Pushing beyond or dissolving boundaries, exploring new paths, and engaging in dialogue with other artistic disciplines – for many of our ensembles, their sphere of activity has long extended beyond music-making alone, not least because pressing social and political issues challenge the arts and their performing artists as well. Old and new narratives, woven into music ranging from the Baroque era to contemporary pop, alongside theatre, film, and light installations, invite audiences to immersive artistic experiences.
PROJECTS 2027/28 – A SELECTION
BRYGGEN
16 November – 14 December 2027
16 January – 22 February 2028 and on request
MAX RICHTER: FOUR SEASONS RECOMPOSED WITH DANCE: FOUR SEASONS CHANGED
BRYGGEN – Bruges Strings / Jolente De Maeyer, concept & musical leader & Solovioline / Michiel Vandevelde, Choreographer & Konzept & scene & Licht / Amanda Barrio charmelo, danz / Milk of Lime, costumes
four seasons changed is a reinterpretation of Max Richter’s iconic work Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, conceived as a choreographed reflection on transformation as a powerful yet vulnerable form of life.
The string ensemble BRYGGEN does not merely perform the music; throughout the entire piece, its musicians move in continuously evolving and endlessly varying patterns. Alongside them, a single dancer weaves through the ensemble, serving both as a counterpoint to the musicians and as a living embodiment of the composition’s emotional architecture.
M. Richter: The Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed
Chief choreographer Michiel Vandevelde approaches dance history as a “living archive” and connects each season to a formative choreographic tradition:
- Spring: Inspired by Isadora Duncan.
- Summer: Following Anna Halprin.
- Autumn: A tribute to Pina Bausch
- Winter: Guided by Trisha Brown
FINNISH BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Dates upon request
EARTHRISE La Chambre aux échos / Aleksi Barrière, text & stage direction / Juha T. Koskinen, contemporary composition / Marianna Henriksson, musical direction & baroque music montage / Anni Elif Egecioglu, vocals & vocal improvisation / Thomas Kellner, acting / Étienne Exbrayat, lighting design / Lucia Schmidt, video design
Earthrise is an interdisciplinary performance in which Baroque sounds and contemporary music engage in a close and dynamic dialogue. The Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) and the ensemble La Chambre aux échos create a staged musical experience that explores the fragility of our planet and the future of humanity. Inspired by the lives of Johannes and Katharina Kepler, Earthrise combines seventeenth-century music with new, genre-crossing compositions by composer Juha T. Koskinen and vocal artist Anni Elif Egecioglu. At the heart of the production are two central figures—an actor and a singer—accompanied on stage by a seven-member Baroque ensemble performing on historical instruments. Through live looping (SOMA Cosmos Station) and subtle electronic amplification, the performance opens up new acoustic and emotional spaces.
Works by K. Harant, P. de Monte, M. Praetorius, S. Scheidt, J. H. Schein, R. Weichlein, J. T. Koskinen, A.E. Egecioglu, J. T. Koskinen
CONCERTO COPENHAGEN
20 June – 20 July 2028
KALEIDOSCOPE
Kammerballetten / Emmanuel Frankenberg, musical direction / Sebastian Kloborg; Tobias Praetorius; Paul Lightfoot, choreography / Frederik Skålerud Hougs, lighting design
In Kaleidoscope, the award-winning choreographers Sebastian Kloborg and Tobias Praetorius create new works inspired by the rich and vibrant sound world of Baroque music, exploring how the forms, contrasts, and emotions of the Baroque can be translated into contemporary movement. Each choreographer develops a distinct and independent piece.
Together with Concerto Copenhagen and Kammerballetten, they reveal new dimensions of the music—its depth, intricacy, and dramatic power—shaped and intensified through the energy and presence of dance.
Part 1: LiVE ON TAPE – Sebastian Kloborg, Choreography (2026)
Works by A. Vivaldi, H. Guðnadóttir & A. Deller
Part 2: SELF PORTRAIT – Paul Lightfoot, Choreography (2021)
Works by A. McKenzie
Part 3: (without title) – Tobias Praetorius, Choreography (2026)
Works by G. Muffat, H. I. F. Biber
“Live On Tape is a declaration of love to live music — to its execution, emergence, and sharing.”
Sebastian Kloborg, Choreograph
SIMONE MENEZES
Dates upon request
AMAZÔNIA – orchestral concert with photos by Sebastião Salgado
Camila Provenzale, soprano / Simone Menezes, conductor
“An extraordinary experience”… is how Feuilleton Frankfurt described a performance of the symphonic concert Amazônia in September 2024, presented at the Alte Oper Frankfurt under the musical direction of Simone Menezes and featuring photographs by the world-renowned late photographer Sebastião Salgado. The programme celebrates the unique natural cosmos of the Amazon in all its facets, with compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass which, like Salgado’s photographs, are directly inspired by this diverse, wild, and tragically endangered rainforest region. The Italian-Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes has presented this programme with various orchestras at venues and festivals including the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Dresden Music Festival, and Gulbenkian Música in Lisbon.
H. Villa-Lobos: Excerps from Bachianas Brasileiras / P. Glass: Águas da Amazônia – Metamorphosis / H. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas (arr. as orchestral suite by Simone Menezes)
“Striking beauty, gentle evocation and romantic lushness, provided indelible memories.”
The Guardian, 15 October 2021
Stanley Dodds & ZeMu!
Dates upon request
THE ONCE AND FUTURE
Yeo Siew Hua, film director / Eugene Birman, composer / Anandi Bhattacharya (in collaboration with Microsoft Azure Computer Vision and Google Cloud API), vocal so-loist, librettist / ZeMu! Ensemble featuring members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, live performance 7- Stanley Dodds, conductor
In The Once and Future, an expanded cinema experience is created through combining hi-power laser tracking, cross-over vocal performance, and AI-assisted libretto, with the virtuosic artistry of the Berliner Philharmoniker members and a new film shot in 12K by acclaimed Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua.
With the participation of the singer Anandi Bhattacharya, the composer Eugene Birman, the conductor Stanley Dodds, the director Yeo Siew Hua, and the ZeMu! Ensemble. The ZeMu! Ensemble is the latest ensemble emerging from the ranks of the world-famous Berliner Philharmoniker, dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking technology and crossover projects with new media in classical music. ‘The Once and Future’ is its debut project.
“The most stunning and divisive work at the festival… Yeo Siew Hua’s ambitious and multidisciplinary epic that features film, theatre, laser display… and Berliner Philharmoniker’s gorgeous postmodern music.”
Business Times (SG)
