Apartment House was created by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze in 1995. Since then its original and innovative programming has gained Apartment House the reputation as one of the most exciting contemporary music groups in Europe. While performing a wide range of new music, the seeds of the Apartment House repertoire stem from the hard-core European avant-garde, the joyful anarchy of The Scratch Orchestra and the exploratory nature of experimental music. Apartment House embrace a broad range of acoustical and theatrical situations within which volatile and stimulating performances occur.

Apartment House's performances have included world premières of music by a wide variety of composers. Notable portrait events have featured Christian Wolff, Jerry Hunt, Luc Ferrari, Dieter Schnebel, Christopher Fox, Laurence Crane, Helmut Oehring, Clarence Barlow, Philip Corner and Richard Ayres. Titled with reference to the Cage work Apartment House 1776, the group is of flexible instrumentation, allowing for a vast range of performance possibilities. Apartment House has made numerous broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 as well as Danish Radio, Swedish Radio 2, WDR Cologne and Deutschlandfunk, Berlin.

The ensemble enjoys a close relationship with Irish composer Jennifer Walshe, whose much talked about 'Barbie' opera, "XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS" has so far been performed in Dresden, Vienna, Oxford, Stuttgart and Bruges. For further information on this work, which projects live-size images of the dolls onto video screens, click on the following link:
XXX LIVE NUDE GIRLS

Apartment House's next large scale project is "Die Schachtel", an environment for musicians, performers, space, video installation, lighting and electronics based on the music by Franco Evangelisti and the scenario by Franco Nonnis. In collaboration with "labor für musik:theater" Apartment House will perform this work at Sophiensaele in Berlin as part of the Ultraschall Festival from 19 to 22 January 2006.

For further information on the Apartment House or their availability, please send an e-mail to Julia Haferkorn at: info@haferkornassociates.com