Concert Film Screening: BOSTON / BERLIN

Free Admission, please RSVP: BOSTON / BERLIN Tickets, Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite

New Works by composers Julia Werntz and John Aylward on film featuring performances by Nina Guo and Biliana Voutchkova

Contemporary Music Festival @ Goethe

An evening of cinematic productions of contemporary music. A sneak-peak of John Aylward’s new opera film Oblivion (Laine Rettmer, director; Stratis Minakakis, musical director) and the premiere of Julia Werntz’s Wreaths for solo violin (directed by Monica Cohen/The BOOM House). This evening highlights long-standing collaborations between these Massachusetts-based composers and Berlin-based performers, soprano Nina Guo (Oblivion) and violinist Biliana Voutchkova (Wreaths).

John Aylward’s music comprises solo works, chamber music, orchestral work and music for film and multimedia. He is a child of an immigrant mother from Germany (herself a World War II refugee) and grew up in the Sonoran Desert in circumstances of tremendous diversity and economic instability. His music processes the impacts of that earlier life, filled with a deep sense of community, rich expressions of converging cultural histories, and the otherworldly landscapes of the desert.

The music of composer Julia Werntz is rooted in a clear melodic sensibility with a highly nuanced and elastic approach to pitch and time. Her intricate microtonal and rhythmic language often communicates the irregular contours of human physicality—bodily motions, speech, and the cadences of thought—and frequently reacts to sensations from the natural world.

Nina Guo is a high soprano based in Berlin. She is interested in the sounds and music of recent and ongoing times. Her performance practice includes interpreting notated music, improvising, and collaborating on interdisciplinary projects. Radio and humor play large roles in her work.

Berlin-based Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer-performer, improvisor and curator. Her work spans the widest possible range of sound, vision, movement and includes concert performances of improvisation, contemporary composition and original site specific work, exhibitions, long durational / multidisciplinary performances, audiovisual works and installation formats with focus on the interconnection between inner world and sound space.

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