Ari Benjamin Meyers

You are currently conducting the "Dreigroschenoper“ in Maxim Gorki Theater, in a staging of "Kirschgarten“ you are an ax-swinging pianist. At the Berlin club Watergate you have put on a series of club nights featuring contemporary music and perform with your Redux Orchestra on keyboard and laptop. And we both met because you wrote a chamber opera, "Nico. Sphinx aus Eis", for the studio stage of the Semperoper Dresden. This list of your musical activities is not even complete, but shows an astonishing spectrum of musical passions. Are you an all-around baroque musician?
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Theater der Zeit, 5/05 (in an interview with H-G. Wegner)

Selected Work

UPCOMING EichbaumOper (collaboration with raumlaborberlin, Schauspiel Essen, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim, and Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen) // Musikmaschine (collaboration with La Fura dels Baus, Theater Saarbrücken) // Pink Taxi (film music, Uli Gaulke director) // SYMPHONY X (Redux Orchestra, CD release) // Celan (band project, CD release) // 2008 Untitled by Tino Sehgal (Music Director, HAU Eins Berlin) // Berlin Alexanderplatz (Thomas Krupa director, Theater Freiburg) // NY2022 (collaboration with Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Guggenheim Museum New York) // Forgetting Dad (film music, Filmorchester Babelsberg, Rick Minnich director) // 2007 MODEM (Artistic Director) // Manchester International Festival: Il Tempo del Postino (Music Director/Composer) // ORBIT: Black Room Project (video/performance project) // Symphony X (Redux Orchestra) // 2006 Diameter 761 (sound installation) // Der gute Mensch von Sezuan // Die Unzerbrechlichen (film music) // Club Redux 6 - NSI // Club Redux 7 - Sun Electric // Club Redux 8 - The Orb // CD Release: Einstürzenede Neubauten- Klaviermusik // CD Release: Redux Orchestra vs. Einstürzende Neubauten // COBRA // 2005 Nico. Sphinx aus Eis (Opera) // Der Kirschgarten // Club Redux 1 - Terry Riley // Club Redux 2 - Steve Reich // Club Redux 3 - Philip Glass // Club Redux 4 - Rave // Club Redux 5 - Einstürzende Neubauten // Einstein on the Beach (Parochialkirche) // American Song Project (Semper Opera Dresden) // 2004 Die drei Schwestern // String Quartet Nr. 2 // Epidemic // Dreigroschenoper (Gorki Theater) // Marx Brothers Radio Show // Nachtasyl // Three Days in September // 2003 Six Shakespare Songs // Bach // The Tractatus // Beckmann in New York (quartet version) // Macbeth // Sphinx aus Eis (theater) //Hure - Damit keine Stille entsteht // CD Release: Enemies of Enormity // TOYZ // 2002 Die Flut + Four Quartets // Club Noir// Thoratorium // In C - Live im Cookies // 2001 A Brief History of Dance //DSCH // Einstein on the Beach (Staatsbank) // Beckmann in New York // 2000 Dreigroschenoper (Kulturbrauerei) // Defendants Rosenberg // Millennium Daze // 1999 John Doe Gesellschaft // An Evening with Arlo Guthrie (arrangements) // Mahagonny Songspiel/Songs aus Happy End // L.T.I. // Gift Fish/Dead Sea // König, König...