The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.
Combination Piece II 2020/… To See In Darkness You Need Light for variable instrumentation Combination Piece I 2021/23 The Third Body Solo plus… der hiekel-auslöser …und seine zeit (the hiekel trigger ...and its time) 2023 for two speakers (interview partners) and mixed ensemble Jörn Peter Hiekel on his sixtieth birthday INSIDE OUT 2023 for 3-n players and individual audiences in deckchairs première Berlin November 2023 w/ Emily Yabe, Volker Sondermann, Manos Tsangaris GIANT, the mini stage in the booth (premiere) 2023 for two performers commissioned by the Akademie der Künste première 03 September 2023, Akademie der Künste Berlin w/ Mariel Jana Supka: performers; Philip Kuhne: construction and building sustainability booth close Up - lontano 2023 for wind ensemble, percussion, thread organ in the landscape and individual audiences in deckchairs commissioned by Neue Musik Rümlingen première 29July 2023, Monte Verità (Tessin) w/ students of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana Übertragung (Transmission) 2022/2023 Scenic radio play in stations for moderation, performance, singing, instruments, radio technology, video, light therein: TRIMEDIA Making-of for moderation, technology, performers, coffee table 7’ REDAKTOR Invention pit for baritone and flute performers 120’ SCHALTE (Reduktor) for soprano, violin, bass clarinet and video 7‘ BAR for bar and video projection 120’ SENDUNG for moderation and interview partners 120’ PRIVATE LISTENER for soprano, performer and radio 120’ AUFNAHME for soprano, violoncello, piano, percussion, radio technology, feeds and light 7’ RADIOTOP for moderation, baritone, performer and broadcast technology 7’ commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting) première 21 April 2023, Witten w/ Elisabeth Holmer - soprana, Lidia Beth Luciano - soprana, Sol-I So - soprana, Martin Gerke - baritone, Cornelius Uhle - baritone, Ensemble Handwerk: Daniel Agi - flute, Jae A Shin - violin, Heni Hyunjung Kim - clarinet, Thibaut Surugue - piano, Moritz Koch - percussion, Niklas Seidl - violoncello, moderators: Martina Seeber, Michael Struck-Schloen, Niklas Rudolph sondage 2022 musical performance commissioned by ON - Neue Musik Köln e. V. for SPARK - Festival for Contemporary Music Theatre in Cologne première 8 April 2022, Alte Feuerwache Cologne w/ Anna Neubert - violin, Moritz Koch - percussion, Duo Timbral - singer, Manos Tsangaris ATHINA RETURNS 2022 for piano homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday) w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano première 18 March, Athens PYGMALIA 2020/2021 music theater with changing audience perspective for two voices and double choir ensemble commissioned by Alte Oper Frankfurt première 03 February 2022, Alte Oper Frankfurt w/ Ensemble Modern Das Fremde und das Gekochte (The foreign and the cooked) 2020 a listening exercise based on Beethoven for piano and projected text (and some images) commissioned by the E-MEX Ensemble, sponsored by Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH BTHVN duration approx. 12 minutes MY HEART IS A MAP 2020 text projection, objects, thread organ, light for three percussionists/performers, one performer/passer-by, at least three passers- by/performers commissioned by Pinquins percussion trio première 13 September 2020, Ultima Oslo Fahrstuhl (Elevator) 2019 Miniature for viola, voices, sounds (percussion), video, one person in the audience and elevator with Emily Yabe - viola, Manos Tsangaris - percussion, Oliver Fenk - technique Composition commissioned by the Kunsthaus Dresden and the European Center of the Arts Dresden for the elevator of the house Florian-Geyer-Straße 15 in Dresden première 10 November 2019 es geht voran 2019 chamber play for singer, actor, wind instruments, percussion, passers-by commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting) May 2019, Witten Days for New Chamber Music pictures Hidden Risk 2018 performance installation for mezzo-soprano, percussion, thread organ, objects and light w/ Ann-yi Eötvös - soprano, Rie Wattanabe - percussion, Ruben Tsangaris - thread organ première 30 September 2018, FUHRWERKSWAAGE Kunstraum Cologne impressions on this page Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen weitergedreht (The sun has moved on in the meantime) 2018 for voice, percussion, trees and movement artists commissioned by Festival Rümlingen 2018 supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation première 17 August 2018 as part of In Szene - 7 Landschaftsopern (In Szene - 7 Landscape Operas) bei Festival Rümlingen w/ Anne-May Krüger, Christian Dierstein - sopran, Basia Wehinger - percussion, Oliver Fenk - movement coach/choreographer, Viktor Barcelo - engineering/production, Karim Bingöl, James Leadbeater, Leonard Marjanovic, Sebastian Rohner, Michel Roth, Mikolaj Rytowski, Rieke Volkenandt,Zora Weidkuhn, Kaja Marina Weiss, Basia Wehinger, movement artists pictures ABSTRACT PIECES 2018 music theater for actors, instruments, space and light commissoned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden premiere 19 May 2018, Berlin Trailer What I see 2018 for two players premiere 06 February 2018, Berlin as part of: Unerhörte Musik w/ Stefan Conradi - guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar / Bernd Gehlen - guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, banjo READ 2017 for two plucked instruments premiere 21 June 2019, Hellerau Dresden Ausflug ins Gebirge 2017 Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris premiere 27 May 2017, Collegium Novum Zürich, Niederurnen (CH) HOME 2017 from the series: LIVING SPACES for Actor, Soprano, Clarinet- and Piano-Performer premiere 30 March 2017, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens Pictures WAIT ! FOR A GROUP OF PERFORMERS (SINGERS !) 2016 première w/ Oslo Domkor at Ultima-Festival, Oslo (conductor: Vivianne Sydnes) Pictures City Pieces (Window Piece) 2016 for singer, actor, ensemble, installation, light, video and audioguide Commissioned and co-organised by Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich, SCENATET and SPOR Festival Aarhus premiere October 2016 Connecting Space Hongkong w/ Ensemble Scenatet Video DAS PIZZICATO MYSTERIUM (THE PIZZICATO MYSTERY) 2016 for string Orchestra première 25 February 2016 w/ Munich chamber Orchestra (conductor: Alexander Liebreich) Video EILAND (ISOLA). Das aufgehobene Ich 2015 for stations in the room, voices, bass clarinets and light première September 2015 w/ Neue Vocalsolisten and Fünf Klarinettisten commissioned for Theo Nabicht Mistel IV Dark Misteltoe 2014 for orchestra and moving lights première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 5’ Mistel V LUX Mistel 2014 orchestra and light spaces commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 7’ Mistel I 2014 for orchestra and newscaster commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival dedicated to Armin Köhler première October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden- Baden/Freiburg - Isabelle Demey, newscaster (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 12’ Mistel II Gong-Mistel 2014 for orchestra commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival dedicated to Armin Köhler première 17 October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden- Baden/Freiburg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 4’ Mistel III Space-Mistel 2014 for orchestra commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival dedicated to Armin Köhler première 19 October 2014 - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg (Conductor: Francois Xavier Roth) 5’ Karl May, Raum der Wahrheit (Karl May, Space of Truth) 2014 Music theatre Libretto by Marcel Beyer, directed by Manfred Weiss commissioned by Semperoper Dresden première Semperoper Dresden - w/Julian Mehne, Rainer Maria Röhr, Julian Arsenault, Julia Mintzer, Romy Petrick, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden 60’ page 2 (2000-2012) // page 3 (1978-1999)
compositions 2013-2023 // 2000-2012 // 1978-1999
Combination Piece II 2020/… To See In Darkness You Need Light for variable instrumentation Combination Piece I 2021/23 The Third Body Solo plus… der hiekel-auslöser …und seine zeit (the hiekel trigger ...and its time) 2023 for two speakers (interview partners) and mixed ensemble Jörn Peter Hiekel on his sixtieth birthday INSIDE OUT 2023 for 3-n players and individual audiences in deckchairs première Berlin November 2023 w/ Emily Yabe, Volker Sondermann, Manos Tsangaris GIANT, the mini stage in the booth (premiere) 2023 for two performers commissioned by the Akademie der Künste première 03 September 2023, Akademie der Künste Berlin w/ Mariel Jana Supka: performers; Philip Kuhne: construction and building sustainability booth close Up - lontano 2023 for wind ensemble, percussion, thread organ in the landscape and individual audiences in deckchairs commissioned by Neue Musik Rümlingen première 29July 2023, Monte Verità (Tessin) w/ students of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana Übertragung (Transmission) 2022/2023 Scenic radio play in stations for moderation, performance, singing, instruments, radio technology, video, light therein: TRIMEDIA Making-of for moderation, technology, performers, coffee table 7’ REDAKTOR Invention pit for baritone and flute performers 120’ SCHALTE (Reduktor) for soprano, violin, bass clarinet and video 7‘ BAR for bar and video projection 120’ SENDUNG for moderation and interview partners 120’ PRIVATE LISTENER for soprano, performer and radio 120’ AUFNAHME for soprano, violoncello, piano, percussion, radio technology, feeds and light 7’ RADIOTOP for moderation, baritone, performer and broadcast technology 7’ commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting) première 21 April 2023, Witten w/ Elisabeth Holmer - soprana, Lidia Beth Luciano - soprana, Sol-I So - soprana, Martin Gerke - baritone, Cornelius Uhle - baritone, Ensemble Handwerk: Daniel Agi - flute, Jae A Shin - violin, Heni Hyunjung Kim - clarinet, Thibaut Surugue - piano, Moritz Koch - percussion, Niklas Seidl - violoncello, moderators: Martina Seeber, Michael Struck-Schloen, Niklas Rudolph sondage 2022 musical performance commissioned by ON - Neue Musik Köln e. V. for SPARK - Festival for Contemporary Music Theatre in Cologne première 8 April 2022, Alte Feuerwache Cologne w/ Anna Neubert - violin, Moritz Koch - percussion, Duo Timbral - singer, Manos Tsangaris ATHINA RETURNS 2022 for piano homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday) w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano première 18 March, Athens PYGMALIA 2020/2021 music theater with changing audience perspective for two voices and double choir ensemble commissioned by Alte Oper Frankfurt première 03 February 2022, Alte Oper Frankfurt w/ Ensemble Modern Das Fremde und das Gekochte (The foreign and the cooked) 2020 a listening exercise based on Beethoven for piano and projected text (and some images) commissioned by the E-MEX Ensemble, sponsored by Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH BTHVN duration approx. 12 minutes MY HEART IS A MAP 2020 text projection, objects, thread organ, light for three percussionists/performers, one performer/passer-by, at least three passers-by/performers commissioned by Pinquins percussion trio première 13 September 2020, Ultima Oslo Fahrstuhl (Elevator) 2019 Miniature for viola, voices, sounds (percussion), video, one person in the audience and elevator with Emily Yabe - viola, Manos Tsangaris - percussion, Oliver Fenk - technique Composition commissioned by the Kunsthaus Dresden and the European Center of the Arts Dresden for the elevator of the house Florian-Geyer-Straße 15 in Dresden première 10 November 2019 es geht voran 2019 chamber play for singer, actor, wind instruments, percussion, passers-by commissioned by Stadt Witten and WDR (german broadcasting) May 2019, Witten Days for New Chamber Music pictures Hidden Risk 2018 performance installation for mezzo-soprano, percussion, thread organ, objects and light w/ Ann-yi Eötvös - soprano, Rie Wattanabe - percussion, Ruben Tsangaris - thread organ première 30 September 2018, FUHRWERKSWAAGE Kunstraum Cologne impressions on this page Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen weitergedreht (The sun has moved on in the meantime) 2018 for voice, percussion, trees and movement artists commissioned by Festival Rümlingen 2018 supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation première 17 August 2018 as part of In Szene - 7 Landschaftsopern (In Szene - 7 Landscape Operas) bei Festival Rümlingen w/ Anne-May Krüger, Christian Dierstein - sopran, Basia Wehinger - percussion, Oliver Fenk - movement coach/choreographer, Viktor Barcelo - engineering/production, Karim Bingöl, James Leadbeater, Leonard Marjanovic, Sebastian Rohner, Michel Roth, Mikolaj Rytowski, Rieke Volkenandt,Zora Weidkuhn, Kaja Marina Weiss, Basia Wehinger, movement artists pictures ABSTRACT PIECES 2018 music theater for actors, instruments, space and light commissoned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden premiere 19 May 2018, Berlin Trailer What I see 2018 for two players premiere 06 February 2018, Berlin as part of: Unerhörte Musik w/ Stefan Conradi - guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar / Bernd Gehlen - guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, banjo READ 2017 for two plucked instruments premiere 21 June 2019, Hellerau Dresden Ausflug ins Gebirge 2017 Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris premiere 27 May 2017, Collegium Novum Zürich, Niederurnen (CH) HOME 2017 from the series: LIVING SPACES for Actor, Soprano, Clarinet- and Piano-Performer premiere 30 March 2017, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens Pictures WAIT ! FOR A GROUP OF PERFORMERS (SINGERS !) 2016 première w/ Oslo Domkor at Ultima-Festival, Oslo (conductor: Vivianne Sydnes) Pictures City Pieces (Window Piece) 2016 for singer, actor, ensemble, installation, light, video and audioguide Commissioned and co-organised by Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich, SCENATET and SPOR Festival Aarhus premiere October 2016 Connecting Space Hongkong w/ Ensemble Scenatet Video DAS PIZZICATO MYSTERIUM (THE PIZZICATO MYSTERY) 2016 for string Orchestra première 25 February 2016 w/ Munich chamber Orchestra (conductor: Alexander Liebreich) Video EILAND (ISOLA). Das aufgehobene Ich 2015 for stations in the room, voices, bass clarinets and light première September 2015 w/ Neue Vocalsolisten and Fünf Klarinettisten commissioned for Theo Nabicht Mistel IV Dark Misteltoe 2014 for orchestra and moving lights première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 5’ Mistel V LUX Mistel 2014 orchestra and light spaces commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg première November 2014 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 7’ Mistel I 2014 for orchestra and newscaster commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival dedicated to Armin Köhler première October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg - Isabelle Demey, newscaster (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 12’ Mistel II Gong-Mistel 2014 for orchestra commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival dedicated to Armin Köhler première 17 October 2014 at the Donaueschingen Festival - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg (Conductor: Emiio Pomarico) 4’ Mistel III Space-Mistel 2014 for orchestra commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for Donaueschingen Festival dedicated to Armin Köhler première 19 October 2014 - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden- Baden/Freiburg (Conductor: Francois Xavier Roth) 5’ Karl May, Raum der Wahrheit (Karl May, Space of Truth) 2014 Music theatre Libretto by Marcel Beyer, directed by Manfred Weiss commissioned by Semperoper Dresden première Semperoper Dresden - w/Julian Mehne, Rainer Maria Röhr, Julian Arsenault, Julia Mintzer, Romy Petrick, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden 60’ page 2 (2000-2012) // page 3 (1978-1999)
The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.
compositions 2013-2023 // 2000-2012 // 1978-1999