Coming Up
Performances in Shenzhen and Zhongshan. Please come back for more information.
Premiered at the Oriente Occidente Festival in Italy in August 2018, Siren is the first work by Pontus Lidberg as the new Artistic Director of Danish Dance Theatre.
Part of the da:ns festival presented by the Esplanade in Singapore, Hofesh Shechter will make their anticipated return with their most stunning and epic piece to date: Grand Finale. Performances will take place at the Esplanade in the Theatre for two nights on October 18th and 19th, 2020. Don’t miss out! For more information please visit the following website:
https://www.esplanade.com/festivals-and-series/dans-festival/2019/grand-finale
A new work by Yui Kawaguchi and Aki Takase, which tells the story of French sculptor Rodin and Japanese actress and Geisha Madame Hanako. Using jazz music and dance, and a DJ, the work was inspired by an exhibition of Rodin’s work that featured masks and busts of the Japanese actress, which led to a fascinating story of cross-cultural interchange in Paris in the early 20th century.
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Working alongside Kimmo Pohjonen, Tero Saarinen’s Breath is the newest and last work in which he will dance on stage. Designed as a duo for dancer and accordion, Breath, takes the audience on a soundscape journey with lights and dance.
One of the leading organist from Germany and a recipient of the ECHO Klassik prize, Christian Schmitt will premiere Toshio Hosokawa’s organ concerto in Tokyo with the Tokyo Metropolitan Sympony Orchestra in November 2019. The concerto by Hosokawa was composed and dedicated to Christian Schmitt, and was premiered in by Christian Schmitt and the Bamberg Symphony.
A physical theatre and virtual reality production, Whist, is an exciting and digitally immersive feast to your senses. Touring to Asia from 2020 onwards.
Journey into the unconscious mind as interactive theatre and virtual reality combine.
“What happens when the desires hidden in the dark corners of your mind are suddenly brought to light? What if they have been the driving force of your choices all this while?”
WHIST tells the fictional story of a family, characters of which inspired by Japanese Artist Shuji Terayama and Sigmund Freud’s real case studies, and their dreams, fears and desires unveiled through physical theatre. Audi- ences are invited on a journey into the unconscious mind, where their instincts will guide them to see the story from different perspectives.
This mesmerising hour-long experience merges Physical Theatre, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies, in an environment that blurs the boundaries between consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and fiction, the physical and the virtual. Through art and 3D sound installation coupled with cinematic and interactive 360° film, viewers will be immersed in a surreal world of unfolding dreams and fears.
Consisting of members from the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, the Viennese String Soloist is one of Vienna’s premiere chamber ensembles. Bringing the Viennese sound into an intimate the chamber setting.
Using the music of Franz Schubert, Nico Hümpel’s Silent Songs uses music, dance and theatre to tell a unique story.
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***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
In 2020 Christian Schmitt will return to Asia on a recital tour, which will also feature Tatjana Ruhland, principal flutist, from the Radio Symhony Orchestra Stuttgart.
Concerts to include debut performance at the Weiwuying Concert Hall in Kaohsiung, and Christian’s triumphant return to Xinghai Concert Hall. More information to follow!
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***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
Using the music of Franz Schubert, Nico Hümpel’s Silent Songs uses music, dance and theatre to tell a unique story.
Come back for more information!
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
Flagships of their respective genres in Finland and leading forces of the European dance and baroque music, Tero Saarinen Company (TSC) and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra (HeBO) join forces to find new dimensions to opera pioneer Claudio Monteverdi’s (1567- 1643) radical madrigals. Third Practice features thirteen live performers on stage. Six TSC dancers and six HeBO instrumentalists are complemented by two internationally recognized opera soloists specialized in early music: Tenor Topi Lehtipuu live on stage and the virtual avatar of Catalonian Soprano Núria Rial. The creative team of Third Practice is Choreographer Tero Saarinen, Music Director, Arranger Aapo Häkkinen, Lighting Designer Eero Auvinen, Projection Designer Thomas Freundlich, Costume Designer Erika Turunen, Sound Designer Marco Melchior and Choreographer’s Assistant Henrikki Heikkilä.
Saarinen is known for insightful fusions of the classical and the contemporary – such as his praised The Rite interpretation HUNT (2002). Many of Saarinen’s best-known creations also feature inventive use of live music: Borrowed Light (2004) with early music ensemble The Boston Camerata and recent collaborations with Esa-Pekka Salonen (Morphed, 2014), The Finnish National Opera and Ballet (Kullervo by Jean Sibelius, 2015) as well as Susanna Mälkki and The LA Phil (Zimmermann Trio, 2018). In Third Practice Saarinen once again creates a gripping choreography combining dance with live music, strong and exceptional performers, innovative sound, lighting, video and costume design – intertwined with multi-layered and emotionally gripping themes.
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
Kreatur premiered in 2017 will receive the Asian and Hong Kong premiere in 2020 at the Kwai Tsing Theatre. Stay tuned for more information.
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
One of the leading period performance ensembles makes their long awaited tour to Asia in 2020 combined with the a performance of Sasha Waltz’s Dido and Aeneas in Shanghai. The orchestra will also tour to other venues in Asia with an independent orchestral program.
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
With Sasha Waltz’s choreography, Henry Purcell’s (1659-1695) most notable opera Dido & Aeneas, is restaged with soloists and dancer, and accompanied by the established Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Berlin Vocal Consort. Since the premiere of the work by Sasha Waltz & Guests, the work has toured to all corners of the world and will now receive the Asian and China premiere at Shanghai Grand Theatre.
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
For Beethoven’s 250th birthday anniversary, Nico and the Navigators will celebrate with a unique dance and theatre piece based on Beethoven’s late String Quartet, featuring the Küss Quartet.
Tune in for more information in Spring 2020!
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
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In 2020 Hofesh Shechter will premiere a highly anticipated new work with co-commissioners for the first time from Asia, as well as UK and European members.
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***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
Lucas Debargue will make his Malaysian debut with the MPO alongside Kees Barkel, and Marc Baouchkov (violin) and Istvàn Vàdai (cello) in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
The work is an adaptation of the original book ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ written by Carlo Collodi in 1883, Italy. It was written at a time when Italian society was philosophically and morally engaged in a very important question about the nature of education; could peasants be educated? Could their children go to school and become ‘real boys’, or were they destined to be merely work force -‘donkeys’.
Unlike the Disney version of Pinocchio which portrays a journey to become a real boy, achieved by telling the truth, a message driven home by the film, I find in the original nineteenth century Italian tale a much more complex journey of challenges and discoveries. This journey leads him to realise what it means to be human, understanding and recognising human feelings and emotions in himself and in others. This classic tale, in a way of questioning, allows us to explore our assumptions of what it means to be human.
Throughout creating this interpretation of the story, I was mainly interested in the imaginative way it can be retold, constructing the characters with the performers and rediscovering the tale through them. One of the exciting things we explored with the set designer and the production team was the creation of a stage that also functioned as a marionette theatre, making the interactive set part of the choreography. It was an exciting journey of challenges and adventures for us all, and I’m happy to share it with you.
Jasmin Vardimon
for the 2020/2021 season, the Jerusalem String Quartet will embark on a special Beethoven celebratory tour to Asia. The quartet will perform the entire set of string quartets from the great master himself. Please tune in for more information.
***Due to COVID-19 this project has been postponed until further notice. Please stay tuned for new updates.***
Sasha Waltz’s newest work, premiered in 2019, will be available for touring in 2021. Please enquire with us.
Cappella Gabetta and charismatic Bandoneon-virtuoso Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi are crossing boarders and entering in a fascinating world of sound: the first time in our time an orchestra is performing a programm of Piazzolla and Vivaldi on period instruments! The richness of natural harmonics in playing on gut-strings and period instruments is offering a new sound-experience to the listeners. Another new element of this project is the transcription of Piazzolla’s “4 Seasons” for solo-Bandoneon, violin and orchestra and a virtuso final coda arranged and composed by Roberto Molinelli.
The programme has been performed in various European concert halls such as Baden-Baden, Munich and Basel. Argentinian-born violinist and leader Andras Gabetta and Italian Bandoneon-virtuoso Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi are pleased to present this extraordinary project.
Twenty years ago Gidon Kremer created ideal conditions for a musical revolution. The internationally acclaimed violinist unveiled his new initiative at Austria’s Lockenhaus Festival in the summer of 1997. The birth of Kremerata Baltica – comprising twenty-three outstanding young musicians from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – was greeted with a standing ovation. The orchestra has since captivated audiences worldwide with playing of unrestrained joy and programming of limitless imagination.
Kremerata Baltica arose from Gidon Kremer’s determination to share his rich experience with young colleagues from the Baltic States. The ensemble’s preparation process, which holds no room for artistic compromise, is ruled by a commitment to excellence and creative daring.
In addition to exploring works from the repertoire mainstream, Kremerata Baltica has also delivered world premieres of compositions by, among others, Lera Auerbach, Leonid Desyatnikov, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Georgs Pēlecis, Alexander Raskatov, Valentin Silvestrov, Victor Kissine, Sofia Gubaidulina and Pēteris Vasks.
Kremerata Baltica’s repertoire breadth is reflected in an award-winning discography that spans everything from Mozart’s complete violin concertos with Gidon Kremer, Enescu’s Octet and Astor Piazzolla’s Tango Ballet to first recordings of music by Kancheli, Kissine and Pärt. After Mozart on Nonesuch Records won Grammy and ECHO Klassik awards in 2002, while albums of works by George Enescu and Mieczysław Weinberg have since secured Grammy Award nominations.
Kremerata Baltica has performed in over 50 countries, presenting over 1,000 concerts in 600 cities. It makes regular appearances at many concert series and festivals, including Berlin’s Schloss Neuhardenberg, Bavaria’s Schloss Elmau and others.
The ensemble has broadened its work in recent years to include “To Russia with Love”, a concert staged at Berlin’s Philharmonie in 2013 to promote the cause of human rights in Russia, and its latest creative project, “Pictures from the East”, a collaborative venture with Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr highlighting the desperate plight of refugees from conflicts in the Middle East.
Since 2003 Kremerata Baltica has held its own Festival in Latvia.
Kremerata Baltica celebrated its 20th anniversary and Gidon Kremer’s 70th birthday year in 2016-17 with tours in the Middle East, United States, Europe, and Asia under Maestro Kremer’s leadership.
With conductor Giovanni Antonini, Basel Chamber Orchestra will embark on an epic Beethoven Cycle of Symphonies in Asia. Stay tuned for updated tour dates and cities!
Exciting news to come for this grand production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Berlin Vocal Consort, dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests, and a stellar cast of singers.
Sol Gabetta and Giovanni Antonini with Basel Chamber Orchestra’s 2022 Asia Tour. Stay Tuned for more information!
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Tero Saarinen‘s latest large-scale choreography is set to Stonework (2015), Drifts (2016–17) and Water Atlas (2018) by composer Sebastian Fagerlund. The trilogy is combined with the spatial sound design of Tuomas Norvio, known for his imaginative work in electronic music.
The stage design centers on a dialog between an animated film installation by visual artist duo IC-98 and the lighting design by Minna Tiikkainen. This is the first time IC-98’s internationally praised work is seen in performing arts. The black and white video is based on material hand-drawn by pencil. Costume designer Teemu Muurimäki brings even more layers to the work as the dancers in a sense shed away their skin in an effort to unveil a new future.
Transit is a Nordic co-production. Following Skånes Dansteater’s premiere season at Malmö Opera, the creation will be in Tero Saarinen Company’s own repertoire from 2021.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/468939698