Info text: Erhard Grosskopf: As a composer, I am like an architect who builds a house for music and hopes that the music will move into this house - not like the content into the form, but like the spirit into the soul. A musical score is usually notated so that we have the sounds vertically and the time horizontally […]

Info text: Peter Eötvös is setting the tone in the new music scene - not only as a composer, but also as a conductor and teacher. “Cap-ko” is a homage to Eötvös' great role model Bartók. This goes down to the last detail. Bartók's preference for parallel lines gave him the idea of ​​using an instrument that would make it possible to […]

Info text: When John Cage let his eyes wander over blank, white paper - in 1952, the same year that the piece "4'33" was created and he thereby promoted the realization that there can be no silence that is not rich in sound - Cage discovered one of his most radical solutions: “Suddenly I saw that the notes, all the notes, were already there.” […]

Info text: It is rare to find composers who can use sounds to tell of absolute emptiness and who, conversely, manage to give an inkling of the fullness of higher-level entities in places of virtual silence. Nikolaus Brass, born in Lindau on Lake Constance in 1949, is such an artist - a quiet, thoughtful and, in the deep sense of the word, friendly man. […]

Info text: Borboudakis: I still see myself in a tradition of piano music, without wanting to compare myself with Chopin or Schumann. For me personally, looking back at music history is very important, but I'm not looking for interpretive or compositional dogmas. I need the piano very much as a composer - not to try something out, [...]