ICTUS, CHRISTIE FINN, LIESA VAN DER AA
& THOMAS MOORE, conductor
HANDELSBEURS, Ghent (BE) | February 13th, 2016

CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI: Waterlines, Five Songs about Storms and Floods
for voice, eight musicians and a touch of electronics
with Christie Finn, soprano

CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI : Freight Train
LARRY POLANSKY : Songs
CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI : Wayfaring Stranger
with Liesa Van der Aa, voice, violin, electronics
& Tom Pauwels, guitars, electronics

Ictus Ensemble
Alexandre Fostier, sound
Caspar Langhoff, lighting
Wilfried Van Dyck, production

Check out this great summary of Nadar’s more recent work. Credits to the montage-man: Mr. Matthynssens.

Gaudeamus Festival recently posted their Post-Festival Wrap-up Video. It was a very well put together festival and the video is, too. I’ve reposted it below.

Nadar, Stefan Prins, Alexander Khubeev (this year’s winner) and yours truly get some nice face time.

Nadar’s newest program ‘What you see is (not) what you get’ – premiered at the SWR festival in Donaueschingen will play in De Bijloke this week Friday, the 11th of December.  This program with new pieces by Stefan Prins (Scenography by Marieke Berendsen) and the duo Michael Beil/Thierry  Brühl was enthusiastically cheered by more than a 1000 spectators during its debut last month.

Tickets are still available via http://www.debijloke.be

Here is a trailer to wet your appetite:

Tomorrow evening the Belgian radio station Klara will air the live recording of Simon Steen-Andersen‘s Amid, as performed by Nadar Ensemble (and conducted by me!) at the yearly festival for new music in Leuven, TRANSIT.

If you would like to listen to the broadcast, here are the details:

Program: Late Night Lab  / Station: Klara / 24 November 2015, 22 hr

If you would like to listen to it on your own time, the stream will be available at this link starting on the 25th of November. Click through the following: Late Night -> Late Night Lab.

After a great week with Nadar in Belgium, I am back in Berlin for a couple weeks of fun at the show Chicago. A couple weeks ago, Sarah Willis put together this great little documentary about our show. Have a look:

Link: Sarah’s Music

Dit concert wil je echt niet willen missen.

Morgenavond, 19 November 2015 – om 20u30, speelt Nadar in de Casino van Sint-Niklaas. Onze special guests zijn Håkon Stene als de dirigent-solist en Simon Steen-Andersen, componist extraordinair!

Programma: De Mey, Maierhof & Steen-Andersen

Kaarten zijn beschikbaar via: Casino

If you’ve got two arms and can push buttons, NADAR ENSEMBLE WANTS YOU!

We have tablets that are looking for players for our upcoming concert on the 11th of December in the Bijloke.

The piece: Stefan Prins’s monumental new work, ‘Mirror Box Extensions’

The place: De Bijloke, in Gent, Belgium

The date: 11 December 2015.

If you are interested in joining us, please PM me, or send me an email at: Thomas Moore

Anybody interested in hearing the broadcast version of ‘Bluff’ by Michael Beil/Thierry Brühl? Premiered by Nadar Ensemble at the SWR Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015.

Watch out! It’s in German:

Link: BLUFF

In a couple weeks, Nadar Ensemble will perform Simon Steen-Andersen’s recent piece for Conductor-Soloist and large ensemble – Black Box Music (2012). We are fortunate enough to be able to play it at 2 locations back-to-back, both in Belgium:

18 November in Concertgebouw Brugge as part of their Surround! Festival,

and, 19 November in Casino, Sint-Niklaas, Nadar’s home town!

Here is a great trailer Pieter Matthynssens put together: