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Kleines Stück Himmel at the Festival FRATZ

This year the Festival FRATZ international will be held in Berlin with a symposium, performances and installations for the very young aundiences. I'm glad that the production Kleines Stück Himmel take part of it.
Here you can see the trailer (and me speaking german!)

OCNOS. New piece for bass clarinet and guitar.

I was really looking forward to work with this fabulous ensemble, the guys of Proyecto Ocnos. And finally here you have a new piece for bass clarinet and guitar.
I had a lot of fun writing it (as always with the guitar!)
Sorry that the quality of the recording is not the best. I'll try to save money for a studio next time.

New CD release! Trio Transmitter, camera obscura by NEOS Records

With music by Florian Bergmann, Markus Wettstein, Nuria Núñez Hierro, Hanna Hartman and Benedikt Bindewald.
Released: September 01, 2016
You can order it here at the web of NEOS MUSIC

GRADUALE 16: Bestiarium, ein experimenteller Klangspaziergang (ab 6 Jahren) at the Grüner Salon in der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Willkommen im phantastischen Sammelsurium der Volksbühne! Alle 100 Jahre öffnen sich ihre Türen, nun ist es wieder soweit:
Tretet ein und entdeckt schimmernde Spiegelwesen und sprechende Kraken. Hört flirrende Saitenklänge und vergangene Melodien. Begegnet unsichtbaren Fabelwesen und kommt mit auf eine Reise in die verborgensten Winkel der Welt!

Welcome to the hotchpotch of the Volksbühne! Every 100 years the doors open, the time has come: Enter and discover fabulous creatures and speaking kraken. Hear the shimmering sounds of strings and bygone melodies. Encounter invisible mythical creatures and come along on the journey into the most hidden corners of the world!

Language: German

Aufführungen:
22.10.2016: 13:00, 15:00 und 17:00 Uhr.
Dauer: circa 45 min.
Eintritt frei.

Die Generalprobe am 21.10.2016, 15:00 Uhr ist für Familien und Interessierte geöffnet, wir freuen uns auf ein zahlreiches Publikum!

Wegen begrenzter Platzkapazität bitten wir um Voranmeldungen, Restkontingente werden jeweils vor Beginn der Vorstellung bzw. der Generalprobe vergeben. Anmeldung mit Wunschtermin und Personenzahlbitte an: pgf3@intra.udk-berlin.de

Bestiarium ist eine Kooperation der Graduiertenschule der Universität der Künste Berlin mit dem Grünen Salon der Volksbühne Berlin.
Bestiarium wird im Rahmen der Graduale uraufgeführt, der Abschlussveranstaltung des Stipendienprogramms der Graduiertenschule der UdK Berlin. Die Graduiertenschule wird unterstützt durch die Einstein Stiftung Berlin.
Der Grüne Salon ist leider nicht barrierefrei.

Für weitere Fragen: 030/31852784 // pgf3@intra.udk-berlin.de

The Kraken (sketch about one creature from Bestiarium)

Picture: Angela Ribera.

We had the opportunity to work deeply on one of the creatures of our project Bestiarium, the Kraken, for our event at the Salon of Aesthetic Experiments of the Graduiertenschule der UdK, where I'm working now.
What does the kraken looks like, what language he could speak, where and how many tentacles does he have and could be placed on stage and also among the audience, how his sounds could be moved on the space,.. We tried to answer all these questions on this work-in-progress piece.

TO KNOW MORE CLICK HERE

Casa Baldi Fellowship 2018

I was awarded the fellowship at Casa Baldi by the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo in 2016 in Olevano Romano! This fellowship represents one of the most important awards offered to German artists for work abroad. Such an honour. I'm really looking forward to Italy!

Photo: www.villamassimo.de

Kleines Stück Himmel nominated for the IKARUS PREIS 2016!

Kleines Stück Himmel ist nominated for the IKARUS PREIS 2016 Award!. A prize for outstanding theater productions for children and young people in Berlin!

"Die behutsame Musik der Komponistin Nuria Núñez Hierro entwickelt sich vom Geräusch zu einfachen, aber anspruchsvollen Tonfolgen. In dem Musiktheater für die Kleinen fand die Regisseurin Ania Michaelis eine szenische und musikalische Sprache, die ohne Vorwissen und Theatererfahrung verstanden werden kann. Entstanden ist eine herausragende Inszenierung für die ganz Kleinen, ein Erleben das sich zwischen Oper, Musiktheater, Schauspiel, Performance und Konzert angesiedelt hat."

http://jugendkulturservice.de/ger/ikarus/ikarus-2016.php

Bestiarium (update 2016)

We continue working at the Bestiarium. It only seem, that we have to wait till 2017 to see and hear it complete. However we can give you a snek peek in Volksbühne Berlin (what a wonderful place!!!) on October 21st in the frame of the Graduale 16. Thanks to the Graduiertenschule der UdK to make it possible. Bin gespannt!!!
I will give you more info soon!

Kleines Stück Himmel (A piece of heaven).
Musical theatre for children from 2.

Composing new music for children is always a challenge but composing for this project is also like a branch of the Bestiarium's project that tries to reach an even younger audience. But my research's questions are still remaining: If children's hearing is still free from the conventionalities of traditional harmony, why should we assume that they will not be able to cope with contemporary musical language?, why then offering them only a part of our musical culture when, in reality, they are the most capable of facing the most diverse sound languages?
We'll see.
Kleines Stück Himmel
Musical theatre for children aged 2 to 4

Komposition Nuria Núñez Hierro
Stage Director Ania Michaelis
Dramaturge Dorothea Hartmann
Project management Theater o.N. Dagmar Domrös
Tenor Peter Maus
Actress Minouche Petrusch
Saxophon / Clarinet Florian Bergmann

World premiere in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 19th March 2016

The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts Visiting
Artist: Nuria Núñez Hierro

I'll be at CalArts (California Institute of Arts) on Monday the 21th September speaking about contemporary music and children.

More info at: CalArts

Bestiarium
an experimental stage proposal for people from 6 years old and up.

Salon für Ästhetische Experimente - Bestiarium - Nuria Núñez Hierro from Graduiertenschule UdK Berlin on Vimeo.

Bestiarium ist ein Bühnenprojekt in Entwicklung, dessen erste Ergebnisse im Rahmen des Salons für Ästhetische Experimente im Haus der Kulturen der Welt zu sehen sind. Die Handlung entfaltet sich in Form eines Klangspaziergangs, während dessen Protagonist und Publikum den Bühnenraum teilen und mit einigen der fantastischen Wesen aus der Mythologie von unterschiedlichen Kulturen und Zeiten interagieren.
Musiktheater, Klanginstallationen und eine interaktive Klangwerkstatt verbinden sich für die Dauer von ca. einer Stunde zu einem interaktiven Erlebnis für Leute ab 6 Jahren und älter.

Bestiarium
an experimental stage proposal for people from 6 years old and up.

CLICK FOR MORE INFO

Bestiarium is a stage project introducing its first results in the framework of the Salon of Aesthetic Experiments at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The action takes place along a sounding journey in which the leading character and the audience share the stage and interact with some of the fantasy beings of the mythology of different cultures and times. These creatures are represented by little instrumental constellations whose listening space is amplified by means of different sounding objects placed at specific locations of the stage.

With the collaboracion of Iñigo Giner Miranda, Àngela Ribera and the Ensemble DieOrdnungderDinge.
Project in the framework of the Salon of Aesthetic Experiments, a cooperation between the Graduates School at the Forum for Post Graduate Studies at Berlin University of Arts and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. With the kind support of the Einstein Foundation Berlin.

Fellow of the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences 2014-2016!

I am very very happy to announce that I have been selected for a fellowship at the Graduate School of the Arts 2014-16. This postgradual, interdisciplinary and international program dialogs between the arts, sciences and humanities and offers the best context for the start-up of my project Bestiarium, since it provides the ideal breeding ground for the development of refecting spaces that may transcend the merely scientifc or artistic, and that may contribute to make art go forward, towards a holistic, global discipline. The syllabus of this postgraduate program is extremely interesting to me because it includes activities of manifold nature (colloquia, workshops, presentations) and, what is more, it offers the possibility to teach courses at the university level.

I'll give you more info about Bestiarium very soon!

Villa Aurora Fellowship 2015

I am proud to tell you that I was awarded the Villa Aurora Stipendium 2015. That includes a 3 months residence in Los Angeles. Work, concerts, lectures and many more.
More info coming soon

New video of the piece Kafka is dead

Lost in Sahara wins the composition prize of the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik 2014!.

Honored to be awarded the First Prize and the Audience Award at the composition competition for orchestra of the XV. Weimar Spring Festival for Contemporary Music 2014 fot the piece Lost in Sahara.
The work was perfomed by the Jenaer Philharmonie the last 27th April in Weimar.
More info at: Via Nova e.V.

New video of Imágenes desde el desierto.
Recorded at the Foundation Juan March (Madrid). Concert cycle Compositores Sub-35. Performers: Ensemble Taller Sonoro.

Treffpunkt on vimeo
New video recording of the piece Treffpunkt. Live at the Umlaut Festival Berlin (Ballhaus Ost, 12/04/2013)

Treffpunkt (2013) from Nuria Núñez Hierro on Vimeo.

Next concerts with the Ensemble Taller Sonoro

My piece Imágenes desde el desierto will performed by the ensemble Taller Sonoro in Madrid (27/10/13 and 8/01/14), Zaragoza (13/11), Mallorca (14/11) and Biberach/Riss at the Ars Nova, SWR2 concert cycle (23/03/14)

Resilience
Performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the reading session of the Festival ManiFeste 2013. New audio extract and score avaliable!.

New Video: The Trio Transmitter performs Treffpunkt

Last May 07th the Trio Transmitter performed my piece Treffpunkt at the Direktorenhaus Berlin - this followed their performance at Umlaut Festival on April 12th.

Screams of ice, work finalist at the VII International Jurgenson Composition Competition.

The second round and the final concert will take place on June 21st 2013 at 19.00 by the Studio New Music Ensemble in Rakhmaninov Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
The competition is organized by the Centre for Contemporary Music of Russia and the Jurgenson Charity Foundation.

Treffpunkt by the Trio Transmitter at the Umlaut Festival Berlin

The Trio Transmitter will perform and premiere my work Treffpunkt the 12th, April,2013 at the Ballhaus Ost Berlin.
If you can't come, next concert on May, 7th at Direktorenhaus Mitte.

Residence at the Thüringer Landesmusikakademie Sondershausen.

During my stay there, I'll compose a piece for two percussions and orchestra that that it'll be premiered in May 2014 by the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen.

I have a new Soundcloud site!. Click on the logo to hear more music.

Donde se forjan las quimeras in Málaga- January /26th/2013.

On January,26th,2013, conductor Jose Luis Estellés will lead the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga in the performance of my work Donde se forjan las quimeras. (Where chimeras are forjed). Concert will be held at 20:30h at the Teatro Cánovas in Málaga.

Der rote Faden III. Premiére in Madrid-January, 09th, 2013

The pianist Mario Prisuelos will perform Der rote Faden III (The common thread) for prepared piano at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid.
Fundación Juan March

Kafka is dead in Sevilla- Dezember, 11th, 2012

The Ensemble Taller Sonoro concludes its tour Festival de ensembles with a concert at Sala Joaquín Turina (Cajasol) in Sevilla.
The concert will also include pieces of Edith Alonso, Hector Parra, Jose López Montes and Arturo Fuentes.
Before the concert I will participate in a round table discussion with members of the ensemble. More Info (in spanish)
Photo by Noelia Sánchez Bonilla. Sevilla suena.