KlangART Vision 2026
“The KlangART Vision festival will hold its seventh edition in 2026. This year we want to center contemporary music from Saxony-Anhalt and beyond around the cosmos of musician and composer Miles Davis (1926–1991). He would have turned 100 this year.” (Markus Steffen, Artistic Director of the festival)
Born out of jazz, his musical styles shifted several times over the course of his life. Bebop, cool jazz, funk, symphonic music and much more shaped his development. In particular, his engagement with composers of New Music such as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and the Schoenberg school around Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg fed into his late work.
Miles Davis’s body of work is marked by an innovative creative force that gave decisive impulses to modern jazz. Yet he never lost sight of his musical roots.
The festival once again seeks to trace and convey this aura, whether orchestral, chamber music, in the independent scene, or through workshops within the composition classes of Saxony-Anhalt.
Collaboration with the musical institutions, municipalities and communities of the state will once again be at the center of the events. Media distribution through online forums will also be offered again.
The goal is to use and intensify the perception of contemporary music and its aura, and through symbioses and connections to various genres and their devotees, to inspire new audience groups.