Asko & Schönberg Ensemble

Following the video opera ONE, presented last year by the Berliner Festspiele to wide acclaim, we will be presenting the premiere of a further work by Michel van der Aa in 2004. In HERE the music is developed in a series of acoustic spaces – audible, dreamed, imaginary and simulated.

The venues for the musical drama are set by a combination of dramatic means, electronic-acoustic methods and a sound track played in by computer technology. Protagonist of the piece is the wonderful soprano Barbara Hannigan, who delighted both audience and critics in ONE.

Concert Programme

Colin Matthews
Suns Dance

Michel van der Aa
HERE–Trilogy
Here [ enclosed ]
Here [ in circles ]
Here [ to be found ]
Premiere of the entire trilogy

Cast

Barbara Hannigan soprano

Asko Ensemble
Schönberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw conductor