Iridescence is an optical phenomenon in which the color of a surface changes depending on the viewing angle. Our concert program also features iridescence, ranging from chamber concerts to chamber plays: In Karlheinz Stockhausen's "The Little Harlequin" for solo clarinet from 1975, the soloist 'embodies' the eponymous Harlequin not only through music but also through dance movements. He also accompanies himself rhythmically by stamping his feet.

1st Chamber Concert

Theater Aachen

Having helped inaugurate Tippet Rise’s very first season in 2016, we are honored to welcome back pianist and virtuoso Sir Stephen Hough for the fourth year, presenting an energetic program ranging from Beethoven to Schoenberg, Schubert, Stockhausen, and concluding with his own arrangements of the Sherman brothers’ best-known works from Mary Poppins.

Sir Stephen Hough, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

After the semi-finals of the second edition of the International Conducting Competition Rotterdam in June 2024, the six designated winners Luis Castillo-Briceño, Yukuang Jin, Jakub Przybycień, Rodrigo Sámano Albarrán, Miguel Sepúlveda and Sam Weller undergo a one-year mentoring programme that will culminate in the final rounds between 1 and 13 June, 2025 in De Doelen.

During these days, the finalists will demonstrate their skills in five different rounds and conduct works from a wide range of genres: from classical to contemporary music and operas to large symphonic works. On June 4, 2025, they will be at the helm of Klangforum Wien conducting works by Beat Furrer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Enno Poppe, and Mathilde Wantenaar

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ICCR Rotterdam: Final rounds 2025

De Doelen

Karlheinz Stockhausen established his world fame as a futuristic musician and political utopian with visionary electronic compositions. Wolfgang Rihm preferred to develop his own sound language with classical instruments, which made him one of the most important voices in contemporary music. Two concerts are dedicated to their teacher-student relationship.

Stations: Rihm & Stockhausen

resonanzraum

Karlheinz Stockhausen – and Wolfgang Rihm? Was there something? You bet. In the early summer of 1972, Rihm finished school and had a state examination in composition and music theory in his pocket. Rihm was just twenty and his goal was clear: to study composition. And only Stockhausen in Cologne was an option. He replies politely, invites him, but immediately makes his reservations clear in writing. It had to be »clear that you have no other plans for at least two years. Otherwise you’d better go somewhere else or nowhere at all

Stations: Stockhausen & Rihm

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Stockhausen’s last electronic piece, plus a new adventure from experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki: Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory. A wondrous finale to a day of sonic innovation.

Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics - Shiva Feshareki and Stockhausen

Barbican Centre

All three composers represented here figure in the pianist’s sizable discography, which includes Debussy’s complete piano music – much of it heard during this Wigmore series. As Gramophone claimed of a release including the Etudes, his ‘flexible virtuosity and innate grasp of Debussy's style and sound world yield ravishing, freshly minted interpretations … that proudly rank with (and sometimes surpass) the catalogue's reference versions’.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano

Wigmore Hall

For Debussy and Schumann, childhood was a time of magical stories and wonders from beyond the imagination. It’s a wonderful starting point for this recital from one of France’s most dazzling musical imaginations. Everything that Jean-Efflam Bavouzet touches simply comes alive, and whether it’s Debussy’s glittering musical pictures or the psychedelic visions of Stockhausen, this is a concert to dream to.

Steinway International Piano Series: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Bute Park

The Oberlin Horn Ensemble, led by David Byrd-Marrow, will present a concert in Warner Concert Hall.

Concert: Oberlin Horn Ensemble

Oberlin College

In 1995, Stockhausen was asked to listen to the music of Aphex Twin, commenting that Aphex should ‘immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions’. Aphex Twin responded that Stockhausen might want to ‘stop making abstract, random patterns you can’t dance to’.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 31, 2026

GBSR Duo: Stockhausen vs Aphex Twin · Southbank Centre

Past events

5 - 6 Oct, 2025

1st Chamber Concert · Sinfonieorchester Aachen

Aug 31, 2025

Sir Stephen Hough, piano · Tippet Rise Art Center

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