Windspiel – Duo für Neue Musik
Verena Wüsthoff, recorders & Eva Zöllner, accordion

Windspiel – contemporary music duo was founded in the year 2000 by Verena Wüsthoff and Eva Zöllner. Both musicians are mainly dedicated to the performance of contemporary music and they work passionately to explore and advance their instruments´ repertoire and to present it in new contexts. Since 20 years the two musicians astound the public with their lively and authentic interpretations.

REPERTOIRE (selection)
Juan Jose Barcenas: micropersuasion (2008) *WP
Diana Cemeryte: TePraII (2017) *WP
Georgina Derbez: La forca, il sparvier (2007) *WP
Manolis Ekmektsoglou: Like we´ve met before (2019) *WP
Arturo Fuentes: GETMOVE (2011/12) *WP
Beat Gysin: Anor (2006) *WP acc/rec/tape
Keiko Harada: Third Ear Deaf (2002)
Toshio Hosokawa: Birds Fragments IIIb (2002)
Raphael Languillat: Pietà (Black) (2017) *WP
Gerhard Müller-Hornbach: mild und leise (2005)
Adrian Nagel: Stationen (2019) acc/rec/elec *WP
Kumiko Omura: von jenseits des Flusses (2005) *WP
Eleni Ralli: would you like to talk to me (2019) *WP
Fabrizio de Rossi Re: I will cry 96 tears (2010) *WP
Simon Vosecek: Durst! (2012) *WP

PROGRAMMES
– sing to me of heaven
a church concert with music by J. Cage, M. Lavista, S. Gubaidulina, G. Derbez
– ORANGE NOISE accordion, recorders, electronics
music by B. Gysin, P. Köszeghy, G. Kampe
– In the bamboo forest
Japanese chamber music by K. Harada, T. Hosokwa, N. Kawakami

Verena Wüsthoff studied the recorder at the Academy of Music Cologne (D) and the Academy of Arts HKB, Berne (CH) and is a dedicated performer of contemporary music, both as soloist and as a member or guest of various ensembles (Windspiel, The Slide Show Secret, Tibia, QNG etc.)
A great interest in contemporary chamber music for recorder, and the development of innovative concert-programmes that combine music with media and other arts are vital aspects of her artistic work. In order to develop and explore the recorder-repertoire for new sounds and dramatic qualities she pursues the cooperation and dialogue with composers and artists all over the world, currently Mexico, Germany, Switzerland and Australia. As a result, new chamber music pieces for the recorder are being written by various composers and premiered by Windspiel | Contemporary Music Duo.
She regularly tours Europe and abroad for concerts, and her programmes have been staged at well-known festivals and concert series, such as Biennale Berne, CH, El Colegio Nacional, MX, Hiram CFS, USA, Documenta Kassel, D etc.
Lectures and composers’ workshops in cooperation with universities and cultural institutions (e.g. IMD, UCSD, FNM Young Composers Project, Monash University etc.) complement her artistic work.
In 2003 she won the special award for “most dramatic performance” at the international CHAIN-competition for contemporary music in Riga. She was artist-in-residence at SITKA Center for Art&Ecology USA (2007) and visiting artist at Hiram College OH, USA (09) and Monash University Melbourne (10). Verena has received grants from the American Recorder Society (07), the Toepfer-Stiftung Hamburg (08) and Ohio Arts Council (09).