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Kammerspiele
Jan 26, 2024, MUNICH
Premiere
ALIVE IN A MERCIFUL COUNTRY

Munich Kammerspiele

Maximilianstr. 26-28

80539 Munich

Start: 8:00 p.m

Peter Pichler supports and accompanies the production by Sandra Strunz (director) and Viola Hasselberg (dramaturgy) with sound worlds and music live at the Mixturtrautonium.

With: Wiebke Puls and Edmund Telgenkämper.

Further dates:

31 January 2024

04 February 2024

18 February 2024

01 March 2024

Inhalt:

Soll man Unbarmherzigen gegenüber barmherzig sein? In dieser packenden Geschichte ringen zwei Versionen von Realität miteinander, aber der Hass behält nicht das letzte Wort. Anna unterrichtet an einer Grundschule und möchte immer noch die Welt verbessern. Wie vor 25 Jahren, als sie zusammen mit den Clowns des Straßentheaters „Unrule OrKestrA“ gegen die zynische Politik der englischen Regierung demonstrierte. Was sie damals nicht ahnte: Ihr einstiger Geliebter „Buster“, eine Vodoofigur in Frack und Zylinder, war ein V-Mann, der sie alle verriet.

Annas Wiedersehen mit dem Ex-Geliebten findet Ende 2019 – kurz vor Beginn der Pandemie – vor Gericht statt: Anna nimmt die Jagd nach dem Peiniger auf und bringt sich in höchste Gefahr. Bis wohin reicht das Böse, und kann Anna sich selber davon freihalten?

Zwei gegensätzliche Perspektiven sind raffiniert miteinander verschnitten: Annas Tagebuch (auf Recyclingpapier während der Pandemie geschrieben) und die Aufzeichnungen des verdeckten Ermittlers und späteren Killers „Buster“ (der mit seinen kaltblütigen Morden die Welt von den schlimmsten Bösewichten befreien will). Zwei Stimmen, zwei Geschlechter, zwei Weltsichten, zwei liebende Männer rund um Anna, zwei tiefe Krisen und zwei Märchen. Eine sprachlich brilliante Geschichte über unsere zutiefst beunruhigende Gegenwart.

„Seit 4000 Jahren erzählen wir uns gegenseitig, dass man alle Ungeheuer besiegen kann, wenn man weiß, wer sie wirklich sind.“

Feb 10, 2024, WEIMAR
THE CABINET OF Dr. CALIGARI

Monami cinema

Goetheplatz 11

99423 Weimar

Start: 7:00 p.m

Peter Pichler sets this silent film classic to music live at the Mixturtrautonium. The film is the pioneer of the modern psycho thriller from 1920.

Radio Frankfurt
November 23, 2023, FRANKFURT
Radio Runde Neues Frankfurt - New Music Making on New Instruments

The beginnings of electronic music in the 1920s

MOMEM 

intermediate level

At Hauptwache 15

60313 Frankfurt am Main

Start: 5:30 p.m

End: 7:00 p.m

With CHRISTOPH STEIN as announcer,
PETER PICHLER as Trautonium virtuoso
STEPHAN WUTHE as gramophone master
TOBIAS RÜGER as saxophonist and
HARALD OCHS as a radio technician

A concert evening on the new sound world of electronic music.

Music by Professor Paul Hindemith for Trautonium, saxophone and record players.

Broadcast on the radio:

Transmitted ultra-short wave 91.8 megahertz.

Transmission on the Internet:

Radio X stream live.

With the kind support of the Hindemith Institute Frankfurt.

“The electronic musical instrument places the greatest demands on taste.”

(Diplom engineer Friedrich Trautwein)

Traiettorie
04 Nov 2023, PARMA, It
Festival Traiettorie
Trautonium solo concert
ITALY PREMIERE

Casa della Musica

Piazzale San Francesco, 1

43121 Parma PR 

Italy

Start: 8:30 p.m

At the invitation of the "Traiettorie" festival for contemporary and modern music, Peter Pichler plays the first Trautonium solo concert in Italy with classical works for Trautonium, film music and new compositions of his own. In particular, works for trautonium and voice form the core of the program. He is supported by the renowned Italian soprano Giulia Zaniboni. 

More detailed information will follow.

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"The Festival Traiettorie for modern and contemporary music was founded in 1991 in Parma (Italy) and has become a leading contemporary music festival in Italy and Europe. In 2023, the festival celebrates its 33rd edition, organized by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The focus this year is primarily on works from the Central European music repertoire. These works - some of which are world premieres - will be performed by international ensembles and soloists.

Traiettorie has always pursued the promotion of premieres and newer repertoire, with particular attention to electro-acoustic and electronic music, and awards commissions to young composers. At the same time, the festival wants to keep the classics of 20th century music alive in the Italian music scene and present them for discussion to today's generation of listeners."

Source: Ernst-von-Siemens Music Foundation

Mougins
September 24, 2023, MOUGINS, Fri
Festival d'Orgue de Mougins 2023

L'église Saint-Jacques le Majeur

L27 Rue de l'Eglise

06250 Mougins

France

Peter Pichler (Mixturtrautonium) in a duet with Gudrun Forstner (organ)

Premiere of a composition by Peter Pichler for Trautonium and organ as well as works by Genzmer, Hindemith, Sala and Messiaen.

The Festival d'Orgue de Mougins takes place every year at the beginning of autumn for 4 consecutive Sundays and is a must for music lovers and lovers of the pipe instrument.

More detailed information will follow.

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Concert program here as a PDF.

September 16, 2023, MUNICH
MIXTURES

L'église Saint-Jacques le Majeur

L27 Rue de l'Eglise

06250 Mougins

France

Peter Pichler (Mixturtrautonium) in a duet with Gudrun Forstner (organ)

Premiere of a composition by Peter Pichler for Trautonium and organ as well as works by Genzmer, Hindemith, Sala and Messiaen.

The Festival d'Orgue de Mougins takes place every year at the beginning of autumn for 4 consecutive Sundays and is a must for music lovers and lovers of the pipe instrument.

More detailed information will follow.

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Gudrun Forstner received her first organ lessons from cathedral organist Eberhard Kraus in Regensburg at the age of 10. At the age of 16, she switched to studying organ at the University of Music and Theater in Munich: first with Prof. Gerhard Weinberger (for three years as a guest student) - after graduating from high school in the organ class of Prof. Franz Lehrndorfer. 

Interpretation courses with Daniel Roth/Paris and Marie Claire Alain rounded off the training.

 

For three years, Gudrun Forstner worked full-time as a church musician at the parish of “St. Johann Baptist”/Haidhausen in Munich. She now works full-time as a high school music teacher. In addition, she works artistically at concerts and festive services with professional orchestras and soloists as well as with renowned choirs. As a concert organist, she is in demand at cultural festivals such as: B. “Tegernsee Week”, “Organ Triduum in the Marienstatt Basilica” or “International Organ Concerts in the High Cathedral of Passau”. 

June 04, 2023, MILANO, It
Festival La Milanesiana

Teatro Studio Melato

Via Rivoli, 6

20121 Milano

Italy

Start: 9:00 p.m

At the invitation of Mirco Mariani, Peter Pichler will play together with Mirco's band EXTRALISCIO play at this year's "La Milanesiana" culture and literature festival, curated by Elisabetta Scarbi.

June 04, 2023, MILANO, It
Festival La Milanesiana

Teatro Studio Melato

Via Rivoli, 6

20121 Milano

Italy

Start: 9:00 p.m

At the invitation of Mirco Mariani, Peter Pichler will play together with Mirco's band EXTRALISCIO play at this year's "La Milanesiana" culture and literature festival, curated by Elisabetta Scarbi.

April 20, 2023; MUNICH
"Salomé" (1922) live + Lecture

Kino im Filmmuseum

St - Jakobsplatz 1

80331 München

Beginn: 19:00 Uhr

Anyone who has seen Alfred Hitchcock's classic "The Birds" (1963) will forever remember the eerie cries of the seagulls. To date, however, very few people know that these tones were artificially generated - by a Trautonium. This unusual electronic instrument, which was revolutionary at the time, was presented for the first time in Berlin in1930 and is a kind of "grandmother" of the synthesizer. Amazing sound effects and fascinating and unique soundscapes can be created with the Trautonium, which can hardly be imitated with modern synthesizers.

At the invitation of the Munich Film Center (MFZ), Peter Pichler is playing a film evening with the Mixturtrautonium. He will accompany the avant-garde silent film SALOMÉ (US 1922 | Charles Bryant, Alla Nazimova | 72 min | OV) live and then illustrate the various possible uses of the Trautonium using selected scenes from films from different decades. One of the film examples was set to music especially for this evening and has its premiere here. Finally - as always with Peter's performances - there is a Q&A, also directly at the instrument.

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March 02, 2023, MUNICH
OSKAR SALA & THE TRAUTONIUM

Deutsches Museum

Museumsinsel 1

München

Start: 6:30 p.m

Closed event!

The event begins with a greeting from the head of the research institute, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler. Three new publications on Oskar Sala will then be presented: the seminal work "Oskar Sala als Instrumentenbauer" by Peter Donhauser, the facsimile of a unique report by Oskar Sala on the early history of the trautonium from 1936, by Silke Berdux, the curator of the musical instruments department and Peter Donhauser, as well as the findbook to Oskar Sala's estate, which is located in the archive of the Deutsches Museum.

The musician and Trautonium specialist Peter Pichler will provide musical accompaniment to the event and talk to Peter Donhauser and Silke Berdux about his Trautonium and how it is played. 

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January 14, 2023, AMSTERDAM, Nl
TRAUTONIUM & FILM:
A VOYAGE TO THE MOON

Orgelpark

Gerard Brandtstraat 26

1054 JK Amsterdam

Netherlands

Start: 8:15 p.m

Peter Pichler sets music to the film "A voyage to the moon" (1975) by Manfred Durniok live at the Mixturtrautonium.

The film was commissioned by NASA from original film material with different scenes from the various US moon flights, some of which were never shown, and was set to music by Sala exclusively with Trautonium sounds. The film was hardly ever shown.

November 23, 2022, BERLIN
THE TRAUTONIUM

Memory work. On the institutional history of the Berlin University of the Arts

Concert Hall of the Berlin University of the Arts

Hardenbergstrasse / corner of Fasanenstrasse

Start: 8:45 p.m

Admission free

Lecture and concert as part of the series of lectures on institutional history at the UdK Berlin. Peter Pichler talks to Christina Dörfling and Jan Thoben about the origins of the trautonium in the university's radio testing center in the 1930s. He then gave a concert on the original synthesizer, which explored the instrument's most diverse, then groundbreaking, sound possibilities.

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from September 14, 2022
From September Peter Pichler will be on tour again with Stephan Zinner and his new cabaret programme.

Come over!
"Der Teufel, das Mädchen, der Blues & Ich"
Cabaret program by Stephan Zinner
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