Lectures, Performances, Concert with a•pe•ri•od•ic
Additional performances have just been added:
Thursday, April 12, 2018
5:00pm to 6:20pm at Northwestern University, Ryan Center of Musical Arts, Room LL-121, Evanston; performance + lecture
Saturday, April 14, 2018
7:00pm at The Prop Theatre, 3502 N Elston Ave, Chicago
Herbert Brün’s Centennial Year
Gerhard Stäbler: SPEED (1997) and "kp'erioum" (1919) by Raoul Hausmann.
Thursday, April 17, 2018
5:00pm to 6:20 pm at the Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St., Chicago) performance lecture
© Kunsu Shim
Kunsu Shim was born as the son of re-migrants from Japan on September 15,1958 in Busan, South Korea. The ocean provided the adolescent Shim with the experience of spatial openness and expanse. This notion can be seen later as the basis of his production. He twice won first prizes in a competition for young composers in Busan, at age eighteen and nineteen respectively. From 1979 to 1983 he studied composition with Inyong La (amongst others) at the Yonsei University in Seoul. In 1982 he won the DongA Newspaper prize, followed by the JungAng Newspaper prize in 1983. In 1985 he arrived in Germany, where he studied composition with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart (1987-88).
In 1989 Shim moved to Essen, to continue his education until 1992 with Nicolaus A.Huber at the Folkwang Hochschule. He found his own characteristic language with the composition "orchester in stereo mit fünf sinustönen". In 1992 he was awarded a prize at the Forum junger Komponisten/WDR. From 1992 onward, he was co-organizer of the "Aktive Musik" series in the Ruhr Area (Germany). Concert tours led him around the globe. From 1994 to 1999 he belonged to the composer's group "wandelweiser", with whom he shared basic aesthetic positions such as silence and simplicity. He has been a lecturer at the Folkwang-Hochschule since 1993 several years. 1998 Kunsu Shim was composer-in-residence at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago (USA).
In October 2017 he was a guest professor at the Schools of Music and Art of the University of Uruguay, and conducted concerts in Montevideo and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
The recent commission „für die Zeit einiger Schritte“, a work for six instruments will premiere in various cities in Germany in 2018.
Kunsu Shim resides permanently in Germany.
© Gerhard Stäbler
Gerhard Stäbler was born in 1949 in Wilhelmsdorf, near Ravensburg in southern Germany. In 1968 he began studies in composition at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold, continuing at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen, where he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and organ with Gerd Zacher. The Cornelius Cardew Memorial Prize (1982) was the first in a series of awards, prizes, commissions and scholarships he has received.
Since the beginning of his career, Stäbler has been active not only as a composer, but also in politics and organization. The Aktive Musik new music festival was founded by Stäbler, and he was artistic director of the 1995 World Music Days of the ISCM, held in the Ruhr. Between 2000 to 2010, Stäbler, together with Kunsu Shim, founded the EarPort Centre for Contemporary Music in Duisburg.
Early in 2017, the Philharmonic Orchestra Würzburg premiered his Concerto for Orchestra, Ausgewilderte Farben. In October 2017 he was a guest professor at the Schools of Music and Art of the University of Uruguay, and conducted concerts in Montevideo and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
With the two German-based composers in residence in Chicago, experimental music ensemble,
a•pe•ri•od•ic performs the works of Gerhard Staebler and Kunsu Shim. The concert will consist of ensemble pieces by both composers, and will feature a short introductory talk by Staebler and Shim.
© a.pe.ri.od.ic
a•pe•ri•od•ic is a Chicago-based performance collective featuring post-Cagean notated, acoustic, experimental music.
Led by Nomi Epstein, the ensemble has commissioned, premiered, and recorded works by composers such as Michael Pisaro, Eva-Maria Houben, Jürg Frey, James Saunders, and Pauline Oliveros.
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