi
21. Hamburg Laeiszhalle
22. Bremen Metropol Theater
24. Koblenz Rhein-Moselhalle
25. Aachen Eurogress
26. Düsseldorf Capitol Theater
27. Erlangen Heinrich-Lades-Halle
28. Berlin Admiral Palace
29. Dresden Palace of Culture concerthall
Salon
K u K:
Fontane
– a Prussian European
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
Ulugbek Palvanov, piano
René Hofschneider, reading
march 31rst 2019 Burg zu Hagen im Bremischen
Meeting Point Messiaen
except Zorbas
Lied and lecture
120,000 POWs from different nations have been registered at Stalag VIII A from 1939-1945. About 12,000 did not survive their captivity.
Olivier Messiaen composed and premiered his musical masterpiece “Quartet to the End of Time”, while being a prisoner at Stalag VIII A himself. Alongside three fellow prisoners he premiered it on 15 January 1941 in the camp´s theatre barrack.
The annual performance of the piece has become an emboldening and inspiring ritual at the start of the new year for the people of the Euroregion. In 2017 the association connected this traditional to a multi-day festival in order to connect people from both sides of the river Neisse and from all over Europe at this unique place of history (of music). International artists meet with historians researching the region´s recent history and visitors are invited to experience contemporary music in a historical ambience of the Polish-German twin city and to join tours and lectures as to approach the tense topic of art and war.
january 13th 2019
11:30 am
excerpts from:
Echowand - Mikis Theodorakis / Sebastian Schwab
5 Mélodies populaires grecques - Maurice Ravel
Chants de Terre et de Ciel - Messiaen
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
René Hofschneider, lecture
Celebrated by Le Monde as „the new Stravinsky“, Mikis Theodorakis reached public renown both through his film compositions and his oratorio setting of Pablo Neruda’s Canto General. During this Matinée of words and music, his previously unpublished interviews are interspersed with his songs to give listeners a vivid and uncensored picture of the Paris of Boulez, Xenakis, Messiaen and Theoroakis himself.
Nastassja Kinski, presentation
Johanna Krumin - soprano
The Belarus State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yuri Karaveav, conductor
Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, violin
René Hofschneider, lecture
N.N., piano
march - december 2019
Konzerthaus Berlin
november 18th 2018 3:30 pm
OBM
Yukari Ishimoto, conductor
Frederick Delius - In a Summer Garden
Richard Strauss - 4 Last Songs
Arthur Sullivan - Symphony in E
Leonard Bernstein - Candide Ouverture
since 2018 Johanna Krumin is the artistic dirctor of the festival
WDR Germany
Dance Love Fight - With Mikis on the road at Hof International Festival
with Asteris & Ina Koutoulas, Klaus Salge, Johanna Krumin and many more
DANCE FIGHT LOVE DIE
film by Asteris Kutulas
with Anthony Quinn, F. Diaz, M. Farantouri, J. Krumin, M. Zugehör and many more
25.10.2017, 22:15 Uhr, Kino Regina - first showing
26.10.2017, 13:00 Uhr, Kino Scala
29.10.2017, 21:00 Uhr, Kino Classic
|
Songs
by Mikis Theodorakis rearranged for soprano and piano by Sebastian Schwab Markus Zugehör, piano © SCHOTT MUSIC GmbH & Co. KG coproduced by BR Classic |
progamming note
| TV
magazine "artour" july 23rd 2015 10:05 pm MDR echowand / Mikis Theodorakis presented by Petra Dorrmann |
WDR
3 Tonart july 29th 2015 03:05 pm review by Stefan Keim |
| Deutschlandradio
Kultur july 29th 2015 08:03 - 09:30 pm "Schreib, damit der Tag anbricht!" human. citizen. composer. Mikis Theodorakis' 90th birthday presented by Georg Beck music: inter alia CD echowand |
Deutschlandfunk
june 21st 2015 09:10 am the new disc - Die neue Platte: echowand - Songs by Mikis Theodorakis presented by Georg Beck |
| Reborn by Mikis Theodorakis |
Theodorakis'
Homecoming by Alexander Smoltczyk |
Reborn
Johanna’s voice radiates a very strong personality, an entirely original personality. All the songs on this CD, from beginning to end, are characterized by the duality of a basic, melancholy mood on one side and a blinding brightness on the other. This contrast forms a dynamic unity, like the atmosphere on a summer day in Greece, when the shadows are so much darker as the sun shines ever more intensely.
Johanna’s pathos conveys the element of unpredictability that determines our lives. Interestingly, there is something “Greek” in the wonderful willfulness of this German artist, because again and again things become dramatic; but Johanna also repeatedly surrenders to the serenity which is at the heart of my songs.
As a young and quite extraordinary musician, Sebastian has made marvelous arrangements, in which one can recognize a great richness of ideas. His modesty in not altering my melodies touches me, because he had every possibility to do all sorts of things that might have robbed them of their souls. But it remains my music.
I am quite surprised that I now hear the songs as if they had been composed by me in order for Sebastian to clothe them in atonality. Sebastian has given my songs a magical rebirth. How easily what is modal and tonal tips into what is atonal ... that shows a wonderful, lively gift of imagination. Johanna’s performance corresponds to this in an ideal fashion.
I find it astonishing and it makes me very happy that at the age of 90 my music feels so young to me: willing to take risks, and not relying on mere knowledge.
English translation by John Patrick Thomas and W. Richard Rieves
Theodorakis’ Homecoming
by Alexander Smoltczyk
On 7 August 2012, four musicians were sitting in an Athens apartment. They had met just shortly before. Through the window, one could see the Acropolis. “It’s so beautiful”, the eldest of the four said, but he was not referring to the Parthenon.
I only knew Theodorakis from my mother’s record collection
Mikis Theodorakis held an unlit cigar in his left hand, a present from the Cuban government, and used the Havana to conduct the freshly printed score that had just been placed in front of him: the first of thirteen songs he’d written, recomposed by the then 19-year-old Munich composer and violinist Sebastian Schwab, played by the pianist Markus Zugehör, and sung by Johanna Krumin, a young soprano from Berlin.
The project had been her idea. An impossible idea: for Theodorakis’s 90th birthday, a number of his songs were to be reincarnated, retexted, and recomposed by younger artists, by musicians who could be his grandchildren.
For them, everything Theodorakis had fought for was ancient history: the years of war, the partisan battles, the resistance to the military junta, the fight for a free Greece. For Theodorakis, these were defining life experiences; for the younger ones, it was material in history books, as old and musty as the Merovingians.
“I only knew Theodorakis from my mother’s record collection”, says Sebastian Schwab. A whole generation separates these musicians; by all rights this should not have functioned. And yet: “After the first song, when Mikis said what he did, all my doubts disappeared. Out of the legend, a contemporary person emerged; someone with whom I could talk about harmonies, voice- leading, and musical transitions. For me, it was again proof that music can transcend time.”
There’s pure sound in those hands
For three days, the four musicians met in Theodorakis’s apartment. For Johanna Krumin, it was like a master class: “Mikis sang for us, conducted, interrupted, corrected. Every detail was important to him.” It was a stroke of luck to meet a conductor “with so much wrist”, who could express legato, sound, and expression without any fear of losing control: “There’s pure sound in those hands.”
Mikis Theodorakis has always understood music to be something transcendent, like a cosmic melody, which every composer takes from the work of others and passes on. For this reason, Theodorakis had no problem with this project.
Johanna Krumin chose the thirteen pieces from Theodorakis’s works. The poet Ina Kutulas had already long been involved with the preparation of singable translations of Theodorakis’s songs and had also written original texts of her own (here for Abschied [Farewell] and Medeas Entsagung [Medea’s Renunciation]). Sebastian Schwab began by improvising at the piano using Theodorakis’s melodies. “I had to make the melodies match the speech rhythms of the German text”, Schwab said. “That began already with the word ‘musiki’, which in Greek has its accent on the last syllable.”
On which the two composers could not agree
In the first two songs, Wildwaches Land [Wild Country] and Nihtoni [Twilight], Schwab surrounds the melodies with a layer of accompaniment that sets up a vibration in the soul like the memory of happy times. With the next three songs – Einsame Reise [Lonely Journey], Medeas Entsagung, and Vergiftete Zeit [Poisoned Time] – the music alternates between outbursts of anger and despair; it finds shelter only in child-like melodies or grotesque dances, which can drive reality from the brain like a drug.
The sixth song – Wie geheimnisvoll schön meine Liebste ist [How Beautiful Is My Beloved] (from the Song of Songs) part of the Mauthausen Cycle – is for Theodorakis an invocation of a deceased lover, in which pathos is given full rein. Schwab, however, wanted his music to be “relentlessly unchanging and harsh in its harmonies”. He reached back to the “passus duriusculus” (a melody or bass line consisting of a chromatic scale covering the interval of a fourth, a figuration drawn from the Baroque doctrine of affects), and let this procession of pain move chromatically through all the parts, “like a traumatic backdrop for the soft and gentle melody; the background finally joins itself with the melody, because the melody provides support – without the emergence of angry outbursts – and finally, resigned, fades away.” Baroque submission instead of secular invocation – it was surely not coincidental that Wie geheimnisvoll schön meine Liebste ist was the only song on which the two composers – one very old and one quite young – could not and cannot agree.
Schwab describes Fortunas Gewässer [Fortune’s Waters] as one of his two favorite pieces. It is not set contrapuntally: the voice provides the accompaniment; the music floats over the melody and weaves itself gently into the melodic fabric. Bright light and sand on a shore provide healing for the grieving spirit. Theodorakis liked it so much that he said he could no longer imagine the original accompaniment.
As a composition, Esmeralda is perhaps the most challenging piece: nightmarish, in short segments with many ornaments, bizarre bird calls, and unexpected outbursts. One never knows what will happen next, the rudder can shift suddenly at any moment.
In Oft sprichst du zu mir [Often you speak to me], the beloved is heard. The music becomes soft and gentle, its movement steady and unchanging. In the following song, Abschied, it distances itself from this world and slowly feels its way into a new one. But the ego remains trapped in this world. The music ends with the deep tolling of bells.
Only music and dance (Betörendes Lied [Beguiling Song]) remain to make life bearable for a lonely and grieving person. The music vanishes with a rising question mark.
Now, at the end of a long life, he can return to his beginnings
“Before beginning this project, I mostly knew Theodorakis’s classical music”, Sebastian Schwab observes. “I knew a little bit about his political engagement from books. Through his songs, however, I begin to feel what he perhaps wanted at the time, what he fought for. I feel there his introspective side.”
This project has become a homecoming. Mikis Theodorakis has had to move through the century in the manner of a political hero, has had to give the Greeks a musical form and voice. Now, at the end of a long life, he can return to his beginnings, to a pure music free from all external constraints.
Alexander Smoltczyk
English translation by John Patrick Thomas and W. Richard Rieves