Live improv set, 2/4/23 at the Sixth Street Community Center, on Julie and Elizabeth's Anti-Capitalist Concert Series in collaboration w/Art Worker's Inquiry.

Marina Kifferstein, solo (violin + voice)

Live improvisation 2/4/23

"they trace around us the unbroken figure" is the final movement of a multi-movement piece I wrote for solo violin, and four mostly untrained voices. The text comes from the following poem by Rainer Maria Rilke: 

English translation by Edward Snow:

For Hans Carossa

Losing is also ours; and even forgetting
has its shape in the permanent realm of change.
Things we've let go of circle; and though
we're rarely at the center
of these circles: they trace around us the unbroken figure.

Original German text:

Für Hans Carossa

Auch noch Verlieren ist unser; und selbst das Vergessen
hat noch Gestalt in dem bleibenden Reich der Verwandlung.
Losgelassenes kreist; und sind wir auch selten die Mitte
einem der Kreise: sie ziehn um uns die heile Figur.)

This is a live performance by TAK ensemble, February 2014

they trace around us the unbroken figure

Violin duo by Marina Kifferstein, written for/with Leah Asher. 
Live performance by Leah Asher and Marina Kifferstein in Darmstadt, Germany, July 2018

Izard

String quartet by Marina Kifferstein, written for The Rhythm Method. Live performance on the String Theories Festival at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY, March 2018
Marina Kifferstein + Leah Asher, violins; Wendy Richman, viola; Meaghan Burke, cello

An Alien With Extraordinary Abilities

excerpt from iphone rehearsal recording of my new trio for 2 violins and trombone, premiering tonight at Spectrum w Weston Olencki, Austin Wulliman, and myself

Trombone Trio Excerpt

premiere performance/live recording 
12/16/18 at Spectrum in brooklyn, NY

Austin Wulliman and Marina Kifferstein, violins
Weston Olencki, trombone

trio for 2 violins and trombone

Violin duo version of my Trio for 2 violins and trombone
Austin Wulliman and Marina Kifferstein, violins
Recorded by the wonderful Mary Kouyoumdjian in January 2019

violin duo (version of trio for 2 violins and trombone)

Trombone quintet by Marina Kifferstein
Premiere live performance with The Rhythm Method string quartet and Will Lang, trombone; Bernd Klug, audio engineer
Arete Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, January 2019

The Rhythm Method is Marina Kifferstein and Leah Asher, violins; Wendy Richman, viola; Meaghan Burke, cello

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