impuls Festival: Schallfeld Ensemble. KORPUS I

Claudio Panariello To learn the obscene art of suffering pain, for flute, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, electronics (2022)

Carola Bauckholt Keil, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass (2000)

Christophe Bertrand Madrigal, for soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello (2005)

Misato Mochizuki Voilages, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello (2000)

Alexander Khubeev don’t leave the room, for performer, flute, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, cello, electronics, live-video (2020)*

Having been connected to impuls in various ways over the years, Graz based Schallfeld Ensemble presents its first concert of the 2025 season – dedicated to „Body“ as main theme – within the impuls Festival. Starting with the experience of pain (and confrontation with hybridity, otherness and detachment) in Panariello´s work, the program clashes into the hyperbolic description of Gargantua’s gigantic body (Bertrand) and finally arrives at Khubeev’s paradoxical musical investigation of the body as a linguistic medium. Just like in former years, with Carola Bauckholt and Misato Mochizuki two renowned composers teaching at the impuls Academy, are included in the program, opening up the possibility to work and exchange closely with them.

Schallfeld is an international ensemble for contemporary music based in Graz. The group sparks the interest of its audience by its vivid virtuosity and refined chamber music sound, paired with interpretations that pay special attention to concert format, creating events that adapt to the specific venue while aiming for a new dimension of listening. The ensemble was founded in 2013 by alumni of Klangforum Wien and composition students of Kunstuniversität Graz. It currently consists of musicians from 8 nationalities and reflects the diversity and different interests of its members in its artistic direction. In the last few years, Schallfeld has been able to establish itself on international stages through exciting programming with a focus on young composers, innovative concert-stagings as well as through the quality of its collective improvisations and innovative use of live-electronics. Schallfeld sees its mission in bringing music of international young composers to Austria and acting as an ambassador for new music production abroad.

Besides its own concert cycle in Graz, Schallfeld is regularly guest in festivals in Austria and abroad, such as Wien Modern, impuls Graz, Klangspuren Schwaz, musikprotokoll Graz, Warsaw Autumn, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Ensems (Spain), Romaeuropa (Rome), Afekt (Estonia), Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea). In 2016 and 2017 Schallfeld has been selected by the Ministry of Foreign/cultural Affairs as representative of NASOM (New Austrian Sound of Music), a program designed to promote young Austrian artists internationally and, since 2015, is Ulysses- Network Ensemble in Residence.

Schallfeld was Ensemble in Residence during the Darmstädter Ferienkursen (2016), impuls (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023), Klangspuren Schwaz (2023), Stanford University (2023), University of California San Diego (2020), Harvard University (2020) and has a fix collaboration with the IEM Graz since 2015.

The ensemble is also involved in pedagogical activities and collaborative theatre projects for children and adults. Schallfeld is funded by the municipality of Graz, the federal state of Styria, the Austrian federal Government and receives generous support from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and the iem (Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics) Graz. Past projects by Schallfeld have also received grants by the EU (Youth in Action), Music Austria (MICA) and KulturKontakt Austria. 2022 Schallfeld Ensemble was awarded the Grand Interpretation Prize of Land Steiermark.

€ 18 | € 12* | € 7**

* Pupils, students, conscripts/civil servants and unemployed persons with valid identity card

** Music students with valid ID at the box office and children up to 10 years of age

*** Free admission for Hunger auf Kunst & Kultur at the box office from 15 minutes before the start of the concert

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In cooperation with Schallfeld Ensemble, supported by IGNM Steiermark