"Kare-san-sui", a piano composition work by Eva-Maria Houben
dedicated to Sanae Kagaya, is released.

The CD of the piano composition work "kare-san-sui" has been released by Eva-Maria Houben who is the pianist, organist and composer from Germany. She dedicated to this piano piece "kare-san-sui" for Sanae Kagaya (TOMOE SHIZUNE & HAKUTOBO).
This work originates from the encounter between Eva-Maria Houben and Sanae Kagaya they participated in the program "KLANGRAUM" organized by contemporary music’s "edition wandelweiser" in Dusseldorf, Germany in the summer of 2019. During the five-days program, Eva-Maria Houben played piano every morning in her composition "Meditations sur le piano" series. Sanae Kagaya participated by Butoh in the work "kitan" planned by actor Joep Dorren. Sanae collaborated with Joep, Antoine Beuger who artistic director of wandelweiser and participating artists.
We, Eva-Maria Houben and Sanae Kagaya were deeply intimate with each other’s performances that were Eva-maria’s piano and Sanae’s Butoh and shared our emotions.
With this as an opportunity, Eva-Maria Houben began creating new compositions for Sanae Kagaya in 2019, leading to this release.
We would like to deliver the work that grew out of mutual friendship.
The score of this work is published by the "edition wandelweiser", and the CD is released by Eva Maria Houben's music label "diafani".

Outline of the Work

Eva-Maria Houben (born 1955) studied Music Education at Folkwang-Musikhochschule Essen and the organ with Gisbert Schneider. Following her exams she taught both German and Music Education at Secondary School. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral lecturing qualification in musicology and was called for lectures at Gerhard-Mercator-Universitat Duisburg and Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Dusseldorf. Since 1993 she has been lecturing at Dortmund University`s "Institut fur Musik und Musikwissenschaft", with both music theory and contemporary music as her focus.
Since 2000 her music is published by Edition Wandelweiser (Haan). Several CDs have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records, Another Timbre, Irritable Hedgehog, Makro. In 2012 she founded her own label diafani (www.diafani.de).
See the list of publications (musicology), concerning contemporary music and traditional music: www.evamariahouben.de
She performs works for organ and piano, as soloist as well as a member of duo, trio, ensemble.