2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 0 METABOLISCHER SALON
talks, readings, performances and drinks
w/ Bernhard Günther, Therese Muxenender, Manos Tsangaris
in the programme:
Piano works by Arnold Schönberg with Pi-hsien Chen - piano
Applausdusche (Applause shower)
interactive installation (2001 EA)
Skandalfenster (Scandal window)
interactive installation (2024 UA)
Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 1 VIEWS (2024)
station theatre - individual parcours with 6 venues and a bar
commissioned by Wien Modern as part of Schönberg 150
premiere Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 2 DOUBLE PORTRAIT WITH ARNOLD (2024)
for a divided audience that swaps places during the interval
w/ Karin Hellqvist - violin/performance, Manuel Alcaraz Clemente -
percussion/performance
commissioned by Wien Modern as part of Schönberg 150
premiere Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 3 SCHÖNES WETTER IN GMUNDEN
(ARNOLD ELEVATORS 3 BEAUTIFUL WEATHER IN GMUNDEN) (2024)
six public private performances
w/ PHACE
commissioned by Wien Modern as part of Schönberg 150
premiere Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
SONDAGE (above ground version)
musical performance for narrator, soprano, sound work, performer, video
w/ Vendula Nováková – staging, Frauke Aulbert – voice/performance, Sara Ezzell -
voice/performance, Willi Hanne– percussion
October, Bremerhaven
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
October, Berlin
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
October, Prishtina (Kosovo)
Resonant Dialogues
w/ Karin Hellqvist (violin) in co-operation with various composer partners such as Carola
Bauckholt, Christian Wallumrød, Henrik Strindberg, Liza Lim and Manos Tsangaris (perc)
September, Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
July, Berlin
GIANT, die Minibühne in der Bude (2023)
for two performers
commissioned by the Akademie der Künste
June, Berlin
SONDAGE (above ground version)
musical performance for narrator, soprano, sound work, performer, video
w/ Vendula Nováková – staging, Frauke Aulbert – voice/performance, Sara Ezzell -
voice/performance, Willi Hanne– percussion
June 2024, Hannover
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
June, Konstanz and Mannheim
Glück und Vergessen („Happiness and Oblivion“, revised version)
for cello and piano
Hyun-Jung Berger - cello, PI-hsien Chen - piano, Manos Tsangaris - recitation
at the Eckelshausener Musiktage 202
May 2024, Marburg
2023
Intro
w/ Manos Tsangaris, Carola Bauckholt, Thomas Büttner, a small band and guests
GIANT, the mini stage in the booth (premiere)
for two performers
w/ Mariel Jana Supka: performers; Philip Kuhne: construction and building sustainability
booth
commissioned by the Akademie der Künste
September 2023, Akademie der Künste Berlin
viscum album
Celebration of the 150th anniversary of Villa Serpentara
with Annette Rießner, accordion
September 2023, Olevano Romano (Italy)
Love & Diversity (2011)
w/ Operalab Berlin
April, Weimar
Abstract Pieces (2018)
new interpretation by Michael Höppner
May 2023, Weimar
Tafel 1 (1989)
w/ Pi.hsien Chen and Manos Tsangaris
May 2023
Passagen
w/ Koffi Kôkô, Johannes Odenthal, Manos Tsangaris
July 2023, Bolzano Danza Festival (Italy)
2022
Manos Tsangaris presents his work at the Composition Forum
Manhattan School of Music
November 2023, New York (USA)
Love & Diversity
w/ Talea Ensemble
November 2023, New York (USA)
Tafel 1 (1989)
25/10/ Universidad Nacional de La Plata (AR)
27/10/ Conservatorio Gilardo Gilardi (AR)
31/10/ Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (AR)
w/ Duo Amoeba
in cooperation with the Goethe Institut
October 2022, Argentina
Tafel 1 (1989)
w/ Duo Amoeba
October 2022, Köln
Homage Manos Tsangaris
with works of current and former students as well as Love & Diversity
June 2022, Dresden
sondage
at SPARK - Festival for Contemporary Music Theatre in Cologne
musical performance
April 2022, Cologne
ATHINA RETURNS
for piano
homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday)
w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano
March, Athens
PYGMALIA
A music theater with changing audience perspective for two voices and double choir
ensemble
February 2022, Frankfurt
interview in EM Magazin #22/1
2021
Tafel 1 (1989)
w/ hand werk at Warsaw Autumn
Septemer 2021
Paternoster from Diskrete Stücke
new versiin with video
at Musik der Zeit 70 im WDR Funkhaus
October 2021
2020
umlaufbahn II
therein: Marcel Beyer listens and reads with musician Manos Tsangaris
furthermore with Thorsten Krämer and Alisa Berger, Lydia Daher and Daniel Schröteler,
Uljana Wolf, Marc Sabat
September, Cologne
MY HEART IS A MAP
text projection, objects, thread organ, light
for three percussionists/performers, one performer/passer-by, at least three passers-
by/performers
commissioned by Pinquins Trio
September 2020, Oslo
Video
series: „Komponisten zum Frühstück“ ("Composers for Breakfast")
works by and discussion with Manos Tsangaris
w/ Ensemble Courage, moderation: Jan Michael Horstmann
June, Dresden
Dinner for Two - the Art of Dialogue
with works of John Cage, Jean-Luc Hervé, Simon Steen-Anderson, Beat Furrer, Olga
Rayeva, François Sarhan and Manos Tsangaris
w/ Ensemble KNM Berlin
March, Berlin
2019
Fahrstuhl (Elevator)
Miniature for viola, voices, sounds (percussion), video, one person in the audience and
elevator
with Emily Yabe - viola, Manos Tsangaris - percussion, Oliver Fenk - technique
November 2019, Dresden
ABSTRACT PIECES
music theater for actors, instruments, space and light
guest performance of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
November 2019, Luxembourg
Jaki Notes - Homage to Jaki Liebezeit
Reading and sound performance, book presentation
w/ Manos Tsangaris, Stefan Kraus, Jochen Heufelder
October 2019, Cologne
PASSAGEN – Der Tänzer Koffi Kôkô und die westafrikanische
Philosophie des Vodun [Passages - The Dancer Koffi Kôkô and the West African
Philosophy of Vodun]
book presentation and musical-dance improvisation with Johannes Odenthal, Koffi Kôkô
(dance) and Manos Tsangaris (music)
August 2019, Vienna
Love & Diversity
Music theatre performance for small ensemble
w/ Ensemble dissonArt
August 2019, Chios Music Festival, GR
pictures
Read
für zwei Zupfinstrumente
Juni 2019, Dresden
winzig und der Elefant (winzig and the elephant)
musical theatre miniatures / theatre for a house
May 2019, Berlin
pictures
es geht voran (things are moving forward)
chamber play for singer, actor, wind instruments, percussion, passers-by
May 2019, Witten Days for New Chamber Music
pictures
City Pieces
for singer, actor, ensemble, installation, light, video and audio guide
with ensemble hand werk, Ann-Yi Eötvös - soprano, Nicola Gründel - actress, Susann
Martin - video
May 2019, Cologne
2018
Hidden Risk
performance installation
FUHRWERKSWAAGE Kunstraum,
September / October, Cologne (german homepage)
Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen weitergedreht (The sun has moved on in
the meantime)
for voice, percussion, trees and movement artists
as part of In Szene - 7 Landschaftsopern (In Szene - 7 Landscape Operas)
August, Festival Rümlingen
pictures
Love & Diversity
July, Hongkong
ABSTRACT PIECES
music theater for actors, instruments, space and light
commissioned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
May, Berlin
video
2017
Traktat
(1978) and various Briefmarkenopern (stamps operas) of the class of Prof. Manos Tsangaris
during the conference on the occasion of the Artistic Research Symposium
November, Dresden
Love & Diversity
w/ BIT20 Ensemble
November, Bergen (NO)
Ansage for solo flute
w/ Astrid Schmeling
on the occasion of the election of Manos Tsangaris as full member of the The Bavarian
Academy of Fine Arts
July 2017, Munich
Final Match (2011) for three player and amplification
United Instruments of Lucilin / Reiland
conductor: David Reiland
June 2017, Philharmonie Luxembourg
lecture, workshop, rehearsals and performances
therein: Love & Diversity (2012)
>> Thessaloniki 2012 / Athen 2014 // Berlin 2015
w/ Hanoi New Music Ensemble
at the invitation of Goethe Institut Hanoi
June 2017 Hanoi, Vietnam
Ausflug ins Gebirge
Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris
May 2017, Collegium Novum Zürich, Niederurnen (CH)
premiere
from the series LIVING SPACES:
WAIT ! FOR A GROUP OF PERFORMERS (SINGERS!)
CITY PIECES (WINDOW PIECE)
HOME
Südlich aus winzig
11 - 14 May 2017, SPOR Festival Aarhus, Denmark
HOME
from the series LIVING SPACES
March / April 2017, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens
premiere
page 2 2013-2016
page 3 1982-2012
lookuppage 1
2017-2024 || 2013-2016 || 1982-2012
2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 0 METABOLISCHER SALON
talks, readings, performances and drinks
w/ Bernhard Günther, Therese Muxenender, Manos Tsangaris
in the programme:
Piano works by Arnold Schönberg with Pi-hsien Chen - piano
Applausdusche (Applause shower)
interactive installation (2001 EA)
Skandalfenster (Scandal window)
interactive installation (2024 UA)
Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 1 VIEWS (2024)
station theatre - individual parcours with 6 venues and a bar
commissioned by Wien Modern as part of Schönberg 150
premiere Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 2 DOUBLE PORTRAIT WITH
ARNOLD (2024)
for a divided audience that swaps places during the interval
w/ Karin Hellqvist - violin/performance, Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
- percussion/performance
commissioned by Wien Modern as part of Schönberg 150
premiere Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
ARNOLD ELEVATORS 3 SCHÖNES WETTER IN
GMUNDEN
(ARNOLD ELEVATORS 3 BEAUTIFUL WEATHER IN
GMUNDEN) (2024)
six public private performances
w/ PHACE
commissioned by Wien Modern as part of Schönberg 150
premiere Wien Modern Festival, November 2024
SONDAGE (above ground version)
musical performance for narrator, soprano, sound work, performer,
video
w/ Vendula Nováková – staging, Frauke Aulbert –
voice/performance, Sara Ezzell - voice/performance, Willi Hanne–
percussion
October, Bremerhaven
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
October, Berlin
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
October, Prishtina (Kosovo)
Resonant Dialogues
w/ Karin Hellqvist (violin) in co-operation with various composer
partners such as Carola Bauckholt, Christian Wallumrød, Henrik
Strindberg, Liza Lim and Manos Tsangaris (perc)
September, Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
July, Berlin
GIANT, die Minibühne in der Bude (2023)
for two performers
commissioned by the Akademie der Künste
June, Berlin
SONDAGE (above ground version)
musical performance for narrator, soprano, sound work, performer,
video
w/ Vendula Nováková – staging, Frauke Aulbert –
voice/performance, Sara Ezzell - voice/performance, Willi Hanne–
percussion
June 2024, Hannover
viscum album (2013)
w/ Margherita Berlanda - accordion
June, Konstanz and Mannheim
Glück und Vergessen („Happiness and Oblivion“,
revised version)
for cello and piano
Hyun-Jung Berger - cello, PI-hsien Chen - piano, Manos Tsangaris -
recitation
at the Eckelshausener Musiktage 202
May 2024, Marburg
2023
Intro
w/ Manos Tsangaris, Carola Bauckholt, Thomas Büttner, a small
band and guests
GIANT, the mini stage in the booth (premiere)
for two performers
w/ Mariel Jana Supka: performers; Philip Kuhne: construction and
building sustainability booth
commissioned by the Akademie der Künste
September 2023, Akademie der Künste Berlin
viscum album
Celebration of the 150th anniversary of Villa Serpentara
with Annette Rießner, accordion
September 2023, Olevano Romano (Italy)
Love & Diversity (2011)
w/ Operalab Berlin
April, Weimar
Abstract Pieces (2018)
new interpretation by Michael Höppner
May 2023, Weimar
Tafel 1 (1989)
w/ Pi.hsien Chen and Manos Tsangaris
May 2023
Passagen
w/ Koffi Kôkô, Johannes Odenthal, Manos Tsangaris
July 2023, Bolzano Danza Festival (Italy)
2022
Manos Tsangaris presents his work at the Composition Forum
Manhattan School of Music
November 2023, New York (USA)
Love & Diversity
w/ Talea Ensemble
November 2023, New York (USA)
Tafel 1 (1989)
25/10/ Universidad Nacional de La Plata (AR)
27/10/ Conservatorio Gilardo Gilardi (AR)
31/10/ Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (AR)
w/ Duo Amoeba
in cooperation with the Goethe Institut
October 2022, Argentina
Tafel 1 (1989)
w/ Duo Amoeba
October 2022, Köln
Homage Manos Tsangaris
with works of current and former students as well as Love &
Diversity
June 2022, Dresden
sondage
at SPARK - Festival for Contemporary Music Theatre in Cologne
musical performance
April 2022, Cologne
ATHINA RETURNS
for piano
homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday)
w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano
March, Athens
PYGMALIA
A music theater with changing audience perspective for two voices
and double choir ensemble
February 2022, Frankfurt
interview in EM Magazin #22/1
2021
Tafel 1 (1989)
w/ hand werk at Warsaw Autumn
Septemer 2021
Paternoster from Diskrete Stücke
new versiin with video
at Musik der Zeit 70 im WDR Funkhaus
October 2021
2020
umlaufbahn II
therein: Marcel Beyer listens and reads with musician Manos
Tsangaris
furthermore with Thorsten Krämer and Alisa Berger, Lydia Daher
and Daniel Schröteler, Uljana Wolf, Marc Sabat
September, Cologne
MY HEART IS A MAP
text projection, objects, thread organ, light
for three percussionists/performers, one performer/passer-by, at
least three passers-by/performers
commissioned by Pinquins Trio
September 2020, Oslo
Video
series: „Komponisten zum Frühstück“ ("Composers
for Breakfast")
works by and discussion with Manos Tsangaris
w/ Ensemble Courage, moderation: Jan Michael Horstmann
June, Dresden
Dinner for Two - the Art of Dialogue
with works of John Cage, Jean-Luc Hervé, Simon Steen-Anderson,
Beat Furrer, Olga Rayeva, François Sarhan and Manos Tsangaris
w/ Ensemble KNM Berlin
March, Berlin
2019
Fahrstuhl (Elevator)
Miniature for viola, voices, sounds (percussion), video, one person
in the audience and elevator
with Emily Yabe - viola, Manos Tsangaris - percussion, Oliver Fenk -
technique
November 2019, Dresden
ABSTRACT PIECES
music theater for actors, instruments, space and light
guest performance of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
November 2019, Luxembourg
Jaki Notes - Homage to Jaki Liebezeit
Reading and sound performance, book presentation
w/ Manos Tsangaris, Stefan Kraus, Jochen Heufelder
October 2019, Cologne
PASSAGEN – Der Tänzer Koffi Kôkô und die
westafrikanische Philosophie des Vodun [Passages - The
Dancer Koffi Kôkô and the West African Philosophy of Vodun]
book presentation and musical-dance improvisation with Johannes
Odenthal, Koffi Kôkô (dance) and Manos Tsangaris (music)
August 2019, Vienna
Love & Diversity
Music theatre performance for small ensemble
w/ Ensemble dissonArt
August 2019, Chios Music Festival, GR
pictures
Read
für zwei Zupfinstrumente
Juni 2019, Dresden
winzig und der Elefant (winzig and the elephant)
musical theatre miniatures / theatre for a house
May 2019, Berlin
pictures
es geht voran (things are moving forward)
chamber play for singer, actor, wind instruments, percussion,
passers-by
May 2019, Witten Days for New Chamber Music
pictures
City Pieces
for singer, actor, ensemble, installation, light, video and audio
guide
with ensemble hand werk, Ann-Yi Eötvös - soprano, Nicola Gründel
- actress, Susann Martin - video
May 2019, Cologne
2018
Hidden Risk
performance installation
FUHRWERKSWAAGE Kunstraum,
September / October, Cologne (german homepage)
Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen weitergedreht (The
sun has moved on in the meantime)
for voice, percussion, trees and movement artists
as part of In Szene - 7 Landschaftsopern (In Szene - 7 Landscape
Operas)
August, Festival Rümlingen
pictures
Love & Diversity
July, Hongkong
ABSTRACT PIECES
music theater for actors, instruments, space and light
commissioned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
May, Berlin
video
2017
Traktat
(1978) and various Briefmarkenopern (stamps operas) of the class
of Prof. Manos Tsangaris during the conference on the occasion of
the Artistic Research Symposium
November, Dresden
Love & Diversity
w/ BIT20 Ensemble
November, Bergen (NO)
Ansage for solo flute
w/ Astrid Schmeling
on the occasion of the election of Manos Tsangaris as full member
of the The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
July 2017, Munich
Final Match (2011) for three player and amplification
United Instruments of Lucilin / Reiland
conductor: David Reiland
June 2017, Philharmonie Luxembourg
lecture, workshop, rehearsals and performances
therein: Love & Diversity (2012)
>> Thessaloniki 2012 / Athen 2014 // Berlin 2015
w/ Hanoi New Music Ensemble
at the invitation of Goethe Institut Hanoi
June 2017 Hanoi, Vietnam
Ausflug ins Gebirge
Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris
May 2017, Collegium Novum Zürich, Niederurnen (CH)
premiere
from the series LIVING SPACES:
WAIT ! FOR A GROUP OF PERFORMERS
(SINGERS!)
CITY PIECES (WINDOW PIECE)
HOME
Südlich aus winzig
11 - 14 May 2017, SPOR Festival Aarhus, Denmark
HOME
from the series LIVING SPACES
March / April 2017, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens
premiere
page 2 2013-2016
page 3 1982-2012
lookuppage 1
2017-2024 || 2013-2016 || 1982-2012