07. July 2026 / 19:30 Premiere of a new work by Federico Isasti
Kompass #9, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Kompass is an open experimental concert format for composition students at the HfMT Köln, bringing together multimedia, instrumental, performative, and electroacoustic works. Federico Isasti is a drummer, composer, and audiovisual software developer from Buenos Aires, based in Cologne, working at the intersection of acoustic ensemble music and live electronics.

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23. July 2026 / 19:30 New concert version of was wahr bleibt

Graduation Concert of composer Joan Tan Jing Wen, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Joan Tan Jing Wen is a Singapore-born composer whose recent work focuses on attention, perception, and the fallibility of memory. This performance presents a revised version of was wahr bleibt, originally premiered at Sommerblut Kulturfestival Cologne in 2025.

01. August 2026 / 19:00 Phasen einer Klärung (premiere)

Infopunkt am Bolzplatz beim Vogelwäldchen, Bergheim

For this piece, Nathalie Brum recorded at the Kenten wastewater treatment plant, capturing the rhythms and sounds of its operational spaces and water cycles. In the concert, this intimate acoustics and kinetics of the water infrastructure is combined with the voice of Hannah Otto, musically interpreting the cyclical processes of rising and falling, pauses and rest periods. The performance points to the fragile system of the treatment plant, a finely tuned flow of extraction, addition, and the interplay of biological, microbacterial, and mechanical influences.

Live electronics & composition: Nathalie Brum

Voice: Hannah Otto

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Eftichis Vittorakis is a Greek composer based in Cologne, whose work focuses on aesthetics and sonic precision rather than conceptual frameworks.

The recording features Jonas Evenstad (percussion) and Yeji Jung (piano).

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03. September 2026 vom Donner gerührt
Musikfestival Bern

Aline Sarah Müller is a Swiss composer and violinist, currently completing her master's degree in composition at the HfMT Köln. Her music has been performed at Acht Brücken Cologne, the LIMINA Festival Salzburg, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

Hannah Otto (voice)
Maria Zwerschke (flute)
Lis Marti (keys)

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24 September 2026 Voices from the Killing Jar by Kate Soper
Graduation Concert of Carlos Lopes, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Voices from the Killing Jar (2012) is a monodrama for soprano and ensemble with electronics by American composer, writer, and performer Kate Soper. Part monodrama, part song cycle, part opera, the work depicts a series of female protagonists caught in impossible situations, moving through characters from Madame Bovary to Lady Macduff.

Carlos Lopes is a Portuguese composer and conductor based in Cologne, currently completing a master's degree in New Music Conducting at the HfMT Köln.

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A new interdisciplinary project developed in ongoing collaboration with Cologne-based object artist and illustrator Luca Wielage, continuing the research thread begun in A Portable Voice / The Box.