Isabel Anders: Piano Solo & Julia Biłat: Cello Solo

Schedule

Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00
Location

Emmauskirche | Berlin, BE

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📌9. July 2026
📍Emmauskirche
(Lausitzer Pl. 8 A,
10997 Berlin Germany)
Tickets at the entrance 10-20€ on Donation / Online - Tickets: https://www.evkgk.de/b/isabel-anders-julia-bilat-47196304
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Isabel Anders & Julia Biłat - two solo projects that explore the intersection of improvisation with classical and contemporary musical traditions.
Kindly supported by the GEMA Foundation.
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Julia Biłat „Improvisation in the context of a contemporary ** and XXI classical Cello repertoire“
Julia Biłat moves with the cello at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and performance. In her solo work, she expands the instrument through voice and movement, developing intense musical forms, in which sound and performative presence become inseparable. In this new project, she combines her work with the 20th-century cello repertoire, building a bridge between improvisation, performance and the tradition of european classical music. The improvisational language of this project is inspired by composers such as Penderecki, Dutilleux, Cassadó, and Lutosławski. By uniting her various influences, the project not only revives a fading tradition but also contributes to the ongoing renaissance of the cello as an instrument open to new approaches, techniques, and styles—positioning improvisation as an essential and living part of its repertoire.
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Isabel Anders: „24 IMPROVISED PRÉLUDES“
Isabel Anders is a pianist, composer, and improviser who presents a new cycle consisting of 24 Improvised Préludes for solo piano. Marked by a distinctly composed character, the music moves between classical avant-garde, late Romanticism, and Impressionism. It evokes harmonic tension and expressive intensity through ambiguity, color, and inherent tension. Pages in different colors create a framework that mirrors the character of each section. The cycle unfolds in three parts: an opening, a central section, and a final group of preludes. From the central section onward, the atmosphere becomes increasingly intense. Rhythmic pulse and sharp accentuation emerge—urgent, vivid, and dramatically expressive. The Project is strongly inspired by the composer Alexander Scriabin.
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Julia Biłat is a Berlin-based classically trained cellist, improviser, and composer working across jazz, classical, performance and experimental scenes. She performs with Stegreif.Orchester, Camila Nebbia’s The Hanged One and Fabiana Striffler’s Archiotic Quintet among others. Commissioned by Stegreif.Orchester, Biłat has composed music for several productions, including a recomposition of Hildegard Von Bingen's “Ordo Virtutum” performed at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in 2022. Her solo work integrates improvisation, composition, and performance using cello, body and extended voice techniques. Performances include Butohpolis Festival (Warsaw), Into The Open (Berlin), Intermittenze (Catania), Artacts (St.Johann, Austria). Julia Biłat is currently working on a new solo album, to be released in September 2026 by 'Relative Pitch Records' label.
https://www.juliabilat.com
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Isabel Omara E. Anders (born in 2001) is a German/Cuban pianist, composer, and improviser based in Berlin. She started to improvise at an early age and began studying classical piano at the age of six. She later studied with Prodromos Symeonidis and Vladimir Tropp, focusing on Scriabin alongside works by Schönberg, Messiaen, and Debussy. She shifted her focus to contemporary music, composition and improvisation, studying with Sascha Dragićević and Stefan Streich. Since 2022, she has been involved in residencies and concert tours with groups and musicians such as Ignaz Schick, Tobias Delius, Biliana Voutchkova, Yuko Kaseki, Marc Schmolling, The London Improvisers Orchestra, Christian Lillinger…Appereances at Leoš Janáček Memorial Museum (Brno), Le Comptoir Halle Roublot (Paris), Kunitachy Community Arts Center (Tokyo), STOP OVER Residency (Berlin), Blurred Edges Festival (Hamburg), Roxy Theatre (Basel)…
https://isabel-anders.de
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Photo Credits:
Biłat: D'Amico Curva Minore
Anders: Manuel Miethe
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