2023
Nomination for the OPUS Klassik
"Touching Universes" was nominated for the OPUS Klassik in three categories: "Composer of the Year", "Chamber Music" and "Contemporary Music"
June 2023
Touching Universes
Release: 26. August 2022
Label: NEOS Music GmbH
EAN: 4260063122071
Order number: 12207-08
Number of discs: 2
Duration: 156 minutes
MACH (2020) for cello and live-electronics
Zoé Cartier - cello
Artistic director: Biliana Voutchkova
Recording: Roy Carroll
Video: Beat Halberschmidt
Mix: Roy Carroll
LIVE FROM BERLIN - berta.berlin
Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and INM Berlin.
26. August 2023, Berlin
Post-war music at the „Forum for New Music“ of Deutschlandfunk Cologne
Holz does not absolve the German war crimes but imparts an enduring and essential humane message: Rather than succumbing to rigid friend-enemy dichotomies, we must endeavor to comprehend why individuals differ in their thoughts and actions. This comprehension serves as a prerequisite for democracy, freedom, and peace.
December 2023
Das hat mein Heimatgefühl hierzulande tief verletzt
The Israeli-German composer Eres Holz on terrorism, trauma, and apathy
[...] I wish that people, especially those who are not directly involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would truly strive for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. In this dreadful time, I hope they come together with them, show compassion, and express solidarity, instead of favoring one side while the other is still burying their dead.
December 2023
December
2. 22h
Broadcast by Ingo Dorfmüller
Forum neuer Musik 2023: Auf der verzweifelten Suche nach Normalität
„Ein Mensch erkennt, dass er nie Mensch war“ (2023)
Commissioned by the German public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk
Christoph Maria Wagner - Artistic director
Photo: Maria Frodl
November
27. 21h
Musik-Panorama - Ein Mensch erkennt, dass er nie ein Mensch war
Broadcast by Frank Kämpfer
Forum neuer Musik 2023: Auf der verzweifelten Suche nach Normalität
„Ein Mensch erkennt, dass er nie Mensch war“ (2023)
Commissioned by the German public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk
Christoph Maria Wagner - Artistic director
October
24./26.
Forum neuer Musik
Commissioned by the German public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk
Studio production and premiere of „Ein Mensch erkennt, dass er nie Mensch war“ (2023)
Foto: Georg Schreiber
17.
Premiere of DEATH (2023) for light, two bass clarinets and live-electronics
Peter Burwik - Artistic director
Petra Stump-Linshalm & Heinz-Peter Linshalm
Photo: Viktor Brazdil
Quartetto Minguet, rigore e passione da Holz a Widmann, da Ligeti a Rihm
[...]Il nuovo era „Three Minds - Twisted“, qui in prima italiana, del tedesco Eres Holz (presente in sala) in cui, dietro i soliti microtoni che fanno sempre tanto deformazione sonora e agevolano il cangiantismo, s'intravede un ritorno alla scansione psicologica in movimenti, ma funziona meglio di quello che sembra.
[...]The new string quartet „Three Minds - Twisted“, had its Italian premiere, composed by the German composer Eres Holz, who was present in the room. Behind the usual microtones, which often result in significant sound distortion, one can discern a return to psychological exploration within its movements. It is more effective than it may initially appear."
Photo: Davide Bona
September 2023
September
27.
Traiettorie Festival - Fondazione Prometeo
Commissioned by Tonedmelisma - International Festival for Contemporary Music
Concert of three minds - twisted (2023) for string quartet
Photo: Irène Zandel
Parma, Italy
9.
TR – Arter Istanbul - Tonedmelisma
Commissioned by Tonedmelisma - International Festival for Contemporary Music
Premiere of three minds - twisted (2023) for string quartet
Photo: Irène Zandel
Istanbul, Turkey
August
26. 19h
Concert of MACH (2020) for cello and live-electronic
Zoé Cartier
Foto: Vincent Stefan
Biliana Voutchkova- Artistic director
Berlin
June
13. 19h (local time)
Konzert Erev Israeli - Israeli Evening Concert
Radio broadcast of MACH (2021) for harp and live-electronic
Photo: Neda Navaee
Israel
May
2. 20h
Aufführung von MACH (2020) for accordion and live-electronic
Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater, Berlin
Eres Holz, desinhibición y reflexión en torno al sonido
Susteck, referencia absoluta en la interpretación del órgano contemporáneo, parece pasárselo en grande con el festín sónico que le propone una partitura que puede llegar a abrumar por la masividad de algunos de sus pasajes, en los que se busca los contrastes más acuciados posibles y, a la vez, una espiritualidad de la que no se nos habla en la carpetilla del disco pero que se traslada a la escucha con facilidad y relativa predisposición a la misma.
May 2023
March
7. 20h
Concert of Dunkle Risse for string quartet
Commissioned by the German public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk (2021)
Eres Holz's great string quartet also relies on emotions; it is inspired by thoughts of crossing borders and internal state of extremity.
Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater, Berlin
February
25. 22h05
Forum neuer Musik 2016 - Revisited
Kaddisch nach Allen Ginsberg for bariton, flute, oboe, trumpet, harp, e-guitar and percussion
Commissioned by Haskala e.V.
Executive editor: Frank Kämpfer
Artistic director: Sarah Nemtsov
Dramaturgy: Asmus Trautsch
Organization: Josefa Hose und Bettina Lehmann
Cinematography: David Campesino
Film editor: David Campesino - Javier Sobremazas
18. 20h
MACH for trumpet
Touching Universes – CD - Eres Holz
[...]In the 18-minutes piece „Touching Universes and Ends“ played by Ensemble Aventure, Holz achieves an extraordinary variety of sounds and density. It almost goes without saying that this is also played brilliantly. A double CD that invites you to listen to it again and again.
November 2022
Touching Universes – CD - Eres Holz
[...] Its unusual and at the same time multifaceted and interesting sound („die frau“ 2020) goes with the disturbingly bizarre character of the text („die frau“ / Constantin Virgil Banescu) creating a peculiar connection and flows into a final section in which the singer, previously sung as ordinario as possible now sings the lyrics "Ah!" to a squeaky creaking sound. This creates an interesting field of tension in relation to the three other instrumental works, as well as to the solo works of the MACH series – and thus a multi-faceted and worth listening Portrait of the compositional work of Eres Holz.
November 2022
Touching Universes – CD - Eres Holz
The music of the Berlin-based composer Eres Holz can be heard regularly at new music festivals. A double album has now been released containing works by this composer from the past seven years. [...] for two and a half hours you can get to know the art of an important contemporary composer that is as challenging as it is communicative.
November 2022
In the electrifying performance of the Asasello quartet, „Dunkle Risse“ (2018) becomes a string quartet of a very special intensity: a very personal reflection on the inevitability of disappearance (and the death of the mother) - with brittle, muted tones, aimlessly drifting melodic movements, harsh pain chords, enraptured overtone fields and a chaotically agitated final movement.
November 2022