Tomorrow I am headed back to Berlin to perform Sebastian Gräfe and Matthias Krannebitter’s cool piece ‘Wassermusik’ for 5 trombones, a river, 3 water-mutes and the sea.  The show is at 20:30 on the 5th of May in the Akademie der Kunsten, Berlin.

Then its off to Aarhus, Denmark, with Nadar Ensemble to perform at this year’s SPOR Festival.  Nadar’s excitingly innovative program WYSI(N)WYG is also the title of this year’s festival, curated by the co-artistic directors of Nadar, Stefan Prins and Pieter Matthynssens. We will play on the 13th of May at 19:30 in the Godsbannen, Aarhus, Denmark. .

And the week after, Nadar will head back to Stuttgart to take part in the congress ‘Wirklichkeiten.’ Nadar will give concerts on the 19th and the 21st of May in the Musikhochschule  Stuttgart.

If you are around, it would be great to see you at one of these concerts.

TE-R made a great quick Gif based on photos taken during the rehearsals this weekend in Zurich:

Nadar Rehearsals

Nadar is back in Switzerland and with a great program featuring Stefan Prins, Florian Bogner, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong and the amazing video artists TE-R (Thomas Wagensommer & Louise Linsenbolz).

We play this evening in the Walcheturm at 20:30.

Here’s a cool gif the team at TE-R made:

http://gph.is/1MEWUNk

Tomorrow evening I’ll be head to Berlin to play in the Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg.

Artists Sebastian Gräfe and Matthias Krannebitter have created a cool piece for 5 trombones (three of which will play underwater – sort of), a river, 2 lighthouses and the sea. If you are in Berlin tomorrow, come see it! We play at 9:30 pm.

And yes, that is me in the yellow slicker.

Here is a link to the event: link to the event.

This past Sunday, we opened the show Chicago, Das Musical at the Deutsches Theater in Munich, Germany – packed house, wonderful crowd and a great party! The show will run until the 10th of April, so if you’re in the area, come check it out.

Good review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung:

Amazing concert with Ictus this past weekend in the Handelsbeurs (Ghent, Belgium). Here is a copy of Tom Janssens’ great review (in Dutch) in the Belgium newspaper , De Standaard.

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: