The Goethe-Institut Boston continues its ongoing exploration of contemporary music from Germany with this music festival in collaboration with musicians, composers and musicologists from Germany and the US. Four programs, each curated and performed by guest artists, showcase composers and musicians from Germany’s contemporary music scene and relate stories from history, personal relationships and transatlantic cooperation. You will hear works rarely heard in Boston by Germany-based composers like Helmut Lachenmann, Walter Zimmermann, Isabel Mundry, and Rebecca Saunders alongside the US premiere of a work by Harvard PhD student Isaac Blumfield. Join us for one or all four concerts which feature performances for percussion, cello, violin, piano and voice. Post-concert receptions provide an opportunity to connect with the musicians, composers and other audience members over a glass of wine.
Schedule of Events
March 5, 2025
8:00 PM
Breath in Music
Concert | Contemporary Pieces for Cello and Piano performed by Annie Jacobs-Perkins and Katelyn Vahala
Pianist Katelyn Vahala and cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins perform a recital of brand new and contemporary “standard” repertoire for cello and piano by Stratis Minakakis, Daniel Temkin, Octavio Vazquez, Michael Essl, Helmut Lachenmann, and B.A. Zimmermann. Four of the compositions were written for the performers, and this concert at the Goethe-Institut will be the world premiere of two of them (Minakakis (2022), Temkin (2024), Vazquez (2024, premiere), and Essl (2025, premiere)).
$20 General Admission / $10 Students
Date: March 2 - 9, 2025
