Duo Blickwechsel Lied-Duo

Duo Blickwechsel

Maria Laschinger, Mezzosoprano
Olivia Zaugg, piano

Mezzo-soprano Maria Laschinger and pianist Olivia Zaugg create their own creative-feminine space with the Blickwechsel format.
Blickwechsel directs our attention, our awareness and our listening to great works by female composers who have so far received too little attention.

bleiben wir gehen – Concerts 2025/26

In the second programme, Duo Blickwechsel focuses on works by female composers written in the 20th or 21st century. In addition to compositions by Luise Greger, Alma Mahler-Werfel, Zenobia Powell-Perry and Charlotte Bray, the current programme also includes a commissioned composition by Francesca Gaza. The piece hier will ich bleiben, sage ich, und werde davon getragen (I want to stay here, I say, and am carried away) was based on a poem by Olivia Zaugg.
The common thread between these very different composers and works is formed by poems by Emmy Hennings.

tour dates 2025/26

13.11.25, 20h
WABE, Basel

14.11.25, 20h
Zingghaus, Köniz/BE 

16.11.25, 17h
Atelier für Musikimprovisation, Schaffhausen

 7.12.25, 11h
Kollaboration mit Lied-Duo Jarrell/De Felice
Alte Rumfabrik, Basel

30.4.26, 20h
Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft, Basel

1.5.26, 17h
Hauskonzert, Oberalpstr. 101, Basel

 

Debut album

Album «hänge ich, zwischen Zeiten» – released in September 2024 by ARS Produktion.

In their debut album hänge ich, zwischen Zeiten, the duo focuses on the compositions of the young composer Francesca Gaza, who lives in Basel, next to songs by the English composers and women’s rights activists Rebecca Clarke and Ethel Smyth, which have rarely been performed and recorded to date.

The album was nominated for the International Classical Music Award and received the Supersonic Award by Pizzicato:

An enthusiastic recommendation for anyone interested in this repertoire!

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I feel I must fight for (my music) because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs, not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea. – Ethel Smyth