Featured Projects

Zeitinsel – Lera Auerbach

Lera Auerbach is not only a widely acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianist. She has also made a name for herself as an award-winning poet and visual artist. With her, the Dortmund Concert Hall dedicates its 2026/27 Zeitinsel Festival to one of the most sought-after and exciting creative voices.

Mirror – A novel in Reflections

A novel shaped by reflection. Composed in twenty-four preludes and twenty-four postludes, it unfolds as a sequence of returns, in which each part echoes and alters another. The precision of musical structure meets the freedom of poetic thought. Childhood, myth, loss, and inner life are gathered into a sustained meditation on memory and time.

Bronzes Sculptures

Bronze—a metal symbolizing strength, permanence, and immutability. This choice serves as a compelling counterpoint to Lera Auerbach’s exploration of life’s fragility, impermanence, and transience. Each piece is a tangible manifestation of this tension, a delicate equilibrium between antithetical forces.

Lera Auerbach · Literature

Books

Novels, poetry, aphorisms, and children’s literature — a literary catalogue shaped by music, memory, image, language, and the inner architecture of time.

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Prose · Novel

Mirror

Зеркало · A Novel in Reflections

A novel composed in twenty-four preludes and twenty-four postludes, where memory, childhood, myth, and musical form become a chamber of reflections.

Publisher: Virgola Press
Language: Russian
Year: 2026
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Poetry

Forever Music

English Poetry

Short poems from the perspective of a child discovering the world through music, memory, dreams, and creative wonder.

Publisher: Dos Madres Press
Language: English
Year: 2023
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Poetry & Prose

Hanover Notebook

Ганноверская тетрадь

Selected poetry and prose with a foreword by Sergey Yurski — an early literary volume from Auerbach’s Russian-language catalogue.

Publisher: Slovo-Word
Language: Russian
Year: 2003
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Poetry & Prose

Stairs to Eternity

Лестница в вечность

A collection of selected poetry and prose, carrying the early lyric intensity and metaphysical reach of Auerbach’s writing.

Publisher: Mir Collection Publishing House
Language: Russian
Year: 1999
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Poetry & Prose

Sorokolunie

Сороколуние · Forty Moons

Poetry and prose written between 1984 and 1994 — an expansive early volume of Russian-language writing.

Publisher: Kniga
Language: Russian
Year: 1995
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Aphorisms & Artworks

Excess of Being

Aphorisms and artworks

A collection of aphorisms and visual works, joining philosophical compression with the immediacy of image and line.

Publisher: Arch Street Press
Language: English
Year: 2015
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Children’s Literature

A Is for Oboe

The Orchestra’s Alphabet

A children’s poetry book introducing the instruments of the orchestra through imagination, rhythm, and musical character.

Publisher: Rocky Pond Books / Penguin Random House
Language: English
Year: 2022
Lera Auerbach · Calendar

Upcoming Events

Concerts, premieres, readings, performances, and appearances — automatically drawn from the calendar and Mirror pages.

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