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İZMİR NEW MUSIC DAYS VI

Workshops und Konzert
October_6-12_2025
Ahmed Adnan Saygun Cultural Center

hand werk and Vassos Nicolaou

The Next Generation Series-VI is a cooperation organized by init-i2: Association for New Music and Contemporary Art based in İzmir, Turkey with the cologne based ensemble hand werk. Conceived in multiple phases and incorporating both online and in-person meetings, four new works by selected young composers will be collaboratively developed by hand werk and the composers starting around July 2025. The initial phases included online workshops and individual lessons, bringing the ensemble and the selected composers together, which will culminate in a seven-day in-person workshop in İzmir. The Next Generation Series-VI resulting compositions are scheduled to be performed and presented at İzmir New Music Days-VI on October 12, 2025.

Program Concert Oct_12_

Ceren Ünver_ On Creatures of the Lyrical Oddness (2025)
Azra Kaya_ an oracle’s tale (2025)
Emir Ekberzade_ Narduqan (2025)
Kaan Selcuk_ scribe (2025)
Vassos Nicolau_ Eiron (2025)

hand werk
Daniel Agi_ Flute
Heni Hyunjung Kim_ Clarinet
Moritz Koch_ Percussion
Jae A Shin_ Violin
Niklas Seidl_ Cello
Thibaut Surugue_ Piano

Generously supported by the Goethe-Institut International Koproduktionsfonds, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Goethe-Institut İzmir, and the Austrian Cultural Forum

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HW25C_#3 Grand Evening of Incongruities

_with Annesley Black
concert series by hand werk
September_30_2025_8pm_ Alte Feuerwache, Melchiorstraße 3, 50670 Köln
October_5_2025_5pm_Musikhochschule Münster, Ludgeriplatz 1, 48151 Münster

This “Grand Evening” will be curated by Canadian composer Annesley Black. The focus will be on works with internal, multidimensional contradictions that are audible in both the tonal and temporal structure of the music. We invited her to curate an evening for us.
Annesley Black has a particularly profound knowledge of repertoire, which has grown steadily through her many years of teaching at the music academies in Frankfurt, Würzburg, and Graz, as well as through her work with the SWR Experimental Studio and as chair of the German Society for Electroacoustic Music. At the same time, her own music, which repeatedly addresses movement and physicality and thus naturally integrates extra-musical elements, has long been on hand werk's wish list.

Program_
Annesley Black_ Smooche de la rooche II – Variations on a theme by Hazel Meyer (2007) for three athletically inclinded percussionists
Szymon Kałużny_ die Stille ist nicht mehr (2025) Fl, Kl, Vl, Vc, Pno
Yu Kuwabara_ 5 images in nomine (2018/19) Fl, Kl, Vl, Vc, Pno, Sz
Sergi Puig Serna_ Raum der Natur (UA) Vl, Vc, Pno
Luxa Mart*in Schüttler_ GIER (2011) for Cl, Pno, Perc, Vc, 

curated by Annesley Black

hand werk
Daniel Agi_ Flute
Heni Hyunjung Kim_ Clarinet
Moritz Koch_ Percussion
Jae A Shin_ Violin
Niklas Seidl_ Cello
Thibaut Surugue_ Piano

Pablo Garretón_ Sound design

Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, Kulturamt of the City of Cologne as well as Kunststiftung NRW.The concert in Münster will be supported by GNM Münster.

Accessibility
Means of transport/path to the venue and the venue itself are accessible for wheelchair users. There is a barrier-free toilet in the foyer (stage). Please find more information on the website of our location Alte Feuerwache, see here.

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