Concert-Lecture "Boris Lurie: Echoes of Memory – Music, Art, and the Holocaust"

“Boris Lurie: Echoes of Memory” is a multidisciplinary concert-lecture event that illuminates the life and legacy of Boris Lurie (1924-2008) - Holocaust survivor, artist, activist, and founder of the NO!art movement - through a powerful synthesis of historical music, visual art, archival testimony, and live performance. The program is grounded in the emotional, artistic, and testimonial impulses central to Lurie’s work: radical remembrance, personal catharsis, and resistance to aesthetic complacency.

The musical repertoire features works by Jewish composers - many imprisoned, exiled, or murdered during the Holocaust - whose music carries the same haunting intensity and defiant spirit found in Lurie’s War Series, In Riga memoir, and self-portraits.

The event takes place alongside the exhibition “NEIN! Boris Lurie and NO!art” in cooperation with the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.

Contributors:
Stephanie Stebich (text)
Moisés Santiesteban Pupo (piano)
Alberto Rosas Llerena (flute)

Moisés Santiesteban Pupo, born in Matanzas (Cuba), studied piano with a focus on concert repertoire and pedagogy at the Universidad de las Artes (ISA) in Havana under Patricio Malcom, and completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in organ at the Regensburg College of Catholic Church Music and Music Education under Prof. Stefan Baier; he graduated with distinction. For ten years he was the titular organist at Havana Cathedral and was responsible for the musical arrangements during Pope Francis’ historic visit. At the same time, he coordinated the Church Music Department at the Centro Cultural Padre Félix Varela of the Archdiocese of Havana. Concert performances have taken him to Cuba, the USA, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia and Panama, amongst other places. In 2018, his solo organ recording was awarded the Fénix Prize in Poland; in 2021, he received the Ammodo Tiger Short Award for a film score at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He currently teaches piano at the Regensburg School of Singing and Music and is a lecturer at the HfKM Regensburg.

Alberto Rosas Llerena, born in Havana (Cuba), studied the flute at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana under Niurka González Núñez. He completed master’s degrees at the HfKM Regensburg in instrumental pedagogy under Gabriella Damkier and in the transverse flute under Marion Treupel-Franck. He is a prize-winner of the UNEAC Woodwind Competition and won second prize at the ‘Flutissimo’ competition in Nice. His international concert career has taken him throughout Germany, France, Spain and Brazil, where he performs both as a soloist with symphony orchestras and as a chamber musician. His repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary works. In addition to the modern transverse flute, a key focus of his work is the transverse flute and other historical flute instruments.

Venue: Concert hall of the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Fronberger Strasse 31, 92421 Schwandorf

Admission is free.