News Blog

Dear Friends,
 
Hugo Kauder's viola concerto has been restored! We are cooperating with Maestro Leon Botstein and violist Luosha Fang on an all-Kauder performance and recording. The program will tell the story of Hugo Kauder in musical terms and showcase the scope of his instrumental compositions. Emerging musicians of The Orchestra Now will rehearse with Luosha Fang.

Another exciting piece of news is about the former Hugo Kauder competition winner, oboist Ivan Danko: Ivan has been appointed as professor at the Bruckner University of Music in Linz, Austria. Earlier this month he played a number of Hugo Kauder pieces at his inaugural concert. He has launched a major Hugo Kauder research project with members of his department.

Last not least, hornist Emily Boyer played the Kleine Abendmusik, a melancholic horn solo, at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT. Musicians in the audience were excited to learn more about Hugo Kauder. We look forward to cooperating more with the Neighborhood Music School.

A brief reminder: on June 29th the Euclid Quartet and friends will perform Kauder's sextet at Music Mountain.It's the 100th anniversary of its premiere!

While we are working on these exciting endeavors we are busy with raising the funds to make these and all other plans happen. We would be utterly grateful if you join us in our fundraising campaign, May 7th and 8th are the big giving days.

Wishing you all a very happy spring!

Your Hugo Kauder Society team
 
 

Dear Friends, 

2025 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the Hugo Kauder Society. Hugo Kauder’s music will be presented at four outstanding venues: at the Fisher Center at Bard College and at Carnegie Hall, under Leon Botstein’s baton; at the Black Mountain College Museum with the exceptional Tesla Quartet; and at the Music Mountain Festival in Falls Village, CT, where the Euclid Quartet returns with invited guests to play Kauder’s 1916 Sextet. We can only do this work with your help.

Looking back on 2024 we at the Hugo Kauder Society are utterly grateful for a number of new beginnings and share our gratitude to everyone who has been involved with the Society since its inception 20 years ago. Please enjoy these recent highlights: 

-  Helen Kauder, granddaughter of Hugo Kauder, gave a major part of the Kauder estate including autograph manuscripts, photographs, letters and other biographical documents to Exilarte in Vienna. With the help of the Austrian Cultural Forum, five boxes were shipped from New York to Vienna where the content will be digitized, organized for their archive and soon be made available for musicians, scholars, and general audiences interested in Hugo Kauder, in his music and in his era.

-   We have started conversations about joint future programming on both sides of the Atlantic, e.g. with Exilarte in Vienna and Elysium Between Two Continents in New York, with Kauder biographer Karin Wagner in Linz/Vienna, with the Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, NC, and the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT.

-   Hugo Kauder’s music was broadcast on WMNR with full hour of storytelling and music to Hugo Kauder, and a Kauder quartet was included in the classical music program on WSHU.

-   We welcomed a new manager, Barbara Bechtolsheim, who brings her passion for music, expertise as a cultural historian, an experience with organizing concerts and events to the job. 

We hope we can count on your continued support. Your donations will go to the preservation and digitizing of two of Hugo Kauder’s handwritten manuscripts, the 1916 sextet and his 1932 viola concerto, both to be performed and recorded in 2025, thus making the scores accessible to future generations of musicians and audiences. These exciting rediscoveries are only possible with your help. And there is more to come!  Thank you for your generosity. 

We look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming concerts; we will share the dates with you soon.

Happy holidays and a happy New Year!

The Hugo Kauder Society team