Projects
mothers.lovers.revolutionists.
Portraits of female composers.
Moderated recital with pianist Sina Kloke
HER:itage Female Composers Fusion with Sina Kloke and Simin Tander
HER:itage expands the project mothers. lovers. revolutionists through a collaboration with German-Afghan jazz vocalist and composer Simin Tander. On her album Unfading, Simin sets texts by women from different periods, including those of Afghan poet Sohayla Hasrat-Nazimi.
In this concert, featuring music by women composers ranging from Clara Schumann to Simin Tander, classical art song meets elements of jazz and contemporary songwriting.
The aim of HER:iatge is not to rework Clara Schumann’s or Alma Mahler’s songs into jazz arrangements, but rather to open up a space within the art song where different forms of vocal expression and cultural traditions can coexist.
Dedicated to giving a voice to women from different parts of the world, the project reaches beyond the boundaries of classical music and the Western cultural sphere.
Das moderne Mädel. A HERstory of Polish and German Women in the Interwar Period (cabaret evening with Margaux Kier and Tomasz Prasqual)
Wie klingt Freiheit?
How does freedom sound like?
Composition/improvisation workshops in cooperation with Oper Bonn and BTVN 2020 (Beethoven’s Jahr 2020)
I was invited by composer PRASQUAL to design and conduct a series of workshops for schools and adults. The themes of these workshops derive from the most important questions that the pieces presented at the time at the Oper Theater Bonn challenge us with, for example “freedom” in the context of Beethoven’s Fidelio, “wisdom” in the context of Goethe’s Faust, “subconsciousness and association” in the context of Mauricio Kagel’s Stadtstheater. Workshops contain a philosophical element, where students are invited to discuss and share experiences as well as practical elements, where participants engage in improvised theater scenes and improvise on simple instruments designed according to the topic of the workshop. During the pandemic, workshops are also conducted online with a focus on “the sounds of lockdown”.
eSpaces of Encounter
interdisciplinary workshops
I am is a part of the “Embracing the nknown” – a group of 6 artists of different disciplines (jazz, opera, theatre, visual arts, art therapy, intercultural studies, dance) who came together during the COVID – pandemic and started a project with interdisciplinary online workshops.
We taught workshops for students and faculty of four European universities associated within EUGLOH (European University Alliance for Global Health).
Zauberklänge-Dinge
music with everyday objects
Together with composer PRASQUAL we offer an improvisation workshop which uses everyday objects as tools of communication and musical expression.
Participants are invited to not only improvise with kitchen and office supplies but also to reflect on the art of communication, develop curiosity and a no-judgement attitude while listening to each other, and interpreting non- verbal language.
This workshop has been be conducted both in person (for example during the community project KulturSommer Festival organized by KLUG e.v. in Köln) and online (hosted by Wuppertal Bergische Musikschule).
Songs for the City
a window concert and an online exhibition of the documentation of the concert
In June 2020 I was invited by choreographer Richard Siegal together with a pianist and composer PRASQUAL, to give a concert from the window of his apartment. A large crowd watched this event from their windows, balconies, cars and from the street below. A true community bond was created that night. Many people recorded us with smartphones and their films were used during an online exhibition organized by Stn:ort 2020 Summer of Windows Festival