Composers without borders is a call to do your piece for peace.
The platform bundles activities, to stimulate artists to go out there and help. The toolbox gives examples, how to engage in and create collaborations between fractions, countries, political and religious views through music .
Cathy Milliken
Composer
COMFORT YE (2015): a collaborative opera based on Händel´s Messiah, developed with Bloekombos school in South Africa, further composed by Cathy Milliken and Robert Lehmeier, performed at the school and then taken to Artscape, Cape Town.
Trickster Orchestra
Orchestra
Trickster Orchestra unites virtuosic soloists in trans-traditional avant-garde music. The Berlin-based orchestra incorporates traditional instruments from Europe, Western, Central, and East Asia as well as electronics into a shared, contemporary musical language.
Claudia van Hasselt
Vocalist
MIMESIS::IMITATIO, online comprovisation with Soudeh Sharhi/Teheran and Claudia van Hasselt/Berlin embedded in a performance of the piece Navid by Amen Feizabadi, based on the leaked phone call of Navid who thought to be relieved to another prison but was killed instead.
Vanessa Porter
Percussionist
Elnaz Seyedi: Glasfluss (2022): Percussionist Vanessa Porter plays the world premiere of Glasfluss at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik a new work by persian composer Elnaz Seyedi.
Nordic Voices
Vocal ensemble
Maja S. K. Ratkje: A Dismantled Ode To The Moral Value Of Art. We want to share the music of Maja S. K. Ratkje. Everything is going to be alright.
Ella Milch-Sheriff
Composer
The “eternal stranger” from the Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff is inspired by Beethoven’s dream about a trip to Jerusalem which he never made in reality. The work is about a stranger, a refugee who finds himself in a hostile environment, rejected by the local people.
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