Kris Berry, Annie Tångberg, Emile Visser & Mark Haanstra

Annie Tångberg studied musicology at the University of Oslo and pedagogy at the Barratt Due Institute of Music. In 1995, she came to the Netherlands to study at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she received her Master’s degree in chamber music. Annie is a musical omnivore, and that shows in the versatility of the groups in which she plays: the Metropole Orchestra, the Sonja van Hamel Band, Elastic Jargon, the West Side Trio, Duo Percucello and Trio Hoorncomfort and, of course, Metrocelli. She has played music for various silent films at the Eye film museum, and she regularly composes new music. At the Cello Biënnale in 2022, she was a soloist in Bill Laurance’s new double concerto and she made the arrangements for the Tango Evening. Annie plays an English cello built around 1840, on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation. 

Emile Visser (1973) studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Godfried Hoogeveen and Dmitry Ferschtman. Even before completing his classical study, he already became a member of Zapp4, a string quartet specialised in improvised music, jazz, pop, rock and ethnic music, which has achieved a reputation as one of the most unconventional and groovy string quartets in The Netherlands. Since 2002, Emile has been a regular member of the Metropole Orchestra as well as Metrocelli. He is also a member of Nikitov, an ensemble specialised in Yiddish music. For the Cello Biënnale in 2014, he collaborated with cellist Pepijn Meeuws to create the children’s show Cello! Cello! Ma non Troppo. He was also the soloist of the Hello Cello Orchestra that year and shared the stage with singer Nora Fischer and cellist Annie Tångberg in one of the Late Cello Nights. In 2022, he and Annie Tångberg performed as soloists with the Metropole Orchestra in Bill Laurance’s new double concerto.