SCHALLWENDE – Festival of New Music
stromaufwärts ≈ frutz ≈ Ill ≈ frödisch
“Stromaufwärts” means moving against the flow of the familiar. Listening against the current. Tangible resistance. Obstacles are overcome. Curiosity awakens…
The rivers Frutz, Ill and Frödisch shape the Vorarlberg region – in terms of landscape, history and culture. As a leitmotif, they stand for regional identity and a connection to the earth, authenticity, but also for dynamism, branching, confluence, connection and the flow of energy.
Just as watercourses with their own distinct character meet, flow into one another and influence each other, so too do different sonic languages, aesthetic positions and compositional styles interact in this concert series.
New music – predominantly from Vorarlberg – appears here not as a self-contained style, but as a living tapestry: fragmentary and concentrated, resistant, permeable, experimental and sensual.
“Stromaufwärts” simultaneously refers to the source: to the essential, the reduced, the as yet unformed. Listeners are invited to embrace uncertainty, to hear the familiar anew and to make room for the unexpected.
(Concept: Mira Weihs)
SCHALLWENDE – Festival of New Music
FRUTZ
1st Concert
Friday 18 September 2026, 7.30 pm
Theater am Saumarkt, Feldkirch
Juta Pranulytė TURBULENZ, for horn and bass-baritone WORLD PREMIERE
Christian Ofenbauer 9th String Quartet Movement
Alexander Wagendristel Water and Stone, for horn, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass WORLD PREMIERE
Michael Amann ‘Flusslandschaft mit Inseln’, for 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass WORLD PREMIERE
Morgana Petrik ‘Du sublime au ridicule’, for solo double bass WORLD PREMIERE of the version for double bass
Johannes Beranek ‘im licht das licht.’, for string quintet and solo horn WORLD PREMIERE
Johannes Beranek conductor, horn
Franz Michael Fischer violin
Georgy Begletsov violin
Katharina Plankensteiner viola
Daria Zemskaia cello
Christopher Bainbridge double bass
Harald Hieronymus Hein bass-baritone
Franz Michael Fischer, Mira Weihs moderation
stromaufwärts - electronics Ill
2nd Concert
Saturday 19 September 2026, 7.30 pm
Theater am Saumarkt, Feldkirch
An interview with Alisa Kobzar: How do computer music tools influence compositional thinking, the creative process and the artistic outcome?
Anna Maly 'Atmend … in den Klang hineinkriechen', for piano, violin and electronics WORLD PREMIERE
Alisa Kobzar 'Elektrisierte Ruinen' from the cycle 'Geisterstädte', for acoustic piano, digital piano and physically modelled piano WORLD PREMIERE
Martin Gut 'e luz e paz e graça', for violin, piano and electronics WORLD PREMIERE
Benedikt Alphart 'indivisiBELLS', for piano and electronics WORLD PREMIERE
Gerard Erruz 'memory stream', for violin and electronics
Lars Tuchel 'for lack of a better', for quadraphonic sound WORLD PREMIERE
Alisa Kobzar piano
Hyewon Lim violin
Anna Maly
Alisa Kobzar, Martin Gut, Gerald Erruz, Lars Tuchel electronics
Franz Michael Fischer, Mira Weihs moderation
wort.bild.film - FRÖDISCH
3rd Concert
Sunday, 20 September 2026, 10.30 am
Theater am Saumarkt, Feldkirch
FILM by Guillaume Zanier (director), Ilia Osokin (music): Ambient story, Ilia Osokin documentary
Ilia Osokin 'Septième jour' from the cycle 'Wave Creation' for violin and cello WORLD PREMIERE
Johannes Berauer 'Prelude for m.c. Escher' solo piano
4 SHORT FILMS by Tamara Štajner (music, director)
‘KRŠKO’, text from the poetry collection ‘Schlupflöcher’ by Tamara Štajner
‘LOŠINJ’, text from the poetry collection ‘Schlupflöcher’ by Tamara Štajner
‘Dreaming of frogs and rockets’
‘KÜSTENKIND’, text from the poetry collection ‘Schlupflöcher’ by Tamara Štajner
Shiqi Geng 2nd movement from the Sonata based on paintings by Marc Chagall, for solo viola
FILM by Susanne Schönthaler (director, editor), Florian Hecher (music, acting, editor): Piano Epico, Florian Hecher performs the music for the film
Florian Hecher ‘Gefühlt 2026 Ω’, solo piano improvisation based on the theme of the Schallwende Festival 2026 WORLD PREMIERE
Ilia Osokin cello
Georgy Begletsov violin
Florian Hecher piano
Katharina Plankensteiner viola
Franz Michael Fischer, Mira Weihs moderation