September - October 2014

Season opening

Lithuania

A collaboration between Maison 44 and the Lithuanian community in Switzerland

New music from Lithuania – world première

Works by Zita Bružaitė (world première), Mantas Savickis, Jean Françaix
Trio COLORS:
Ugnė Peištaraitė, piano
Ugnius Dičiūnas, oboe
Robertas Šidiškis, bassoon

Introductory round-table conversation: Lithuania after the fall of communism. A brief cultural overview

Ute Stoecklin (moderator and introductory talk)

Adrian Bütikofer, Zürich

sculptures, objects

Sylvia Goeschke, Basel

acrylic pictures, drawings, monotypes, frottages

Vernissage, presentation of the project: Ute Stoecklin

Weds 17.09.14, 19.30

Grenzland ("Borderland")
A film by Gerhard Bautz (A) after the sound book of the same title by Andreas Neeser and Martin Merker
Andreas Neeser, reading
Martin Merker, cello
(Compositions: Martin Merker, Meinrad Schütter)
Commentary: Andreas Neeser and Martin Merker

Sat 27.09.14, 19.30

Concert: ECH Läbä NOCH
Poems by Anna Maria Bacher
Compositions by Martin Derungs (world première),
Thüring Bräm and Ulrich Gasser (world première)
Participants:
Barbara Böhi, soprano
Barbara Schlatter-Wiederkehr, flute
The Mondrian Ensemble
Introduction to the work of Anna Maria Bacher: Ute Stoecklin

Fri 03.10.14, 15.00 – 19.00
18.00

Finissage
Reading and guided tour through the exhibition with Pavel Schmidt, Biel/Solothurn (reading from his own works) and Adrian Bütikofer