Our Team:

Luise Kautz, director

Simon Janssen, video

Valentin Mattka, installation

Pia Davila, soprano

John Cage

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

Pia Davila, soprano / actress

Hanne Franzen, piano

Dong Zhou, elektronics

Luise Kautz, director

Simon Janssen, camera

Juni 2020

STATEMENT OF THE JURY

We were particularly impressed by the artistic quality, the musical level, the diversity of the projects and the interlacing of the art of song with socio-political issues of the 34 internationally submitted concepts. With the top-class submissions and the associated commitment, the artists have set a significant signal for the urgency of the classical music scene to grapple with the – at first glance supposedly – external-musical context. With this in mind, we would like to thank all artists for their commitment!

We are firmly convinced that social challenges need interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate the arts from the start. We regard our #LIEDINNOVATION format as a statement for the exchange of music, the performing arts, science and nature. Especially in difficult times, we want to enable and intensively promote such an indispensable space for collision and reflection.

We are particularly fascinated by the reconfigurations of the format “concert” in time and space. Many of the submitted concepts question the conventions of auditorium and stage, narratives and linearity.

The expansion of the traditional concert space provides impetus for future, contemporary discussions on the genre of art song. We would like to support this innovative strength with our finalists – and especially with the selected winning concept LIEDMOVIES.

Statement by this year’s jury consisting of
Franziska HEINZEN & Lea Luka SIKAU