After successful years in Graz, Cantando Admont is now bringing the concert talks series to Vienna.
In concert talks, the composers talk in a moderated discussion about the pieces of the respective concert evening, about their artistic process, their impulses and aesthetics. What is otherwise often only hinted at in short program texts is thus given a personal dimension. Pieces of music are always worlds in themselves. There are also numerous ways to enter them. With the concert talks, we invite the audience to immerse themselves in the piece together with us and the composers.
A cooperation event between Cantando Admont & Wiener Hofmusikkapelle
Program
- Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Toccata quinta sopra i pedali per l’organo e senza - Zesses Seglias (*1984)
...sans fin für 4 Stimmen UA - Younghi Pagh-Paan (*1945)
In the prayer - für Orgel solo UA - Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)
Prophetiae Sibyllarum - für 4 Stimmen - Klaus Lang (*1971)
A Summer wish - für Sopran, Alt & Orgel - Dilay Doganay (*1999)
sound of Who? MAN! für Tenor und Bass UA - György Ligeti (1923 - 2006)
Volumina für Orgel solo
Admission: voluntary donation
CANTANDO ADMONT, vocal ensemble for early and new music
Conscious of the need to give new inspiration to contemporary vocal music and the desire to revitalise the rich repertoire of medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque music, dedicated singers under the direction of Cordula Bürgi have founded the CANTANDO ADMONT ensemble. With enthusiasm and great commitment, it aims to revitalise the richness of the historical vocal heritage in contemporary music. We are firmly convinced that only through profound, continuous work on the repertoire of the past and contemporary creation can new and old vocal music be led to a renewed flourishing and freed from the confines of specialisation. This promises us hope for a new dawn, especially today.
CANTANDO ADMONT has set itself the goal of establishing a new concert tradition in Graz with its own dialogue concert series "concert talk & solo cantando". As an ensemble, it performs at renowned festivals and event organisers such as the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, Wien Modern, Steirischer Herbst, Munich Biennale, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Vienna, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Onassis Center Athens. Cantando Admont has also been realising its own concert series in Vienna since 2023. Cantando Admont was also invited to the Vienna Festival for the first time in 2023. An opera production at Zurich Opera House is planned for 2025.
Regular collaboration with composers such as Beat Furrer, Youghi Pagh-Paan, Klaus Lang, Elisabeth Harnik, Peter Ablinger, Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, Laure M. Hiendl, Marco Momi and others, as well as ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Phace, Ensemble Kontrapunkte, Ensemble dissonArt, Ensemble Nikel, Ictus, Ensemble Schallfeld etc. is an essential part of CANTANDO ADMONT.
CORDULA BÜRGI
The conductor Cordula Bürgi, born and raised in Switzerland, studied violin at the Lucerne University of Music and conducting and singing at the Basel Academy of Music. Since her childhood, she has played in various youth orchestras and chamber music ensembles. She discovered her enthusiasm for old and new music at an early age. In 2008, she took over the overall musical direction of the Basel Girls' Choir. Following continuous development work with the various choir levels, she has overseen numerous concerts and theatre productions at the Basel Theatre. She has also been invited to conduct numerous other productions, including at the Berlin State Opera (Beat Furrer's opera "Violetter Schnee"), the Graz Opera and the SWR Vokalensemble. In 2014, she moved to Vienna and founded the ensemble for early and contemporary music "Cantando Admont". This solo ensemble, consisting of outstanding singers, was able to establish itself in European music life within a few years with her as artistic director and performed at renowned festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, Bayreuth Festival, Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, Munich Biennale, Klangspuren Schwaz, Wien Modern, Musikfestival Bern, ZeitRäume Basel, Mahler Festival Toblach and in venues such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and Onassis Centre Athens.
