As part of the Lake Constance Festival, the Munich Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Bas Wiegers will premiere Johannes Maria Staud's new work Stachel on 21 May.
Johannes Maria Staud's a cappella work Der Gesang der Weiden and Christian Mason's composition The Oddity Effect for choir and ensemble will be premiered at a concert with the Ensemble Modern and the SWR Vokalensemble under the direction of Ustina Dubitsky in Frankfurt on 16 May and will subsequently be performed in Stuttgart; The Oddity Effect can also be heard at the ACHT BRÜCKEN festival in Cologne on 18 May.
A new CD with chamber music by Johannes Maria Staud, performed by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche and the Boulanger Trio, among others, was released in the NEOS label on 27 September.
The libretto and score for Johannes Maria Stauds new opera Die Weiden were written in parallel, developed through constant communication.
Johannes Maria Staud talks about his orchestral piece Stromab.
