Martin Kohlstedt
Martin Kohlstedt is one of the outstanding composers, pianists, and producers for instrumental music and electronica. His previous albums and their accompanying reworks have received international recognition, accompanied by concert tours around the world. In his concerts, Martin Kohlstedt sets standards in how cutting-edge electronica productions can come together with analog and acoustic mindsets from classical piano, ambient, field recordings, and score design. Kohlstedt manages to intuitively find a common form for influences from such different worlds and create a vibrant body from it: an immersive concert experience.
Kohlstedt describes his way of working as modular composing, with pieces constantly in motion and following no fixed form even in concert. Improvisation is an essential part of his creation process, as well as maintaining a dialogue with the audience, the courage to fail, the search, and interaction with people, space, and context. Martin Kohlstedt has already collaborated with renowned partners such as the GewandhausChor Leipzig, artists like Douglas Dare, Sudan Archives, Henrik Schwarz, and labels like Warner Classics. In addition to his own pieces, Kohlstedt also writes soundtracks for films, plays, podcasts, and radio plays. With the Edition Kohlstedt, he leads his own label and seeks to fulfill his responsibility as an artist with his own reforestation project.
Doors open: 7 pm