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Vitae |
 Stephanie
Haas studied at the Stuttgart Academy of Music und Performing Arts with
Konrad Richter, Helmut Lachenmann and Ellinor Junker-Giesen. In the 1990s
she concentrated mainly on works by composers that were banned by fascism
(in 1991 she gave the first worlwide performance of Gideon Klein's Lieder
op.1). Stephanie Haas lives an intensive collaboration with contemporary
composers, who are writing for her. In 1997 she sang the first performance
of Sofia Gubaidulina's "From the Visions of Hildegard von Bingen". From
there she found her way to the composer Hildegard von Bingen. Accompanied
by one of the best connaisseurs of Hildegards music, the musicologist Dr.
Barbara Stühlmeyer, Stephanie Haas has become one of the most important
singers of the songs of Hildegard of Bingen. Her interpretation of
Hildegard's songs derives from intensive study of the handwritten sources
and great sensitivity for the relationship between the text and musical
phrasing. |
 Christoph
Haas was brought up with classical music. From 1961-1965 he sang with the
"Stuttgart Hymnus", a famous boy's choir. 1966 he started to play the
drums. Since the 1980s he went on to study the great rhythm cultures of
the world in West Africa, Latin America and Southern India. As a solo
percussionist he developed extensive international concert activities. He
developed innovative techniques on the Persian-Indian long-necked lute
tambura. His compositions for percussion solo and chamber music are
characterised by multilayered polyrhythmics, often in odd time metres and
with a sophisticated handling of timbre and harmonics. |