Composer

Nina Šenk, laureate of the Erste Bank Composition Award 2024, is considered a key representative of Slovenia's up-and-coming international music scene. In her works, the 1982 born composer expands the possibilities of different soundscapes, questions the traditional structures of sound formations and creates a variety of harmonic timbres.

Following the world premiere of her opera Canvas as part of the Johann Joseph Fux Competition for Opera Composition 2023, Klangforum Wien is now collaborating with Nina Šenk again and will premiere her award winning piece November Night (2024) at Wien Modern 2024 on 21 November 2024 as part of the Erste Bank Composition Award, which is being presented for the 35th time this year.

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Erste Bank Composition Award: Nina Šenk

Wiener Konzerthaus

The Tower of Babel is a programme dedicated to recent works by composers from the region of the former Soviet Union. First performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus and Radialsystem Berlin in 2023, Klangforum Wien returns to Berlin with novel discoveries, putting new compositions from Central Asia into the spotlight.

This edition of the programme maps the new musical landscapes of today's post-Soviet societies, highlighting artistically uncompromising voices from Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine with due matter-of-factness.

VOICES Festival: The Tower of Babel

St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin

Experience an evening featuring Stravinsky’s whirling The Rite of Spring, which still astounds audiences more than a century after its riotous Parisian premiere in 1913. The spectacular work shocked the world with its vivid depictions of ritual dances in pagan Russia—a perfect pairing for the world premiere of Vladimir Tarnopolsky’s Danse Macabre. Music Director Rafael Payare sets the tone for the performance with Béla Bartók’s dark and mysterious The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, and Villa-Lobos’ influences of Bach melded with Brazilian folk elements on display in a selection from his Bachianas brasileiras.

Composer

Vladimir Tarnopolski

Events

Past events

Nov 21, 2024

Erste Bank Composition Award: Nina Šenk · Klangforum Wien

Nov 3, 2024

VOICES Festival: The Tower of Babel · Klangforum Wien

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