Between the Foreign and the Dream

Songs and Piano—A Time of Uncertainty, A Time of Love

The program oscillates between a sense of new beginnings and stillness, between the familiar that slips away and the unfamiliar that gradually becomes one’s own. What it means to have no home in Schumann’s forests and yet to sing there—that is the unspoken question this evening poses.

Tenor Volker Nietzke, who hails from South Africa and lives in Berlin, brings an international perspective to the German art song tradition.

Xiaohui Li grew up in China and earned her artistic diploma at the Hamburg Conservatory—in the very heart of the city where the German art song has found a special home since the days of Brahms and Groth.
Xinmin Wanbao (Evening News of the New People) praised her as a soprano with “remarkable precision and artistic mastery.”
KaJeng Wong, originally from Hong Kong, is one of Asia’s most sought-after pianists—Martha Argerich called him “a special pianist,” and Claude Frank described him as the most talented musician of his generation.
Three performers, three stories of origin, one shared program—and an evening that demonstrates that great music isn’t created where you grew up, but where you end up.

Program

Robert Schumann / Franz Schubert / Claude Debussy / Franz LisztTranslated with DeepL

Price info: Starting at 35 euros

Booking: Tickets online starting at €35

Next date:

• Date Friday, 30/October/2026 19:00
• Venue Mendelssohn-Remise
• Address Jägerstraße 51, 10117 Berlin-Mitte