The cellist Maya Beiser has consistently challenged our conception of the traditional cello recital and of traditional cello repertoire through her multi-media performances featuring works commissioned especially for her. Her newest project, Elsewhere, continues the trajectory into unchartered territories....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: Jim Allen
Provenance
In a world troubled by religious strife and division, the period between the eighth and fifteenth centuries in the Iberian Peninsula offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture. Provenance is inspired by the glory of this multireligious, multicultural, civilization that forever changed the West....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: Lili Almog
Almost Human
Maya Beiser takes the cello to yet another uncharted terrain; exploring ancient vocal traditions. Voices of Medieval madrigal, traditional Cambodian, Chinese and Taiwanese minority singing, indigenous Armenian and Indonesian ritual singing and Jewish Cantorial chanting are some of the sources for inspiration....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: Mirovuki Ito
World to Come
Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, World To Come is Maya Beiser's new multimedia solo concert, featuring the premiere of a Steve Reich multi-track cello piece as well as new works by Osvaldo Golijov and David Lang, and additional works by Arvo Pärt and Louis Andriessen. This evening will challenge the notion of a solo cello concert and will encompass text, vocals, dramatic lighting and interactive videos. Video design is created by internationally acclaimed artist Irit Batsry, winner of the Whitney Museum 's prestigious Bucksbaum award....more
Photo: Bernhard Gál
Klangschatten II - Austrian music for children
In Klangschatten II, Austrian instruments for children are featured within a multimedia scenario. New compositions from Bernhard Gál, improvisation and live electronics as well as traditional Austrian music are partly performed behind translucent screens and thus only visible as moving shadows within colored light. An exciting experience!
"... a work about practicing asceticism, the river's mildness, and the quest for quietude." (Lin Hwai-min)
The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan has done much wandering of its own, performing Songs of the Wanderers on stages throughout the world for years. Currently, Lin Hwai-Min and his dancers are rediscovering the piece through the addition of live music. The georgian Rustavi Choir, lauded by UNESCO as a preserver of the oral and immaterial legacy of mankind, performed for the first time with the dance troupe at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. The choir's powerful polyphonic song was moving both dancers and audience....more
Photo: Liu Chen-Hsiang
Water Stains on the Wall
available: May/June/Nov 2012 and May-Aug 2013
A legend about two Masters of brush writing in the Tang Dynasty established “water stains on the wall” as a popular metaphor that represents the highest state in the aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy. Choreographer Lin Hwai-min and Asia’s leading contemporary dance company Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan take off from this metaphor creating an abstract work of beauty and magic that stands sublimely on its own....more
Heinz Holliger
Photo: Priska Ketterer
Stuttgart RSO with a special programme on the occasion of Heinz Holliger's 75th birthday
Available dates in June with Håkan Hardenberger & Krzysztof Urbański and in July with Leif Ove Andsnes and the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart under Stéphane Denève. ...more
Sir Roger Norrington
Photo: Manfred Esser
Available dates in 2014/15
In the season 2014/15, Stuttgart RSO will be available with great artists such as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Sir Roger Norrington and Truls Mørk.
In Spring 2014 Jörg Widmann will be the Camerata Bern's special guest at Bern featuring a wonderful programme both as composer as well as musician. We are delighted to offer further available dates for guest performances....more
Beethoven CD
Cover: AVI
50 years Camerata Bern! Touring programme with Beethoven
dates upon request
Antje Weithaas, violin
In spring of its Jubilee Season 2012 the Camerata Bern will focus on Beethoven's music. Artistic director and exceptional violinist Antje Weithaas will perform the concerto for violin in D major. Furthermore, a commissioned work by Swiss composer Martin Wettstein will be preceded Beethoven's eighth symphony....more
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Photo: Florence Grandidier
A cappella Christmas and Bach Magnificat
9 / 10 December 2013
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor ...more
El Cimarrón
Hans Werner Henze/Hans Magnus Enzensberger In Cuba in the nineteenth century, the word cimarrón meant escaped slave. The cimarrón in Henzes Recital for four musicians is Esteban Montejo. Born in 1860, he was interviewed by the Cuban ethnologist and writer Miguel Barnet at the age of 104....more
Luca Lombardi
Storia di Giona
Luca Lombardi Luca Lombardi has set the well-known story of Jonah from the Old Testament to music for the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Jonah ends up inside the stomach of a whale due to his doubts about God. He survives, however, and lives on to lead the people of Nineveh....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: James Matthew Daniel
Elsewhere
The cellist Maya Beiser has consistently challenged our conception of the traditional cello recital and of traditional cello repertoire through her multi-media performances featuring works commissioned especially for her. Her newest project, Elsewhere, continues the trajectory into unchartered territories....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: Lili Almog
Almost Human
Maya Beiser takes the cello to yet another uncharted terrain; exploring ancient vocal traditions. Voices of Medieval madrigal, traditional Cambodian, Chinese and Taiwanese minority singing, indigenous Armenian and Indonesian ritual singing and Jewish Cantorial chanting are some of the sources for inspiration....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: Mirovuki Ito
World to Come
Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, World To Come is Maya Beiser's new multimedia solo concert, featuring the premiere of a Steve Reich multi-track cello piece as well as new works by Osvaldo Golijov and David Lang, and additional works by Arvo Pärt and Louis Andriessen. This evening will challenge the notion of a solo cello concert and will encompass text, vocals, dramatic lighting and interactive videos. Video design is created by internationally acclaimed artist Irit Batsry, winner of the Whitney Museum 's prestigious Bucksbaum award....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: James Matthew Daniel
Elsewhere
The cellist Maya Beiser has consistently challenged our conception of the traditional cello recital and of traditional cello repertoire through her multi-media performances featuring works commissioned especially for her. Her newest project, Elsewhere, continues the trajectory into unchartered territories....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: Lili Almog
Almost Human
Maya Beiser takes the cello to yet another uncharted terrain; exploring ancient vocal traditions. Voices of Medieval madrigal, traditional Cambodian, Chinese and Taiwanese minority singing, indigenous Armenian and Indonesian ritual singing and Jewish Cantorial chanting are some of the sources for inspiration....more
Maya Beiser
Photo: Mirovuki Ito
World to Come
Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, World To Come is Maya Beiser's new multimedia solo concert, featuring the premiere of a Steve Reich multi-track cello piece as well as new works by Osvaldo Golijov and David Lang, and additional works by Arvo Pärt and Louis Andriessen. This evening will challenge the notion of a solo cello concert and will encompass text, vocals, dramatic lighting and interactive videos. Video design is created by internationally acclaimed artist Irit Batsry, winner of the Whitney Museum 's prestigious Bucksbaum award....more
El Cimarrón
Hans Werner Henze/Hans Magnus Enzensberger In Cuba in the nineteenth century, the word cimarrón meant escaped slave. The cimarrón in Henzes Recital for four musicians is Esteban Montejo. Born in 1860, he was interviewed by the Cuban ethnologist and writer Miguel Barnet at the age of 104....more
Luca Lombardi
Storia di Giona
Luca Lombardi Luca Lombardi has set the well-known story of Jonah from the Old Testament to music for the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Jonah ends up inside the stomach of a whale due to his doubts about God. He survives, however, and lives on to lead the people of Nineveh....more
