SAŠO VOLLMAIER (SVN) LIVE CONCERT

Sašo Vollmaier is a Slovenian composer and pianist. He works with the Panteatre and the Roy Hart International Art Center in Paris, the Studio for performing arts in Düsseldorf and has been teaching at the Academy of Arts in Arezzo, Italy, since 2014. In recent years, he has also intensified his own solo projects, which primarily include Vollmaier: Kind of Laibach, Vollmaier:Nietzsche and Vollmaier:Ligeti (How to Explain Ligeti to a Dead Audience) include.

He seeks his expression in darker sound spaces, between the classical and improvised worlds. He was awarded the Yamaha Artist Prize (2023). In recent years, he has also been active in the field of performance and theater, creating music for dance and theater performances. His passion for the human voice led him to the „Centre Artistique International Roy Hart“ (Malérargues, France) and the Accademia dell'Arte (Arezzo, Italy).

Vollmaier will play 2 sets of 40 minutes each:

Vollmaier: Kind of Laibach
Imagine what it would be like to carve out a piano classic from the „industrial“, monolithic sound of the Slovenian cult band Laibach. Vollmaier does not take on this challenge, as one might expect, by means of preparations or electronic interventions, but by taking inspiration from the piano virtuosos Glenn Gould and Vladimir Horowitz as well as from one of his teachers (formerly also a member of the band Ljubljana) Aci Bertoncelj is inspired. He remains true to the original music by exploring the extreme limits of the performer and the instrument. The linear rigor of Ljubljana he breaks with industrial precision and physical endurance, but the end result is surprisingly even more monolithic.

Vollmaier: Error
A new composition that will be premiered in February at the prestigious Ment Festival in Ljubljana and for the first time in Germany in the MPS Studio is performed. In addition to the performance of the Bösendorfer Grand Imperial electronics will also be used.

Thanks for the implementation of the program series
we the Villingen-Schwenningen Office for Culture .

July 12, 2025

Members, students, people with disabilities: 22 euros
Regular: 25 Euro

MPS-STUDIO
Richthofenstrasse 1/1
78048 VS-Villingen

ATTENTION: ABSOLUTE PARKING BAN IN THE COURTYARD! BICYCLES EXCLUDED.

Admission: 19:00
Start: 20:00