Bauhaus Music 2025
Bauhaus-Archiv as a guest at Musikfest Berlin

Bauhaus Music will be a guest at Musikfest Berlin 2025, 21.9.2025

Although the Bauhaus was not a music conservatoire, it nevertheless exerted a great fascination on many musicians. This is the focal point of the chamber concert presented by Michal Friedländer and Kai Hinrich Müller. German and American composers with a connection to the famous art school are featured such as the ultra-modernist George Antheil and other composers including Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill. Like many of their colleagues, they were also forced to flee from the National Socialists to the USA where they attempted to restart their careers, for example on Broadway. All three individuals had connections with the Bauhaus, as did Marc Blitzstein whose ‘Bauhaus-Oper‘ “Parabola and Circula” will receive its first performance in the Philharmonie Berlin immediately following the lecture-concert.

We are delighted to be participating in this year's Musikfest Berlin with two concerts as part of Bauhaus Music. This festival opens the annual concert season with international guest orchestras and Berlin orchestras, organized by the Berliner Festspiele in cooperation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation.

Moderated concert “From Bauhaus to Broadway”
with Michal Friedländer and Camilla Tilling
Moderation: Kai Hinrich Müller

Premiere of “Parabola & Circula”
an opera by Marc Blitzstein with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Sweden
Conductor: Karl-Heinz Steffens

A joint event of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung and the Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin.

The event is part of our research project Bauhaus Music and takes place as part of the festival ‘Bauhaus-Archiv. Come to the Building Site!’ (19.9.–21.9.25).