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Catherine Kontz

@catherinekontz.bsky.social
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Composer, Performer, Artistic director of rainy days festival at Philharmonie Luxembourg, Professor of Composition at Royal College of Music, published by Composers Edition. www.catherinekontz.com

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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The Ligeti Quartet will premiere Catherine Kontz’s ‘Counterpoint for Clouds’ at the rainy days Festival on Saturday @ligetiquartet.com @catherinekontz.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/ligeti-quart...
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Ligeti Quartet Premieres Catherine Kontz - What's New
The Ligeti Quartet will premiere Catherine Kontz’s string quartet ‘Counterpoint for Clouds’ at this month’s rainy days Festival.
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
You can experience soundwalks in different parts of Luxembourg with Catherine Kontz and SL Grange this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday @slgrange.bsky.social @catherinekontz.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/kontz-grange...
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Kontz & Grange Luxembourg Soundwalks - What's New
Join composer Catherine Kontz and SL Grange during three different soundwalks throughout Luxembourg this month.
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LUinOttawa @luinottawa.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Rencontres luxembourgeoises 🇱🇺 à #Montréal avec @martinedennewald.bsky.social co-directrice du Festival TransAmériques, @catherinekontz.bsky.social compositrice et directrice art. du Festival Rainy Days à la Philharmonie Luxembourg et Jerome Konen, directeur du Kinneksbond, Centre Culturel Mamer
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Lovely first walks of Wou d’Uelzecht - Stad today with @slgrange.bsky.social . Thank you to those who came to launch it into the world! catherinekontzslgrange.bandcamp.com
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Wou d’Uelzecht - Stad by Catherine Kontz & SL Grange is available! Follow the river Alzette through Grund, Clausen and Pfaffenthal. A sensory experience highlighting the unique soundscape of the river and stories and connecting it through artistic response to its historical significance/location.
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Catherine Kontz & SL Grange
Catherine Kontz is a London-based composer whose works explore nonlinear form, visual/spatial elements, and musical theatricality. SL Grange is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer with an eclectic...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
@slgrange and I are marking the launch of our new soundwalk as part of LUGA: Wou d'Uelzecht - Stad, with 3 Launch Walks. As spaces are limited, 5€ tickets are available (see Linktree below). 2 hours/ 2.7km. Bring your family and headphones. LU, EN, FR, DE Sun 11.05, 10.00 & 14.00 Mon 12.05, 18.30
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Many Composers Edition composers are inspired by walking. Whether it’s exploring environments or walking as an artistic practice, Rishin Singh provides an overview of Walking works in our catalogue! whatsnew.composersedition.com/contemporary...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I had a fun chat with Rishin Singh about tickling orchestral bears and about my piece for the Orchestre de Chambre de Luxembourg. whatsnew.composersedition.com/ocl-premiere...
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OCL Premieres Kontz’s ‘Changes of State’ – Interview | Composers Edition News | open . new . music
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My new piece for orchestra will be performed at the Orchestre de Chambre de Luxembourg’s 50th anniversary concert at Philharmonie Luxembourg on 15th May. Looking forward! Tickets available now. www.ocl.lu
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Listen in to a conversation between Catherine Kontz and Pit Brosius on the Hanner den Téin podcast! @catherinekontz.bsky.social www.opus.radio/show/Hanner-...
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Episod 5 – Catherine Kontz
<p class="MsoNormal">Déi lëtzebuergesch Komponistin Catherine Kontz schreift ëmmer erëm gäre Musek fir Kanner. Am Gespréich mam Pit Brosius erzielt si, wéi wichteg esou Concerte sinn a wéi eng Roll se...
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Catherine Kontz’s solo clarinet piece ‘Tortoise’ will be premiered at De Klengen Maarnicher Festival in Luxembourg on Friday! @catherinekontz.bsky.social [photo © Tony Whitehead] whatsnew.composersedition.com/kontz-premie...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ech war um Radio 100.7 vir iwwert daat neit Klarniettesteck vum Klengen Maarnicher Festival an Internationaler Klarinettenkompetitioun d’nächst Woch. Mat den Deckelsmouken dobai! www.opus.radio/news/Tortois...
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Irene Kurka’s interview with Catherine Kontz is now available to listen to at the Neue Musik Leben podcast! @catherinekontz.bsky.social neuemusikleben.podigee.io/246-neue-epi...
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240 - Interview with Catherine Kontz – rainy days Luxembourg (1)
The composer Catherine Kontz is the artistic director of rainy days Luxembourg since 2022. She talks about how she curates, how she brings the audience to the festival and everything that is unique at...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Such fun with Polenta Polenta Polenta! At Philharmonie Luxembourg last week! With dream team: Pitt Simon Etienne Halsdorf Die Schurken Catherine Kontz composition Larisa Faber directing, text, concept Josie Dale-Jones assisting directing Marco Godinho stage design, costume design
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
CoMA Singers, directed by Janet Oates, will premiere Catherine Kontz’s ‘Cocktail Hour’ at The Brady Centre, London on Wednesday! [photo © Chris Adams] @catherinekontz.bsky.social @comanewmusic.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/kontz-premie...
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Catherine Kontz’s ‘Polenta Polenta Polenta’ musical for young audiences premieres at Philharmonie Luxembourg this Friday! Written and directed by Larisa Faber @catherinekontz.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/kontz-polent...
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Featuring Mary Bellamy, Rubens Askenar, Erika Fox, Susannah Self, Alison Willis, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Brian Inglis, Rūta Vitkauskaitė, Tonia Ko, Jane Stanley, & Richard Whalley @angelascomposer.bsky.social @catherinekontz.bsky.social @marc-yeats.bsky.social @emilydoolittle.bsky.social
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Slowly but surely the music is coming together for Wou d'Uelzecht - Stad . Once again I'm tracing my own family history. with @slgrange.bsky.social
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Long week of teaching and meetings with a sprinkling of composing. Highlight of the week: spotting PJ Harvey while having a coffee with Claire Barthelemy who had fast reflexes and snapped the next album cover… good to be in London!
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Mood of the day - words on A A Hundred and One #frenchforcartridge directed by Dorna Shahabeddin Aslanzadeh youtu.be/COaRmfe5F9k
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Official video for A Hundred And One by French For Cartridge
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Listening to Blur always reminds me why I came to London in ‘98 and why I still like it here. Instant mood-booster. #parklife
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I’m giving a talk in Cambridge tomorrow www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/compo...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
RIP Marianne Faithfull - featured here in my score Cahiers Trouvés inspired by the Nouvelle Vague films - crying a river here (Made in U. S. A./ Godard)
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The beginnings of Polenta Polenta Polenta! A brilliant few days with Die Schurken, Pitt Simon, Etienne Halsdorf, Josie Dale-Jones and Marco Godinho for this new collaboration with Larisa Faber. Aimed at 4-8 year olds and everyone who is young at heart! #PhilharmonieLuxembourg
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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Irena Portenko performed Kontz’s ‘Murmuration’ at Carnegie Hall last month in a concert by Vox Feminarum: a new organisation addressing gender disparity in classical music and musical theater. Read about Vox Feminarum here: @catherinekontz.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/catherine-ko...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
From the source of the Alzette to the confluence with the Sauer - 2021-2025 - S.L. Grange and I have been following this river and its stories for more than four years. Starting with Wou d’Uelzecht - Esch as part of Esch22, continuing now in Lux-City as part of LUGA, and in Mersch and Ettelbruck.
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Pianist Cathy Krier talks about our various collaborations in this new podcast. In Luxembourgish.
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Episod 2 - Cathy Krier
An dësem Episod erzielt d’Pianistin Cathy Krier iwwer d’Normalitéit vun der Neier Musek an hirem Liewen. Schonn als Kand konnt si eng Passioun fir mei modern Kläng entwéckelen, an esou spillt dat Expe...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
So many moments from #rainydays I will carry with me. Here are a few of my favourites.
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The #rainydays officially started tonight! Thank you Zashiki Warashi and the team of Medea for opening the festival with a bang. Thank you also to the Théâtre des Capucins for collaborating with the Philharmonie Luxembourg for this extraordinary evening of extreme total theatre!
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VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How durational pieces unlock catharsis: Benjamin Poore situates @catherinekontz.bsky.social's "12HOURS”—premiering on Thursday—among a history of durational pieces with the power to move van-magazine.com/mag/duration...
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The Book of Hours
Twentieth-century physics expanded our sense of subatomic and cosmological scales, opening up musical time and space in the process. Modernism is full of the complex dance between “large” and “small.”...
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I will be live on Radio ARA at 17.00 Luxembourg time to talk about rainy days. Tune in www.radioara.org/show/ara-bis...
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Bistro
Le Bistro est le magazine socio-culturel sur les ondes de Radio ARA.
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
one more sleep! #rainydays
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
12Hours for voice and electronics will premiere this Thursday at #rainydays @rosiemiddleton.bsky.social Can’t wait! www.rainydays.lu
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Catherine Kontz @catherinekontz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It’s almost time for #rainydays at Philharmonie Luxembourg. Do you have your daypasses yet? Some days are now sold out. 20-24th November 2024! Can’t wait! More information on www.rainydays.lu
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