This fantastic new music festival will take place at the beautiful ‘Bijloke’ in Gent Belgium.

Here is a link to a promotional video: https://vimeo.com/124416882

And here is a link to the festival’s website (tickets, info, etc.): http://www.debijloke.be/concerts/festival-eartotheground

Next week, Nadar Ensemble will presents its annual Sint-Niklaas concert on the 23rd of April at 8 pm in the CC Sint-Niklaas.  As the subject implies, we will play Romitelli’s ‘Professor Bad Trip’ alongside ‘Point Ones’ by Alexander Schubert, Locked-In by Helmut Oehring, and Stefan Van Eycken’s ‘Hibernaculum.’

If you are in town, this will definitely be a chance to see a great and unusually intimate Nadar concert.

Here is a great teaser made by Pieter Matthynssens and Stefan Prins:

This past week, I had the great fortune and opportunity to work with and conduct Ictus Ensemble and Christie Finn (soprano) at their headquarters in Brussels. What an ensemble! We will perform Christopher Trapani’s intriguing and very personal piece ‘Waterlines’ (2012) at the Opera Lille, the Saturday the 11th of April as part of that venue’s Happy Days series.

Here is a link to the concert: Link

Wannes Gonnissen, our sound engineer put this e-poster together. Nadar has had and is having a great year!

Thanks to: Mousonturm, deSingel, De Bijloke, L’auditori, Maerzmusik, Muzički Biennale Zagreb, CC Sint-Niklaas, Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart, reMusik, Blurred Edges, Gaudeamus, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Transit, conDiT, Concertgebouw Brugge

RECHT. Ökonomien des Handelns 2

Nadar Ensemble will be appearing in the HAU2 in Berlin as part of the MaerzMusik (Berliner Festspiele) Festival this Thursday and Friday the 26th and 27th of March, 2015. We are very excited to be able to perform Hannes Seidl’s and Daniel Kötter’s video theater piece once again.

If you are in the neighbourhood, you should come check it out. Here is a link for the piece and the showtimes.

Link RECHT

Jakob Lenz is now in its 2nd and final week at de Munt/la Monnaie in Brussels. Here are some of the reactions:

‘Twijfel niet, koop vlug nog een ticket! Voor mij zat alles en iedereen op zijn plaats.’ – link – Philippe Grisar  – klassiek-centraal.be

‘Indrukwekkend, de hoeveelheid klanken die Wolfgang Rihm uit een ensemble van maar twaalf musici haalt.’ – link – De Volkskrant

‘Consequent.  Consequent.  Consequent.’ – link – Bert Hertogs – concertnews.be

Opera Jakob Lenz: ‘Aangrijpend, overweldigend, fantastisch’

Video Link

Earlier this month Nadar Ensemble performed the new video theater piece RECHT in De Bijloke in Ghent, Belgium.

Here is a link to Annemarie Peeters’ review in De Standaard: link

This Friday starts the Belgian run of a new production of ‘Jakob Lenz’ at De Munt/La Monnaie in Brussels. It is a true pleasure to play in the orchestra for this project, with an all star cast, including Georg Nigl, Henry Waddington, and John Graham-Hall and the every inspiring Frank Ollu as conductor.

Tickets and more info via this link: http://www.demunt.be/nl/opera/426/Jakob-Lenz

ChampdAction, Jazzperiments and Concertgebouw Brugge launched the IN C App last October (2014)

Tom Janssens wrote a great review of Nadar Ensemble’s most recent concert: Doppelgänger Deluxe. We had the luxury to play to a nearly full house in DeSingel in Antwerp, Belgium on the 28th of January.

Here is a copy of the review (in Dutch):

De kakafonie van de revolutie – De Standaard