Musik Macht Missbrauch

In the organizer's words:

Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, piano & poetry

Sophia Burgos, soprano & live electronics

Kerstin Claus, journalist and Independent Commissioner for Child Sexual Abuse Issues

Prof. Lydia Grün, President of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich

Prof. Dr. Jörg Fegert, University of Ulm, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy

Moderation: Barbara Stach, Beethovenfest Bonn

Franz Schubert: "Heidenröslein", "Lied der Mignon: Nur der wer die Sehnsucht kennt" & "Erlkönig"

Hugo Wolf: "Ganymede" & "Song of Mignon: So let me shine"

Hector Docx: "sometimes" (world premiere)

Sophia Burgos: "Humming"

Alternating with readings from Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg: "wiedergutmachungsjude" with improvisations by Sophia Burgos

Followed by a panel discussion

Abuse of power, sexual violence and a lack of attentiveness can be found in the music business, but also in the repertoire itself: In some of the best-known art songs, all of this is more or less clearly addressed. The song and discussion evening aims to focus on this. The pianist and lyricist Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg will perform it with the soprano Sophia Burgos - also against the backdrop of his own experience of abuse, which he dealt with in his long poem "wiedergutmachungsjude". Art songs alternate with electronically altered improvisations by Sophia Burgos, which take up lines from Gerzenberg's book. The Berlin composer Hector Docx will set a section from the same text to music, which will be premiered on this evening. After the concert, a high-caliber panel will discuss the abuse of power and the lack of mindfulness in classical music, topics that are only gradually coming to the fore.

The concert is part of the Beethovenfest Bonn's "Inside Artists" project, funded by the Liz Mohn Foundation and the German Federal Cultural Foundation.