Monthly Archives: April 2020

Liza Lim: unsettling soundworld on cd Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Thea Derks

Listening to the cd dedicated to the Australian composer Liza Lim (1966) that was recently released by Kairos, one can’t help but evaluate it in the context of the corona-pandemic that is currently keeping the world hostage. Are we headed … Continue reading →

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Mathilde Wantenaar on her new opera A Song for the Moon: ‘With music you can achieve anything’

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Thea Derks

In 2013 Mathilde Wantenaar (Amsterdam, 1993) participated in the project Boom|Amsterdam is an opera, two years later she wrote the mini-opera Personar for the first edition of the Opera Forward Festival. In March her family opera Een lied voor de … Continue reading →

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Composer Daníel Bjarnason: ‘Surrounded by people you may still be utterly alone’

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Thea Derks

On 14 April the Irish Crash Ensemble was to play the Dutch premiere of Songs by the Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason. The cycle was commissioned by Muziekgebouw Eindhoven and Concertgebouw Amsterdam, where it would be repeated on April 15. Both … Continue reading →

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Composer Karin Rehnqvist: ‘I simply had to address global warming in Silent Earth’

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Thea Derks

Saturday 18 April 2020 was to see the first performance of Karin Rehnqvist’s Silent Earth in NTR ZaterdagMatinee. Yet, as all concerts, this premiere fell prey to the measures taken to prevent the further spreading of the Corona-virus. Rehnqvist had … Continue reading →

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