Hochschule der Künste Bern

Ein Departement der Berner Fachhochschule

Newsletter HKB Music

January 2025

Dear music lovers

Playtime 2025 has been in full swing for a good week now with opera sketches, ensemble concerts, installations, world premieres and much more. The second part of the festival features a lot of jazz, contributions from the sound arts and eurythmics and, finally, on 25 January, all 12 piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin in a marathon at the Bern Conservatory.

Best regards - the HKB Music team 

Liquid Room

Four works will be presented in seamless transition - a panorama of fine sounds and improvisation. Including an ensemble under the direction of Biliana Voutchkova and a guitar quartet by composer Irene Galindo Quero, our new head of the composition programme.  

Sat, 18.1.2025, 7 pm - Yehudi Menuhin Forum, Bern

Fresh Sounds from the Eigerplatz 

On six concert evenings in the atmospheric Kulturclub Prozess in Bümpliz, the Jazz and Contemporary Music department will be presenting premieres and unexpected combinations, including many teacher/student ensembles.

Sun-Fri, 19-24.1.2025 - Prozess Kultur und Bar, Bern 

À la pièce - Individual pieces in motion 

The solo pieces performed by third-year Bachelor's and Master's students are the result of interdisciplinary collaboration. They researched, composed and choreographed together with musicians from other disciplines in the department - always in search of a dialogue between music and dance.  

Fri/Sat, 24/25 Jan, 7 pm - Volkshaus Biel 

Wind-dynamic organ

Almost 20 years ago, the HKB caused quite a stir with an organ that is operated by variable wind pressure and thus offers completely new sonic possibilities. The large model of this organ has long been on display in Bern Minster. We are delighted that the Archipel Festival in Geneva is dedicating a major programme item to the mobile model of the organ in April and that the composers Simone Keller and Margrit Schenker will be creating new works. 

4-13 April 2025, Geneva  

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Picture above: Playtime 2025, Atelier HKB / Picture below: At the orchestra concert entitled Linien last Sunday, 12 January 2025, the HKB Symphony Orchestra played the cello concerto by our former Head of Composition, Xavier Dayer. Cello teacher Chiara Samatanga took on the solo part, Kaspar Zehnder conducted. 

Bern Academy of the Arts, Music Division, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern

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