Experience the meditative beauty of Gregorian chant with Wishful Singing & VOCES8 Scolars
Wishful Singing and VOCES8 Scholars join forces and together they bring the most beautiful pearls of Gregorian chant into the spotlight. Discover the magic of Gregorian chant during the Gregorian Treasures concerts. Enjoy an immersive mystical experience where the singers move freely through the space. As a visitor one will be immersed in a bath of sound.
The unique interplay between the clear voices of Wishful Singing and the deep tones of The VOCES8 Scholars promises a varied program that shows all the colors of Gregorian chant. The program consists of known and unknown Gregorian repertoire, performed according to the original medieval manuscripts. Alongside the original chant, the programme will also feature modern compositions inspired by the Gregorian heritage, including works such as Maurice Duruflé's Ubi Caritas, Tota pulchra es and Maria by Maurice Duruflé and Ola Gjeilo's Ave Generosa. .
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a staged concert based on the story by Erich Kästner
After the failed 86th International Human Conference, the lion Aloïs, the elephant Oskar and the giraffe Leopold decide to take matters into their own hands, because a solution must urgently be found to problems such as environmental destruction, climate, war, hunger and so on. After all, it’s about the future of the children! To this end, they invite all animals and human children from all over the world to their own conference in the Animal Tower Flat...
Animals United (Die Konferenz der Tiere) is Erich Kästner's first post-war novel and his ninth children's book. Even 70 years after the children's book was published in 1949, the story is more relevant than ever. In the stage direction and libretto by Annechien Koerselman, three actors play the roles of both animals and humans. The last ones are clearly less gifted in the field of world peace. The Munich Philharmonic is led by the young French conductor Chloe Dufresne.
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an Apeldoorn one-thousand-and-one-nights tale
ALARM! An accident has happened in the Zwitsal factory. A journalist from the regional broadcaster comes to get a story, but finds a closed community. Foreman Gé does not want to comment on what exactly happened. What lies behind the factory facade of gentle baby care products?
Every day, the female factory employees pack fresh-smelling ointments on an assembly line, while their male colleagues disappear behind closed doors. Until Lena's curiosity gets the better of her and she - disguised as a man - breaks into the chemical department. The hidden poppy oasis she finds here takes Lena and her silent love Arthur away from the monotonous factory work to an enchanting thousand and one nights world. But these joint dream flights to the Middle East are not without consequences. How does the foreman get the Apeldoorn Zwitsal factory back in line?
Salve and Poppy imaginatively connects two different worlds, which have more in common than you would expect at first glance. Connected by poppies, the West and the East merge insurmountably. Orpheus's Zwitsal production is a revealing music theater performance that puts a hidden Apeldoorn story in the spotlight. Salve and Poppy is Theater Orpheus's third own production. These productions are based on regional stories that have a national appeal. Annechien previously created her own production LOO - when palace walls make themselves heard at Theater Orpheus.
Photo © Sven Scholten
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imaginative musical theater about feelings of homesickness and making weatherproof plans for the future (6+)
The water is rising and fast as well. Janna and her parents have to leave their country. Packed and ready, they step into the boat that will take them to the other side, to a new life. But to her horror, Janna discovers that her rabbit Marietje is not on board. Without even thinking, she jumps back onto land. And so begins a musical search across her native land for her beloved bunny. Across places from the past, via miraculous encounters with a woodworm, a herring king and a lighthouse keeper's cat, until after a dive she finally ends up with Marietje in the land of the future.
With a lot of humor and a touch of Alice in Wonderland, Ensemble Black Pencil, together with an actress, brings the history of Schokland musically to life. Once an island in the Zuiderzee, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Shockwave is an imaginative musical theater performance about what happens when the climate becomes so confused that you are forced to leave everything behind. About saying goodbye to the old and making weatherproof plans for the future. About the power of imagination and the magic of music, which can tame waves, raise landscapes to the sky, and package beautiful memories in such a way that you can never lose them.
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In The Sound of Light, The Gents work together with conductor and artistic leader Patrick Pranger. There is classical music, a special Dutch pop premiere, there are Afro-American spirituals and Setareh Nafisi is composing a new piece based on the poem we grow accustomed to the dark by Emily Dickinson. We interweave video interviews in the program about the topics covered in the music and there is a beautiful lighting design. The Sound of Light is about hope, resilience, getting the best out of yourself and about connecting with the other.
Photo © Manuel Quesada
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or the most comical musical bank robbery of all times
Everyone knew them. Everyone knew who they were. The Brass Boys and their music were popular and everyone wanted to hear them play. But times have changed and this time they are in need. The money with which they allways created new music lacks, doom approches! If they want to continue to perform as a band they need quickly supplies.
The troop intends a plan: To provide themselves the most necessary, they intend to rob the new city bank. Tonight it should happen, the night before the opening of the bank! Will the Brassgang crack the code of the safe in time?
What music is capable of and what it does to us is the subject of this turbulent and funny musical comedy. The members of the Brass Gang are cheerful and courageous people. They dream of always making new music, and try to accomplish this goal at any cost. Well - and on the way to fulfill our most secret desires, there are always also surprises ... The story is told without words and with loads of music!
Photo © Anja Koehler
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Reviews
Kulturzeitschrift, Silvia Thurner, June 29, 2017
The content was not only through what was shown understandable, but it was also fascinating reflected in the musical performances and the music itself. Therein lay the exceptional power of the whole piece. Visual and catchy compositions formed the basis for the imaginatively told story. Stage director Annechien Koerselman and the musicians have made a striking selection.
That behind the precise well thought-out movements, the mime and acting as well as the virtuoso musical way of playing an enormous mental effort is hiding was never notable in the way the musicians were making music. Among other things, this exactly shows the mastery of the "Sonus Brass Ensemble".
The stage director Annechien Koerselman, who has developed the idea and the concept for this piece as well, translated it into coherent balanced scenes. Bravely she first gradually built the suspense, in this way she raised the expectations on what was ahead of us and the resulting joy about what then dynamically occurred.
Report The Brassgang, Austrian Premiere during The Bregenzer Festspiele. June 28th 2017
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an interactive quest for an ancient musical treasure (9+)
Imagine: you inherit a map with which you can find a treasure that has been hidden for centuries in a monastery in Transylvania, present-day Romania. Then of course you don't think twice, but you go out together with the musicians of Black Pencil to fathom this mystery. Their instruments from recorders and pan flutes to percussion, viola and harmonica will show you the way. But be warned, the Caioni codex cannot be revealed easily: there are musical riddles to be solved and codes to be cracked.
In The Caioni Codex, the musicians of Black Pencil interactively reveal the most beautiful music collected by the monk Caioni in the 17th century. His playlist contains a colorful collection of famous works by Monteverdi and di Lasso and exciting Romanian dances that will make you swing in your seat, while the next riddle already presents itself. This is how your ears open the way to the holy grail.
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a visual and musical journey about following your heart
Before Vincent Van Gogh dedicated his life to painting, he had all kinds of occupations. His expectations were high, he tried everything, but no profession gave him satisfaction. It wasn't until he was 27 that he found his calling: living as an artist. In Van Gogh's Way to Go! we follow Vincent along the path where his passion for art, without regard for any conventions, took him.
Reed Quintet Calefax brings Van Gogh both musically and theatrically to life. By means of projections we zoom in on the tiniest details of his art and ravel alongside Vincent with quotes from himself or his loved ones. Through diverse styles of classical music by among others Bizet, Berlioz, Franck, Schumann - pieces that Vincent has listened to himself or which were written during his life - but also by living composers, the underlying emotions will be made tangible.
In 2024, in collaboration with Calefax Reed Quintet, Annechien Koerselman has further developed the working versions created in 2023 into an international travel version. The production premiered on January 16, 2024 in the Doelen Rotterdam.
Photo © Rob van Dam
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Videodesign © Annechien Koerselman
Technical elaboration © Daan Hazendonk
Organisation Calefax Reedquintet Amsterdam
Videodesign © Annechien Koerselman
Technical elaboration © Daan Hazendonk
Organisation Calefax Reedquintet Amsterdam
Videodesign © Annechien Koerselman
Technical elaboration © Daan Hazendonk
Organisation Calefax Reedquintet Amsterdam