Progetto Positano: Zeynep Toraman + Bertram Wee
For this year’s PROGETTO POSITANO, ensemble mosaik has selected composers Betram Wee and Zeynep Toraman.
Each year, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation enables two composers to spend two months working at Villa Kempff in Positano, Italy, and to present their compositions with ensemble mosaik in Berlin.
Programme
Zeynep Toraman
Slow Poem (v.2) those thin clouds above (2023)
for violin and viola
New Work (2026)
for vibraphone, violin, viola and violoncello
Pause
Bertram Wee
chingchongdingdong
for amplified sextet
my body, broken for your amusement [vessel II]
for keyboard and talkbox performer
New Work (2026)
for ensemble and live electronics
Performers
Kristjana Helgadottir – flute; Simon Strasser – oboe; Christian Vogel – clarinet; Roland Neffe – percussion; Ernst Surberg – piano/keyboard; Sarah Saviet – violin; Chatschatur Kanajan – violin; Karen Lorenz – viola; Niklas Seidl – violoncello; Arne Vierck – sound direction; Enno Poppe – presentation and conducting
Zeynep Toraman is an Istanbul-born composer and scholar based in Berlin. In her practice-based research, she explores how texts can interact within the broader framework of musical compositions, treating her personal library as an archive and incorporating it into her work.
Singapore-based composer and keyboardist Bertram Wee writes music that places being at its centre. Engaging with concepts such as presence, friction, materiality, and excess, his compositional practice understands the body as a site of mediation through which sound takes shape. He strives to create music deeply rooted in physical experience.
Alongside existing works, ensemble mosaik looks forward to developing and presenting two world premieres by the composers at silent green.
Tuesday, November 24
Betonhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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