Oscar Bianchi
Composer
BLAST — world premiere
19:00 · BRUX Freies Theater, Innsbruck - (AT)
BLAST — German premiere
20:00 · WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Cologne - (DE)
mdw × CCOM Composition Project — Beijing
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing - (CN)
6 db
concerto for six contrabasses and orchestra
Zamān
for contralto and orchestra
Matra
cantata for vocal ensemble, instrumental ensemble, trio concertante and electronics
Thanks To My Eyes
opera in one act on a libretto by Joël Pommerat
Pathos of Distance
string quartet no. 2
Pozzanghere | mezzo seccate
for soprano, eight instruments, and electronics
...Meshing Talents for a Dense and Strenuous Sound......Mr. Bianchi is fond of extremes. Some of them — the quarter tones produced by the singers, the bottom notes played on the Paetzold recorder — melt into the gray zone where human hearing gives way to a more visceral perception of air in motion. The division between rhythm and harmony also begins to blur as the sound waves of sustained close harmonies combine into an audible pulse. In “Matra” sound is above all matter, the bubbling, sputtering, trembling coming-into-being of sound as viscous and dense. (21 April 2014)
“One of the strongest works in Witten was Oscar Bianchi’s Zamān.”
“Molten quality … liquefied, seething textures … harmonies like freshly hardened rock.”
Alex Ross, “May 2026: Czernowin in Witten,” 27 May 2026