This Sunday, the 11th of October, ‘Chicago, Das Musical’ will open in the beautiful, fantastic, authentic Berlin theater: Theater Des Westens.
Rehearsals are going strong and I am very happy that I get to continue playing this show.
Come see it!!
Check out this video.
In the film there are some great highlights of our concert last night, featuring Alexander Khubeev’s ‘Ghosts of Dystopia,’ Alexander Schubert’s ‘Point Ones’, Simon Steen-Andersen’s ‘Amid’, and Stefan Prins’s ‘Generation Kill.’
…And yes, those are plastic boxes attached to my fingers and elbows and knees and ankles!
Enjoy!
After a fabulous vacation, this season begins with a hit-the-ground-running start and a jam-packed September and October. I will conduct concerts with Nadar at this year’s Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht and the ever intriguing Transit Festival in Leuven (for which I will also serve as the festival’s technical coordinator.) I will also be with Nadar when they premiere two large ensemble pieces (by Stefan Prins and Michael Beil/Thierry Brühl) at the famous south German radio festival Donaueschinger Musiktage.
The fist leg of the German run of the hit musical ‘Chicago’ will finish in mid-September in Stuttgart. I am lucky enough to be able to move with the show for the next run in Berlin. We open there in mid-October.
Links:
http://www.festival2021.be/nl/transit/agenda
http://www.swr.de/donaueschingen
http://www.stage-entertainment.de/musicals-shows/chicago-berlin.html
Warm call to all art and music lovers! On Wednesday 24th of June the American composer Terry Riley turns 80. ChampdAction developed a website/app about his iconic piece IN C – www.incapp.net – together with Jazzperiments and in co-production with Concertgebouw Bruges, which we presented last year on Iedereen Klassiek by Klara in Bruges. Via this app you can play along with IN C 24 hours a day from all over the world with whichever instrument you choose. We would like to invite everyone to play along next Wednesday 24th of June and pay tribute to one of the most important composers of the 20th and 21st century. We hope to see you then and there too. Feel free to share this message as much as possible.
More info about Terry Riley : http://terryriley.net/
Tomorrow evening, Nadar Ensemble will perform as a guest at the Musikhochschüle Stuttgart as part of Martin Schüttler’s ‘ANTRITTSKONZERT’. Martin curated the concert himself with 3 of his own compositions, 2 new videos, and also a film by Cheryl Donegan – ‘Flushing.’
On a personal note, this is the first time I have had the joy of conducting a piece by him and we, as an ensemble, are joined by the great soprano Christie Finn.
Here is a link (in Dutch) to a nice review of the first annual festival Ear_to_the_Ground in De Bijloke, Gent. Nadar gets a nice mention in the first paragraph of the article.
Link to Het Nieuwsblad
(copyright Rebecca Diependaele)
Nadar Ensemble is proud to announce that the University of Leuven has selected us as this year’s winner of their prestigious Prize for Culture.
Here is a link to the announcement.
And here a a link to a great interview with Pieter Matthynssens discussing the ensemble and why we were chosen. Interview.
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
