“A Room Full of Voices” – 24 hours of music and texts by female artists – poetic, engaging, stretching, and feminist! Embedded in the social and artistic questions of our time, pianist Fidan Aghayeva Edler, together with Nina Guo and Mareike Hein, presents more than 100 pieces by female composers, including 10 world premieres.

There are two works by Jobina Tinnemans on the program as well: Salomé for piano and a new work Point. Line. Plane. And JoJo (the Cat).

Virginia Woolf’s oft-quoted demand that female writers be provided with their own room for undisturbed artistic work and a moderate but regular income so that they can successfully turn their talent into art applies equally to female composers. With the Piano Marathon, Fidan Aghayeva-Edler, Nina Guo, and Mareike Hein create a “room of one’s own” for 24 hours – for the featured composers and for themselves. With literary, performative, and discursive texts from the 20th and 21st centuries, with quotations from manifestos and correspondence, with poetry, and inspired by performance artists such as Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, and Meredith Monk, the artists, equipped with voice, pen, paint, and their own bodies, enter into a dialogue with the composers and their works – and with the audience.

Mind map and artwork, performance and concert – the audience is invited to experience and help shape this space “full of voices” for 24 hours.

Participants: Fidan Aghayeva-Edler: Pianist; Nina Guo: Soprano and performance artist; Mareike Hein: Actress and visual artist; Teresa Reiber: Director