December 1, 2025
Vienna, Austria and on the Web: 2025, the festival Zappanale has celebrated the 85th birthday of Frank Zappa. Music journalist Gernot Friedbacher has visited the event and spoken to the participating artists. His broadcast Zappanale 2025 #1 – Music Outside The Norm includes an interview with Stefan Hakenberg who was at the Zappanale for the premiere performance of his composition for symphonic wind ensemble Mexikanische Zap(p)atistenpolka by the Bundespolizeiorchester Berlin (Orchestra of the Federal Police Berlin) with its music director Gerd Herklotz.
December 1, 2025
9pm
Vienna
RADIO ORANGE - ORANGE 94.0
Radio
Podcast
September 26, 2025
Nuremberg, Germany: Celebrating the 70th birthday of Michael Kerstan, Kammer Musik Theater International eV presents a concert with the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Curated by Stefan Hakenberg, the concert is entitled Das Spiel einer Flöte after the song by Hans Werner Henze (Das Spiel einer Flöte). The ensemble will present the premiere performance of this song in an arrangement by Stefan Hakenberg. The program includes a cornucopia of new compositions contributed by composers as musical birthday greetings. Among them is a new version of an arietta from the chamber opera The Egg Musher for which Michael Kerstan wrote the libretto. The arietta is To The Left.
September 26, 2025
7pm
Sebalder Pfarrhof
Albrecht-Dürer-Platz 1
July 20, 2025
Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy: As part of the Gustav Mahler Music Weeks 2025, the Research Center Gustav Mahler presents a concert of the El Cimarrón Ensemble with Michael Veit (cello), Ivan Mancinelli (percussion), and Christina Schorn-Mancinelli (guitar). The concert is entitled New Scherzos in Toblach/Dobbiaco and has been curated by Stefan Hakenberg. It includes premieres of new works composed especially for this occasion. Each of the new compositions circles around aspects of scherzo movements in Mahler's symphonies. They also relate Mahler's work to the region of the Upper Pusteria Valley. The program includes a new trio by Stefan Hakenberg Invasive Dances.
July 20, 2025
6pm
Kulturkeller
Gustav Mahler Kulturzentrum
July 17, 2025
Bad Doberan, Germany: The festival Zappanale presents a charity concert featuring the Bundespolizeiorchester Berlin (Orchestra of the Federal Police Berlin) with its music director Gerd Herklotz. The program includes the World premiere of Stefan Hakenberg's composition for symphonic wind ensemble Mexikanische Zap(p)atistenpolka. Often, in the music of Frank Zappa, pieces reoccur in new versions or are interwoven with new material. Hakenberg's composition on this concert's program has a growing history of adaptations created for varying ensembles and audiences. It began as a piece for the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Juneau, Alaska. Later there were adaptations for the BuJazzO – the Federal Jazz Orchestra of Germany – performing together with Splash, the Youth Percussion Ensemble of North-Rhine Westfalia, among others. The Bundespolizeiorchester Berlin has presented the music of Hakenberg before, last in July 2018 when it premiered A Gentle Giant.
July 17, 2025
4pm
Stage Tent
Am Markt 3
March 20, 2025
Graz, Austria: The Kunstuni Graz's, Department for Composition Pedagogy, in their guest presenters series Composition Pedagogy Today, presents Stefan Hakenberg with a talk on the feedback of composing with teenagers on his compositional process. The talk will touch on Hakenberg's work with teen composers in compositions like Der Kinderkreuzzug (The Children's Crusade) at the opera of Cologne or Schau nicht zurück, Orfeo! (Don't Look Back, Orfeo!).
March 20, 2025
9am
Kunstuni Graz
Reiterkaserne
November 9-11, 2024
Dresden, Chemnitz, 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.
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
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
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).
July 21, 2024
6pm
Gustav Mahler Saal
Kulturzentrum
May 16-19, 2024
Edmonton, Canmore, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: 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 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
May 4, 2024
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.
May 4, 2024
10:30am
Musik- und Kunstschule
Holleneggerstraße 19
Deutschlandsberg
Austria
April 18, 2024
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.
April 18, 2024
7:30pm
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
Konzertsaal Wuppertal
Sedanstraße 15
42275 Wuppertal
Germany
September - November, 2023
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.
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
July 3, 2023
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.
2pm
Ira Malaniuk Saal
KUG Reiterkaserne
Leonhardstr. 82
June 4, 2023
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.
6pm
Martinskirche
Kirchstraße 8
April 29, 2023
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.
3pm
Conservatory of Music "Francesco Antonio Bonporti"
Via S. Giovanni Bosco, 4
February 9, 2023
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.
8pm
Deutsches Museum
Forum
Augustinerhof 4
February 8, 2023
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.
2pm
Ira Malaniuk Saal
KUG Reiterkaserne
Leonhardstr. 82
October 1, 2022
Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße, Germany: The festival Musik-Collagen presents 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."
October 1, 2022
6pm
Bergkirche
Auf dem Berg 9-11
September 25, 2022
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.
Sep 25, 2022
6pm
The Crystal Saloon
218 Front Street
August 26 - September 21, 2022
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 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
August 15-21, 2022
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.
Aug 15-21, 2022
3:30pm
Edinburgh Fringe venue 21
C Aquila
Roman Eagle Lodge
2 Johnston Terrace
July 17, 2022
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.
July 17, 2022
6pm
Gustav Mahler Auditorium
Kulturzentrum
May 29, 2022
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.
May 29, 2022
3pm
The Green Room
Niehler Str. 104
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
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.
October 10, 2021
4pm
Diefenbachsaal
Gasthaus zum bunten Löwen
September 26, 2021
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 26, 2021
11am
Foyer Großes Haus
Staatstheater Darmstadt
September 19, 2021
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.
September 19, 2021
6pm
Bezirkliches Informationszentrum (BIZ)
Hellersdorfer Straße 159
12619 Berlin
July 17, 2021
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).
July 17, 2021
3pm and 7pm
Tafelhalle
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: 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 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: 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.
September 9, 2020
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.
September 9, 2020
12:30pm
Katharinenruine
August 30, 2020
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.
August 30, 2020
8:30pm
Casa della Musica San Michele
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
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.
November 23, 2019
3pm
Armadale Uniting Church
86A Kooyong Rd
Armadale
October 11, 2019
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.
October 11, 2019
8:30pm
Fédération Oeuvres Laïques du Maroc
16 Rue Moussa Ben Noussair
September 20, 2019
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 20, 2019
7:30pm
Piano Building
Concert Hall
Central Conservatory of Music
Central Beijing
September 14, 2019
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.
September 14, 2019
6pm
St. Stephen's Anglican Church
360 Church St.
Richmond
April 30, 2019
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 in 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.
April 30, 2019
7pm
Salle Bahnini
1, rue Ghandi
March 2, 2019
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 είμαι αυγή in a version by Stefan Hakenberg.
March 2, 2019
11:09am (EST)
CBC
November 2, 2018
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.
November 2, 2018
7:30pm
Auditorium Davide Liani
Piazza S. Valentino, 12
October 20, 2018
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 είμαι αυγή.
October 20, 2018
7pm
Theater im Palais
Kunstuni Graz
Leonhardstraße 19
October 13, 2018
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.
October 13, 2018
Lismore Community Centre
September 30, 2018
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.
September 30, 2018
2pm
Montsalvat
7 Hillcrest Ave.
Eltham, Victoria
July 29, 2018
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.
July 29, 2018
11:15am
Universidade de Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago
Aveiro, Portugal
July 20, 2018
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.
July 20, 2018
7:30pm
Marienkirche
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 8
Berlin-Mitte
May 27, 2018
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.
May 27, 2018
4pm
Katholische Akademie Schwerte
Bergerhofweg 24
April 27, 2018
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 Τες Τους Αγαπιους and Δεν είμαι αυγή.
These songs are also available on CD through lagrimosa beltà, amazon, iTunes, or at the Salzburg Festival Shop.
April 27, 2018
7:30pm
Katholisches Pfarramt St. Martin
Steinbruchweg 19A
April 21, 2018
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 21, 2018
7:30pm
Pernerinsel
Alte Schmiede
across from
Mauttorpromenade 7
April 20, 2018
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.
April 20, 2018
7:30pm
Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche
Zossener Str. 65
Kreuzberg
March 25, 2018
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.
March 25, 2018
12:45pm
Boathouse
Lake Bolac
February 19, 2018
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.
February 19, 2018
7:30pm
Akademie für Tonkunst
Petersen-Saal
Ludwigshöhstr. 120
November 3, 2017
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.
November 3, 2017
8pm
Stadttheater Rüsselsheim
March 12, 2017
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.
March 12, 2017
4:30pm
Bürgerhaus Süd
November 22 and 27, 2016
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 22, 2016
4pm
Keller Hall
University of New Mexico
November 27, 2016
10:30am
chatter
Las Puertas
1512 1st Street NW
November 16, 2016
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.
November 16, 2016
8pm
Konzerthaus Berlin
Werner-Otto-Saal
Am Gendarmenmarkt 2
Berlin-Mitte
September 23, 2016
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 23, 2016
6pm
Asia Society Texas
1370 Southmore Blvd.
September 14, 2016
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 Τες Τους Αγαπιους and Δεν είμαι αυγή.
These songs are also available on CD through lagrimosa beltà, amazon, iTunes, or at the Salzburg Festival Shop.
September 14, 2016
8:15pm
Katharinensaal
September 12, 2016
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 Τες Τους Αγαπιους and Δεν είμαι αυγή. This is the first performance of the songs in the US.
September 12, 2016
8pm
Spectrum
121 Ludlow St #2
NY 10002
September 10, 2016
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 10, 2016
Wild Graces
Studio Garden Gallery
111 Nottingham Rd.
Deerfield
New Hampshire
September 9, 2016
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.
September 9, 2016
8pm
Christophorushaus
Herdweg 122
August 11, 2016
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.
August 11, 2016
8pm
Monash University
Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music
Music Auditorium
55 Scenic Boulevard
Clayton
Victoria
July 3, 2016
Hamburg, Germany: altonale18 presents a concert with Frauke Aulbert (voice) and Gisbert Watty (guitar) including Stefan Hakenberg's versions of the Greek traditional songs Τες Τους Αγαπιους and Δεν είμαι αυγή. In July and August 2015 Frauke Aulbert and Gisbert Watty presented these two Greek songs for the first time in Sydney and Melbourne.
July 3, 2016
6pm
Christianskirche am Kloppstockplatz
June 26, 2016
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.
June 26, 2016
8pm
Elisabeth-Kirche
Invalidenstr. 3
April 10, 2016
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 Τες Τους Αγαπιους and Δεν είμαι αυγή.
These songs are also available on CD through lagrimosa beltà, amazon, or iTunes.
April 10, 2016
7:30pm
Keltenmuseum
April 3, 2016
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.
April 3, 2016
11am
Musikschule der Stadt Mönchengladbach
Carl-Orff Saal
Lüpertzender Str. 83
