Festival

With participants of the impuls Academy 2025

coached by Sarah Maria Sun

 

 

Carola Bauckholt Vollmond, unter null (2004)

Olga Siemienczuk voice | Pedro Costa piano

 

Gaia Aloisi Et pretiosa et casta [FLOCS] (2023, world premiere)

Camille Primeau voice solo

 

Tianyi Wang Song of Experience, for voice and piano resonance (2019, Austrian premiere)

Raphaëlle Proust voice | Tianyi Wang live-electronics

 

Sarah-Grace Graves Both/And (2018)

Saga Duo: Lisa Newill-Smith voice | Olga Siemienczuk voice

 

Gaia Aloisi Inuit Songs (2021, Austrian premiere)

Johanna Zachhuber voice | Zane Rubesa piano

 

Laila Arafah from: Confabulations with an A.I. Bot: Nr. I, II, IV (2024, Austrian premiere)

Camille Primeau voice | Pedro Costa piano

 

Georges Aperghis Recitations No. 1 (1978)

Johanna Zachhuber voice solo

 

Bernhard Lang from: Songbook III: Gleichnis (2013)

Johanna Zachhuber voice | Pedro Costa piano

 

Francesco Filidei from: Proesie: Variazioni sull‘Aria della Forforetta (2020)

Olga Siemienczuk voice solo

 

Nathaniel Haering Medical Text p.57 (2017, Austrian premiere)

Lisa Newill-Smith voice | Nathaniel Haering electronics

 

Saga Duo Improvisation

Saga Duo: Lisa Newill-Smith voice | Olga Siemienczuk voice

 

 

Further program information

Tonight´s Vocal Summit is a presentation of joint forces not only of the vocal participants and partly also musicians of the impuls Academy 2025, but also of young impuls Academy composers selected by a Call for Scores (Gaia Aloisi, Laila Arafah, Nathaniel Haering, Tianyi Wang), with their pieces being worked on as part of the impuls vocal program. Most of them will hereby see their Austrian and even world premieres!

 

After vocal ensemble coaching with Cantando Admont at the impuls Academy back in 2023, the impuls Academy 2025 is concentrating on individual singers, coached by Sarah Maria Sun, one of the foremost and most extraordinary performers in the contemporary music scene. Her repertoire currently spans around 2000 compositions from the 16th to the 21st century, including 400 world premieres. Looking back also at a career as the first soprano of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart from 2007-2014, a vocal chamber ensemble, that has been one of the world’s leading pioneers of contemporary music for decades, Sarah Maria Sun has not only regularly performed as a soloist, but also shows her tremendous adaptability and skills on the music-theater stage, amongst others at opera houses in Zurich, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, or the Opéra Bastille and the Opéra Comique in Paris.