Composition Commissions issued to Wilfried Hiller

Gasteig Kulturstiftung, Munich

In Spring 2011 the City of Munich will be honoring the man and composer Wilfried Hiller on his 70^th birthday. With the support of the EvS Music Foundation, the cultural foundation Gasteig Kulturstiftung commissioned Hiller with three debut concerts to mark the occasion: For Ischäm-Aias text fragments by the ancient dramatists Sophocles und Aeschylus will provide the basis for a Japanese bunraku recital. Ophelias Schattentheater, the story of Fräulein Ophelia, whose voice seems too weak for a big theater career, was developed from a text by Michael Ende with whom Wilfried Hiller regularly worked. 88 Sternenbilder für 88 Tasten des Klaviers (88 Constellations for 88 Piano Keys) literally has an astronomical basis: the night sky itself. Hiller the composer once noticed that the northern and southern night sky has 88 constellations – as many as the piano has keys. A sparkling trigger for Hiller’s “Sternenkompositionen” (Star Compositions). 

March 23^rd and 30^th, April 6^th and 17^th 2011

Gasteig Munich

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