Comic Collection
New Works and Highlights of the Comic Concert
Itay Dvori, the Berlin-based Israeli composer and pianist, has invented a new format: the comic concert. For a number of years now, it has been attracting lots of attention at international festivals and on stages throughout Europe. This musical adventure began in 2016 with the very first comic concert, performed together with Itay Dvori’s yam yabasha ensemble, and has since created music for over 40 graphic novels by renowned artists from all over the world. Whether performed with the ensemble or as solo piano soirées, the concerts have been very well received by both press and public.
With increasing quality and quantity, graphic novels are reflecting developments in our rapidly changing world, and comic reportage is expanding the boundaries of traditional journalism. Both are topical, socially critical, and increasingly popular. Their thematic spectrum includes the challenges and crises of our times – such as climate change, migration, the pandemic, digitalisation and the changing perception of gender roles.
With his new programme Comic Collection, Itay Dvori presents a compilation of musical settings for comics – the best of various individual projects and creative commissions from recent years. This diverse selection, interpreted live on piano, ranges from works with subtle, sometimes also caustic humour, through to lyric poetry. It offers musical equivalents to the visual worlds of international illustrators such as Edmond Baudoin, Manuele Fior, Asaf Hanuka, Cyril Pedrosa and Barbara Yelin. Itay Dvori has created here a panorama of contemporary graphic literature in its impressive maturity, declaring, with each piece, his deep love for and fascination with the genre he describes as “the art of the 21st century”.
