The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.
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
Combination Piece II 2020/…
To See In Darkness You Need Light
for variable instrumentation
Combination Piece I 2021/23
The Third Body
Solo plus…
der hiekel-auslöser …und seine zeit (the hiekel trigger
...and its time) 2023
for two speakers (interview partners) and mixed ensemble
Jörn Peter Hiekel on his sixtieth birthday
INSIDE OUT 2023
for 3-n players and individual audiences in deckchairs
première Berlin November 2023
w/ Emily Yabe, Volker Sondermann, Manos Tsangaris
GIANT, the mini stage in the booth (premiere) 2023
for two performers
commissioned by the Akademie der Künste
première 03 September 2023, Akademie der Künste Berlin
w/ Mariel Jana Supka: performers; Philip Kuhne: construction and building sustainability
booth
close Up - lontano 2023
for wind ensemble, percussion, thread organ in the landscape and individual audiences in
deckchairs
commissioned by Neue Musik Rümlingen
première 29July 2023, Monte Verità (Tessin)
w/ students of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
Übertragung (Transmission) 2022/2023
Scenic radio play in stations
for moderation, performance, singing, instruments, radio technology, video, light
therein:
TRIMEDIA
Making-of for moderation, technology, performers, coffee table
7’
REDAKTOR
Invention pit for baritone and flute performers
120’
SCHALTE (Reduktor)
for soprano, violin, bass clarinet and video
7‘
BAR
for bar and video projection
120’
SENDUNG
for moderation and interview partners
120’
PRIVATE LISTENER
for soprano, performer and radio
120’
AUFNAHME
for soprano, violoncello, piano, percussion, radio technology, feeds and light
7’
RADIOTOP
for moderation, baritone, performer and broadcast technology
7’
commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting)
première 21 April 2023, Witten
w/ Elisabeth Holmer - soprana, Lidia Beth Luciano - soprana, Sol-I So - soprana, Martin
Gerke - baritone, Cornelius Uhle - baritone, Ensemble Handwerk: Daniel Agi - flute, Jae A
Shin - violin, Heni Hyunjung Kim - clarinet, Thibaut Surugue - piano, Moritz Koch -
percussion, Niklas Seidl - violoncello, moderators: Martina Seeber, Michael Struck-Schloen,
Niklas Rudolph
sondage 2022
musical performance
commissioned by ON - Neue Musik Köln e. V. for SPARK - Festival for Contemporary Music
Theatre in Cologne
première 8 April 2022, Alte Feuerwache Cologne
w/ Anna Neubert - violin, Moritz Koch - percussion, Duo Timbral - singer, Manos Tsangaris
ATHINA RETURNS 2022
for piano
homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday)
w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano
première 18 March, Athens
PYGMALIA 2020/2021
music theater with changing audience perspective
for two voices and double choir ensemble
commissioned by Alte Oper Frankfurt
première 03 February 2022, Alte Oper Frankfurt w/ Ensemble Modern
Das Fremde und das Gekochte (The foreign and the
cooked) 2020
a listening exercise based on Beethoven
for piano and projected text (and some images)
commissioned by the E-MEX Ensemble, sponsored by Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH BTHVN
duration approx. 12 minutes
MY HEART IS A MAP 2020
text projection, objects, thread organ, light
for three percussionists/performers, one performer/passer-by, at least three passers-
by/performers
commissioned by Pinquins percussion trio
première 13 September 2020, Ultima Oslo
Fahrstuhl (Elevator) 2019
Miniature for viola, voices, sounds (percussion), video, one person in the audience and
elevator
with Emily Yabe - viola, Manos Tsangaris - percussion, Oliver Fenk - technique
Composition commissioned by the Kunsthaus Dresden and the European Center of the Arts
Dresden for the elevator of the house Florian-Geyer-Straße 15 in Dresden
première 10 November 2019
es geht voran 2019
chamber play for singer, actor, wind instruments, percussion, passers-by
commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting)
May 2019, Witten Days for New Chamber Music
pictures
Hidden Risk 2018
performance installation
for mezzo-soprano, percussion, thread organ, objects and light
w/ Ann-yi Eötvös - soprano, Rie Wattanabe - percussion, Ruben Tsangaris - thread organ
première 30 September 2018, FUHRWERKSWAAGE Kunstraum Cologne
impressions on this page
Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen weitergedreht (The sun
has moved on in the meantime) 2018
for voice, percussion, trees and movement artists
commissioned by Festival Rümlingen 2018
supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
première 17 August 2018
as part of In Szene - 7 Landschaftsopern (In Szene - 7 Landscape Operas) bei Festival
Rümlingen
w/ Anne-May Krüger, Christian Dierstein - sopran, Basia Wehinger - percussion, Oliver Fenk
- movement coach/choreographer, Viktor Barcelo - engineering/production, Karim Bingöl,
James Leadbeater, Leonard Marjanovic, Sebastian Rohner, Michel Roth, Mikolaj Rytowski,
Rieke Volkenandt,Zora Weidkuhn, Kaja Marina Weiss, Basia Wehinger, movement artists
pictures
ABSTRACT PIECES 2018
music theater for actors, instruments, space and light
commissoned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
premiere 19 May 2018, Berlin
Trailer
What I see 2018
for two players
premiere 06 February 2018, Berlin
as part of: Unerhörte Musik
w/ Stefan Conradi - guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar / Bernd Gehlen - guitar, electric
guitar, ukulele, banjo
READ 2017
for two plucked instruments
premiere 21 June 2019, Hellerau Dresden
Ausflug ins Gebirge 2017
Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris
premiere 27 May 2017, Collegium Novum Zürich, Niederurnen (CH)
HOME 2017
from the series: LIVING SPACES
for Actor, Soprano, Clarinet- and Piano-Performer
premiere 30 March 2017, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens
Pictures
WAIT ! FOR A GROUP OF PERFORMERS (SINGERS !) 2016
première w/ Oslo Domkor at Ultima-Festival, Oslo (conductor: Vivianne Sydnes)
Pictures
City Pieces (Window Piece) 2016
for singer, actor, ensemble, installation, light, video and audioguide
Commissioned and co-organised by Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich, SCENATET and
SPOR Festival Aarhus
premiere October 2016 Connecting Space Hongkong w/ Ensemble Scenatet
Video
DAS PIZZICATO MYSTERIUM (THE PIZZICATO MYSTERY)
2016
for string Orchestra
première 25 February 2016 w/ Munich chamber Orchestra (conductor: Alexander
Liebreich)
Video
EILAND (ISOLA). Das aufgehobene Ich 2015
for stations in the room, voices, bass clarinets and light
première September 2015 w/ Neue Vocalsolisten and Fünf Klarinettisten
commissioned for Theo Nabicht
Mistel IV Dark Misteltoe
2014
for orchestra and moving lights
première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg (Conductor:
Emiio Pomarico)
5’
Mistel V LUX Mistel 2014
orchestra and light spaces
commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg
première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg (Conductor:
Emiio Pomarico)
7’
Mistel I 2014
for orchestra and newscaster
commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival
dedicated to Armin Köhler
première October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-
Baden/Freiburg - Isabelle Demey, newscaster (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico)
12’
Mistel II Gong-Mistel 2014
for orchestra
commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival
dedicated to Armin Köhler
première 17 October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-
Baden/Freiburg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico)
4’
Mistel III Space-Mistel 2014
for orchestra
commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival
dedicated to Armin Köhler
première 19 October 2014 - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg (Conductor:
Francois Xavier Roth)
5’
Karl May, Raum der Wahrheit (Karl May, Space of Truth)
2014
Music theatre
Libretto by Marcel Beyer, directed by Manfred Weiss
commissioned by Semperoper Dresden
première Semperoper Dresden - w/Julian Mehne, Rainer Maria Röhr, Julian Arsenault,
Julia Mintzer, Romy Petrick, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
60’
page 2 (2000-2012) // page 3 (1978-1999)
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
Combination Piece II 2020/…
To See In Darkness You Need Light
for variable instrumentation
Combination Piece I 2021/23
The Third Body
Solo plus…
der hiekel-auslöser …und seine zeit (the
hiekel trigger ...and its time) 2023
for two speakers (interview partners) and mixed ensemble
Jörn Peter Hiekel on his sixtieth birthday
INSIDE OUT 2023
for 3-n players and individual audiences in deckchairs
première Berlin November 2023
w/ Emily Yabe, Volker Sondermann, Manos Tsangaris
GIANT, the mini stage in the booth
(premiere) 2023
for two performers
commissioned by the Akademie der Künste
première 03 September 2023, Akademie der Künste Berlin
w/ Mariel Jana Supka: performers; Philip Kuhne: construction and
building sustainability booth
close Up - lontano 2023
for wind ensemble, percussion, thread organ in the landscape and
individual audiences in deckchairs
commissioned by Neue Musik Rümlingen
première 29July 2023, Monte Verità (Tessin)
w/ students of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
Übertragung (Transmission) 2022/2023
Scenic radio play in stations
for moderation, performance, singing, instruments, radio
technology, video, light
therein:
TRIMEDIA
Making-of for moderation, technology, performers, coffee table
7’
REDAKTOR
Invention pit for baritone and flute performers
120’
SCHALTE (Reduktor)
for soprano, violin, bass clarinet and video
7‘
BAR
for bar and video projection
120’
SENDUNG
for moderation and interview partners
120’
PRIVATE LISTENER
for soprano, performer and radio
120’
AUFNAHME
for soprano, violoncello, piano, percussion, radio technology,
feeds and light
7’
RADIOTOP
for moderation, baritone, performer and broadcast technology
7’
commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting)
première 21 April 2023, Witten
w/ Elisabeth Holmer - soprana, Lidia Beth Luciano - soprana, Sol-I
So - soprana, Martin Gerke - baritone, Cornelius Uhle - baritone,
Ensemble Handwerk: Daniel Agi - flute, Jae A Shin - violin, Heni
Hyunjung Kim - clarinet, Thibaut Surugue - piano, Moritz Koch -
percussion, Niklas Seidl - violoncello, moderators: Martina Seeber,
Michael Struck-Schloen, Niklas Rudolph
sondage 2022
musical performance
commissioned by ON - Neue Musik Köln e. V. for SPARK - Festival
for Contemporary Music Theatre in Cologne
première 8 April 2022, Alte Feuerwache Cologne
w/ Anna Neubert - violin, Moritz Koch - percussion, Duo Timbral -
singer, Manos Tsangaris
ATHINA RETURNS 2022
for piano
homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday)
w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano
première 18 March, Athens
PYGMALIA 2020/2021
music theater with changing audience perspective
for two voices and double choir ensemble
commissioned by Alte Oper Frankfurt
première 03 February 2022, Alte Oper Frankfurt w/ Ensemble
Modern
Das Fremde und das Gekochte (The
foreign and the cooked) 2020
a listening exercise based on Beethoven
for piano and projected text (and some images)
commissioned by the E-MEX Ensemble, sponsored by Beethoven
Jubiläums GmbH BTHVN
duration approx. 12 minutes
MY HEART IS A MAP 2020
text projection, objects, thread organ, light
for three percussionists/performers, one performer/passer-by, at
least three passers-by/performers
commissioned by Pinquins percussion trio
première 13 September 2020, Ultima Oslo
Fahrstuhl (Elevator) 2019
Miniature for viola, voices, sounds (percussion), video, one person
in the audience and elevator
with Emily Yabe - viola, Manos Tsangaris - percussion, Oliver Fenk -
technique
Composition commissioned by the Kunsthaus Dresden and the
European Center of the Arts Dresden for the elevator of the house
Florian-Geyer-Straße 15 in Dresden
première 10 November 2019
es geht voran 2019
chamber play for singer, actor, wind instruments, percussion,
passers-by
commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting)
May 2019, Witten Days for New Chamber Music
pictures
Hidden Risk 2018
performance installation
for mezzo-soprano, percussion, thread organ, objects and light
w/ Ann-yi Eötvös - soprano, Rie Wattanabe - percussion, Ruben
Tsangaris - thread organ
première 30 September 2018, FUHRWERKSWAAGE Kunstraum
Cologne
impressions on this page
Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen
weitergedreht (The sun has moved on in
the meantime) 2018
for voice, percussion, trees and movement artists
commissioned by Festival Rümlingen 2018
supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
première 17 August 2018
as part of In Szene - 7 Landschaftsopern (In Szene - 7 Landscape
Operas) bei Festival Rümlingen
w/ Anne-May Krüger, Christian Dierstein - sopran, Basia Wehinger -
percussion, Oliver Fenk - movement coach/choreographer, Viktor
Barcelo - engineering/production, Karim Bingöl, James
Leadbeater, Leonard Marjanovic, Sebastian Rohner, Michel Roth,
Mikolaj Rytowski, Rieke Volkenandt,Zora Weidkuhn, Kaja Marina
Weiss, Basia Wehinger, movement artists
pictures
ABSTRACT PIECES 2018
music theater for actors, instruments, space and light
commissoned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
premiere 19 May 2018, Berlin
Trailer
What I see 2018
for two players
premiere 06 February 2018, Berlin
as part of: Unerhörte Musik
w/ Stefan Conradi - guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar / Bernd
Gehlen - guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, banjo
READ 2017
for two plucked instruments
premiere 21 June 2019, Hellerau Dresden
Ausflug ins Gebirge 2017
Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris
premiere 27 May 2017, Collegium Novum Zürich, Niederurnen (CH)
HOME 2017
from the series: LIVING SPACES
for Actor, Soprano, Clarinet- and Piano-Performer
premiere 30 March 2017, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens
Pictures
WAIT ! FOR A GROUP OF PERFORMERS
(SINGERS !) 2016
première w/ Oslo Domkor at Ultima-Festival, Oslo (conductor:
Vivianne Sydnes)
Pictures
City Pieces (Window Piece) 2016
for singer, actor, ensemble, installation, light, video and
audioguide
Commissioned and co-organised by Connecting Spaces Hong Kong –
Zurich, SCENATET and SPOR Festival Aarhus
premiere October 2016 Connecting Space Hongkong w/ Ensemble
Scenatet
Video
DAS PIZZICATO MYSTERIUM (THE PIZZICATO
MYSTERY) 2016
for string Orchestra
première 25 February 2016 w/ Munich chamber Orchestra
(conductor: Alexander Liebreich)
Video
EILAND (ISOLA). Das aufgehobene Ich 2015
for stations in the room, voices, bass clarinets and light
première September 2015 w/ Neue Vocalsolisten and Fünf
Klarinettisten
commissioned for Theo Nabicht
Mistel IV Dark Misteltoe
2014
for orchestra and moving lights
première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie
Luxembourg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico)
5’
Mistel V LUX Mistel 2014
orchestra and light spaces
commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg
première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie
Luxembourg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico)
7’
Mistel I 2014
for orchestra and newscaster
commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival
dedicated to Armin Köhler
première October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR
Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg - Isabelle Demey,
newscaster (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico)
12’
Mistel II Gong-Mistel 2014
for orchestra
commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival
dedicated to Armin Köhler
première 17 October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR
Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg (Conductor: Emiio
Pomarico)
4’
Mistel III Space-Mistel 2014
for orchestra
commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival
dedicated to Armin Köhler
première 19 October 2014 - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-
Baden/Freiburg (Conductor: Francois Xavier Roth)
5’
Karl May, Raum der Wahrheit (Karl May,
Space of Truth) 2014
Music theatre
Libretto by Marcel Beyer, directed by Manfred Weiss
commissioned by Semperoper Dresden
première Semperoper Dresden - w/Julian Mehne, Rainer Maria
Röhr, Julian Arsenault, Julia Mintzer, Romy Petrick, Sächsische
Staatskapelle Dresden
60’
page 2 (2000-2012) // page 3 (1978-1999)
The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.