Feizabadi, Amen

(c) Saber Abar

Amen Feizabadi, *1983 in Tehran, is a multidisciplinary composer, filmmaker and producer whose work spans hybrid music theatre and film. He studied integrative composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and currently lives and works in Berlin. Feizabadi has received several awards and scholarships, including a scholarship from the Tarabya Cultural Academy, Istanbul (2024), the residency programme of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2022), the Berlin Senate’s New Music Working Scholarship (2022 and 2018), the Musikfonds e.V. scholarship (2023 and 2021). In 2023 he was honoured with a portrait CD in the Edition Zeitgenössische Musik of the German Music Council on the WERGO label. Feizabadi’s works are performed by renowned ensembles and orchestras: Ensemble Adapter, Sonar Quartet, LUX:NM contemporary music ensemble berlin, ensemble unitedberlin and Bochumer Symphoniker. His projects have been presented internationally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023, Berlin International Film Festival 2022, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Klangwerkstatt Berlin 2020, Festival for New Music, Festival Voicing Яesistance at Maxim Gorki Theatre, 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