ARTIST

Christian Kesten

Musician, composer


Christian Kesten is a composer, vocalist and performer. He has received commissions from international ensembles and realized full-length works in stage spaces such as Radialsystem V Berlin, Schauspielhaus Wuppertal, Théâtre 2.21 Lausanne and at festivals in Beijing, Copenhagen, New York, Los Angeles, etc. He has shown his solo performances for voice, body, objects and video in Europe, North and South America, Japan and China. Kesten is a member of the experimental vocal and music performance ensemble Maulwerker and conceives the annual series »maulwerker performing music« at Ballhaus Ost. He co-curates the series Labor Sonor for experimental music, film and performance and is artistic co-director of the transdisciplinary Labor Sonor festivals.

Artist's activities

Christian Kesten. Picture by Abril Padilla
Event in Biel/Bienne, Workshop
May 17 2025, Biel/Bienne: “Listening to the Space In-Between”
Maulwerker. Picture by Anja Weber
Concert / Performance, Event in Biel/Bienne
May 16, Biel/Bienne: Maulwerker performs Textures spatiales, a program with new works from Annette Schmucki, Abril Padilla, Jonas Kocher, Steffi Weismann and Alessandro Bosetti

Artist's editions

CD cover front Br5
CD, Digital Release
Jonas Kocher, 2016

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