For the first time, the Mizmorim Festival is coming to Zurich with an exciting program including Composer in Residence Hed Bahack. Presented by Ilya Gringolts (violin) and Lawrence Power (viola).

Historian Barbara Häne draws life stories of Jewish refugees from the collection of memorabilia from 1933.

Artist in Residence Janiv Oron's sonic abstraction, based on a metamorphosis of his father's name, invites the audience on an intense journey that distorts time and space.

Due to the high demand, the guided tour will be held one more time.

During the exclusive guided tour, curator Heidy Zimmermann will provide insights into original documents of the work Historie du soldat and comment on the many facetsof Stravinsky's and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's joint work.

Due to the high demand, the tour will be offered a second time.

During the Guided Tour, curator Heidy Zimmermann will provide insights into original documents of the work Historie du soldat and comment on the many facetsof Stravinsky's and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's joint work.

The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky created in 1918 (based on a text by the Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz) a work of unmistakable sound: Histoire du soldat. Mizmorim Artist in Residence Janiv Oron uses electronic interventions to create a new interpretation of this perpetually topical story.
Andrea Tortosa Vidal (dance), Klaus Brömmelmeier and Silke Gäng (actors) and Markus Güdel (light design) will perform with the Mizmorim Festival Ensemble under the direction of Ilya Gringolts (violin).

All four composers presented in this program lived in America for some time, but only Antonín Dvořák moved to the "New World" voluntarily. Erich Itor Kahn, Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill were forced to emigrate due to the persecution of Jews in Germany and had to build a new artistic existence for themselves in the USA.
Their works will be performed by the Gringolts Quartet together with Lawrence Power (viola), Silke Gäng (voice), Marco Scillironi (piano), Ema Grčman (cello) and Denis Linnik (piano).

Vienna is the focal point of this program. For Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, who came from Krakow, Vienna was the destination of his odyssey. For Erich Wolfgang Korngold, it was the place of his stage successes, and for Arnold Schönberg it was the site of his decisive battles for the renewal of music.
Performed by the Gringolts Quartet together with Ruben Drole (reciter) and Anton Gerzenberg (piano) as well as Silke Gäng (voice) and Marco Scillironi (piano).

For Mizmorim, the Israeli composer and composer in residence Hed Bahack wrote sh'nayim levad (le'an?) - zwei allein (wohin?) for violin and viola. The work October Sun by Mark Kopytman looks back to the musician's beginnings in the Soviet Union, while the Contrasts by Béla Bartók were written immediately before his emigration from Hungary to the USA.
Presented by Silke Gäng (voice), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Reto Bieri (clarinet), Ema Grčman (violoncello) and others.

It is impossible to imagine modern music without the 88 keys of the piano. But sometimes it is also tapped on the body and even plucked on strings.
Denis Linnik (piano) plays works by Ernst Toch, Leo Ornstein and Arthur Lourié, all of whom emigrated to the USA more or less voluntarily.

The film program with Heidy Zimmermann and historian Erik Petry opens up a view of a little-known side of exile: composers expelled from Europe such as Kurt Weill, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Ernst Toch played a decisive role in shaping the sound of early Hollywood cinema.

In the world premiere of the duo From the Mountains of Silence, Mizmorim Artist in Residence Janiv Oron (electronics) together with Filip Hrubý (narrator and harmonium), looks back on the life and work of Czech author Jiří Mordechai Langer.

Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps reflects the harrowing circumstances of its creation: the composer wrote the monumental work as a prisoner in a war camp near Görlitz.
The eight highly diverse movements are to be interpreted by Ilya Gringolts (violin), Reto Bieri (clarinet), Ema Grčman (violoncello) and Anton Gerzenberg (piano).
A conciliatory outlook is offered by Lost in the Stars from Kurt Weill’s musical of the same name, composed in American exile, will be performed by Silke Gäng (vocals) and Marco Scillironi (piano).

This performance by the Schlagzeugensemble der Musik-Akademie Basel brings together percussionists from Italy, Spain and Hong Kong, all of whom have found a musical home in Basel. Together, they play works by various composers and create a sensual atmosphere that invites reflection on the theme of homecoming.

Inspired by the book of the Israeli author David Grossmann The Hug, this concert explores the ideas of the physical embrace and encourages the feelings of belonging, integration and friendship.
Actress Lilian Naef and Schlagzeugensemble der Musik-Akademie Basel will encourage children to discover an opportunity for a magical togetherness in music, a musical hug, so to speak.

Inspired by the book of the Israeli author David Grossmann The Hug, this concert explores the ideas of the physical embrace and encourages the feelings of belonging, integration and friendship.
Actress Lilian Naef and Schlagzeugensemble der Musik-Akademie Basel will encourage children to discover an opportunity for a magical togetherness in music, a musical hug, so to speak.

Kurt Weill and Andrzej Panufnik were both only 20 years old when they composed the chamber music performed in this concert. Weill wrote his cello sonata while still in Germany, Panufnik had to reconstruct his 1934 trio from memory after the war because the score had been lost. And Ursula Mamlok wrote the violin sonata when she had settled in New York after several periods of exile.
The program is performed by Elisabeth Köstler (violin), Ema Grčman (violoncello) and Denis Linnik (piano) will perform the works.

Singer and composer Lea Kalisch merges together on stage with the pianist Guy Mintus Jewish folklore with salsa, jazz and Hip-Hop – Eclecticism is her own musical style .