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Grafenegg Academy Orchestra
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This year, participants in the Grafenegg Academy can look forward to an extraordinary project: together with one of today’s most renowned composers, they will work on the world premiere of a new piece. In addition, they will have the opportunity to reflect on the significance of art and its place in society in discussions, excursions and lectures with experts from various fields.
Starting point is the personal story of Mollena Lee Williams-Haas: in an autobiographical text, the actress, author, performer and activist describes her difficult journey from a self-destructive alcohol addiction to abstinence. Her inner demon appears in personified form as a hyena. Her husband, Georg Friedrich Haas, Composer in Residence in Grafenegg in 2022, wrote the captivating music for this narrative. In 2016, a deeply impressed Wien Modern audience experienced the world premiere of «Hyena». The film version of this piece (2021, Direction: Jack Perez) forms the first part of a day focusing on the multi-layered soundscapes of Georg Friedrich Haas.
Two works commissioned for Grafenegg will be premiered: «Hyena II» for storyteller and orchestra, narrated by the author and performed by the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra under the conductor Ilan Volkov, and as a concluding third part and textless epilogue, «Hyena III» for four pianos tuned to microtonal intervals. An interdisciplinary programme will explore the topic of self-destruction and resurrection that underlies the works in a broader, discursive context. This will include a public panel discussion as well moderated by Axel Bruggemann with participants from various disciplines, rounding off a moving concert day that blurs the boundaries between art and life.
Program and cast
Cast
orchestra: Grafenegg Academy Orchestra
Conductor: Ilan Volkov
Narrator: Mollena Williams-Haas
Program
Anton Webern«Im Sommerwind» Idyll for Large Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven"Leonore" Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
- Pause -
Georg Friedrich Haas«Hyena II» for storyteller and orchestra (world premiere/commissioned work of the Grafenegg Festival)
Grafenegg Auditorium
The Auditorium – a concert hall with excellent acoustics for exceptional concerts and events. On its three floors the hall accommodates up to 1,300 people. It is also as an auditorium for conferences and lectures – meetings in purist architecture with breaks in green surroundings, presentations, awards or stage shows within a professionally equipped ambience. In addition, a number of adjoining rooms are available: press rooms, VIP room, dressing rooms, green room, Box office space, office space, etc.
Architects: schröder • schulte-ladbeck, Dortmund
Acoustics: BBM-Müller, Munich
AUDITORIUM
40 x 18 x 13 m, l/b/h
Seating capacity – theatre seating:
1268 people
400 people dinner
640 people cocktail
Stage size 185 m² / can be enlarged to 216 m²: 18 x 12 m
Backstage area: practice rooms in the Old Riding School complex
Conductor’s room, two soloists’ rooms, changing rooms, office and storage rooms are in the backstage area of the new building.
Separate entrances for audience members, artists and supplies.
FOYER
470 m²
TOTAL AREA OF AUDITORIUM AND THE RIDING SCHOOL COMPLEX
approx. 3000 m²
approx. capacity for 1968 people theatre-style seating
approx capacity for 800 people banqueting
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