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© Manos Tsangaris Manos Tsangaris Contemporary
Manos Tsangaris
BIOGRAPHY
Manos Tsangaris was born in Düsseldorf in 1956 and studied composition and New Music
Theatre with Mauricio Kagel and percussion with Christoph Caskel at the Musikhochschule
(Academy of Music) in Cologne.
Since the 1970s, Manos Tsangaris has consistently made the conditions of a performance the
central focus for compositions in various artistic formats.
In 1991, Tsangaris was Composer in Residence in Moscow at the invitation of the Soviet Union
of Composers. In the same year, he initiated the ‘Praemoderne’ congress in Cologne. In 1991 he
received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Grant from the City of Cologne, and in 1993/94 a grant
from the ‘Akademie Schloss Solitude’, Stuttgart. In 1997 he was presented with the Art Award of
the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1998 he stayed at the Villa Serpentara, Olevano, and in 2009 he
was guest of honour at the Villa Massimo in Rome.
In 1991 he lectured at the summer academy Civitella d’Agliano (Italy), in 2002 he taught
transdisciplinary composition at NY Musikk in Oslo and Stavanger (Norway) and in 2003 at the
KlangKunstBühne summer academy of the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2007/08 he was in
charge of the academy project of the European Center of the Arts in Dresden at the Hellerau
Festival Centre with 20 recipients of grants.
Manos Tsangaris’s compositions are regularly performed at internationally renowned festivals
such as the Donaueschingen Festival, Witten Festival for New Chamber Music, the Belgrade
International Theatre Festival, the Ultima Festival in Oslo, the ‘TonLagen’ festival in Dresden, the
Warsaw Autumn Festival and in theatres and opera houses in Cologne, New York, Mannheim,
Dresden and Berlin. Manos Tsangaris has also often been commissioned by German radio
broadcasters to write compositions. Among other things, he composed a large-scale orchestral
work for the 10th anniversary of the Cologne Philharmonie concert hall. For his multi-site theatre
piece Batsheba. Eat the History!, first performed in 2009 at the Donaueschingen Festival, Manos
Tsangaris received the composition prize awarded by the SWR Symphony Orchestra.
Since 1990, his installations and other art works have been regularly exhibited by important
galleries and museums in Germany and abroad. The Cologne Diözesanmuseum and the Odense
Art Gallery (Denmark), among other venues, have devoted solo exhibitions to his work. Concert
tours have taken him to many countries in Europe, to North America and to Asia.
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From 2002 to 2007, Manos Tsangaris was artistic advisor to the director of the Cologne
Schauspielhaus. Since 2004, he has taught at the International Holiday Courses for New Music
in Darmstadt, and since 2008 he has been the guest curator for sound in Kolumba, the art gallery
of the archdiocese of Cologne. In 2009, he was appointed as professor of composition at the
Hochschule für Musik (University of Music) in Dresden. In the same year, he was elected as a full
member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, where he has headed the music department since 2012.
In 2010 Manos Tsangaris was elected as a full member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste
(Saxon Academy of Arts), and in 2011 as the deputy secretary in the music category there. In
2011, he founded the ‘International Institute for Artistic Investigation’ and undertook research in
the area of scenic anthropology. In the study year 2012/13 Tsangaris was Artist in Residence at
the Zurich University of the Arts (Master’s course Transdisciplinarity). In the study year 2017/18
he will be Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Since 2016 he is co-artistic director with Daniel Ott of the Munich Biennale - Festival of New
Music Theater. In 2017 Tsangaris was elected full member of the The Bavarian Academy of Fine
Arts.
“Manos Tsangaris’s compositional work focuses on the question of how the various media-
related areas of human perception can be meaningfully combined. In the process, the activity
of composing does not just refer to placing things together (com-posing), but at the same time
to the preceding experimental exploration of the interfaces where media connections are made
possible in the first place. This expansion of the traditional concept of composition is matched
by the variety of the possible results. In the past 25 years, in addition to musical compositions,
Tsangaris has created poems, prose, installations and other art works. Although his works in
the field of language and pictures can very much be seen as independent in their own right,
their combination and synthesis in a form of universally understood music theatre is the central
element of his artistic activity.” (Raoul Mörchen)
www.tsangaris.deOrchestra / Ensemble
WORK LIST
Das Pizzicato Mysterium (2015) 16’
for string orchestra
strings: 6.5.4.4.2
First performed 25 February 2016, Munich, Prinzregententheater, by Münchener Kammerorchester,
cond.: Alexander Liebreich
EP 14153
LUX (2014) 12’
(Mistel IV: Dark Misteltoe, Mistel V: LUX Mistel)
for orchestra
4.3.3.3.CBsn - 8.5.5.1 - perc(4) - hp(2) - pf - str
First performed 28 November 2014, Luxembourg, by Orchestre Philharmarmonique Luxembourg,
cond.: Emilio Pomarico
EP 14153
Mistel Album (2014) 21’
(Schwindel der Wirklichkeit; Mistel I-III)
for orchestra
4.0.6.4BCl.2.Cbsn - 6.3.5.0 - perc(6) - pf - str (8.8.6.6.6)
First performed 17 / 19 October 2014, Donaueschinger Musiktage,
by SWR Symphonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, cond.: Emilio Pomarico / Francois-Xavier Roth
EP 14061 a / b / c
Trypt für Armin Köhler (2015) 6’
for brass ensemble and percussion
1.1.1.ASax.1 - 1.1.1.1 - perc(2)
First performed 24 May 2015, Donaueschinger Musiktage, by Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Baden-
Württemberg
EP 14138
Chamber Music
Ansage (2003) 21’
for solo flute
Dedicated to Astrid Schmeling
First performed 2003, Hannover, by Astrid Schmeling
EP 12759
Ausflug ins Gebirge: Ausflug (2017) 21’
for clarinet in B, viola, violoncello and double bass
First performed 27 May 2017, Niederurnen (CH), by Collegium Novum Zürich
EP 14251
Ausflug ins Gebirge: Einzug, ein Zug (2017) 11’
for 2 percussionsts and 2 helpers
First performed 27 May 2017, Niederurnen (CH), by Collegium Novum Zürich
EP 14252
Ausflug ins Gebirge: Im Gebirge (2017) 21’
for horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba
First performed 27 May 2017, Niederurnen (CH), by Collegium Novum Zürich
EP 14254Beiläufige Miniaturen: Viscum Album (2013) 16’
WORK LIST
for accordion
First performed 2013, Cologne, by Dorrit Bauerecker
EP 14047
Fadenwerk (1991/92) 14’
for piano (bells, voice), tuba (bells, voice) and objects (2 players in total)
Dedicated to Pi-hsien Chen
First performed 1992, Cologne, by Pi-hsien Chen and Klaus Burger
EP 12633
Glück und Vergessen (2012) 7’
for cello, piano and iPhone video
Commissioned by Thürmchen Ensemble.
Supported by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunststiftung NRW) and the Ministry of Culture of
North Rhine-Westphalia.
First performed 2012, Cologne, by Thürmchen Ensemble
EP 12681
Read (2017) 6’
for two plucked instruments
First performed 22 March 2020, Dresden-Hellerau, by Ensemble Courage
EP 14497
Shellbum Album (1992) 25’
8 pieces for piano to be performed in any sequence
First performed 1992, Madrid, by Klaus Steffes-Holländer
EP 12758
So low (1981) 21’
for contrabass clarinet and performer
First performed 1981, Cologne, by Michael Riessler
EP 14091
Übergangsstücke Mistel Album (2012...) 16’
for 2 cellos and percussion
Dedicated to Trio Onyx.
1 „... ü ...“ Mistel Motel One - München, den 11.Oktober 2012
2 „... ngsst ...“ Stimmen (mit Stimmen)
3 „... über ...“ Stumme Mistel Gong Die Dauern der Nacht
4 „... cke ...“ Reine Rhythmen Geld Mistel
5 („ü ... ü ...“ Übergang vom Baum zum Himmel)
6 „... (a)n ...“ Das Zeichen
7 „... erg ...“ Umbau Mistel
8 „... ga ...“ Das Ziehen
First performed 2012, Bern, by Trio Onyx
EP 12744 a - h
What I see (2018) 6’
for two performers
First performed 06 February 2018, Berlin, BKA, by Duo Conradi-Gehlen
EP 14364Stage Works / Music Theatre
WORK LIST
Abstract Pieces (2018) 90’
music theatre for voices and ensemble
text: Manos Tsangaris
mezzo soprano, baritone, bass clarinet, viola, perc, pianos(2), audio tapes, video projections, objects, light
First performed 19 May 2018, Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, by Marielou Jacquard (mezzo), Martin Gerke
(bar.), Alexander Glücksmann (bcl), Emily Yabe (va), Evdoxia Filippou (perc), Jenny Kim (pf 1), Alba Gentili-Tedeschi
(pf 2), Nastasja Keller (video), Stefan Schlagbauer (light), Max Renne (cond.) and Roman Reeger (dir.)
EP 14338
Beiläufige Stücke: Mauersegler (2013) 45’
Audio film remix for voices, horn, percussion, moving ensembles, electroacoustics, trams and roaming audiences
First performed 2013, Witten, by Maria Meckel, Cornelius Uhle (voices), Peter Bromig (horn), Thomas Meixner
(percussion), Dominik Fornezzi (actor) and performer chorus
EP 12815
City Pieces (Window Piece) (2016)
for singer, actor, ensemble, installation, light, video and audioguide
text: Manos Tsangaris
First performed 2016, Hongkong, by Ensemble Scenatet
EP 14380
Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen weiter gedreht (2018) 120’
for mezzo soprano, percussion, performers (min 10), trees and lighting
First performed 17 August 2018, Rümlingen (CH), Rümlingen Festival
EP 14444
Diskrete Stücke (1996/2007) variable duration
audioscenes for individual spectators
Full-length stage piece in stages without fixed sequence
Funkhausblockade - Pförtner - Double / Doppelportrait mit Vase - Ein-Personen-Kopf-duschen-Schreiber
4 stage performers (min.) - soprano, tenor - clarinet, horn, accordion(2), violin, viola
First performed 2007, Cologne, by Géraldine-Aimée Grabe, Carlos Robalo, Jan Reichow, Jessica Rona, Kate
Strong, Francesco Agostini, Dorrit Bauerecker, Florian Stadler, Stephan Meier, Thomas Meixner, Carlos Tarcha,
Oliver Nitsche, Marlies Klumpenaar, Christoph Thelen, Truike van der Poel and Immo Schröder
EP 12697
Erste szenische Miniaturen (1978-1985) 41’
Studie – Traktat – Stuhlgang (Meta) – Molto Molto – o.T. (Schütten!)
Up to 4 performers and lighting
EP 12698
Es geht voran (2019) 31’
chamber play for singer, performer and ensemble
sopran, performer, cl, trp, perc
First performed 10-12 May 2019, Witten (D), Tage für Neue Kammermusik
EP 14411
Es kommt ein A ... es kommt ein a (2016) 41’
performance / intervention for speaker and four singing actors
text: Marcel Beyer
First performed 06 May 2016, Paderborn, by Marcel Beyer and AuditivVokal (Maria Meckel, Philipp Schreyer and
Felix Schwandtke)
EP 12698
Final Match (2011) 12’
for 3 players with “amplifiers” (min. 11 instruments)
ob - bsn - trb - tb - perc - str
Dedicated to Mauricio Kagel.
For Ensemble musikFabrik.
Commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music.
First performed 2011, Cologne, St. Peter, by Ensemble musikFabrik
EP 12539Freigehege (2013) 120’
WORK LIST
for orchestral groups, soloists, performance locations throughout the venue, transitions, lighting and movable
audience
groups of students of different ages, two vocal soloists (soprano, baritone), presenters, professional musicians
from all orchestral sections and supervisors
NB: Audiences will roam the outdoor enclosure!
Commissioned by Südwestrundfunk.
- Raum der Geräusche
- Raum des Unisono
- Blech & Licht
- Raum der Geläufigkeit (und Präparation)
- Raum der Solisten
- Dirigent & Licht
- Große Pause
- Übergang (Brückenmusik)
- Unterricht (... der unbekannte Kontinent)
First performed 2013, Freiburg (DE), Konzerthaus, by SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Maria
Meckel, Cornelius Uhde (students of the Paul Hindemith Primary School), Wentzinger Realschule and Wentzinger
Gymnasium in Freiburg, cond. Dirigent & Licht: François-Xavier Roth
EP 12816
Glück macht mutig (2004/2008) 34’
stage music for chorus with electronically altered voices and speaker
based on texts from the diaries of Hans Christian Andersen
for chorus, speaker and electronics
Libretto in Danish, German and Italian. Danish texts transcribed in phonetic symbols.
First performed 2009, Munich, by Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, cond.: Lothar Zagrosek
EP 12693
Home: Das Orakel (2016) 240’
from LIVING SPACES (2016/17)
for two actors and speakers
text: Manos Tsangaris
First performed 30 March 2017, Athens, Onassis Centre, by Vasso Mpourazanídou, Zenia Agkistrioti
and Dimitris Katsimiris
EP 14239
Home: Installation (2016) 240’
from LIVING SPACES (2016/17)
for soprano, actor, clarinet and piano
text: Manos Tsangaris
First performed 30 March 2017, Athens, Onassis Centre, by Lenio Liatsou (piano), Kostas Tzekos (Oidipous),
Maria Vlachopoulou (Iokasti) and Kostas Laskos (Laios)
EP 14238
Karl May, Raum der Wahrheit (2013) 70’
Opera
4 singers - narrator - mixed choir - 0.0.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 - perc(2) - cemb - str (1.1.1.1.1)
libretto: Marcel Beyer
First performed 20 June 2014, Dresden, Semperoper, by Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Manfred Weiß (dir),
Erik Nielsen (cond.)
EP 14032
Love & Diversity (2012) 30’
Music theatre performance for small ensemble
for actor, soprano, ushers, flute, clarinet, toy piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass
For Ensemble dissonArt.
Commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Supported by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunststiftung NRW).
First performed 2012, Thessaloniki, by Ensemble dissonArt
EP 12732Mnemosyne / Bühne (2004) 12’
WORK LIST
from: Drei Räume (Theater Suite)
Music theatre performance for 20 performers
First performed 2004, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Hofbibliothek
EP 14396
Orpheus, Zwischenspiele (2002) 100’
music theatre performance
for soprano, mezzo soprano, altus, small orchestra, performers (15), background actors (min 50), Fadenorgel,
elevator, underground trains (3) and lighting
First performed 22 September 2002, Bielefeld (D), Theater Bielefeld
EP 14466
Tafel 1 (1989) 30’
(Wiesers Werdetraum)
for 3 performers: two performers at a wooden table
walkman, radio, movable light sources, thread organ (1 player)
First performed 1989, Cologne, by Thomas Witzmann, Manos Tsangaris, Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn
EP 12626
Vivarium – Reisen, Kochen, Zoo... (2012) 33’
for movement in space
speaker/conductor, soprano, baritone, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, min. 20 movement artists, ca 30 passers-by
Commissioned by Siemens Arts Program to mark the 100th anniversary of the Hellerau Festival Theatre.
Rearranged for the ensemble El Perro Andaluz for the Spanish premiere at FASE, Madrid, May 2012.
First performed 2011, Dresden, by Ensemble El Perro Andaluz, cond.: Lennart Dohms
EP 14309
Vivarium – Reisen, Kochen, Zoo... (2012) 41’
version for speaker, soprano, baritone and large ensemble
for soprano, baritone soli - 1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.1 - perc(2) - pf - str (1.1.1.1.0) - lighting, assistance
Commissioned by the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat) for the European Workshop for Contemporary
Music 2012
First performed 2012, Warsaw Autumn, by EWCM ensemble 2012
EP 12677
winzig (1993) 150’
Music Theatre Miniatures / Theatre For A House
First performed 1993, Cologne, by Thürmchen Ensemble, Beth Griffith, Pi-hsien Chen, Tobias Liebezeit,
Christoph Gesing, Katja Wüsten, Frank Köllges, Stefan Kunzmann, Martin Schmitz, Thomas Kling, Albrecht
Zummach, Uta Rings, Heinz Conrads, Gero Sprafke a.o.
EP 14196Vocal Music
WORK LIST
Ausflug ins Gebirge: Gebirge Flüstergalerie (2017) 21’
for choral solists
text: Franz Kafka / Manos Tsangaris
First performed 27 May 2017, Niederurnen (CH), by Collegium Novum Zürich
EP 14253
Eiland (Isola). Das aufgehobene Ich (2015) 45’
for voices, five contrabass clarinets and lights
text: Franz Kafka / Manos Tsangaris
First performed 05 September 2015, Berlin, Chruch St. Elisabeth, by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Armand
Angster, Hans Koch, Ernesto Molinari, Theo Nabicht and Olivier Vivares
EP 14130
Hidden Risk (2018) 21’
for soprano, percussion and Fadenorgel
text: Manos Tsangaris
First performance 30 September 2018, Cologne, Fuhrwerkswaage, by Ann-yi Eötvös (soprano),
Rie Watanabe (percussion) and Ruben Tsangaris (Fadenorgel)
EP 14363
WAIT! (2016) 180’
from LIVING SPACES (2016/17)
for a group of performers (singers)
text: Ann Cotten / Manos Tsangaris
First performed 09 October 2016, Ultima Oslo, by Oslo Domkor
EP 14195
Future Works
Das Fremde und das Gekochte (2020) 12’
a listening exercise after Beethoven
for piano and projection (texts and some pictures)
text: Manos Tsangaris
First performance 2021, tba, BTHVN 2020, by E-Mex Ensemble
EP 14561Literature by Manos Tsangaris
WORK LIST
3x8 Zeichnungen und 14 Gedichte (1990)
together with Rainer Barzen
Thürmchen Verlag Köln
ALINEA (1992)
Nr.3 neue texte
Edition Fundamental Köln
Blick zurück nach vorn (1992)
Ingrid Roscheck, Heribert C. Ottersbach und Manos Tsangaris (ed.)
Thürmchen Verlag Köln
Die kleine Trance (2002)
poems
Radius Verlag
Lobotomie / katharine und der tote bischof (1991)
poem
Thürmchen Verlag Köln
Mundmaßung (1995)
poems
Edition Solitude
Stille Post (1986)
poems
Thürmchen Verlag Köln
Unbekannte Empfänger (2017)
poems
Radius Verlag
Werkbuch Manos Tsangaris (2011/2014)
zum Implodierenden Schreibtisch KOLUMBA Werkhefte und Bücher
Band 40 Werkbuch Manos Tsangaris
Herausgeber: Stefan Kraus, Ulrike Surmann, Marc Steinmann, Barbara von FlüeLiterature on Manos Tsangaris
WORK LIST
Manos Tsangaris (Sonderband) (2015)
from the series “Musik-Konzepte”
editor: Ulrich Tadday
edition text+kritik 201
Zurück zur Gegenwart? Weltbezüge
Neuer Musik aus der Reihe: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt
editor: Jörn Peter Hiekel, texts by Dieter Mersch, Hannes Seidl, Lydia Jeschke, Patrick Frank, Mesias Maiguashca,
Manos Tsangaris u.a
und+ Komponisten, ihre Musik und ihre anderen Künste (2014)
catalogue to the exhibition “und+” at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014
by Armin Köhler / Bernd Künzig (ed.) with texts and art by Ondřej Adámek, Peter Ablinger, Brian Ferneyhough,
Georg Friedrich Haas, Johannes Kreidler, Bernhard Lang, Chris Newman, Enno Poppe, Wolfgang Rihm,
Jennifer Walshe and Manos Tsangaris
SMA STYKKER / KLEINE STÜCKE (2002)
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik
editor: Thorsten Sadowsky
Manos Tsangaris (2001)
MusikTexte Nr.91
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