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With the Capella de la Torre ensemble. Conductor and shawm: Katharina Bäuml Capella de la Torre. Photo: Anna-Kristina Bauer 2 pm Flash Talk: Spontaneous and effortless – how do you learn to improvise? 2.30 pm Concert The practice of diminution and improvisation is just as integral to the music of th

A book talk with Alejandro L. Madrid (Harvard University) and Veit Erlmann (University of Texas at Austin) In *The Archive and the Aural City*, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the politics of sound archives in relation to the sonic turn in the humanities. The advent of the sonic turn in the humanities

The Material, the Artistic, and the Social Ensemble rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813-1869 Jullien’s Concert Orchestra and Four Military Bands, at Covent Garden Theatre (engraving), 1846. Quelle: Musicology for Everyone Musicological research has long recognised a significant gap betw

David Yearsley and Annette Richards (Cornell University) on their project for Cambridge University Press: a new history of the organ. Since the organ’s invention in Antiquity, the instrument has been at the forefront of musical, visual, and technological innovation. Its historiography has generally

Experimental saxophonist Edith Steyer sees her roots in jazz and 20th-century classical modernism. Edith Steyer BELLS Edith Steyer – clarinet, alto saxophone, composition Uli Kempendorf – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute Gerhard Gschlössl – trombone Rieko Okuda – piano Joe Hertenstein – drums T

The Accordion Zieharmonika von Meinel & Herold, Klingenthal, um 1870. Foto: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn The World of the Accordion The instrument of the year 2026 is the accordion. It is a well-known protagonist in many musical styles: in folk and popular music, in jazz and dance music, as well as in co

Young artists introduce themselves. Takashi Waschkau, violin, Eunhee Baek, piano Program Amy Marcy Beach (1867–1944) Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 Bela Bartók (1881–1945) Violin Sonata No. 3 in E minor, BB 28, DD 72 Efrem Zimbalist (1889–1985) Concert Fantasy “The Golden Cockerel” based on Ni

This paper by Louis Petitjean (SIM) examines how, in the 19th century, musical instrument collectors in the "Far-East" have first linked ethnographical and musical sciences. At the turn of the twentieth century in Europe, collections of musical instruments flourished, bringing together Western art m

The 2022 yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research on the topic of “Contemporary Hoffmann” is now available at https://simjb.journals.qucosa.de/simjb. The contributions in this volume are based on the symposium “Zeitgenosse Hoffmann – Im Spannungsfeld von automatisierter und künstlerisch-in

It belonged to the co-author of “99 Luftballons”: the guitar with the distinctive “Thunderbolt” sound holes from the American company Ovation. An Ovation Thunderbolt has recently been added to the collection at the Musical Instrument Museum. It belonged to German guitarist Carlo Karges (1951–2002).