Borderless Sounds

Ketevan Roinishvili, Kian Soltani, Nicolas Altstaedt, Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Wed 6 Nov 20:15 - 22:15
Main Hall
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Wed 6 Nov
20:15 - 22:15
Sold out

Music from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey

Program

Sulkhan Tsintsadze Indi Mindi, Fly Away, Suliko
Sulkhan Tsintsadze Sachidao, Nana, Tsekva
Florian Magnus Maier Gossamer Road
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh ŞÖVQ, Music for Cello & Strings (world premier)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Reqs (Dance)
Grigor Narekatsi Havoun havoun
Aram Chatsjatoerjan Usundara
Komitas Chinar es
Fazil Say Şahmeran

Performers

Ketevan Roinishvili cello
Kian Soltani cello
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
DOMNIQ percussion
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson director and violin

The country all this music originates from have their tensions, but their music fits together wonderfully. Azerbaijan composer Frangiz Ali-Zadeh writes a new cello concerto for Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Kian Soltani*.

Nicolas Altstaedt plays the second cello concerto by Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say, who wrote it especially for him. Florian Magnus Maier makes a new arrangement of his own piece Gossamer Road for Georgian cellist Ketevan Roinishvili and strings. The piece is largely based on Georgian music.

*Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ivan Monighetti will be replaced by Kian Soltani.

Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Amsterdam Sinfonietta was founded in 1988 with Lev Markiz as the first Artistic Director. Candida Thompson has been the orchestra’s concertmaster since 1995 and became the Artistic Director in 2003. Throughout the past decades, Amsterdam Sinfonietta has grown into a regular guest at European concert halls and festivals. Amsterdam Sinfonietta has played a prominent role at the Cello Biënnale since the first edition in 2006, often giving world premieres of pieces by composers such as Dobrinka Tabakova, Pēteris Vasks, and David Lang.  Amsterdam Sinfonietta is characterised by its innovative programming. In addition to the core string repertoire, the orchestra brings original and exciting combinations of pieces, connects early and contemporary music, well-known and unknown repertoire. The orchestra commissions compositions and arrangements. It enters into unexpected collaborations and performs groundbreaking programmes, often including film, dance, and theatre. Amsterdam Sinfonietta has recorded various CDs under the label BIS, including Mendelssohn’s complete string symphonies, as well as 14 CDs since 2004 under their regular label Channel Classics, including The Mahler Album, The Argentinian Album, Lento Religioso, a collection of short arrangements for string orchestra, and Formidable, a collection of French chansons with baritone Thomas Oliemans. The orchestra has also recorded under the labels ECM, Sony Classical, and Deutsche Grammophon. Their first classical music film Strings saw its premiere in March 2020, followed by the releases of the films Misirlou (traditional), Atashgah (Jacobsen), and Tango (Piazzolla). 

Dominique Vleeshouwers

Dominique Vleeshouwers (Weert, 1992) is a Dutch solo percussionist known professionally as DOMNIQ. He is the first percussionist to win the prestigious Dutch Music Prize and the winner of the first prize, as well as the press and the audience prize at the international TROMP Percussion Competition held in Eindhoven in 2014. He is known for his virtuosic percussion skills and out-of-the-box projects. He graduated cum laude from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2013 with the performance Kindsoldaat (‘Child soldier’), which won him the AHK Graduation Prize of the Amsterdam University of the Arts for the best graduation presentation. That same year, he worked together Patrice Bäumel at the Amsterdam Dance Event. Dominique is also an active chamber musician and has worked with the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. He collaborated with Ivo Janssen and Mallet Collective Amsterdam to create a live recording of Simeon Ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato, selling out the Concertgebouw’s Grote Zaal.  Dominique has been a guest professor at the University of Music in Detmold and has been a teacher in the team of Percussion Friends at the Conservatory of Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Academy. He has also written two marimba methods titled Time for 4, which he will publish later this year.  He has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Asko|Schönberg, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Tokyo Sinfonietta, and Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic.