Composition (Margrit Schenker) for „Festival Archipel“ in Geneva: A piece for a new music-instrument with worldwide unheard features, invented by Daniel Glaus!
Premiere at Festival Archipel is planned with Simone Keller (on the new instrument, the wind-pneumatic-organ) and with Margrit Schenker (accordion).
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Girunvalla – Geierwally ( 2023, July 15 to 26 – from 21 to 26 with Margrit Schenker)
A theater piece that is being performed by a group of enthusiastic actors of the remote vally of Mustair in eastern Switzerland. It is featuring the story of a brave young woman living in the mountains who is being battered by its own father and dismissed to a hut in the mountains. Her courage and her strong will are her guideline through her hard live. Unfortunately her tender love to a handsome man of the village is not being answered. Music of the scene with the clarinetist Stephan Britt and the accordionist Margrit Schenker. The trubadur Mario Fallet is commenting on the storyline.
Nature
The Trio Nushka, consisting of three young Swiss musicians( Lara Morger, mezzo – soprano, Lisa Anna Gross, English horn and Marion Gross, Piano) is working on a new composition with the title Nature of Margrit Schenker. It is a commission by the trio that has been founded in 2020. The text of the new work is based on poems written by the Australian Aboriginal women Ali Coby Eckermann. – Schenker has been spending last spring several inspiring weeks in the beautiful nature of “Down Under”. Premiere planned on October 18, 2023, Yehudi Menuhin Forum, Bern.