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CONCERTS

17.11.23, 8:00 p.m.: Ensemble S C O P E - *in_charge // Bühne
18.11.23, 8:00 p.m.: ANNIE Bloch & the mechanisms of Dependence // Bühne
19.11.23, 6:00 p.m.: Jennifer Torrence // Bühne

PANELS

18.11.23, 4:30-5:30 p.m.: JOHANNA DANHAUSER - Artist talk // Kino
18.11.23, 6:00-7:00 P.M.: Helene Heuser - Beyond Visibility // Kino

Tickets

ConCertS: 10 € / 5 € AT THE BOX OFFICE, NO PRESALE
Panels: FREE ENTRY

AdDress & DIRECTIONS

Alte Feuerwache Köln, Melchiorstr. 3, 50670 Köln
Stops nearby: Hansaring (S-Bahn & Stadtbahn, 5 min walk), Ebertplatz (Stadtbahn, 5 min walk), Cologne Hbf (15 min walk).

The current edition of the festival is dedicated in great recognition and gratitude to the recently deceased founder of Frau* Musica Nova, Gisela Gronemeyer.

We mourn the death of Gisela Gronemeyer

musicologist, author, editor of MusikTexte and founder of FRAU* MUSICA NOVA. Already 1997 she brought internationally active female composers and their music to Cologne and not only from Europe, but from Uruguay, Argentina, Siberia, Korea, Texas or Azerbaijan. These lines from the programme note of the first F*MN Festival in 1998 are still relevant today:

"What do we mean by advanced music? We think of new possibilities of expression through voice, body language, experiments with new media, alternative improvisation practices and meditative concepts thought and made by women. In addition to the general support of female composers of the 20th century, we want to show such ways, present them, stimulate them, want to think about new forms of events. For practical work, this means collecting as much information as possible - and not least music - and passing it on."

We thank you for all you have done in your life for music and for the visibility of female composers and wish your loved ones much strength now.
Foto: Daniel Mennicken. Aufgenommen für die ON-Publikation "anwesend", 2021.

Just as initiator Gisela Gronemeyer handed FMN over to composer Brigitta Muntendorf in 2013, who curated the last three festival editions in artistic dual leadership with dramaturg and producer Beate Schüler, the festival will now pass into the hands of a younger generation:

Composer Lucia Kilger will take over the artistic direction of F*MN from 2023 and, in addition to expanding the concert programme, will focus on queerfeminist and discursive formats. From now on, Wiebke Spieker will be responsible for the festival's project management.

Over the past 10 years, Brigitta Muntendorf has developed a transdigital as well as performative performance practice and invited numerous up-and-coming talents such as Shiva Feshareki, Colin Self, Carola Schaal and Heinrich Horwitz. Cooperations are an important part of FRAU MUSICA NOVA, and for example, the Taschenoper Festival Salzburg was brought to NRW in a co-production and interdisciplinary productions such as with Cio d'Or, Claudia Lichtblau and Ensemble Garage were presented. Together with Beate Schüler, the two artistic directors expanded the queerfeminist segment from 2020, created new formats such as the online format of 30-minute "Eccentric Listenings" and international Kinship partnerships to disseminate the work of invited artists such as Elaine Mitchener, Neo Hülcker, Hans Unstern, Sita Messer, Sofia Jernberg, Julia Robert, Nicole L'Huillier and Sibylle Berg. The Kinship programme built friendships with international festivals, or production houses and universities such as Music on Main, Vancouver, Canada, HELLERAU - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden Radialsystem V, Berlin, and School of Music, The University of Auckland|Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand and strengthened the international perception of the festival.

All festival editions were recorded by Deutschlandfunk. They are part of the online archive, which makes all programmes and recordings of all years of the festival available online - an important contribution to the history of FRAU MUSICA NOVA.

FRAU* MUSICA NOVA

The annual music festival F*MN presents pioneering composers, performers and interpreters whose artistic language evokes a confrontation with the present and the contemporary. The focus is on an experimental approach to music and its interaction with media, performance and theatricality.

SAVE THE DATE

CONCERTS

PANELS

Tickets

AdDress & DIRECTIONS

The current edition of the festival is dedicated in great recognition and gratitude to the recently deceased founder of Frau* Musica Nova, Gisela Gronemeyer.

Just as initiator Gisela Gronemeyer handed FMN over to composer Brigitta Muntendorf in 2013, who curated the last three festival editions in artistic dual leadership with dramaturg and producer Beate Schüler, the festival will now pass into the hands of a younger generation:

Composer Lucia Kilger will take over the artistic direction of F*MN from 2023 and, in addition to expanding the concert programme, will focus on queerfeminist and discursive formats. From now on, Wiebke Spieker will be responsible for the festival's project management.

All festival editions were recorded by Deutschlandfunk. They are part of the online archive, which makes all programmes and recordings of all years of the festival available online - an important contribution to the history of FRAU MUSICA NOVA.

FRAU* MUSICA NOVA

The annual music festival F*MN presents pioneering composers, performers and interpreters whose artistic language evokes a confrontation with the present and the contemporary. The focus is on an experimental approach to music and its interaction with media, performance and theatricality.

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