NEWS
I will be back in Slovenia and guide a performance project:
"Let's experiment"
Performance at the Music Forum Festival in Ljubljana (Slovenia)
( Nov. 4, 2025)
November 19, 2025, 20h, CLUB at Cankarjev Dom; Ljubljana
(pre concert talk at 19.30h)
Parts from:
Earle Brown Winter Music
John Cage Sonatas and Interludes
Karlheinz Essl Fontana Mixer
Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening and Anthology of Texts
Dieter Schnebel Museumsstücke and MoMA Museumsstücke II
Karlheinz Stockhausen Aus dem sieben Tagen
Christian Wolf Stones (from: Prose Collection)
Musicians:
Simone Heilgendorff (concept & artistic director)
Ina Puntar (voice)
Lucija Lorenzutti (piano)
Rok Zalokar (electronics, intermedia)
Urška Rihtaršič (harp)
Weronika Partyka (saxophone)
Luka Poljanec (percussion)
And I will deliver a lecture with workshop at the University of Ljubljana:
Analysis and Performance of John Cage's Song Books
November 20, 2025, 13 to 14:30h, Department of Musicology
Following the perFormance of
“Lets Experiment!” frOm November 19
at the Music FoRum Festival,
I will focus on Song Books by John Cage. Experimental on
many levels, this lecture intrOduces the piece,
a turning point in Cage’s work, its estHetic and cultural contexts.
Consecutively, all the workshop’s participaNts can create their own practical
and productive enCounters
with this piece. Commissioned by FestivAl d’Automne a Paris in 1970
this mile stone in music is an encompassinG compilation of musical material,
arranged in 90 solos for voicE and/or theater,
in 8 notation types. As an experimental multI-media model of theater,
Song Books contains aNd structures a wide range of
references to historic anD current cultural life, from the
arts over politics to Everyday actions, and to two
of his favorite artists: FrEnch composer Erik Satie
and the 19th century American Poet and thinker Henry David Thoreau.
The wealth of mateRial in Song Books
––––––––– chosEn by extensive I
Ching operationS with coins
– truly qualifies as Potential “Weltanschaungs-
musik”, whilE many solos
need performers’ actions in suCh an encompassing way,
which makes them almosT composers themselves.
My new bilingual book is out! Meine neues zweisprachiges Buch ist publiziert:
( April 3, 2025)
Resonanz – Kulturelle Praxis und performative Analyse zeitgenössischer (Kunst-)Musik
Resonance – Cultural Practice and Performative Analysis of Contemporary (Art) Music
Dieses inspirierende Buch in deutscher und englischer Sprache reflektiert ästhetische, kulturelle und performative Dimensionen zeitgenössischer (Kunst-)Musik. Es eröffnet und fordert neue Perspektiven einer kulturwissenschaftlich orientierten Musikwissenschaft und künstlerischer Forschung. Im Zentrum steht dabei das Prinzip der Resonanz, ergänzt durch das von der Autorin entwickelte mehrdimensionale Konzept einer aufführungsorientierten musikalischen Analyse.
Texte der letzten 15 Jahre gliedern sich in zwei Hauptkapitel: Kulturelle Praxis – u.a. mit Analysen zu großen Festivals wie Warschauer Herbst, Festival d’Automne à Paris und Wien Modern, zur Bedeutung von Live-Aufführungen und zur visuellen Musikforschung; und Aktuelle musikalische Partituren, u.a. mit performativen Analysen wegweisender Kompositionen von John Cage, Morton Feldman, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giorgio Netti und Marco Stroppa.
Simone Heilgendorff: Habilitierte Musikwissenschaftlerin, Bratschistin und Musik-Kuratorin. Seit 1993 universitäre Lehrtätigkeiten, aktuell u.a. an der UdK Berlin und an der Univ. Salzburg. 2013–2016 internationales FWF-Forschungsprojekt „New Music Festivals as Agorai“ (Univ. Salzburg). Bratschistin des Kairos Quartetts (Berlin).
This inspiring book in German and English reflects on the aesthetic, cultural and performative dimensions of contemporary (art) music. It opens up and challenges new perspectives in musicological and artistic research with a cultural studies orientation. It focuses on the principle of resonance, complemented by the author's multidimensional concept of performance-oriented musical analysis.
Texts from the last 15 years are divided into two main chapters: Cultural Practice – including analyses of major festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, Festival d'Automne à Paris and Wien Modern, the importance of live performance and visual music research; and Current Musical Scores – including performative analyses of seminal compositions by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giorgio Netti and Marco Stroppa.
Simone Heilgendorff: Habilitated musicologist, violist and music curator. University teacher since 1993, currently at the UdK in Berlin (D) and at the University of Salzburg (Austria). 2013–2016 head of the international FWF research project „New Music Festivals as Agorai" (Univ. of Salzburg). Violist of the Berlin based Kairos Quartet.
Order here | Bestellung hier: https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/simone-heilgendorff-resonanz-resonance/
My new bilingual book is out! Meine neues zweisprachiges Buch ist publiziert:
( April 3, 2025)
Resonanz – Kulturelle Praxis und performative Analyse zeitgenössischer (Kunst-)Musik
Resonance – Cultural Practice and Performative Analysis of Contemporary (Art) Music
Dieses inspirierende Buch in deutscher und englischer Sprache reflektiert ästhetische, kulturelle und performative Dimensionen zeitgenössischer (Kunst-)Musik. Es eröffnet und fordert neue Perspektiven einer kulturwissenschaftlich orientierten Musikwissenschaft und künstlerischer Forschung. Im Zentrum steht dabei das Prinzip der Resonanz, ergänzt durch das von der Autorin entwickelte mehrdimensionale Konzept einer aufführungsorientierten musikalischen Analyse.
Texte der letzten 15 Jahre gliedern sich in zwei Hauptkapitel: Kulturelle Praxis – u.a. mit Analysen zu großen Festivals wie Warschauer Herbst, Festival d’Automne à Paris und Wien Modern, zur Bedeutung von Live-Aufführungen und zur visuellen Musikforschung; und Aktuelle musikalische Partituren, u.a. mit performativen Analysen wegweisender Kompositionen von John Cage, Morton Feldman, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giorgio Netti und Marco Stroppa.
Simone Heilgendorff: Habilitierte Musikwissenschaftlerin, Bratschistin und Musik-Kuratorin. Seit 1993 universitäre Lehrtätigkeiten, aktuell u.a. an der UdK Berlin und an der Univ. Salzburg. 2013–2016 internationales FWF-Forschungsprojekt „New Music Festivals as Agorai“ (Univ. Salzburg). Bratschistin des Kairos Quartetts (Berlin).
This inspiring book in German and English reflects on the aesthetic, cultural and performative dimensions of contemporary (art) music. It opens up and challenges new perspectives in musicological and artistic research with a cultural studies orientation. It focuses on the principle of resonance, complemented by the author's multidimensional concept of performance-oriented musical analysis.
Texts from the last 15 years are divided into two main chapters: Cultural Practice – including analyses of major festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, Festival d'Automne à Paris and Wien Modern, the importance of live performance and visual music research; and Current Musical Scores – including performative analyses of seminal compositions by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giorgio Netti and Marco Stroppa.
Simone Heilgendorff: Habilitated musicologist, violist and music curator. University teacher since 1993, currently at the UdK in Berlin (D) and at the University of Salzburg (Austria). 2013–2016 head of the international FWF research project „New Music Festivals as Agorai" (Univ. of Salzburg). Violist of the Berlin based Kairos Quartet.
Order here | Bestellung hier: https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/simone-heilgendorff-resonanz-resonance/
Öffentlicher virtueller Workshop:
Kooperation, Kollaboration, Kokreation: unsichtbare Autorschaften und pluralisierte Werke
Am 21.5. und 22.5.2021 findet der zweite Workshops zu dieser interdisziplinären Publikation statt, die herausgegeben wird von Ines Barner, Anja Schürmann und Kathrin Yacavone.
Ich stelle meinen Beitrag am 21.5. um 16:45 Uhr vor:
Zur Entwicklung des Ensembles für zeitgenössische (Kunst-)Musik „Klangforum Wien“, eine Innenperspektive
OPUS:25
Anniversary Concerts of the Kairos Quartet
The Kairos Quartet turns 25 in 2021!
We celebrate with our own series of performances and workshops in the Spreehalle Berlin and in several venues in the state of Brandenburg.
This all happens with support of the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, the Verein für den ausgefallenen Klang Brandenburg, and the Ministery of Science, Research and Culture in Brandenburg.
Check out the project website: www.kairosquartett.de/opus25
New edited book, published in April 2020. Have a look:
Vermittlung zeitgenössischer Musik. Mediating Contemporary Music
edited by Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Simone Heilgendorff, and Martin Losert
Mainz: Schott Music, 2020
You can order directly on Schott's website
Description:
Today, the mediation of contemporary (art) music offers a large, interdisciplinary field for activities and research, which in terms of institutions and methodology is particularly heterogeneous. It encompasses the work of cultural agents in institutions and music ensembles as well as at schools and music schools and it includes diverse concepts, pre-conditions, goals and certain courses of action.
This collection documents work and results of the programme area “ConTempOhr. Mediating Contemporary Music” in Salzburg and consists of papers on elementary music pedagogy, dance and choreography, composition und improvisation, psychology and cultural sociology and intermedia artistic work. It also contains papers referring to music mediation for leadership development in businesses, at festivals of contemporary (art) music, as part of work in music ensembles, at general schools, music schools, universities, and in instrumental pedagogy.
Second trip to Asia with the Kairos Quartet:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 23, 2019
Guangzhou (China) to teach and perform at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): SoundBridge Festival, two concerts and a workshop
This trip is supported and co-financed by the Goethe Institut (Munich) and its branch in Kuala Lumpur
Starting in October 2019:
I am a new member of the
Guest Faculty of the Sound Studies program for future sound artistis at the
University of the Arts in Berlin (Germany).
My public habilitation lecture is scheduled:
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Unipark
R. 2.132
University of Salzburg, Austria
Auf der Suche nach einer zeitgemäßen Kultur der „alten Musik“.
„Originaltöne“ des 18. Jahrhunderts in der aktuellen Mainstream-Klassik
Presentation at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Music (UK):
Study Day of the RMA on May 23, 2019
The Classical Musician in the 21st Century
My talk there will be about my research on the contemporary music ensemble Klangforum Wien, founded in 1985, based on extensive interviews with ensemble members in 2015/16:
Becoming Klangforum. An Inside Perspective
More info:
https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/current-events/rma-study-day
Trip to Shanghai (China) to teach at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Oct. 28 to Nov. 3, 2018
New Music for String Quartet: Composition, Aesthetics, and Performance
Workshops for composition students and a performance with the Kairos Quartet (Ferneyhough, Georg F. Haas, Kurtág, Xenakis)
+ my lecture for students in music theory and music anlysis:
Projected Resonance: Tonal Dimensions of Microtonal Composition in Music by Georg Friedrich Haas