Upcoming and passed projects

Upcoming Events

Artfestival between the third and the firth of July 2026
48 Stunden Neukölln Berlin
https://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/festival
Music and Movement Performance (dance and voice)

Von Innen nach Außen / from the inside out

_{Picture: Karlo Alaska}

Queer Choir Osnabrück
Every Thursday from 6:30-7:30 PM

(founded January 2026)

Vergangenes

28th of March 2026
Concert FLINTA* Impro Jam
Opening band with Benya Groth, Carina Zimmert,
Merle Thordis, Maike Danner und Erika Kuma

20th of Februray 2026

Concert: Original Music Festival at Bluenote Osnabrück

Duo Bruno Götze, Merle Thordis

20th of Februray 2026

Concert: Original Music Festival at Bluenote Osnabrück

Oona

November 2025
Composition Eve at the Institute for Music Osnabrück

Dance performance: Echos in Motions composed by Gökhan Bakis Vocal performance: Teleparty composed by Justus Czakse
Vocal Performance: Teleparty Komposition von Justus Czaske

November 2025

Voices in the Classroom- Musikland Niedersachsen

https://musikland-niedersachsen.de/projekte/zgik/stimmen-zu-gast-im-klassenzimmer/

Once again inspired by the “Instrument of the Year,” the focus in 2025 is not on a physical instrument, but on a sound-producing body that almost everyone has access to: the voice.

The main aim is to show students the wide range of their own vocal abilities and to present and make accessible musical ways of using the voice beyond the school choir, a choir class or club, and singing in music lessons.

_{Picture. Merle Thordis}

September 2025
Artist in Resicency RUD AIR Sweden

31st of August 2025

Dyke Festival Berlin

Concert Pling

July 2025
48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin

Performance: Voice and Movement
Human-World//Connection-Relationship-Change.

At Endophinabackkunst

How do I connect with people, nature and technology?
Which values and moral concepts do I refer to?
How did I learn?
How do I connect with these in relation to my environment?
Do I disagree?
Do I agree?
Are new levels of relationship needed?
Time requires change.

7th of June 2025

Unikeller Osnabrück

Concert Oona

10th of March 2025

Silverfuture Berlin

Concert: PLING

February 2025

Itiberê Zwarg Orquestra Família de Alemanha

Together with students from the Institute of Music in Osnabrück and the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt, we rehearsed compositions and arrangements by Itiberê Zwarg.
We worked with a lot of sweat and passion – recorded an album and played two concerts.
Marianna Zwarg and Ajurina Zwarg were also involved and provided active support
The album is expected to be released in 2026.

_{Picture: Karlo Alaska}

16th of November 2024

Leckmuschel Events

Concert: PLING

third and fourth of May 2024

University of Arts Berlin

“Fit for the future!?” Development of music schools and conservatories in the 21st century from artistic and music education perspectives

A symposium marking the 40th anniversary of the journal. üben & musizieren
Perfomance Music and Movement

By Karoline Runge, Huanqi, Isabel Blengeri, Eva Fraganelj, Merle Thordis

Flutist: Eva Fraganelj
Music:
Kaija Saariaho: Laconisme de l ́aile
Varese: Density

Symposium “Fit for the future”
Joseph-Joachim-Konzertsaal

_{Picture: Eva Gyulaiova}

6. Juni 2024

Video Release

Körper
Mensch-Welt
Bezug-Beziehung-Wandel

PART I
Participants: @ainaplans @_yu.xueqing @riar.other
Filmed by: @ruxiiin
Editing/cutting by: @nat.rzepinska
Project by @merlethordis

How do we make the world „sound“ and how do we make it sound?
What moves the world?
How are we moved by the world and how does it move us?
How does the world sound?
How can we adapt? Intervene? Comment? Ask questions and find answers?
How can we take influence and consideration? Take responsibility?
Bring about change?
What is the sound of my movement?
What is the sound of your movement?
How do we sound together?
What moves you? Me? How do we move together?
Where do we hear sound? music? sound?
The idea of the project is to differentiate the connection between human and environment through directed and refined perception in order to gain a stronger awareness of the needs and impulses for action – in short, how we want to create the connection to our environment.
How can we as human beings comment redundantly, omitted? intervene? be witnesses?
Do we always have the choice of what we are influenced by?
What options do I have to connect/position myself in different ways?
@udkberlin

Performance/ Drums/Voice/Movement (Ria Rother/Merle Throdis)

“Expanded at REH” is a curated concert series that presents Berlin’s diverse improvisation scene and focuses on a chamber-music approach and its interaction with the unique architecture and acoustics of the historic REH Raumerweiterungshalle.

1.
Anna Kaluza – Sax
Jan Roder – Bass
Achim Kaufmann – Drums
2.
Ria Rother – Drums
Merle Thordis –Music dn Movements
3.
Daniel Schröteler – Drums

June 2023

usician (body percussion and voice) in the new music textbook “Der Rhythmus lauert überall, Band 2” (Body Percussion) by Uli Moritz.
Hebeling Musikverlag/ Greve Studio Berlin

_{Foto: Helbling Verlag}