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3.Dez.2022
59th Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, Italy
Microtonal Music
Stephen Altoft & Furano Saxophone Quartet
Works by Paolo Marchettini, Alberto Napolitano, Iván Solano, Emily Koh, Daniele Bravi and Vasiliki Kourti Papamoustou (‘Psychography’, for 24-Div Trumpet and Saxophone Quartet, composed in memory of Donald Bousted).
Mattatoio La Pelanda, 20:00pm
25.Nov.2022
‘Fagöttlich’ Concert
Performance of the piece ‘Sehr Ernst’ for Bassoon Ensemble at the City Library of Freiburg, 20:00 pm.
In this workshop which was organised and conducted by Annette Winker, about 15 amateur Bassoonists studied and performed ‘Gartenlieder’ by Fanny Mendelssohn, as well as 2 new commissioned pieces, composed by Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou and Mia Schmidt.
The project was funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts.
28 – 30.Oct.2022
Children and teens compose musical theatre
Symposium with workshops at the Federal Academy for Children’s musical theatre in Rheinsberg, in cooperation with the ‘AG Musiktheater’ of ASSITEJ Deutschland e.V..
Among other lecturers, Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou conducted the workshop ‘Unlocking creativity: Composing with children, young and old’.
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23.Oct.2022
Fagöttlich: Final Workshop Concert
In this workshop which was organised and conducted by Annette Winker, about 15 amateur Bassoonists studied and performed ‘Gartenlieder’ by Fanny Mendelssohn, as well as 2 new commissioned pieces, composed by Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou and Mia Schmidt.
The project was funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts. The final concert / world premiere of the new compositions took place on Sunday the 23rd of October at 11:00 at the Eurythmiesaal of the Waldorfschule Freiburg-Wiehre.
23.Oct.2022
The Freiburg Composer’s Association (IFK) is celebrating its 10th birthday with a double concert on Sunday the 23rd of October, at the Bürgerhaus Seepark. The ‘Zentaur’ String Quartet, as well the Sopran Svea Schildknecht, are going to perform the works of 11 Freiburg based – composers, amongst them Vasiliki Kourti Papamoustou’s ‘String Quartet Nr. 1’.
Interessengemeinschaft Freiburger Komponisten e.V., Freiburg (Germany).
16.Oct.2022
Screening of ‘The Author’ for Typewriter and Stationary / Office supplies in Theater Freiburg, composed by Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou for the ‘Lirum Larum’ children’s literature Festival, performed by the Black Forest Percussion Group and filmed by Marc Doradzillo.
30.Sep.2022
Lecture at the City Library of Freiburg
‘Ich höre das, was du nicht hörst’: Exploring the relationship between sound design and music in film. To what extent does ‘what you hear’ influence ‘what you see’? Can sound design be viewed from a musical perspective? Examples of my film music will be presented and discussed.
Interessengemeinschaft Freiburger Komponisten e.V., Freiburg (Germany).
23.Sep.2022
Premiere of “NeurOper” – an opera intermezzo by the Community Oper Freiburg e.V. in cooperation with researchers from the BrainLinks-BrainTools Center at the University of Freiburg. “NeurOper” was composed by Jan F. Kurth and was co-directed by Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou, for the opening of the new NEXUS Lab at the Intelligent Machine-Brain Interfacing Technology (IMBIT) at the campus of the University of Freiburg.
22.Jul.2022
Premiere of ‘Durchgängige Sprachbildung 3’, a full-length documentary film directed by Sarah Moll, commissioned by the city of Freiburg, for which I composed and produced the music. The event took place in the ‘Evangelische Gemeindesaal’ in Freiburg, Landwasser.
16.Jul.2022
During the 25th anniversary of the KKW (Kulturkeller der Winterschule Ettenheim), Bernd Lafrenz, a Freiburg- based actor, performed William Shakespeare’s theatrical play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” open-air on the 16th of July 2022. His performance was accompanied with live music by the ’Stadtkapelle Ettenheim’ wind orchestra, with part of the music being composed by Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou.
3-4.Jun.2022
For the academic year of 2021/22 I am the Substitute Choir Director of Community Oper Freiburg. Our first project of the season is a collaboration with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and the ‘Chorgemeinschaft Liederkranz Lahr’, under the Baton of Michael Güttler, performing Otto Nicolai’s Opera ’Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor’.
19.May.2022
Excited, happy, anxious and proud! The kids from the 6a class of the Gymnasium Schönau attend the Online Premiere of their own piece ‘Atemberaubenderer Klang’, which they composed and performed under my guidance, as a part of the ‘Klangradar’ Project, along with pieces of 11 other schools that participated across Germany. It has been 3 months of exploring, trying and discovering new sounds. And how great it was that they got to be filmed by the director Stephan Boehme! Nothing would have happened if it wasn’t for Burkhard Friedrich, artistic director of Klangradar (Netzwerk Junge Ohren e.V.), as well as their teacher Philip Stade. In the afternoon, the kids played their piece live, finally in front of some real audience.
22.Jan.2022
Hollywood Premiere for ‘Vater’, a short film by Suzanna Zawieja, for which I composed and produced the music. ‘Vater’ received an award of excellence (Special Mention) in June 2020 and was also a finalist at the ‘Best Experimental Short’ section of the IMDb qualifier Indie Short Fest 2020/2021 Hollywood Annual Awards (ISF-LA), an LA-based international film competition.
12.Jan.2022
Happy to announce that my piece ‘Interlude’ for 19-Div Microtonal Trumpet and MalletKAT has been selected for the Followmyscore Fall season 2021 on YouTube.
10.Dec.2021
‘Trilogy’, a short film by Silke Abendschein for which I was responsible for the sound design, had its German TV premiere on the 10th of December, at 2:00 o’clock on the MDR television channel.
23.Nov.2021
‘Muvid-19’ Miniatures presented in Kommunales Kino Freiburg.
Covid-19 is small, but not a trifle – Muvid-19 are miniatures, little trifles without viruses. There are speakers. In the broadest sense. Mostly. That’s the rule. Muvid-19 is a collection-in-progress of 19-second music videos. Initiated at the Institute for New Music at the Freiburg University of Music (in cooperation with Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, European Association for Music in Schools, University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, Átlátszó Hang New Music Festival Budapest, Musikene San Sebastian).
22.Oct.2021
Performing the electronics for ‘The Stone Tapestry’, a concert-length piece composed by Jeff Herriott, with the Black Forest Percussion Group at the Elisabeth Schneider Stiftung, Freiburg.
10.Oct.2021
Premiere of ‘The Author’ for Typewriter and Stationary / Office supplies in Theater Freiburg, composed for the ‘Lirum Larum’ children’s literature Festival, performed by the Black Forest Percussion Group and filmed by Marc Doradzillo.
09.Jul.2021
Open air Premiere of the Opera ‘Fliegende Bauten’ at E-Werk Freiburg, part of the NOTSTROM Festival 2021. The music was composed in collaboration with Jan F. Kurth.
01.Jun.2021
Release of the ‘Time Dreaming’ album by Stephen Altoft, of new trumpet music in 19 divisions of the octave; available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and many other digital platforms. Edited and co-produced by Donald Bousted, this album features the piece ‘Interlude’ for microtonal trumpet and malletKAT.
