Brand, Ulrike

(c) David Beecroft

Ulrike Brand performs as a cellist at international festivals where she has premiered many musical works. Her particular interest covers cross-border projects in the fields of fine art, language, dance, and performance. She deals with free and conceptual improvisation, where she develops her own compositions of improvised and notated music. She also writes texts and essays and holds workshops and lectures at home and abroad. From 1987 to 1997 she was the artistic director of the Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea in Perugia, Italy. In 2015, she received a work and research scholarship from the Berlin Senate. In 2016, she was granted a scholarship from the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Education and Culture in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf. Since 2018, she has been a lecturer for Improvisation at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

Festival Content

VOCATIONS – OPEN SPACE

Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

Kuppelhalle | 4/2 € Tickets

Vocations – open space 2024 will organise four evenings of radically open transdisciplinary experiments and collaborations at the interface between music, sound and poetry at silent green Kulturquartier’s event space Kuppelhalle (29.5. / 8.7. / 9.10. / 3.12.). As a meeting place for Berlin’s contemporary poetry and music scenes, Vocations offers an open space to up to twenty artists to perform at any one time, combining a wide variety of musical and vocal practices based on or rooted in poetry.

Abdulla-zadè, Ramina • Brand, Ulrike • Dunajcsik, Mátyás • Feizabadi, Amen • Hansen, Jannes • Holland, Tim • Keskinkılıç, Ozan Zakariya • Lin-Siedler, Lixue • Macken, Josephine • Dilek, Mayatürk • Oleschinski, Brigitte • Opitz, Birte • Saul, Fabian • Seither, Charlotte • Tóth, Kinga