Concert: Stolpersteine
When:
Tuesday, Mar 04, 2025 8:00p -
10:00p
Tuesday, Mar 04, 2025 8:00p -
10:00p
Where:
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
$Price: Donation of $10 General / $5 Students & Seniors requested
Hosted by:
Categories:
Music
New piano music from Germany, USA and Israel performed by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler
Contemporary Music Festival @ Goethe
This recital is a very personal journey through the landscapes of well-remembered, half-forgotten and misunderstood. The elusive nature of freedom, memory and a fragile balance between them is mirrored in a delicate, stumbling dance, each shaping the other like two improvising partners on a dimly lit floor. Memory anchors us, giving weight and texture to our steps, while freedom urge us to leap, to falter, to spin beyond the confines of what we know. The piano becomes their shared language—its keys a pathway through this conversation, where every misstep becomes music and every silence, a chance to begin again. Each note echoes like a fragment of memory, resonant and haunting, while the spaces between notes hold the possibility of freedom, a breath, a choice yet to be made.
*Stolperstein (German for “stumbling stone”) ist ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. It is an artistic initiative by the German artist Gunter Demnig that aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study before they fell victim to Nazi terror, forced euthanasia, eugenics, deportation to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. More than 100,000 Stolpersteine have been laid, making the Stolpersteine project the world's largest decentralized memorial.
About the Artist: Fidan Aghayeva-Edler
Fidan Aghayeva-Edler is a pianist based in Berlin, Germany, currently focused on performance of music by women composers. She is active in Berlin's contemporary music scene and works closely with composers. Her innovative work is supported by various grants and scholarships from Musikfonds Berlin, Deutsche Orchester-Stiftung, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Fonds Darstellende Künste, GVL-Stipendium, the Norwegian Quota Scholarship, the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation, CeskoNemecky fond budoucnosti, inm.
During the corona pandemic, she carried out various projects and developed new concert formats, such as livestream concerts with numerous world premieres, shop window concerts and virtual duo improvisations. Her most recent project was#365daysofperformance which included a daily livestreamed performance of solo piano pieces, mainly by female and forgotten composers. In August 2024 she conducted a one-woman 24-hour piano performance with music exclusively by women-composers.
Her recordings were broadcasted by the Bayerischen Rundfunk, RBB Kultur, Klassikcast of the Goethe Institut, MDR Figaro, KAN Israel, Radio France, Český rozhlas etc. Here solo albums include "Verbotene Klänge: Sechs Suiten" (2019), released by Kreuzberg Records, with the music of persecuted composers, and “Fenster” (2022), released by GENUIN, with the works of seven contemporary female composers, which got nominated for the Preis der Deutschen Schalplattenkritik and ECHO Klassik. Her further collaborative projects include CDs and albums "Klavierwerke" (2016), "Twenty for piano" (2020), "The Black Garden" (2020), “Seven Sisters” (2024).
As a soloist and with an ensemble, she has performed in various venues across Europe, such as Philharmonie Berlin, Grieghallen Bergen, and became part of the “musica reanimata” concert series at Konzerthaus Berlin, Impuls Festival, Borealis Festival, NUNC! 5, I Baku Contemporary Days Festival, Bergen Festspillene, akademie kontemporär at HfMT Hamburg, Junge Akademie Exhibition AdK Berlin, Klangteppich among others.
Her focus lies on the rediscovery of music by persecuted composers. She strives for gender equality in all her concert programs. She is constantly discovering new musical spheres, such as improvised performances (solo or in an ensemble) with extended piano techniques, realizing interdisciplinary projects (including poetry and dance), exploring instruments and genres. She gives contemporary piano techniques workshops at music high schools and festivals across Germany and Europe. As a pianist and performer she appears in theatre and film; her recent works include roles in "Fabian" by Dominik Graf, „Berlin.Babylon“ I season; chamber opera “Wir” in Deutsches Theater Berlin, “vis-á-vis” at Ackerstadtpalast, "Amazon Rising" by Heinrich Horwitz and "Ich heb' dir die Welt aus den Angeln" in
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