UMS'nJIP - kafka

UMS'nJIP - kafka
MEbU chamber music concerts

Date
Sunday January 11, 2026, 7.30 pm

Participants
UMS'nJIP (Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Javier Hagen)

Duration: 70m

venue
MEbU (Münster Earport)
Furkastrasse 647, 3985 Münster (Goms)
http://m ebu.umsnjip.ch

Admission free (collection)
Reservation recommended: mebu@umsnjip.ch

PROGRAM

Javier Hagen/JIP
kafka

6 stories by Franz Kafka and a poem by R.M. Rilke
for voice, recorders and electronics, 2020-2025, world premiere

1. distracted looking out
2. at night
3 I have returned
4. desire to become an Indian
5. the next village
6. from: The Hunger Artist
Epilogue: The Panther (Rilke)

Kafka is a concert program with settings of 6 short stories by the German-Czech author Franz Kafka, followed by Rilke's famous Panther, to which Kafka's novella The Hunger Artist directly refers. World literature and the most subtle vocal and instrumental timbres blend with UMS'nJIP's electropop to create a unique concert experience. With over 1500 concerts in 40 countries, UMS'nJIP is one of the most active contemporary new music ensembles. In 2022, they settled in Goms and founded the MEbU (Münster Earport), a music venue for contemporary music in the heart of the Valais Alps.
UMS'nJIP are one of the most active ensembles for contemporary new music: over 1500 concerts in 40 countries, guest lectureships at over 50 universities worldwide and over 35 international prizes line their almost 20-year artistic path. In 2022, they will settle in Goms and establish the MEbU (Münster Earport), an art space for contemporary music in the heart of the Valais Alps.
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