Trio Ullén / de Heney / Hug + Stellari String Quartet

Swiss-born Charlotte Hug is an intermedia artist, composer, improviser and musician of extremes. Her innovative solo performances in striking locations have caused an international sensation. With her intermedia compositions, spatial scores and son-icons (visual sounds), she created a new genre of multidisciplinary music and art. Charlotte Hug has reinvented the viola. Her specialty as a vocalist is the fusion of viola and voice to create hybrid sounds. After studying fine arts and classical music, she won various awards and artist* residencies in London, Paris, Berlin, Johannesburg, Shanghai. She was artiste étoile (star artist) at the Lucerne Festival and nominated for the Classic:Next - Innovation Award. Charlotte Hug is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and director of the international postgraduate program Creation & Scenario in Music at the Zurich University of the Arts. Hug maintains an active concert schedule as a soloist, composer and conductor of her own works at major festivals worldwide.

As part of a portrait evening of biegungen im ausland, Charlotte Hug will perform with two of her renowned formations:

The duo Lisa Ullén / Nina de Heney has established itself since the late noughties as one of the most distinguished groups on the European improvisation scene. Since the album Quarrtsiluni (an Inuit term describing a state of deep silence in which one sits together and waits for something to break), recorded in 2015 together with Charlotte Hug, they have been playing regularly in a joint trio. In this one, three sorceresses of their instrument meet, take off and breathe freedom.

In classical string quartet formation, Phil Wachsmann, John Edwards, Marcio Mattos and Charlotte Hug create lively, fresh music - between microtonality, dissonance, filigree lightness, harmonic overlays, noise and silence. While the classical European string quartet is usually concerned with lush mountains of notes to be mastered, the Stellari String Quartet thus also has a great deal of freedom.