Desguin Kwartet at Singelkerkconcert
Amsterdam, Netherlands
13 July 16:00
DESGUIN KWARTET
Wolfram Van Mechelen, violin | Ludovic Bataillie, violin
Rhea Vanhellemont, viola | Pieter-Jan De Smet, cello
PROJECT
Dvorak Down the Rabbit Hole
The project offers a rethinking of the dogma “Theater should happen here and now,” where musicians, based on the material of the Dvorak Quartet, improvise and insert individual pieces from other musical works. Also, during the concert, they experiment with acoustics, change places, and woven into all this are improvised lighting and additional sounds that are played through the speaker, which truly makes each performance completely different and one of a kind.
MUSIC PROGRAMME
Dvorak String Quartet Nr 12 in F Major, Op. 96 ’American’
Infused into each movement: improvisational elements and musical quotations; snippets by e.g. Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Igor Stravinsky, Caroline Shaw, Mathias Coppens,…)
Concert open to the public