Opera ‘Private View’ by Annelies Van Parys /cancelled

4/06/21, Antwerpen (BEL), Theater ‘t Eilandje

More info about tickets soon

We all spy on the neighbours from time to time. When we do so, do we see the truth – or is that ‘truth’ coloured by our own perspectives? Should we ever intervene? Are we complicit in what we see? A cry in the night, a vanished neighbour: will shared fear draw us out of our isolation?For her first opera Private View, composer Annelies Van Parys chose to take as her starting point Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “Rear Window”, about a murder in a block of flats. Her collaboration with the librettist Jen Hadfield, scenarist Gaea Schoeters and director Tom Creed led to the creation of a pioneering opera that won several awards. Having premiered six years ago at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, this Thriller opera is revisited in a new production of Muziektheater Transparant, SPECTRA and the young artists of the International Opera Academy.

COMPOSITION: ANNELIES VAN PARYS ◉ LIBRETTO: JEN HADFIELD ◉ SCENARIO: GAEA SCHOETERS ◉ CONDUCTOR: FILIP RATHÉ ◉ DIRECTOR: TOM CREED

◉ CAST: STUDENTEN INTERNATIONAL OPERA ACADEMY 
Goth boy: Mikhail Silantev
Goth girl: Laura Orueta
Retrochick: Sawako Kayaki
Lonelyhearts: William Branston
Green 1: Kadi Jürgens
Green 2: Callie Gaston
Student 1: Sandrine Mairesse
Student 2: Victoria Perez-Santisteban
Student 3: Keith Pun
Neighbour: Jinyoung Kim
Radio Voice: Sunghwan Park
Speaking Voice Narrator: Sofia Marafona
Handyman: Yanqiao Shi
Repetiteurs: Anastasia Silanteva, José Alberto Sancho

◉ ENSEMBLE: SPECTRA
Koen Maas, saxophone
Simon Haspeslagh, horn
Pieter Vandermeiren, trombone
Bjorn Denys, percussion
Jeroen Robbrecht, viola
Peter Devos, cello
Tom Devaere, double bass
Luca Pignata, accordion
Tom Pauwels, electric guitar
Anastasia Silanteva, music box & prepared piano
Filip Rathé, conductor

Production: Muziektheater Transparant & IOA (International Opera Academy). Coproduction: SPECTRA. With thanks to LOD muziektheater and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. A composition assignment of Muziektheater Transparant and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. Music published / licensed by (c) Deuss Music / Albersen Verhuur B.V., ‘s-Gravenhage

La Tristeza Complice

5/03/21, Antwerp (BEL), De Singel

Iets meer dan 25 jaar geleden maken Alain Platel, drijfveer van les ballets C de la B, en Dick van der Harst, medeoprichter van LOD muziektheater, de legendarische voorstelling ‘La Tristeza Complice’. Samen grasduinen ze in het werk van Henry Purcell (1659-1695) en selecteren ze op een ‘brutale’ manier enkel wat hen direct behaagt, opvalt en aanspreekt als popmuziek voor een muziektheatervoorstelling. 

Speciaal voor deSingel OnLive en Podium19 kan je het muzikale luik van deze legendarische voorstelling, die op zo goed als alle continenten te zien was, (her)ontdekken. Van der Harst selecteert gretig uit Purcells vocale en instrumentale oeuvre, dat hij arrangeert en waaraan hij vreemde lementen en weerbarstige ritmes toevoegt. Een onvergetelijke cocktail van Purcells
barokmuziek, door een tienkoppig accordeonorkest (bestaande uit muzikanten uit de oorspronkelijke bezetting en studenten) onder leiding van Gwen Cresens en sopraan Lieselot De Wilde.

muzikale leiding: Gwen Cresens, compositie: Dick Van der Harst naar Henry Purcell. sopraanLieselot De Wilde, accordeonorkest: Gwen Cresens, Elke De Meester, Louis De Backere, Sara Salverius, Luca Pignata, Issa Hellebaut, Ward Ginneberge, Barbara Ardenois, Ivan Smeulders, Lowie Vercammen, productie: LOD muziektheater, les ballets C de la B

Meer info, stream via Podium19

Opera ‘Private View’ by Annelies Van Parys

18-20/02/2021, LOD Gent

Listen online on soundofghent between 18 and 20 februari 2021

We all spy on the neighbours from time to time. When we do so, do we see the truth – or is that ‘truth’ coloured by our own perspectives? Should we ever intervene? Are we complicit in what we see? A cry in the night, a vanished neighbour: will shared fear draw us out of our isolation?For her first opera Private View, composer Annelies Van Parys chose to take as her starting point Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “Rear Window”, about a murder in a block of flats. Her collaboration with the librettist Jen Hadfield, scenarist Gaea Schoeters and director Tom Creed led to the creation of a pioneering opera that won several awards. Having premiered six years ago at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, this Thriller opera is revisited in a new production of Muziektheater Transparant, SPECTRA and the young artists of the International Opera Academy.

COMPOSITION: ANNELIES VAN PARYS ◉ LIBRETTO: JEN HADFIELD ◉ SCENARIO: GAEA SCHOETERS ◉ CONDUCTOR: FILIP RATHÉ ◉ DIRECTOR: TOM CREED

◉ CAST: STUDENTEN INTERNATIONAL OPERA ACADEMY 
Goth boy: Mikhail Silantev
Goth girl: Laura Orueta
Retrochick: Sawako Kayaki
Lonelyhearts: William Branston
Green 1: Kadi Jürgens
Green 2: Callie Gaston
Student 1: Sandrine Mairesse
Student 2: Victoria Perez-Santisteban
Student 3: Keith Pun
Neighbour: Jinyoung Kim
Radio Voice: Sunghwan Park
Speaking Voice Narrator: Sofia Marafona
Handyman: Yanqiao Shi
Repetiteurs: Anastasia Silanteva, José Alberto Sancho

◉ ENSEMBLE: SPECTRA
Koen Maas, saxophone
Simon Haspeslagh, horn
Pieter Vandermeiren, trombone
Bjorn Denys, percussion
Jeroen Robbrecht, viola
Peter Devos, cello
Tom Devaere, double bass
Luca Pignata, accordion
Tom Pauwels, electric guitar
Anastasia Silanteva, music box & prepared piano
Filip Rathé, conductor

Production: Muziektheater Transparant & IOA (International Opera Academy). Coproduction: SPECTRA. With thanks to LOD muziektheater and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. A composition assignment of Muziektheater Transparant and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. Music published / licensed by (c) Deuss Music / Albersen Verhuur B.V., ‘s-Gravenhage

Rai Radio 3 – Presentation CD ‘Baroque Accordion’

On 14 november 9h30 there will be a short presentation of my album ‘Baroque Accordion‘ during ‘Primo Movimento‘.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Grazie mille a Valentina Lo Surdo di Primo Movimento per le belle parole. Dal minuto 15’00 la presentazione del mio disco ‘Baroque Accordion’.
Primo movimento è una interessante rubrica del palinsesto di Rai Radio 3, che mette in evidenza le più significative novità discografiche.

Radio Klara – Interview

On 12 september Luca Pignata was guest of the national Belgian Radio Klara, presenting his debut album ‘Baroque Accordion‘ to presentator Olav Grondelaers.

You can find the interview on the website of Radio Klara

Luca Pignata at the Belgian Radio Klara, in Music Matters with presentator Olav Grondelaers 12.09.2019
Luca Pignata at the Belgian Radio Klara, in Music Matters with presenter Olav Grondelaers 12.09.2019

Duo concert with Paul De Clerck (viola)

22/02/2020, MEIGEM-DEINZE (OV) (BEL)

Atelier D’Apostrof, Pastoriestraat 59, 9800 Meigem
info@dapostrof.be – 0494.534.566

Duo concert with Paul De Clerck (viola) and Luca Pignata.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) – “Der Leiermann” (Winterreise, D.911)

J. S. Bach – Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in G major (BWV 1027)

Toshio Hosokawa (*1955, JAP) – “In die Tiefe der Zeit” for viola and accordion

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) – “Zefiro torna”

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992, ARG) – “Le Grand Tango” (voor cello en piano, ‘dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich’)

Teaser:

Duo concert with Paul De Clerck (viola)

09/02/2020, ZOTTEGEM (BEL)

11u00, Ridderzaal Zottegem (tickets)

Duo concert with Paul De Clerck (viola) and Luca Pignata.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) – “Der Leiermann” (Winterreise, D.911)

J. S. Bach – Sonata voor viola da gamba en klavecimbel in sol groot (BWV 1027)

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992, ARG) – “Le Grand Tango” (voor cello en piano, ‘dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich’)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) – Meeres Stille, D.216

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) – Madrigaal “Zefiro torna”.

D. Scarlatti (1685-1757) – Sonata K 87 L.33 in si klein (accordeon solo)

Salvatore Sciarrino (*1947) – Primo notturno uit “Tre notturni brillanti” (altviool solo)

J. S. Bach (1685-1750) – Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott BWV 721 (accordeon solo)

Franz Schubert – “Abschied” (Schwanengesang, D.957)

Collective concert

15/06/2019, AVELGEM (WV) (BEL)

19u Conservatorium Avelgem, contact organisator Davidsfonds

Concert with the accordion students of Conservatorium Kortrijk (Joke Arco, Britt Verdonck, Frieda Claus, Laurens De Praetere, Kurt Vanneste). 

Programma for accordion sextet:

Astor Piazzolla – Zita

Yann Tiersen – J’y Suis Jamais Alle

ABBA – Medley

Duo concert with Paul De Clerck (viola)

31/01/2019, OOSTERZELE (WV) (BEL)

20u00, Theater Leen Persijn (Terstraeten 11, 9860 Oosterzele) (info en tickets: theater.leenpersijn@telenet.be – 09 360 39 25).

Duo concert with Paul De Clerck (viola) and Luca Pignata.

J. S. Bach – Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in G major (BWV 1027)

Toshio Hosokawa (*1955, JAP) – “In die Tiefe der Zeit” for viola and accordion

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) – “Der Leiermann” (Winterreise, D.911) and “Abschied” (Schwanengesang, D.957)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) – “Zefiro torna”. 

J. S. Bach – French Suite n.2 in C minor (BWV 813).