Andrea Belfi

Find the trailer to my most recent spoken word opera 'TODESFUGE / DEATH FUGUE', based on the poetry of Paul Celan, in German and English language (with subtitles) at Maxim Gorki Theatre / Studio я. Proud to say all shows have been sold out so far. Tonight is the last show before the end of the year. Find tickets under the link in bio. We return to the stage on February 1st. Trailer by the one and only only @etritainment . @andreabelfi @eddie.barroso @elena_kakaliagou @kidogohn @lindylarssonforss @steve_katona @wanda.portal @muratdikenci @meerajoellebhatti @marco.michelle_ @elisabeth_kuntze @maxim_gorki_theater

"We judged for love, while our hearts sat uneasily in our pockets, we judged in love's name." The spoken word opera I PITY THE GARDEN with poetry by Forough Farrokhzad is currently on display at the Studio Я @maxim_gorki_theater . The piece is performed in English language with German subtitles. For further information, tickets and performance dates, please use the link in bio. Trailer: Etritanë Emini @etritainment Direction, Stage and Costumes: Nazanin Noori @nznnsmmnr Composition: Andrea Belfi @andreabelfi Live Music: Andrea Belfi (Drums / Electronics), Sofia Salvo (Baritone Saxophone / Flute) @andreabelfi @salvosoff Performers: Kate Strong (Spoken Word), Samin Ghorbani (Classical Iranian Singer), Steve Katona (Countertenor) @katestrong76 @samin_ghorbanii @steve_katona Dramaturgy: Murat Dikenci @muratdikenci Please note: Strobe light effects will be used during the performance. #foroughfarrokhzad #ipitythegarden #spokenword #doomjazz #ambient #newclassical #folk #experimental #countertenor

Hailing from Italy and Australia respectively, @andreabelfi and @jules_reidy are Berlin-based musicians and composers whose collaborative work investigates the edges of post-rock, minimalism and abstraction, blurring the lines between structure and improvisation. On Friday, 22 May at the Kiezsalon season opening, the duo presents their 2024 debut album ‘dessus oben alto up,’ released on @marionettelabel , for the first time. They play alongside New York-based producer alice does computer music and Glasgow’s Susannah Stark with her band. Tickets via linktr.ee/digitalinberlin and in our bio 🔗 Album artwork by Andreas Bauer. #kiezsalon #kiezsalon2026 #KS26 #digitalinberlin #andreabelfi #julesreidy #schlossbritz

working on the poetry of paul celan has been one of the most moving artistic dialogues i’ve ever had. collaborating on this work with @wanda.portal @eddie.barroso @lindylarssonforss @steve_katona @kidogohn @elena_kakaliagou @andreabelfi @muratdikenci brought something into being that could have not come about in any other way. together, we took the risk of expressing what is, at its core, deeply human and therefore divine. at the same time, we placed a finger in the wound of those who seek to detach german history from the present. in doing so, we were quickly confronted with the outrage of those who instrumentalize this very responsibility to obscure their own forms of dehumanization, projecting them instead onto those who are simply crying out for life, and those who are crying with them. especially in light of the current political climate in germany, this became unmistakably clear with this work. and it spoke for itself. due to a new curatorial program at @maxim_gorki_theater from the next season on, our spoken word opera TODESFUGE will be shown only two more times, on may 1st and may 26th, after which it will not be performed again. beautiful images captured by beautiful @etritainment .

10.10.2025 – The Arcarde Orchestra plays a tribute concert for Dean Roberts @km28berlin Is there a right way to remember someone? Probably not. Like the filming of a written story, it will necessarily betray the collection of images, sounds, impressions, projections that we created for ourselves. After Dean Roberts’ passing, many of us felt the need to come together in his absence, to commemorate him as a friend and as an artist. Music and a little irony felt – if not the only right way to do so – one that felt natural to us. Inspired by his seminal 1998 record All Cracked Medias, we thought of coming together as the ‘cracked’ pieces of an imaginary band, taking on an equally scattered and performance-based approach to music-making. The open-endedness, the loose form, the glitches, the unpredictable cracks in the seemingly uninterrupted surface of sound, the space and the moment as part of the piece, the stratification of sound. There is something extremely powerful about something, or someone, that could fall to pieces at any moment, yet doesn’t. The tension, the energy, and the beauty that reside in the very unpredictability of the unsettled parts of a whole. On this evening, we, Andrea Belfi, Adrián de Alfonso, Margareth Kammerer, Stefano Pilia, Emanuele and Elisabetta Porcinai, and Valerio Tricoli, will be performing a continuous piece for percussions, guitars, voice and tape, in which nothing has its given place but somehow does ultimately fall into place. We’ll be drawing from Dean’s repertoire in our many different but equally personal ways, in the hope of creating a space for joyful remembrance. Friday 10, October, 2025 KM28 Karl-Marx-Str. 28, 12043 Berlin Doors 20:00 Start time 20:30 @andreabelfi @adriandealfonso @margareth.kammerer @stefanopiliaviviani @emanuelewsr @intheseawkwardvoids @valerio_tricoli

- “Above My Door, There Is Knocking” by drummer and composer Andrea Belfi focuses on two acoustic percussive instruments: a bass drum and a cymbal. Both merge into a broader electronic composition. The piece was developed during a residency at MONOM in Berlin, using their 4DSOUND system, and was presented at the SPATIAL festival in Berlin and at Lobe Studio in Vancouver. @andreabelfi - Gear(s) & Glass by Romain Azzaro and Jeanne Briand, was crafted from the echoes of shattered glass. Throw a glass onto the floor, and it breaks,” Azzaro explains. “The sound lasts forever.” This spatial sound experience deepens the exploration into a question often debated between the two artists: What might machine music sound like if crafted from glass? The glass may shatter, but it is reborn as glistening granules of sound. @romainazzaro @jeannebriand_ - With “Scatter, Swarm, Sublimate”, by Casimir Geelhoed, Casimir connects methodologies of noise music, counterpoint and spatial sound, making expressive use of the tipping point at which individually perceivable sound sources melt into overarching sound masses. His piece combines dazzling environments of overstimulation with moments of fleeting clarity - a sublime surrender. In memory of Ivan / IOANN. @casimirgeelhoed - IOANN was the artist project of Ivan Sapozhkov. Since 2006, he experimented with forms of electronic sound and virtual instruments, working in the field of experimental sound, film and theatre. In 2014, Sapozhkov founded his experimental sound studio and label Negativespace. On 2016 he was Artist-in-Residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. @ioannsound All works will be presented in @4dsound across Saal 2 and MONOM Studio at @funkhaus_berlin .

Waiting for Godot. In 2024 I composed the music for Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” under the direction of @ulrichrasche at @schauspielhausbochum . For this project, I have been lucky to collaborate with @boniface_____ @spelcamastnak @sevensetti and #hilaryjeffery and many more. Direction: @ulrichrasche Actors: Steven Scharf, @guyclemens , @dominikdosreis , @yannik.stoe Stage Design: Ulrich Rasche, @franz_dittrich_design Costume Design: @_annikalu_ Lighting: Sirko Lamprecht Composition, Musical Direction: Andrea Belfi Musical Assistance: Alfred Brooks Dramaturgy: @medi_terrain Assistant Direction: Linda Hecker, Mattis Krems, David Moser Stage Design Assistance: @lukas_koetz Costume Assistance: Jana Kuhlemeier Prompter: Dr. Arian Schill Speech Coaching: Roswitha Dierck Stage Management: Ulrike Schaper Directorial Internship: Berrit Sandkühler Stage Design Internship: Zora Mette Costume Internship: Vesa Osmani, Merle Bismark Musicians: Andrea Belfi, Alfred Brooks, Hilary Jeffery, Špela Mastnak Pictures by Jörg Zimmermann

A JAMES MACMILLAN LAMENT REWORK. Copenhagen-based @thelakeradio has commissioned a 20-minute radio art piece by Andrea Belfi and Nazanin Noori. The title is 'A JAMES MACMILLAN LAMENT REWORK'.   Scottish composer and conductor James MacMillan intertwines the political and the spiritual in his work. He draws on Catholic and Scottish musical traditions, while addressing liberation theology. His composition ‘Tuireadh’ (Lament) is dedicated to the 167 victims of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster. Piper Alpha was an oil platform that exploded and collapsed under the effect of sustained gas jet fires in 1988. Mcmillan's lament for the dead premiered on June 25, 1991, at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Scotland. Nazanin Noori and Andrea Belfi have reworked ‘Tuireadh’, incorporating drums, rhythmic percussion and modular electronics, as a tribute to the cries of mourners of human cost. You can find the link to the piece in Bio. Photographed by the one and only @etritainment in the exhibition 'THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST' @ccaberlin .

OUT NOW! Pleased to announce that today my album with the one and only @jules_reidy “dessus oben alto up” was released by @marionettelabel . Music by Jules Reidy and me Recorded @calliesberlin by @marco.anulli Additional recording at Studio Distante Mixed and Mastered by @joetalia Cut by Noel Summerville Artwork by Andreas Bauer Dedicated to Dean Roberts

excited to announce that @andreabelfi and i are working on the realization of a spoken word opera based on forough farrokhzad poems under the title 'I PITY THE GARDEN' with performer and actress @katestrong76 , classical iranian singer @samin_ghorbanii , countertenor @steve_katona , baritone saxophonist @salvosoff , dramaturg @muratdikenci and many more. the piece will premiere on the 17th of october in the studio of @maxim_gorki_theater . photo by @peteroliverwolff #foroughfarrokhzad #ipitythegarden #spokenword

Announcing the first collaborative recordings by @andreabelfi and @jules_reidy titled ‘dessus oben alto up’ - four expansive soundscapes that revolve around Reidy’s distinctive just-intoned guitar arpeggios shimmering over Belfi’s delicate brushwork and propulsive drum accents. Recorded with @marco.anulli manning the desk at the sound studio of Berlin’s Callie’s, an arts institution housed in a 19th century machine factory where the pair was working together during a residency. Pre-order the album and listen to ‘up’ on the label’s bandcamp page. Out on November 8 (LP/Digital Download) and distributed by @honestjonsrecords / @morr_music . Artwork by Andreas Bauer Photo by Camille Blake

. IT‘S COMING ! . postproduction almost done . see you soon! .