Coming soon: Premiere of "Quellen" for Two Pianos by Hovik Sardaryan
A welling spring, a self-springing stream or a wheel rolling out of itself (Nietzsche) - these metaphors aptly characterize this work. It...
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ARASH ROKNI + JULIA POLINSKAJA
NOEMA DUO
We call each other to talk about the next rehearsal phase: WHAT DO WE REHEARSE?
HOW DO WE REHEARSE?
Soon we talk about everything but planning.
We feel guilty! We say:
STOP! WE SHOULD BE SERIOUS NOW!
We start to develop an idea for the next project: As usual, unrealistic, totally bombastic, maybe too much! Full of enthusiasm, we plan a project that could last a year!
So we plan a project that requires a writer, a dancer, 2 musicians (at least), a director, cameramen, a location, special instruments, etc....
Soon we realise that we are not really writers, probably not directors either and we don't even want to talk about dancing (although Julia can dance well!).
After planning several such projects, we think that MAYBE ALL IN ALL IT'S NOT AS UNREALISTIC as we think!
Maybe we just need a platform that makes it possible and maybe we can gather PEOPLE AROUND US WHO THINK THE SAME WAY.
Despite our occasional doubts about our adventurous ideas we are convinced that the arts influence each other. Perhaps it also comes from the fact that we both constantly draw inspiration from LITERATURE, FROM MOVIES, FROM PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY.
We feel connected through this - to each other, to other people and their beautiful, absurd, interesting and confusing thoughts.
THIS PLATFORM IS AN ATTEMPT TO BRING THIS CONNECTION TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD!
GET TO KNOW US
The Greek term "noema" denotes the content of thinking, seeing, fantasizing, meaning. At the same time it is also a musical and rhetorical figure, a homophonic section in a polyphonic work.
The name fits the intention of the ensemble, because the musicians, who play mainly solo, create their own common language in chamber music playing.
Julia Polinskaja and Arash Rokni founded the piano duo Noema in 2017. They studied in the class of Prof. Claudio Martínez Mehner in Cologne and Basel, and were additionally taught by Prof. Nina Tichman and Prof. Anthony Spiri. They received further important musical impulses from Rita Wagner and Andras Kemenes.
Both attach great importance to versatile musical experiences and like to devote themselves to a wide variety of styles. The duo played concerts in Germany and in Spain, participated in various master classes and was sponsored by the Werner Richard- Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation with performances in the 2018/19 season. In 2022-2023, the duo had the opportunity to put extraordinary creative ideas and recordings into practice within the framework of funding from the "Neustart Kultur" project of the German Music Council.
CALENDAR
25/09/2023
Release Gogol-Suite Episode I: The Overture
October 2023
Release Gogol-Suite Episode II: Chichikov's Childhood
October 2023
Release Gogol-Suite Episode III: Portrait
October 2023
Release Gogol-Suite Episode IV: Overcoat
October 2023
Release Gogol-Suite Episode V: Bureaucrats
November 2023
Release Gogol-Suite Episode VI: The Ball
November 2023
Release Gogol-Suite Final Episode VII: Testimony
20/11/2023 18:00
Concert and Lecture Series "Music and Brain" DZNE
Four hands CONCERT in Bonn:
Schumann Canonic Variations, Shostakovich/Borovitzky: Second movement of String Quartet 8, Stravinsky "Le Sacre du Printemps" Act I
25/01/2024
CONCERT + RECORDING
03/02/2024
Recording on historical instruments
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