Bauhaus Music 2026

The two-day festival “Bauhaus Music” will take place on November 13 and 14 in St Elisabeth. It is dedicated to the idea of synesthesia and invites audiences to experience sound, colour, space, body and movement in new ways. The concert programme, dedicated to musical modernism, moves between avant-garde, classical, experimental music and jazz. The festival’s title, “I Feel Air from Another Planet”, is based on a quote by Arnold Schönberg. It became the guiding principle of a kind of music that leaves familiar structures behind and opens up new realms of listening and perception. It will be accompanied by workshops on the Bauhaus theory of harmonisation at the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv.

Programme

Friday, 13/11/26

Evening concert with concert introduction
At St Elisabeth’s Church

Introduction
6–6.30 pm
Kai Hinrich Müller, artistic director “Bauhaus Music”

Concert
7 pm
Lyonel Feininger: Fugue in E flat minor
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll WWV103
Stefan Wolpe: Concert for Nine Instruments, op. 22
Intermission
Arnold Schönberg: Second Quartet (in F sharp minor) for two violins, viola, cello and soprano,
Op. 10 (version for string orchestra)

Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin
Conductor: Karl-Heinz Steffens
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Mayumi Kanagawa (violin)
Tomoki Park (piano)
Irena Josifoska (cello)
Roy Amotz (flute)
Stefan de Leval Jezierski (horn)
Roman Reznik (bassoon)
Judith Meng (trombone)
Balàzs Drahos (trumpet)
Norbert Nagel (clarinet)

Saturday, 14/11/26

Workshop
Kandinsky Synths
Making colours, light and temperature audible with DIY synthesisers
At the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, 11 am–12.30 pm, 12.30–2 pm

Workshop
Left Hand Yellow!
Moving Colours mit Gertrud Grunow
At the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, 2.30–4 pm

Sound as Colour, Colour as Sound – Three
moderated Concerts
At St Elisabeth’s Church

5–6 pm: Piano pieces by Aleksandr Skrjabin, Franz Liszt Claude Debussy and Tōru Takemitsu
Yu Kosuge (piano)

6:30–7:30 pm: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Guy Braunstein (violin)
Michal Friedländer (piano)
Karl-Heinz Steffens (clarinet)
Irena Josifoska (cello)

8–9:30 pm: Duke Ellington meets the Bauhaus-
Kapelle, The Bauhaus Music Big Band led by
Karl-Heinz Steffens

Tal Balshai (piano/arrangements)
Javier Reyes (drums)
Charles Sammons (double bass)
Leonie Freudenberger (baritone saxophone)
Gal Liraz (tenor saxophone)
Norbert Nagel (alto saxophone)
Paolo de Jesus Maido (trumpet)
Karl-Heinz Steffens (clarinet)
Laszlo Griese (trombone)

Moderation: Michal Friedländer,
Kai Hinrich Müller, Karl-Heinz Steffens