Suppressed Music Reawakened: From Archive to Sound

Join us for an evening marking three years of the Reawakening Suppressed Music project, presenting recent work to bring suppressed orchestral music back to life through research, recordings and performances.

The event will combine historical insight with guided listening and will feature music by composers whose works were suppressed under the Nazi regime, including Robert Kahn, Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Hans Krieg, Rosy Wertheim and Ignatz Waghalter.

Contributions from Dr Barbara Warnock, Dr Abigail Dolan and Dr Shelley Katz will introduce the Library’s work on documenting suppressed culture, present the research and recordings produced by the project, and guide audiences through highlights from the recordings.

Dr. Shelley Katz is a conductor, pianist, and music technologist, and inventor, conductor and Artistic Director of Symphonova. A graduate of the Juilliard School, he worked as a conductor of the Duisburg Studio Orchestra, the Theater der Stadt Koblenz and the Staatstheater Mainz. As a pianist, he has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Capriccio, and Koch/Schwann, performing with renowned artists including Jochen Kowalski, Gwyneth Jones and Nikolai Gedda. His research in sound reproduction, gestural control, and virtual acoustics led to the invention of Symphonova, revolutionizing digital orchestral performance. A former Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, he holds multiple patents and a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey (Tonmeister).

Dr. Abigail Dolan’s career combines international performances as a flautist, academic research and leadership roles in music innovation. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across Europe, the Far East, and Israel, with recordings on Hessische Rundfunk, Radio Suisse Romande and Selena Records. Holding a PhD from King’s College London, her research in historical and cognitive performance studies earned the AVI and Edison Fellowships. Abigail was a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, founded the Intimate Engagements concert series at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and is co-founder and CEO of Symphonova.

Dr Barbara Warnock is Co-Director of the Wiener Holocaust Library. During her time at the Library she has curated a number of successful exhibitions including Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust, Berlin-London; The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon; Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today, and Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti, amongst others. She is the author (with John March) of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019), a Spectator Book of the Year, and the editor of Anti-Antisemitism: Countering Anti-Jewish Racism in Western Europe, 1890-2022 (2022). She has written a number of articles on refugee history, the Nazi persecution of Roma and the history of The Wiener Holocaust Library. She obtained her Doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2016. She was for many years a history teacher and examiner.

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