Francesca Gaza — nine miniatures on the folklore of plants (2026)
Ben Johnston — String Quartet No. 4 «Amazing Grace» (1973) arr. Richard Elliot Haynes (2026)
Vicente Atria — new work (2026)
Bettina Berger, flutes
Martin Bliggenstorfer, oboes
Richard Elliot Haynes, clarinets
Elise Jacoberger, bassoons
Vera Schnider, harps
Coco Schwarz, keys & electronics
Aısha Orazbayeva, violin
Jan-Filip Ťupa, cello
Heimkommen (homecoming) brings together microtonal musical languages of the American just intonation tradition, jazz, Renaissance and folk music. Vicente Atria is searching for a music that can become a home for all people, and for this project he researches folk music of the past and present from Switzerland, Transylvania and Peru. He creates imaginary, speculative overlaps of musical practise and thus a utopic vision of what music can be when de-coupled from space and time. Francesca Gaza spans chasms between contemporary tonal languages, jazz, Baroque and Renaissance musics. She refers to Bernd Alois Zimmermann's concept of the "sphericalness of time" when combining stylistic markers from different eras and cultures. Alongside these two world premieres will be a new version of Ben Johnston’s String Quartet No. 4 – Amazing Grace. Seemingly simple, however incredibly complex, the melody of the famous traditional melody Amazing Grace can be heard in various variations, extrapolations and notated extemporisations.