LIGHT IN MUSIC. MUSIC IN LIGHT.

Light in music. Music in light. In rare moments, they intertwine—and in those moments, we realize what art is capable of: helping us feel life in all its fullness.

This collaboration brings together two artists from different worlds: Munich-based pianist Vivien Walser and South Korean light installation artist Ligyung, who has captivated audiences worldwide with her large-scale media installations. Together, they create an evening that blurs the boundaries between the senses.

Musically, the focus is on works by Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, and Olivier Messiaen. For all of them, light played a significant role—not only as a metaphor, but in a very concrete sense. For Schumann, light was a symbol of emotional states—those fleeting moments of enlightenment in which love, hope, and poetry lift people beyond the mundane. Olivier Messiaen firmly linked musical sounds and keys to visual colors and patterns of light. Scriabin assigned colors to notes and dreamed of a total work of art combining music, light, scent, architecture, and movement; to this end, he devised the “color piano,” which generates colored projections in time with the music. 

Ligyung’s light installations take up these musical impulses—not as illustrations, but as works in their own right. They breathe with the music, come into being in the same moment, and exist in the now.

At the “ ELEKTRA TONQUARTIER ” at the Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, two artists and two worlds come together. Pianist Vivien Walser engages in a dialogue with the light installations by LIGYUNG—one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary media installation artists. Together, they create an evening that blurs the boundaries between the senses.

A classical piano recital meets a contemporary media installation. Two artists. One experience. One evening.

TICKETS

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Artists

Vivien Walser – Piano
Korean Chamber Orchestra
Han-gyeol Jeong – Guest Conductor

The Lotte Concert Hall, which opened in 2016 in the Lotte World Tower, is one of South Korea’s most modern concert halls, with approximately 2,000 seats. Vivien Walser will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor as soloist—a youthful, virtuosic work, composed in one continuous movement, brimming with tempestuous energy and lyrical depth.

Founded in 1965, the Korean Chamber Orchestra (KCO) is one of Korea’s leading private, nonprofit ensembles and is equally dedicated to performing chamber music at the highest level and to fostering exceptionally talented young musicians. Over more than six decades, the orchestra, under the leadership of its music director Min Kim, has built an outstanding international reputation, having been honored as a UN Peace Orchestra.

Guest conductor Han-gyeol Jeong, one of the most distinguished conductors of his generation in Korea, will lead the evening’s musical Conductor . After studying in Seoul and at the Mannheim University of Music, he was a finalist in the 2021 German Conducting Competition and was accepted into the German Music Council’s Conductors’ Forum. He has conducted orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the German Radio Philharmonic, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, and the Stuttgart Philharmonic, as well as the Seoul Philharmonic, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, and the Korean Chamber Orchestra.

Program

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25