Projects - #beethoven2020
Häuser - Zeilen - Umbrüche
A multimedia stage play for soprano, synthesizer, samples, video and dance based on own texts and poems.
The idea to create a multimedia song cycle from my own poems and text fragments, which have not yet been published, arose in the spring of 2022.
Beethoven_off_set (or I take it back the ninth symphony)
After five years of intensive work and research, I completed my approximately forty-minute orchestral work in the summer of 2020. The classical instrumentation of the "Ninth" will be juxtaposed with a contemporary music ensemble that takes the sounds of Beethoven and transforms them into the language of our time. A video trailer about the creation of the project will be released in January 2021.
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Elise, shut up!
A video project by Dana Widawski with music by Andreas F. Staffel for the Beethoven Jubilee Year 2020 - The video project 'Elise, shut up!' is a dialogue between Dana Widawski's sound sculptures and Andreas F. Staffel's music, something to be naturally seen as well as heard. A pianist and hands on six musical boxes fight a duel for and with Beethoven's melody 'For Elise'. The mechanics of the musical boxes are placed in consoles, each of which bears anonymised busts of other famous composers, though only Beethoven himself can be heard in the ensemble.
Lectures and Masterclasses
Andreas is an internationally sought-after lecturer and has given masterclasses in China (2002-2007), Kyrgyzstan (2013), Portugal (2017), South Korea (2023) and Japan (2023), among others.
He collaborates with renowned universities and with graduate and undergraduate students. His work focuses ...
Crowdfunding for the CD 'Kitschresistent'
Dear friends,
for my new CD project, the creation of the CD'Kitschresistent', I need your help!
The CD will contain 15 piano pieces of mine from the years 2006 - 2017. We (Jan Gerdes, pianist | Daniel Weingarten, Tonmeister and I) would be very happy if you would support us with a small contribution and become part of our team!
CD 'Treibgut'
On 5.12.2016 my new CD Treibgut with chamber music from the years 2015 - 2016 was released, played by internationally renowned performers. It costs 10,- € (plus shipping).
Orders under:
info@andreas-staffel.de