AVE MARYJA
Saturday, March 8
ESSLINGEN
7 pm
Münster St. Paul
Esslingen
Concert for Kalesnikava on International Women's Day as part of the ton-art festival
Maryja Kalesnikava, who graduated as a flautist from the Stuttgart University of Music and was active here as a musician and cultural manager, but since 2018 has also been increasingly active again in her home city of Minsk, became internationally known in 2020 as one of the three female figureheads of the democracy movement in Belarus.
Initially abducted and disappeared for days during the violent suppression of the demonstrations, then brought to trial, sentenced to eleven years in prison for her opposition activities, abused in prison, transferred to a civilian hospital in a terminal condition and returned to the camp early after successful treatment, she showed no sign of life from March 2023 until her father was able to visit her in prison in November 2024.
This concert is for her.
Works for voices, cello, organ, flutes and percussion by Lachenmann, Blecharz, Hermann, Nas and Dreher
with Natasha López, Frank Wörner, Felix Muntwiler, Albrecht Imbescheid, the Trio vis-à-vis and the Percussion Ensemble Stuttgart.
Program:
Helmut Lachenmann (1935) temA (1968)
Trio vis-à-vis: Natasha López - voice, Petra Arman - flute, Hugo Rannou - cello
Wojciech Blecharz (1981) blacksnowfalls (2014)
Aleksandra Nawrocka
Lecture
Matthias Hermann (1960) Echo 3 - Studie für fünf Schlagzeuge (2024, UA)
Mayke Nas (1972) Cinderella (2018)
Tamara Kurkiewicz
Klaus Sebastian Dreher (*1967) AVE MARIJA - Musik für Kalesnikava (2025, UA)
Performers:
Natasha López, Frank Wörner - voice
Hugo Rannou - violoncello
Felix Muntwiler - organ
Albrecht Imbescheid, Petra Arman, Maren Dreher, Julia Steinbächer - flute
Percussion Ensemble Stuttgart: Anna Fiveiska, Tamara Kurkiewicz, Seongyeon Kong, Aleksandra Nawrocka, Xia Yuan - percussion
Trio vis-à-vis: Natasha López - voice, Petra Arman - flute, Hugo Rannou - violoncello
