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Commas Ensemble

#X3 PALIMPSEST
Saturday 15.11.25 20:00

Contemporary Music Concert

+ Art Installation by Paul Pape

Cologne's Alte Feuerwache: Stage

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Program

Iannis Xenakis (Greek)
Palimpsest (1979)
for 11 instruments

Lala Disandro (Argentina)
¿Escuchas ese ruido entre los molles? -Doyou hear that noise among the molle trees?
(2025, world premiere)
for bass clarinet & electronics

Christian Vásquez Miranda (Chile)
4to Túnel (2025, world premiere)
for flute soloist & 11 instruments

Concert duration: 60 min.

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The third program of our 10-year anniversary cycle deals with the concept "Palimpsest". A Palimpsest (from the Greek palímpsēstos, "scraped again") once meant a manuscript rewritten over older text-yet the original never vanished. So it is with history: each age writes its own story atop the traces of those erased or silenced. Cities rise over ruins, monuments replace memories, and still the old words persist beneath the surface. Power may try to rewrite the page, but the past resists deletion. The echoes of struggle, loss, and renewal remain. To see clearly is to read through the layers-to know that what came before still speaks, insisting: we will not forget...

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KOMMAS ENSEMBLE + friends
Maruta Staravoitava, flute
Nai-Hua Chuang, oboe
Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet
Moritz Schneidewendt, bass clarinet
Peng-Hui Wang, bassoon
Delphine Gauthier-Guiche, horn
Jae A Shin, violin
Sarah Beth Overcash, violin
Alba González Becerra, viola
Adya Khanna Fontenla, cello
Constantin Herzog, double bass
Ramón Gardella, percussion
Alberto Carnevale Ricci, piano

Lautaro Mura Fuentealba, conductor

Paul Pape, art installation
Coco Kausch, light design
Sebastián Zuleta, sound

Artistic direction
Francisco C. Goldschmidt &
Lautaro Mura Fuentealba

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Tickets: 5/9€

(no reservations, just come!
Doors open at 19:30h!)

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sponsored by:

Kunststiftung NRW, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation & Musikfonds E.V.

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