New European Ensemble (photo Rob Overmeer)

Seasonal Quartet

New European Ensemble + Ali Smith

Thu 25 Sep 2025 20:15 - 22:15

contemporary

Thu 25 Sep 2025

20:15 - 22:15

Thu 25 Sep 2025

20:15 - 22:15

Interval 21:00

Grote Zaal

Past event

Program

19.15 / Foyerdeck 1 / Pre-concert talk
by Thea Derks

20.15 / Grote Zaal / Main program
Kate Moore Fall, Falling
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Part 2, 5 , 6 from Spectra
Alice Yeung Inabsolute Zero
Peter Maxwell Davies A Sad Paven for These Distracted Tymes
Seung-Won Oh In Spring: Echoes of a Silent Cry
Kinan Azmeh Part 2 from Essays on solitude and other ambiguous emotions
Sara Zamboni Hymn to an English Summer

Ali Smith Excerpts from the novels Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer

Credits

New European Ensemble
Ali Smith reciter

New music by four female composers over four seasons

New European Ensemble loves to tell musical stories in combination with film, literature, theatre or dance. For this concert, four female composers have composed new music inspired by the four novels Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer by the internationally acclaimed Scottish author Ali Smith. Smith explores her personal reality in her books, addressing issues such as Brexit, climate change, migration and feminism. The author will read selections from her work during the performance.

The four composers share a multidisciplinary and pioneering approach to music. This vision aligns with the New European Ensemble’s aim to ‘reflect, challenge, inspire, and deepen our understanding of human experience and our environment through the communicative power of new music’.

Note: The evening will be held in English.

Programme booklet (Dutch)

Part of

Thursday Evening Series

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