We are back from a successful tour in NYC and Panama and you all are very welcome to watch photos of our tour. You will find them in our Gallery!!
First of all we played at the Bang On A Can- Marathon, which was taking place in the overwhelming Winter Garden of the World Financial Center (see above). We performed among many great musicians making music between contemporary, cross-over, experimental, electronic, minimal, ethno…. and where we met people like Michael Gordon, Mark Stewart, David Lang and many more. It was also great to see so many well-known friends, composers, agents and other people who are so important for our group.
After performances in Usdan Music Camp and at the Harvard Club we headed towards Panama. It seems that there must be always an obstacles around: so, three of us got food-poisoned on the plane and arrived there in pretty bad conditions. After a hard night and day and the help of a lovely doctor-woman at the hotel, we were capable to perform in the evening in a beautiful hall. The presenter was doing great in taking care of us. The next day we visited a local bilingual school, where we were very honored to experience around 600 Panamanian kids playing recorder for us. Watch the video!!
QNG especially enjoys to continue playing the new Greatbass Recorder made by Mollenhauer. After a first pilot period earlier this year Mollenhauer encouraged us to use and play it further on – THANKS!!!
Listen to QNG talking on the podcast ”My Ears Are Open” on iTunes. The interview is made by James Holt right after our performance at the Bang On A Can Marathon.
QNG prepares its performance at the BangOnACan-Marathon in New York at the end of June. Among other compositions we will perform “Oh I Am Sorry, did I BREAK your concentration?” by Michiel Mensingh together with pianist/composer Moritz Eggert. For this exciting event Moritz composed a piece called “Flohwalze” and dedicated it to our ensemble. Also this time we will travel with Petra Wurz substituting Hannah. After our New York performances we will head towards Panama!!
At the beginning of June we performed in a beautiful old mill called “Hessenbrückenmühle”, which is restaured and used as a concert space by the family Pauker. To read an article about our concert from a local newspaper (German) click here.
The last week of May was an especially productive time for QNG: 4 concerts, 3 premieres, travelling, radio recording, beautiful cities and halls, inspiring people, enthousiastic audience, great sound technicians, happy presenters, demanding composers, great new pieces, good critics …
Some impressions: rehearsal break with composer Eva Reiter, the dome of Speyer, soundcheck in the beautiful hall of Göttingen, after party in Salzburg with Heide´s brother, relaxing day at the Königsee and Thermal bath in Berchestgaden;
This week QNG will premiere three new pieces! In the moment we are working hard on getting them ready for the great moments, when they are first performed during concerts at the BKA Theater (Unerhörte Musik) in Berlin and the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg. We are happy to announce the pieces “…ent-gleitend… (Nach-ruf)” by Georg Friedrich Haas, “Zug ins Gelobte” by Eva Reiter und “Pessel” by Yoav Pasovsky. We hope to see many of you at one of our concerts!! Look in our agenda for details!
