On May 13, Seda performed for Holocaust survivors and invited guests at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC.

The event was held to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the National Fund for the Victims of National Socialism in Austria.

After introductory remarks by the Austrian Ambassador Christian Prosl, the fund’s general secretary, Hannah Lessing, as well as the U. S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Ambassador Christian Kennedy, and the U. S. Special Representative for Holocaust Era Issues, the Honorable Stuart Eizenstat gave powerful and emotional speeches.

Each attendee was presented with a copy of the anniversary publication of the National Fund–a two volume history of the fund and a impressive collection of memories from Holocaust survivors.

Seda performed selections from her Viennese Piano Music of the Turn of the Century program, which she presented in April at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City.

Photography by Karl Schrammel

What a nice hall and wonderful audience! Thank you all for coming out to hear Seda perform at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City on Tuesday.

We have just sent out an mp3 with excerpts from the performance to those who attended. Enjoy this concert gift from Seda!

For those of you who couldn’t make it, please contact us at info@sedaroeder.com and we would be more than happy to send you the file as well.

if you missed the HYDRA concert on December 11, here you can watch the video of our performance (with Sam Solomon on percussion). Even if this video cannot capture the effect of the electronics with 32 loudspeakers I guess it will still stimulate your appetite for the next HYDRA series. I hope you enjoy the video of Winternacht as much as we enjoyed performing it! Let us know what you think!

Best,
Seda

Video of Sound Check –Hans Tutschku: Zellen Linien

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The concert will explore the nexus between tradition and innovation. Ms. Röder will introduce each work of the program, which includes pieces by the following distinguished composers:

• Alban Berg
• Hans Werner Henze
• Helmut Lachenmann
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Hans Tutschku

The final piece of the program, Hans Tutschku’s Zellen Linien, brings together “man and machine.” By adding computer-generated sounds to the live performance of the pianist, the audience will be able to experience a unique soundscape moving through a three-dimensional listening space.

Details

Where: Killian Hall. MIT
Rm. 14W-111, MIT Hayden Library Bldg, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
For a map click here
When: September 25, 2009 @ 8pm
Suggested donation is $10

Pre-concert podcasts and free recordings of the works are available on http://www.sedaroeder.com/MIT.

Yesterday, my friend Mike Einziger from Harvard, invited me to the Incubus show at the Comcast Center in Boston! It was a great show! Here are some images of me and the band from the backstage area! I hope you enjoy them!

– Seda

That’s me and Mike Einziger before the show:

Picture of Mike “Veritas” Einziger in action:

With band manager Steve and DJ Chris Kilmore, who used a ring modulator!! :

With Mike after the show:

You can also check out the pre-concert podcast that Tolga and I produced for this performance. It contains a lot of background information and some suggestions on how to approach the listening experience!

About the composition

“In the temporal gardens was written for and is dedicated to Seda Röder. This piece, which takes its title from a poem by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, explores Bergson’s idea of material and intuition by reflecting two contrasting experiences of reality. In the piece, this dichotomy manifests itself in various ways and constitutes the backdrop of a dialectic unfolding. The composition is really about the dialectic relationship between various musical layers which are spread throughout the piece both vertically and horizontally.”
– Tolga Yayalar

“A extended work of ferocious difficulty”
– Drew Massey, amusicology

About the composer

A native of Istanbul, Tolga Yayalar studied Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music. He is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University. He has studied with Bernard Rands, Harrison Birtwistle, Joshua Fineberg, Brian Ferneyhough, and Helmut Lachenmann.

For more information visit Tolga’s website.

Alban Berg: Piano Sonata Op. 1
Hans Werner Henze: La mano sinistra
Helmut Lachenmann: Ein Kinderspiel
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX
Hans Tutschku: Zellen-Linien for Piano and Live-Electronics

We hope many of you can make it!

The concert will also feature new works by Ashley Fure, Jean-François Charles, Tolga Yayalar, Dominique Schafer, Ulrich Kreppein and Matthew Mendez.

Details:
Where: Harvard University, Paine Hall
When: February 9, 2008, 8pm
Directions by Google or the Music Department.

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