This weekend Nadar ensemble heads off to the Ukraine to perform Lasaserma Pokhunakhis at Gogolfest.  Check out the details here: Nadar at Gogolfest

This week I am back in Berlin for a weeks worth of shows at the beautiful Theater Des Westens. Its wonderful playing with this great orchestra and hearing the cast every evening.

Next weekend its back to Belgium for a project with the researchers at the Orpheus Institute and to start a cool project with Spectra Ensemble.

Stay tuned for more.

The current season starts off with some pretty cool projects for me. Next week, Nadar ensemble will hold its very first Nadar Summer School for Composers and Sound Artists in the world renowned deSingel in Antwerp Belgium.

Here is a link to the project: Nadar Summer School

The participants are Florian Bogner, Louis d’Heudieres, Andrius Arutiunian & Fernanda Navarro

Then it’s off to Kiev with Nadar Ensemble! We’ll be bringing the mega cool project Lesaeserma Prokhunakis at Gogolfest on the 10th of September. Check it out: LP-Gogolfest

And in October, I get the chance to perform Stockhausen’s solo piece for Trombone Signale zur Invasion. The curtain goes up and the speakers go on at 17hr on the 8th of October in Liege, Belgium. For tickets and Info, visit: Images-Sonores

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The 7th Edition (!) of the Nadar Summer Academy starts next week in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. On the program for this year’s kids: Prins – Generation Kill, Jasper&Jasper – Quakea, Walshe – A Sensitive Number for the Laydeez, & Schubert – Laplace Tiger. 

Nadar Summer Academy 2017

“…40 lines, 9 pages of solo Stockhausen, memorized…”

I am very pleased to be part of this amazing new production of Stockhausen’s Signale zur Invasion.   

Cosmic Pulses

Tomorrow afternoon, Nadar Ensemble will perform in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam during the opening weekend of the Holland Festival. The concert starts at 15u. See you then!

Here is a great article (in Dutch) about the concert printed in the NRC Handelsblad

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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