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This season, the Karajan-Akademie once again awards the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize to an outstanding young composer. This time, the prize was awarded to the Croatian composer Sara Glojnarić. The award includes the commission of a new work for the Academy, premiered in this concert. The programme also features Arnold Schoenberg’s expressionist Verklärte Nacht and Mozart’s impassioned Symphony No. 40. Visual artist Norbert Bisky joins the musicians live on stage, creating a new work in response to Schoenberg’s music as the performance unfolds.
Artists
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Norbert Bisky visual artist
Programme
Arnold Schoenberg
Transfigured Night, op. 4 (version for string orchestra)
Interval
Sara Glojnarić
can you play a song with a f*cking beat?! :))
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
Additional information
Duration ca. 2 hours (incl. 20 minutes interval)
Please note: In the first part of the concert, artist Norbert Bisky paints live to the music. His canvas is positioned in front of Block C, facing Blocks A and D – so if you’re seated in Block C, G or H, you won’t be able to see the artwork during this time. You’ll have the chance to view it during the interval.
Dates and tickets
Chamber Music Hall
12 to 32 €
Introduction
18:15
with Dr. Harald Hodeige
Series KA: Karajan Academy
Background
Biography
Norbert Bisky
“I have a Lithuanian name, was born in Leipzig, lived in East Berlin and studied in West Berlin and Madrid,” says Norbert Bisky. The son of Lothar Bisky, former chairman of the PDS and Die Linke, is known for his figurative painting. After studying German literature and art history, he began training as a painter at the Freie Kunstschule Berlin in 1993, before studying with Georg Baselitz at what is now the Universität der Künste Berlin. He has taught at the Haute École d’Art et Design in Geneva and the International Summer Academy in Salzburg, and held a visiting professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. His work is held in collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
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