Project Curator

Since starting out in the early 1990s after the fall of the Berlin wall, I have been curating projects in the arts. As director of ENSEMBLE ÉMIGRÉ I regularly devise concerts based on my research at the Royal College of Music. I have also curated many projects in the field of historical performance and art song, including a staged production and feature film of the Goethe-Singspiel 'Erwin und Elmire' as well as concerts and recordings featuring the songs of C.P.E Bach, Engel Lund and Robert Kahn. Prior to my musical projects I devised a number of international visual arts exhibitions for ACC Galerie Weimar.

Selected Projects

Rediscovering the music of Robert Kahn

Robert Kahn (1865-1951) was a highly successful composer of songs and chamber music who fled to England from Nazi persecution in 1939. So far this project with musicians from the Royal College of Music and ENSEMBLE ÉMIGRÉ, dedicated to reviving and re-evaluating his music, has included concerts at the RCM, the German Embassy London and the Akademie der Künste Berlin as well as a CD production.

Find out more about the Robert Kahn project.

ENSEMBLE ÉMIGRÉ

This ensemble has grown from Norbert's research at the Royal College of Music. It devises concerts, often with theatrical narration, to explore the theme of Music and Migration.

Please visit the Ensemble website:

ensemble-emigre.com

REVUE WHAT A LIFE! (2012-14)

A semi staged performance of the chamber revue by Hans Gal, written in 1940 in an internment camp on the Isle of Man. With narration of excerpts from the composer's diary "Music behind Barbed Wire".

Performances at:

Royal College of Music

Festival Verfemte Musik Schwerin, Germany

German Historical Institute, London

Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France

INSIDE LIEDER (2011)

Study Course for Birkbeck, University of London

at Wigmore Hall, in collaboration with Wigmore Hall

Learning and the Austrian Cultural Forum London

ERWIN UND ELMIRE (2010)

Feature Film by Michael Dominski, filmed at historic venues in Weimar, with young singers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama London. Broadcast on ZDF Theaterkanal.

Find out more.

ERWIN UND ELMIRE @ Ekhof Festival Gotha (2009)

Full production of the Goethe Singspiel with music by Anna Amalia at the Ekhof Festival Gotha, Germany.

Directed by Christopher Gutmann

Conducted by Peter Tregear

ENGEL LUND'S BOOK OF FOLK SONGS

Concert project and CD production based on a unique collection of Folk Songs in 14 languages arranged by Ferdinand Rauter and published by the Icelandic Singer Engel Lund in 1936.

Recorded at the Royal College of Music Studio

Performances:

Austrian Embassy London 2008

Icelandic Opera, Reykjavik 2008

Marie Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust 2008

Jewish Museum Vienna 2009

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