With Christoph Ogiermann and Germaine Sijstermans
- Free admission - reservation not needed -
Master class led by German composer Christoph Ogiermann and clarinettist and artist Germaine Sijstermans. Designed for both composers and performers, this workshop explores diverse methods of communication between creators and interpreters, delving into various conceptual frameworks and notational approaches. Participants will also receive an introduction to free improvisation, unlocking new possibilities for musical expression.
Throughout the day, attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate on composed works, refining their ideas alongside skilled musicians. The day will conclude with a special closing concert at 19:30 (open to external public), featuring live performances that showcase the results of our collaborative efforts throughout the workshop.
Composition - Improvisation workshop - Christoph Ogiermann and Germaine Sijstermans
Conservatorium Maastricht - Bonnefantenstraat 15
10:00 - 21:30
More about Christoph Ogiermann
Born in 1967, Christoph Ogiermann began composing in 1990 at the suggestion of Erwin Koch-Raphael and has been writing music ever since. He received his diploma in composition in 2000 from the Bremen University for the Arts (Hochschule für Künste), studying with Younghi Pagh-Paan. He also undertook important musical and philosophical studies with Georges Nicolas Wolff and Nicolas Schalz.
He works as reciter, singer, violinist and keyboarder in the fields of improvisation and european arts-music.
He worked at the Archivio Luigi Nono in Venice, and he was a guest-composer at the Institute for Electronic Music at the University of Graz, Austria, the Studio of Electronic Music at the Technical University of Berlin, and the Experimentalstudio at Südwestrundfunk (SWR). He received a scholarship to spend half a year at the Cité des Arts, Paris. He was winner of Kunstpreis Musik of Akademie der Künste, Berlin. In addition, he has been invited to teach at the Universities of Queretaro, Edinburgh, Pitea, Trossingen, Hildesheim, Lucern.
Ogiermann is artistic-director for projektgruppe neue musik bremen and REM (Rapid Ear Movement: concerts and festival of electronic music)
He is a member of the collective artists association TONTO in Graz, Austria.
He is cofounder and member of MusicActionEnsemble KLANK
He organizes and teaches at the “mastercourses” of the John-Cage-Orgelstiftung in Halberstadt and is organizer and part of the jury of annual “John-Cage-Interpretation-Award”.
Listen to Christoph Ogiermann on Soundcloud
Germaine Sijstermans
Germaine Sijstermans is a composer, installation artist and musician. Her works combine ephemeral, often site-specific installations with indeterminate music, open to the serendipity of location and time. She creates open scores that hold the possibilities for abstract sound materials to unfold and move in organic textures, while inviting a non-linear perception and use of time. In her installations she uses silence, light, sounds, space, and embodiment to create transparent environments, in which everyone present may find their personal itinerary of experiences.
“There’s a quality to this work that feels without beginning or end, as if it’s something eternal and naturally occurring that one has stumbled upon.” - Peter Margasak, The Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp: July 2022.
Germaine holds a master's degree as a clarinettist from Codarts Rotterdam and a bachelor's degree from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. Through various grants including a 'nieuwe makersregeling' from the Dutch Performing Arts Fund, she received composition and artistic mentoring from i.a. Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Antoine Beuger, Marcus Kaiser, and Joachim Eckl.
Germaine Sijstermans is based in Heerlen. Aside from her artistic practice, she is the concert programmer for Intro in Situ and part of the education team at Marres, giving and developing trainings in line with Marres’s focus on experience, the working of the senses and the language of the body.