November 9-11, 2024
November 9, 2024 7:30pm Kunstraum Pillnitz Wilhelm-Wolf-Str. 1b Dresden, Germany
November 10, 2024 7:30pm Morgner Archiv Agricolastr. 25 Chemnitz, Germany
November 11, 2024 7:30pm Grieg-Begegnungsstätte Talstr. 10 Leipzig, Germany
The Sächsischer Musikbund presents a concert featuring the clarinet ensemble Trio BlattArt, with Ulrich Büsing, Aloisia Hurt, and David Wolf. The concert of mostly contemporary music from Saxony is entitled Zeitsprünge (Leaps of Time) and includes Stefan Hakenberg's Weinblätter , three pieces written for clarinet, basset horn, and bass clarinet. Weinblätter was commissioned by the festival Musik-Collagen in Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße, Germany. Trio BlattArt premiered the piece there last year and in a number of concerts around the Rhein-Main region.
August 2024
 YouTube: This month, visual artist Víctor Martínez and Stefan Hakenberg have launched a new YouTube playlist Hakenberg | Martínez featuring interpretations of chamber music by Stefan Hakenberg meeting with new videos by Víctor Martínez. The two videos published first are:
(-) Auflösen presenting accordion player Stefanie Mirwald's interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's composition Auflösen . Stefan Hippe, composer, accordion player, and music director of the Nuremberg Accordion Orchestra, writes about the piece, "The harmony and also the virtuoso solo passages convince me instantly. I also find the treatment of the hands intriguing and in terms of timbre, this certainly makes the composition even more attractive."
(-) Timbro e dinamica presenting saxophone player Roberto Favaro's interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's composition for tenor saxophone solo Timbro e dinamica .
July 21, 2024
July 21, 2024 6pm Gustav Mahler Saal Kulturzentrum
Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy: The Gustav Mahler Music Weeks 2024 present a concert of the El Cimarrón Ensemble with the Blechzinnen and soprano Alexandra Lampert-Raschké conducted by Clemens Heil. The concert entitled Young Composers and Gustav Mahler in Toblach/Dobbiaco has been curated by Stefan Hakenberg and includes premieres of new compositions by composers from the EUREGIO Tirol/Alto Adige/Trentino and beyond. They all circle around aspects of Gustav Mahler's song Liebst du um Schönheit which itself will be presented in a new arrangement for soprano, guitar, and double bass by Stefan Hakenberg with Alexandra Lampert-Raschké, Christina Schorn-Mancinelli (guitar), and Arisa Yoshida (double bass).
May 16-19, 2024
May 16, 2024 5pm Convocation Hall University of Alberta 116 St. & 85 Ave Edmonton, Alberta
May 18, 2024 7pm artsPlace 950 8 Ave
Canmore, Alberta
May 19, 2024 5pm Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall Rosza Centre University of Calgary 206 University Ct NW Calgary, Alberta
The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta presents a concert curated by Stefan Hakenberg under the title Mahler in the Mountains. It offers a collective, creative reflection on Mahler's Symphony No. 3. To this end the program features instrumental works by Haruki Noda and Ramsey Sadaka, as well as a cycle of Summer related songs by Alma and Gustav Mahler, each in a new version by one of five composers from Alberta, Austria, and British Columbia. It includes Stefan Hakenberg's version of Gustav Mahler's Ablösung im Sommer for soprano and sinfonietta. The concert also features the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's States of Matter , five songs on texts by Marilyn Dumont, each related to a different movement of Mahler's symphony.
The concert will be presented by soprano Amelia Watkins, mezzo-soprano Justine Ledoux, and the newly established Wirth Sinfonietta Edmonton conducted by Petar Dundjerski.
May 4, 2024
May 4, 2024 10:30am Musik- und Kunstschule Holleneggerstraße 19 Deutschlandsberg Austria
Deutschlandsberg, Austria: On the occasion of the 30th Piano Spring festival, Kulturkreis Deutschlandsberg presents a concert entitled Überraschungskonzert (Surprise Concert). Curated by Gerd Kühr, the concert includes a series of short chamber music compositions by nine composers, all of which are dedicated to Barbara Faulend-Klauser. One of the new works is Stefan Hakenberg's Herbst for solo voice. It is a setting of the poem by Elfriede Jelinek and will be sung by mezzo-soprano Michaela Selinger.
April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024 7:30pm Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Konzertsaal Wuppertal
Sedanstraße 15 42275 Wuppertal Germany
Wuppertal, Germany: As part of her guest professorship at the Hochschule for Music and Dance Cologne, Annika Hinsche and students of the mandolin and other classes of instrumental and vocal music present a concert program entitled Music in Times of Crisis. It includes a cantata of music from Stefan Hakenberg's opera The Amputation of Charlie Sharp , on a libretto by Philip Gourevitch. The opera was premiered in German in 2014 at the festival NOW! in Essen. The cantata Annika Hinsche has put together for this concert includes the World premieres of three movements from the suite for mandolin ensemble Of Charlie's Amputation and three of Charlie's arias from the opera. In this concert, the arias are sung for the first time in their original English versions by the baritone Leo Bögeholz Gründer.
September - November, 2023
September 24, 2023 4pm (private concert) Frankfurt, Germany
September 30, 2023 6pm Bergkirche Auf dem Berg 9-11 Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße, Germany
November 12, 2023 5pm Barfüßer Kloster Barfüßergasse 24, Grünberg, Germany
The clarinet ensemble Trio BlattArt, with Ulrich Büsing, Aloisia Hurt, and David Wolf, present concerts including the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's Weinblätter , three pieces written for clarinet, basset horn, and bass clarinet. Weinblätter was commissioned by the festival Musik-Collagen in Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße, Germany.
July 3, 2023
2pm Ira Malaniuk Saal KUG Reiterkaserne Leonhardstr. 82
Graz, Austria: As part of her Bachelor's recital at Kunstuni Graz, mezzo-soprano Ana Vidmar, accompanied by pianist Rita Melem, presents the Austrian premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's Orfeos zweiter Schmerzensgesang from his Vier Arien des Orfeo on words by Patricia Anne Simpson and Ranieri de Calzabigi and set for piano by Stefan Hakenberg and Christian Reuter.
June 4, 2023
6pm Martinskirche Kirchstraße 8
Leinsweiler, Germany: The clarinet trio BlattArt, with Ulrich Büsing, Aloisia Hurt, and David Wolf, present a concert including the first movement, leicht beschwingt, of Stefan Hakenberg's Weinblätter , three pieces written for clarinet, basset horn, and bass clarinet. Weinblätter was commissioned by the festival Musik-Collagen in Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße, Germany.
April 29, 2023
3pm Conservatory of Music "Francesco Antonio Bonporti" Via S. Giovanni Bosco, 4
Trento, Italy: The Conservatory of Music "Francesco Antonio Bonporti" presents a meeting with Stefan Hakenberg. It is part of the project Contemporaneamente - Bridges to the Music of Today conceived and coordinated by "Bonporti" professor of composition Fabio Cifariello Ciardi to foster the inclusion of students but also former students in the professional world of contemporary music composition.
February 9, 2023
8pm Deutsches Museum Forum Augustinerhof 4
Nuremberg, Germany: In cooperation with Bridging Arts Nürnberg, Deutsches Museum presents a mini festival Das Erste Mal. In its second concert, students of cellist Kiara Konstantinou and others play Stefan Hakenberg's Niemands Sturm . Four of the performing students have participated in the creation of the composition and premiered it in 2021 at Tafelhalle Nuremberg.
February 8, 2023
2pm Ira Malaniuk Saal KUG Reiterkaserne Leonhardstr. 82
Graz, Austria: As part of her Bachelor's recital at Kunstuni Graz, soprano Alessandra Djurdjević and pianist Svetlana Sokolova present the Austrian premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's Winter on the poem by the same title by Elfriede Jelinek.
October 1, 2022
October 1, 2022 6pm Bergkirche Auf dem Berg 9-11
Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße, Germany: The festival Musik-Collagen present a concert of accordionist Stefanie Mirwald. During her concert she will play the World premiere of Auflösen by Stefan Hakenberg. Stefan Hippe, composer, accordion player, and music director of the Nuremberg Accordion Orchestra, writes, "I would like to congratulate Stefan Hakenberg on his piece. Auflösen is a beautiful title and a beautiful quest, which he has realized very imaginatively. The harmony and also the virtuoso solo passages convince me instantly. I also find the treatment of the hands intriguing and in terms of timbre, this certainly makes the composition even more attractive. Stefanie Mirwald will surely play the piece very well."
September 25, 2022
Sep 25, 2022 6pm The Crystal Saloon 218 Front Street
Juneau, Alaska: The Crystal Saloon presents the American premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's vocal piece with movement and electronic score Searching and Knowing , expressing the journey through a breast magnetic imaging test. In her show, soprano, priest, coach, and survivor The Rev Dr Joyce Parry Moore creates healing images of Valkyries, playing children, and a shaman. Stefan Hakenberg set Parry-Moore’s poetry – influenced by Psalm 139 and the words of medieval mystic Dame Julian of Norwich – to vocal music, and composed the sounds recorded from an actual breast MRI into accompaniment, painting the inner experience of a woman’s search to knit herself back together with humour and grace.
August 26 - September 21, 2022
August 26, 2022 Wild Graces Studio Garden Gallery 111 Nottingham Rd. Deerfield New Hampshire
September 15, 2022 3:15pm Tufts University Distler Performance Hall 20 Talbot Ave Medford, Massachusetts
September 21, 2022 6pm Japan Society of Boston 1 Financial Center Boston, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Reian Bennett, shakuhachi, appears in recitals including Stefan Hakenberg's compositions Song of a Giant Tortoise and Song of a Japanese White-Eye at the Annual Haiku Gathering in Deerfield, New Hampshire, and in Boston, Massachusetts at Tufts University's Distler Performance Hall and at the Japan Society of Boston. During the lockdowns due to the recent pandemic, Elizabeth Reian Bennett has home-recorded Song of a Giant Tortoise and Song of a Japanese White‑Eye for the YouTube channel Distanced Soundings .
August 15-21, 2022
Aug 15-21, 2022 3:30pm Edinburgh Fringe venue 21 C Aquila Roman Eagle Lodge 2 Johnston Terrace
Edinburgh, Scotland: C Arts present the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's vocal piece with movement and electronic score Searching and Knowing , expressing the journey through a breast magnetic imaging test. Soprano, priest, coach, and survivor The Rev Dr Joyce Parry Moore joins Ariana Moore and Scout James to create healing images of Valkyries, playing children, a shaman. Stefan Hakenberg set Parry-Moore’s poetry – influenced by Psalm 139 and the words of medieval mystic Dame Julian of Norwich – to vocal music, and the sounds recorded from an actual breast MRI into accompaniment, painting the inner experience of a woman’s search to knit herself back together with humour and grace. Post-show discussion.
July 17, 2022
July 17, 2022 6pm Gustav Mahler Auditorium Kulturzentrum
Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy: The Gustav Mahler Music Weeks 2022 present a concert of the El Cimarrón Ensemble with the Blechzinnen, Alpine zither player Reinhilde Gamper, soprano Alexandra Lampert-Raschké and bass-baritone Robert Koller conducted by Clemens Heil. The concert entitled Young Composers and Gustav Mahler in Toblach/Dobbiaco was curated by Stefan Hakenberg and includes premieres of new compositions by composers from the EUREGIO Tirol/Alto Adige/Trentino and beyond. The program will also include the premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's arrangements of Gustav Mahler's Nicht Wiedersehen! and Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen .
May 29, 2022
May 29, 2022 3pm The Green Room Niehler Str. 104
Cologne, Germany: The Green Room presents an exhibition of works by Mutsumi Okada. During the finissage of the exhibition flutist Camilla Hoitenga plays Stefan Hakenberg's In a Heartbeat .
since March 2022
YouTube: Continuation of the channel Distanced Soundings featuring home recorded interpretations of chamber music by Stefan Hakenberg meeting with paintings by Harald Klemm.
Vol. 17 – presents bass-baritone Robert Koller's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Vocalise from The God Abandons Antony . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's paintings Beweinung, 1993 and warchild .
Vol. 16 – presents cellist Michael Veit's interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Parallele Interferenzen . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of various patterns derived from paintings by Harald Klemm.
Vol. 15 – presents percussionist Ralf Baumann's interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Fünf Szenen für Vibrafon . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's paintings Blütenfest and Fly Me To The Moon .
October 10, 2021
October 10, 2021 4pm Diefenbachsaal Gasthaus zum bunten Löwen)
 Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße, Germany: The new festival Musik-Collagen presents a concert with ensemble Soli fan tutti. During the concert cellist Michael Veit and pianist Wiltrud Veit will play the World premiere of Orfeo On My Mind by Stefan Hakenberg.
September 26, 2021
September 26, 2021 11am Foyer Großes Haus Staatstheater Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany: Staatstheater Darmstadt presents a concert opening the season of Soli fan tutti. During the concert Michael Veit will play the World premiere of Parallele Interferenzen for cello solo by Stefan Hakenberg.
September 19, 2021
September 19, 2021 6pm Bezirkliches Informationszentrum (BIZ) Hellersdorfer Straße 159 12619 Berlin
Berlin, Germany: pyramidale presents a concert with soprano Irene Kurka and the sonic.art saxophone quartet. The program will include the World premiere of Supersonic , a work in three movements Stefan Hakenberg has composed especially for sonic.art.
July 17, 2021
July 17, 2021 3pm and 7pm Tafelhalle
Nuremberg, Germany:
Bridging Arts presents
Niemands Werkstatt. The staged workshop presentation includes pre-produced audio recordings of Niemands Reise and Niemands Schatten , movements from the community opera with dance Niemands fantastische Reise. The recordings feature soloists Andromahi Raptis (soprano), Frances Pappas (mezzo-soprano), and George Humphreys (Baritone). The story, stage direction, and choreography are by Riikka Läser, stage design and costumes by Lena Scheerer and Michael Fritzsche. Also on stage: Konrad Rubin (signing actor)
June 29, 2021
Berlin, Germany: Unerhörte Musik presents the saxophone quartet sonic.art in a recital. Their program will include the World premiere of Supersonic , a work in three movements Stefan Hakenberg has composed especially for sonic.art.
since December 2020
YouTube: Continuation of the channel Distanced Soundings featuring home recorded interpretations of chamber music by Stefan Hakenberg meeting with paintings by Harald Klemm.
Vol. 14 – presents daegeum player Hong Yoo's interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Song of a Giant Tortoise . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting Lafcadio's Garden .
Vol. 13 – presents e-guitar player Daniel Lippel's home recorded World premiere interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Niemands Glück . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting Aufgabe 1 .
Vol. 12 – presents cellist Michael Veit and pianist Wiltrud Veit's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Orfeo On My Mind . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animation of Harald Klemm's painting Kranke Schwester 04 .
2020 Holiday Edition – presents Distanced Ensemble 2020 playing Stefan Hakenberg's Montaged Soundings 2020 . The musical snippets with which this composition was created are from YouTube channel DISTANCED SOUNDINGS, Volumes 1 - 11, which were recorded in Boston, Gent, Graz, Gütersloh, New York, Nuremberg, Rabat, Southborough, Sylva, Venice, and Wiesen. The video features clips by Harald Klemm.
Vol. 11 – presents pianist Paolo Notargiacomo's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Schafe Waschen . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of stills from Harald Klemm's video Dolly .
Vol. 10 – presents for a second time on this channel shakuhachi player Elizabeth Reian Bennett's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Song of a Giant Tortoise . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting Schrebergarten .
November 28, 2020
 YouTube: In a Web edition of Camino Contro Corrente Tara Venditti (mezzo-soprano), Dan Lippel (guitar), and performer Alexandros Kostas-Tousias present a version of Stefan Hakenberg's The God Abandons Antony that is owed to the fact that the musicians cannot come together due to current social distancing rules. Alexandros Kostas-Tousias recites Constantine Cavafy's poem in Greek live, via the Internet, from Athens. The solo performances of the first and the third movements will be replaced by the pre-produced Distanced Soundings videos of these pieces with the paintings by Harald Klemm. Camino Contro Corrente's Webcast includes an interview by Riccardo Vaglini with Alexandros Kostas-Tousias, Stefan Hakenberg, and Tara Venditti.
since September 2020
YouTube: Continuation of the channel Distanced Soundings featuring home recorded interpretations of chamber music by Stefan Hakenberg meeting with paintings by Harald Klemm.
Vol. 7 – presents pianist Sanae Zanane's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Sustainable Harmonies from Two Piano Pieces . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting wave .
Vol. 8 – presents cellist Kiara Konstantinou's and accordion player Oksana Martyniuk's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Tragödie from Philoxenie Paraphrasiert . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting Wer wird da sein? .
Vol. 9 – presents Robert Schulz's interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Fünf Szenen für Vibrafon . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's paintings Summer Moves On , Spaziergang bei Nacht , Links oder rechts rum , Der Himmel war roter, oder ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst , and Ballroom Outside .
September 9, 2020
September 9, 2020 12:30pm Katharinenruine
 Nuremberg, Germany: Bridging Arts presents cellist Kiara Konstantinou and accordionist Oksana Martyniuk in a recital. Their program will include the World premieres of two movements from Stefan Hakenberg's Philoxenie paraphrasiert , Tragödie and Emphase.
August 30, 2020
August 30, 2020 8:30pm Casa della Musica San Michele
Montaldeo, Italy: Casa della Musica San Michele, presents Camilla Hoitenga in a recital. Her program will include the Italian premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's In a Heartbeat .
The concert has also been streamed on the Internet and is available ONLINE.
August 30, 2020
YouTube: soprano Alexandra Lampert-Raschké and pianist Maciej Słapiński present a concert including the World premiere of a new song, Winter , by Stefan Hakenberg on a text by Elfriede Jelinek.
since May 2020
YouTube: The new channel Distanced Soundings features home recorded interpretations of chamber music by Stefan Hakenberg meeting with paintings by Harald Klemm. Creating this channel has begun in April 2020 as a reaction to the lockdowns impacting lives everywhere.
The first video – Vol. 1 – presents flutist Camilla Hoitenga's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's In a Heartbeat . In his video Harald Klemm uses his paintings Kleiner See (Sommermorgen) and Kleiner See zur blauen Stunde . Both depict the same motive, a pond in Kochel am See in Bavaria. One of the paintings shows the pond in the light of day, the other one shows it by night. The paintings are dense and luminous and in the video Harald has moved the perspective and lighting very slowly and sparingly.
The second video – Vol. 2 – presents shakuhachi player Elizabeth Reian Bennett's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Song of a Japanese White-Eye . In his video Harald Klemm uses his paintings Okyo's Schneekiefern (I+II) and Goyo-Matsu (I+III) – depicting bonsai trees – to create a calm flow of morphing images.
The third video – Vol. 3 – presents bass clarinet Duo Stump-Linshalm's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Days , Book I. The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's paintings Flüchtiger Speicher II , F_G_B , Die Winter waren kälter , Topfpflanze , and Tanz underlining the different characters of the 5 short duo compositions.
Vol. 4 – presents guitarist Fabian Hinsche's home recorded interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Singing a Lullaby for Ben . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting vom Fliegen träumen .
Vol. 5 – presents guitarist Daniel Lippel's home recorded World premiere interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Prelude from The God Abandons Antony . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting Inside Out .
Vol. 6 – presents mezzo-soprano Tara Venditti's home recorded World premiere interpretation of Stefan Hakenberg's Vocalise from The God Abandons Antony . The video shows Lea Mayerhofer's animations of Harald Klemm's painting Gefallen .
November 23, 2019
November 23, 2019 3pm Armadale Uniting Church 86A Kooyong Rd Armadale
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Tarella Strings, Sonus Ensemble, Peter Hagen (harpsichord), and Johanna Selleck (conductor) now bring to the Port Phillip Bay area a concert that they first presented last year in Lismore, Victoria. The concert was commissioned by Mount Elephant Community Management as a contribution to the first edition of their Waking the Giants project – a creative exploration and interpretation of the Victorian volcanic plains.
The program includes Stefan Hakenberg's dectet Magma Chambers . The composition expresses the unpredictable looming of eruptions from glowingly potent magma chambers under a dormant surface.
October 11, 2019
October 11, 2019 8:30pm Fédération Oeuvres Laïques du Maroc 16 Rue Moussa Ben Noussair
Casablanca, Morocco: Under the title L'appel lointain des cerfs... shakuhachi master Elizabeth Reian Bennett presents a concert of shakuhachi music at the Théâtre de la F.O.L..
The program includes Stefan Hakenberg's compositions Song of a Giant Tortoise and Song of a Japanese White-Eye for shakuhachi solo.
September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019 7:30pm Piano Building Concert Hall Central Conservatory of Music Central Beijing
Beijing, China: Chinese Music Europe (CHIME) and the Chinese Music Research Institute of the Central Conservatory of Music present a concert of traditional Chinese instrumental music including Stefan Hakenberg's composition for three guzheng Become Ocean . The performers are Xu Xinyi, Ding Xuechun and Shen Yijing.
The composition makes use of a number of virtuosic zheng techniques like tremolos, glissandi, bent notes, “flowing water,” etc.. The inner dynamic of the stream of musical ideas is created by a contrapuntal framework through the use of diverse canon techniques.
September 14, 2019
September 14, 2019 6pm St. Stephen's Anglican Church 360 Church St. Richmond
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: The Acacia Gold Wind Quintet presents a concert including Stefan Hakenberg's composition for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon Lake Winds .
The piece was composed in support of the Lake Bolac Eel Festival and of composer Dindy Vaughan's community building activism. The Acacia Gold Wind Quintet has premiered Lake Winds at the festival last year.
April 30, 2019
April 30, 2019 7pm Salle Bahnini 1, rue Ghandi
 Rabat, Morocco: Elizabeth Reian Bennett, shakuhachi, presents a concert of shakuhachi and piano music as well as a concerto for ney, shakuhachi and orchestra combining music from Africa, Asia, and Europe.
The program includes the world premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's composition Song of a Japanese White-Eye for shakuhachi solo as well as the African premieres of Song of a Giant Tortoise - also for shakuhachi solo - and Sustainable Harmonies from Two Piano Pieces . The pianist is Sanae Zanane.
Song of a Giant Tortoise was premiered in 2012 by Elizabeth Brown at an Afternoon of Shakuhachi and Koto Music concert at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Two Piano Pieces 2006 in Auke Bay, Alaska by Alexander Tutunov. The piano piece was commissioned by the Pacific Rim Forum for a conference on Energy and Environment.
March 2, 2019
March 2, 2019
11:09am (EST) CBC
CBC Radio, Canada: The radio show This Is My Music with Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe presents lagrimosa beltà (Frances Pappas, mezzo-soprano and Laura Young, guitar) with their CD recording of the Greek traditional song Δεν ειν αυγη in a version by Stefan Hakenberg.
November 2, 2018
November 2, 2018 7:30pm Auditorium Davide Liani Piazza S. Valentino, 12
Camino al Tagliamento, Italy: Festival Camino Contro Corrente 2018 presents a concert with pianist Paolo Notargiacomo. The program includes Stefan Hakenberg's Schafe Waschen , composed in 2001 for a concert dedicated to Hans Werner Henze on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
October 20, 2018
October 20, 2018 7pm Theater im Palais Kunstuni Graz Leonhardstraße 19

Graz, Austria: Tara Venditti (mezzo-soprano) and Dan Lippel (guitar) present a concert to mark the beginning of Tara Venditti's voice professorship at the Kunstuni Graz. The program includes Stefan Hakenberg's version of the Greek traditional song Δεν ειν αυγη .
October 13, 2018
October 13, 2018 Lismore Community Centre
Lismore, Victoria, Australia: As a part of its Waking the Giants project – a creative exploration and interpretation of the Victorian volcanic plains and its giant scoria cones – Mount Elephant Community Management presents a concert featuring the Tarella String Quartet, the Sonus Wind Quintet, Peter Hagen (harpsichord), and Johanna Selleck (conductor). The program includes the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's new dectet Magma Chambers .
September 30, 2018
September 30, 2018 2pm Montsalvat 7 Hillcrest Ave. Eltham, Victoria
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: The Melbourne Composers' League presents a concert featuring the Acacia Gold Wind Quintet conducted by Peter Neville. The program includes Stefan Hakenberg's composition for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon Lake Winds . The piece was composed in support of the Lake Bolac Eel Festival and of composer Dindy Vaughan's deeply rooted community building activism. The Acacia Gold Wind Quintet has premiered Lake Winds at the Lake Bolac Eel Festival last March.
July 29, 2018
July 29, 2018 11:15am Universidade de Aveiro Campus Universitário de Santiago Aveiro, Portugal
Aveiro, Portugal: As part of their meeting Flute: Hands On Research 2018, IMPAR (Initiatives Meetings and Publications on Artistic Research) presents Camilla Hoitenga in a lecture recital Contemporary Performance Practice – An Introduction. Her program will include the Portuguese premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's In a Heartbeat .
In a Heartbeat was premiered just a couple of months ago by David Gruber at Alte Schmiede in Hallein, Austria.
July 20, 2018
July 20, 2018 7:30pm Marienkirche Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 8 Berlin-Mitte
Berlin, Germany: Marienkirche presents a charity concert featuring the Bundespolizeiorchester Berlin with its music director Gerd Herklotz. The program includes Stefan Hakenberg's composition for symphonic wind ensemble A Gentle Giant .
May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 4pm Katholische Akademie Schwerte Bergerhofweg 24
Schwerte, Germany: Katholische Akademie Schwerte presents an exhibition of works by Yala Juchmann. The opening of the exhibition features flutist Camilla Hoitenga playing the German premieres of Stefan Hakenberg's Song of a Giant Tortoise and In a Heartbeat .
Song of a Giant Tortoise was originally written for daegum as part of the score for Theo Lipfert's documentary short film Invasion of the Giant Tortoises and premiered independently of the movie, in a version for shakuhachi, by Elizabeth Brown at Northeastern University in Boston in 2012. Camilla Hoitenga plays the composition on a traditional Western transverse flute. In a Heartbeat was premiered just a month ago by David Gruber at Alte Schmiede in Hallein, Austria.
April 27, 2018
April 27, 2018 7:30pm Katholisches Pfarramt St. Martin Steinbruchweg 19A
Rückersdorf, Germany: Musik in Scheune und Kapelle presents a concert with lagrimosa beltà (Frances Pappas, mezzo-soprano and Laura Young, guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη . These songs are also available on CD through lagrimosa beltà, amazon, iTunes, or at the Salzburg Festival Shop.
April 21, 2018
April 21, 2018 7:30pm Pernerinsel Alte Schmiede across from Mauttorpromenade 7
Hallein, Austria: The Halleiner Kulturverein Sudhaus presents Stefan Hakenberg's chamber opera The Egg Musher (libretto by Michael Kerstan) with the El Cimarron Ensemble and bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood conducted by Stefan Hakenberg and stage directed by Michael Kerstan. For previous media coverage of The Egg Musher , which the press labeled "first climate opera," you can go to the Reviews Page.
The evening will also include an introductory conversation between the composer and the librettist, as well as El Cimarron Ensemble's David Gruber playing the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's In a Heartbeat for flute solo.
April 20, 2018
April 20, 2018 7:30pm Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Zossener Str. 65 Kreuzberg
Berlin, Germany: The protestant congregation Ev. Kirchengemeinde Heilig Kreuz-Passion presents a charity concert featuring the Bundespolizeiorchester Berlin with its music director Gerd Herklotz. The program includes the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's composition for symphonic wind ensemble A Gentle Giant .
The proceeds of this concert will go to support the Projekt Gitschiner Str. 15, a unique education center for homeless or poor adults with courses in a variety of visual arts and music, including for instance the gospel choir Different Voices of Berlin who compose some of their songs themselves.
March 25, 2018
March 25, 2018 12:45pm Boathouse Lake Bolac
Lake Bolac, Victoria, Australia: The grass roots Lake Bolac Eel Festival presents a concert featuring the Acacia Gold Wind Quintet from Melbourne. The program includes the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's new composition for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon Lake Winds . The piece was composed in support of the Lake Bolac Eel Festival and of composer Dindy Vaughan's deeply rooted community building activism. It was conceived acknowledging the Djabwurrung as the traditional custodians of the land where the Festival is held as an offer of sincere respect for elders past, present, and emerging.
February 19, 2018
February 19, 2018 7:30pm Akademie für Tonkunst Petersen-Saal Ludwigshöhstr. 120
Darmstadt, Germany: The opening concert of the festival Zeitströme at the Darmstadt Academy for Musical Arts features the AsianArt Ensemble presenting a program including Stefan Hakenberg's Zerrende Geister . This composition was originally written for clarinet, cello, and piano and premiered in 1994 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by the New Millennium Ensemble. The version presented in this concert was set for violin, viola, cello, double bass, daegum, kayagum, and koto in 2015. The performance will be conducted by Il‑Ryun Chung.
November 3, 2017
November 3, 2017 8pm Stadttheater Rüsselsheim
Rüsselsheim, Germany: Visual artist Inge Besgen presents the 11th edition of her community based concert series Lebenslinien. The jazz quartet Common Ground with Matthias Akeo Nowak (bass), Sebastian Gille (tenor saxophone), Achim Kaufmann (piano), and Bill Elgart (drums) will premiere Rüsselsheimer Portraits by Stefan Hakenberg. The compositions are based on character essays on four citizens of Rüsselsheim by psychoanalyst Brigitte Pahlke. More about the event in this article by Stephan Dudek from the newspaper Main-Spitze.
March 12, 2017
March 12, 2017 4:30pm Bürgerhaus Süd
Recklinghausen, Germany: During his concert Zum ersten Mal, pianist Rainer Maria Klaas presents the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's 60 cm , a piano sonata in four movements.
November 22 and 27, 2016
November 22, 2016 4pm Keller Hall University of New Mexico
November 27, 2016 10:30am chatter Las Puertas 1512 1st Street NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Mezzo-soprano Tara Venditti, the Viola Miller Endowed Quartet of the University of New Mexico, and their music director and pianist Kristin Ditlow present – as a World premiere – a combination of Stefan Hakenberg's Vier Arien des Orfeo , the Gesänge für Orfeo , and a new piano solo piece Versuch und Scheitern . These compositions are versions of music from the opera with dance Schau nicht zurück, Orfeo! with an original score by Stefan Hakenberg incorporating music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and high school students from Nuremberg, Germany, set for mezzo-soprano, chorus and piano by Christian Reuter and Stefan Hakenberg.
November 16, 2016
November 16, 2016 8pm Konzerthaus Berlin Werner-Otto-Saal Am Gendarmenmarkt 2 Berlin-Mitte
Berlin, Germany: The AsianArt Ensemble presents focused XVI - Deutsche Komponisten, a concert including the European premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's Sir Donald for kayagum, changgu, and baroque cello.
September 23, 2016
September 23, 2016 6pm Asia Society Texas 1370 Southmore Blvd.
Houston, Texas: The Asia Society Texas presents Performing Asia: IIIZ+ in Concert , a concert including the Texan premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's five musical montages of traditional East Asian zither and changgu compositions Three Zithers and a Pair of Scissors for Japanese koto, Korean kayagum and changgu, and for Chinese guzheng.
September 14, 2016
September 14, 2016 8:15pm Katharinensaal
Nuremberg, Germany: The Internationales Kammermusikfestival Nürnberg presents Penelope – Musik und Lesung, a concert with lagrimosa beltà (Frances Pappas, mezzo-soprano and Laura Young, guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη . These songs are also available on CD through lagrimosa beltà, amazon, iTunes, or at the Salzburg Festival Shop.
September 12, 2016
September 12, 2016 8pm Spectrum 121 Ludlow St #2 NY 10002

New York, New York: Spectrum presents Vocal Acrobatics, a concert with Frauke Aulbert (voice) and Brian DuFord (guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη . This is the first performance of the songs in the US.
September 10, 2016
September 10, 2016 Wild Graces Studio Garden Gallery 111 Nottingham Rd. Deerfield New Hampshire
Deerfield, New Hampshire: As part of its 3rd Annual Haiku Gathering, the Studio Garden Gallery Wild Graces presents a concert featuring Elizabeth Reian Bennett, shakuhachi, including Stefan Hakenberg's composition Song of a Giant Tortoise . Song of a Giant Tortoise was premiered in Boston in 2012 by Elizabeth Brown at Northeastern University.
September 9, 2016
September 9, 2016 8pm Christophorushaus Herdweg 122

Darmstadt, Germany: The Evangelische Südostgemeinde Darmstadt presents a recital with mezzo-soprano Tara Venditti and pianist Kristin Ditlow including Stefan Hakenberg's solo piano piece Schafe Waschen and the World premiere of the complete set of Vier Arien des Orfeo . The arias stem from the opera with dance Schau nicht zurück, Orfeo! with an original score by Stefan Hakenberg incorporating music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and are set for mezzo-soprano and piano by Christian Reuter and Stefan Hakenberg. Schafe Waschen was composed in 2001 for a concert dedicated to Hans Werner Henze on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
August 11, 2016
August 11, 2016 8pm Monash University Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Music Auditorium 55 Scenic Boulevard Clayton Victoria
Melbourne, Australia: The Sonic.Art Saxophone Quartet present a concert at Monash University including the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's brief greeting card to the composers at the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music Gale Force Group Portrait .
July 3, 2016
July 3, 2016 6pm Christianskirche am Kloppstockplatz
Hamburg, Germany: altonale18 presents a concert with Frauke Aulbert (voice) and Gisbert Watty (guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη . In July and August 2015 Frauke Aulbert and Gisbert Watty presented these two Greek songs for the first time in Sydney and Melbourne.
June 26, 2016
June 26, 2016 8pm Elisabeth-Kirche Invalidenstr. 3
Berlin, Germany: The Ensemble UnitedBerlin presents a concert commemorating Hans Werner Henze on his 90th birthday including the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's To Sovereign Thames Allied for voice and sinfonietta – settings of two poems from The River Duddon by William Wordsworth. The soloist will be Matthias Bauer, who will also play the double bass part, and the performance will be conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
April 10, 2016
April 10, 2016 7:30pm Keltenmuseum
Hallein, Austria: The Internationales Halleiner Gitarrenfestival presents a concert with lagrimosa beltà (Frances Pappas, mezzo-soprano and Laura Young, guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη . These songs are also available on CD through lagrimosa beltà, amazon, or iTunes.
April 3, 2016
April 3, 2016 11am Musikschule der Stadt Mönchengladbach Carl-Orff Saal Lüpertzender Str. 83
Mönchengladbach, Germany: Hermann Große-Schware celebrates his 85th birthday with a concert including Stefan Hakenberg's Pink Slush for string quartet and drum set played by teachers of the Musikschule der Stadt Mönchengladbach, Harald Stöpfgeshoff and Kerstin Weuthen violins, Rüdiger Blömer viola, Susanne Ostermann cello, and Robert Hurasky drums. Pink Slush was premiered in 2009 in Mönchengladbach by the Vitus Quartet and Ralf Baumann on drums during a concert dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Ensemblia new music festival.
December 11, 2015
December 11, 2015 9pm Museo del Novecento
Florence, Italy: GAMO (Gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi) International Festival presents a concert with Frauke Aulbert (voice) and Gisbert Watty (guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη as well as the European premiere of the original song on the poem Ιθάκη by Constantine P. Cavafy. In July and August 2015 Frauke Aulbert and Gisbert Watty presented these three Greek songs in Sydney and Melbourne.
August 4, September 6, October 2, and November 14, 2015
August 4, 2015 8:15pm Oberste Stadtkirche Piepenstockstr. 29 Iserlohn, Germany
September 6, 2015 8:30pm Archaeological Museum Kavala, Greece
October 2, 2015 7pm Session Hall PKP Station 105 Piłsudskiego Street Wrocław, Poland
November 14, 2015 8pm Tafelhalle Äussere Sulzbacher Str. 62 Nürnberg, Germany

lagrimosa beltà (Frances Pappas, mezzo-soprano and Laura Young, guitar) present concerts including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη at 24. Internationales Gitarren Symposion in Iserlohn, Germany, at “Yiannis A. Papaioannou” International Music Festival in Kavala, Greece, at XVIII Wrocławski Festiwal Gitarowy GITARA+ in Wrocław, Poland, and at 20. Nürnberger Gitarrennacht in Nürnberg, Germany.
July 29 and 30, and August 1, 2015
July 29, 2015 6pm Goethe Institut Sydney Sydney New South Wales
July 30, 2015 1pm Playhouse Theatre University of Western Sydney Sydney New South Wales
August 1, 2015 8pm Monash University Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Music Auditorium 55 Scenic Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia: Frauke Aulbert (voice) and Gisbert Watty (guitar) present concerts including Australian premieres of Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη as well as the World premiere of a new original song on the poem Ιθάκη by Constantine P. Cavafy. In August Stefan Hakenberg will be in residence at Melbourne's Monash University and also give a lecture at Melbourne University.
July 17 and 20, 2015
July 17, 2015 8pm National Gugak Center Seocho-dong 2364 Seocho-gu
July 20, 2015 8pm Artists' House Dongsoong-dong 1-130 Jongno-gu
Seoul, South Korea: IIIZ+ present concerts at the National Gugak Center and The House Concert. The concert programs includes the Korean premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's five musical montages of traditional East Asian zither compositions Three Zithers and a Pair of Scissors for Japanese koto, Korean kayagum and changgu, and for Chinese guzheng.
April 8, 2015
April 8, 2015 8pm Konzerthaus Berlin Werner-Otto-Saal Am Gendarmenmarkt 2 Berlin-Mitte
Berlin, Germany: The AsianArt Ensemble presents a concert including the World premiere of a new original version of Stefan Hakenberg's Zerrende Geister . This composition was originally written for clarinet, cello, and piano and premiered in 1994 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by the New Millennium Ensemble from New York. The new version presented in this concert is set for violin, viola, cello, double bass, daegum, kayagum, and koto. The performance will be conducted by Il‑Ryun Chung.
March 4, 2015
March 4, 2015 7:30pm Essl Museum An der Donau-Au 1
Klosterneuburg bei Wien, Austria: Soprano Julia Mihály presents her solo recital entitled [trigger me] 2.0 at the Essl Museum. The program includes the Austrian premiere of her concert version of Stefan Hakenberg's dance piece for soprano and electronics Searching and Knowing on a libretto by the Rev. Joyce Parry Moore, reflecting the Rev. Mrs. Parry Moore's personal experience as a breast cancer survivor. The electronic track uses snippets of recordings of an MRI sequence and Rev. Parry Moore's voice. Stefan Hakenberg has written a detailed description of his compositional process composing Searching and Knowing under the title Ways to a New Identity.
February 10, 2015
lagrimosa beltà (Frances Pappas, mezzo-soprano and Laura Young, guitar) release their new CD including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη .
Februar 6, 2015
February 6, 2015 7:30pm Akademie für Tonkunst Großer Saal Ludwigshöhstr. 120
Darmstadt, Germany: The Darmstadt Academy for Musical Arts Tage für Neue Musik presents a concert with recorder player Johannes Fischer and koto player Naoko Kikuchi including Stefan Hakenberg's Antares . A life recording of the European premiere of Antares with Johannes Fischer and Naoko Kikuchi in Darmstadt in 2010 is available on this Web site, here. Antares was originally composed for Marco Lienhard (shakuhachi) and Ryuko Mizutani (koto), who premiered the composition in 2008 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
December 4, 2014
November 4, 2014 8:30pm Scuola di Musica "G. Verdi"
Prato, Italy: Frauke Aulbert (voice) and Gisbert Watty (guitar) present a concert including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη .
November 2, 2014
November 2, 2014 3pm UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein Areal C [Kokerei] Salzlager [C88] Arendahls Wiese tickets
Essen, Germany: As a world premiere, the festival NOW! together with Landesmusikrat NRW, Stiftung Zollverein, and Jugendzupforchester NRW present a concert performance of The Amputation of Charlie Sharp , an opera with music by Stefan Hakenberg and a libretto by Philip Gourevitch. The opera will be sung in Olaf Matthias Roth's German version. Christian de Witt conducts an ensemble of soloists, actors, and an extended mandolin orchestra. - Preview in the Darmstädter Echo newspaper.
November 1, 2014
November 1, 2014 9:30pm Auditorio Davide Liani
Camino al Tagliamento, Italy: The Festival Camino Contro Corrente 2014 presents a concert with Frauke Aulbert (voice) and Gisbert Watty (guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Μεσ Του Αιγαιου and Δεν ειν αυγη . - Festival flyer
October 30, 2014
October 30,
2014 8pm
Tsai Performance Center Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts: Alea III presents Days by Stefan Hakenberg with Diane Heffner (bass clarinet) and Janet Underhill (bassoon).
June 10, 2014
June 10, 2014 8:30pm Unerhörte Musik im BKA Mehringdamm 34 Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany: Soprano Julia Mihály presents her solo recital entitled [trigger me] 2.0. The program includes her concert version of Stefan Hakenberg's dance piece for soprano and electronics Searching and Knowing on a libretto by the Rev. Joyce Parry Moore, reflecting the Rev. Mrs. Parry Moore's personal experience as a breast cancer survivor. The electronic track uses snippets of recordings of an MRI sequence and Rev. Parry Moore's voice. Stefan Hakenberg has written a detailed description of his compositional process composing Searching and Knowing under the title Ways to a New Identity.
June 4, 2014
June 4, 2014
12:12am (Central European Time)
Bayern2 Radio, Germany: Bavarian Radio's channel 2 presents its show Concerto bavarese including its own recording of the World premiere performance of
Stefan Hakenberg's Extensive Counterpoints and Loops with the Nürnberger Akkordeonorchester under its music director Stefan Hippe.
February 14 and 18, and March 1, 2014
February 14, 2014 7:30pm Akademie für Tonkunst Großer Saal Ludwigshöhstr. 120 Darmstadt, Germany
February 18, 2014 8pm Instituto Cervantes Staufenstr. 1 Frankfurt, Germany
March 1, 2014 8pm Christianskirche am Kloppstockplatz Hamburg, Germany
Soprano Julia Mihály presents her solo recital entitled [trigger me] 2.0 in Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Hamburg (Program flyer), and Berlin. The program includes her concert version of Stefan Hakenberg's dance piece for soprano and electronics Searching and Knowing on a libretto by the Rev. Joyce Parry Moore, reflecting the Rev. Mrs. Parry Moore's personal experience as a breast cancer survivor. The electronic track uses snippets of recordings of an MRI sequence and Rev. Parry Moore's voice. Stefan Hakenberg has written a detailed description of his compositional process composing Searching and Knowing under the title Ways to a New Identity.
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