A symposium on Spahlinger’s work and thought, with a keynote address by Anne C. Shreffler (Harvard University), talks by Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago), Brian Kane (Yale University), and Simon Obert (Paul Sacher Foundation), and a performance panel lead by composer Philipp Blume and Spahlinger himself, featuring the Spektral Quartet in a performance and analysis of apo do (“from here”) (1982).
Philipp Blume (composer, co-founder, SUONO MOBILE USA)
Seth Brodsky (Music, University of Chicago)
Brian Kane (Music, Yale University)
Simon Obert (Musicologist/Curator, Paul Sacher Stiftung)
Anne Shreffler (Music, Harvard University), keynote speaker
Spektral Quartet
This symposium is part of “there is no repetition: mathias spahlinger at 70,” a city wide festival in Chicago celebrating German composer Mathias Spahlinger’s 70th year with a 10-day residency and retrospective of his music and thought. The first of its kind in the States, this festival presents six concerts and a symposium, all free and open to the public, and brings together renowned musicians and scholars from Chicago, New York, Berlin, Zürich, and Basel. Generously supported by the Goethe Institute, the University of Chicago, DePaul University, the Renaissance Society, the Graham Foundation, the Arts Council of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this festival spans Spahlinger’s career from the late 1960s through the present day, and features several premieres. Learn more at norepetition.tumblr.com.