AAN/UIT (ON/OFF)

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This weekend will be experimental.  Composer Wilbert Bulsink wrote a piece in which the audience occasionally puts their fingers in their ears. This simple act creates a unique sound experience: louder sounds become more gentle and soft sounds can become loud. As the sound plays hide and seek in your head, you’ll learn how to play your ears as an instrument.

Friday: Tickets Splendor click here

Saturday:  Tickets Festival Tweetakt click here

Saturday: Tickets Gaudeamus Sessie #22 click here 

Wilbert Bulsink composition
Willem Wits visuals

ROSA ENSEMBLE:
Anna voor de Wind clarinets
Jeroen Kimman electric guitar
Peter Jessen double bass, voice
Willem Wits overheadprojector

De Deense Detective at Wonderfeel 2017

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Van 21 tot en met 23 juli vindt Wonderfeel plaats op Landgoed Schaep en Burgh in ‘s Graveland. Op zondag 23 juli zal Rosa Ensemble De Deense Detective spelen in 3 blokken van circa 1,5 uur.

Het verhaal ultrakort
Aan de Amstel wordt het levenloze lichaam van een jonge vrouw gevonden. Algauw komt de internationale roddelpers erachter dat het om de Zweedse zangeres Liv Ljunggren gaat, de publiekslieveling van het aanstaande Eurovisie Songfestival. Twee eenvoudige rechercheurs worden op de zaak gezet en hebben spoedig hun handen vol aan verdachte omstandigheden, een onwillige leidinggevende en verdoezeld bewijsmateriaal. Dan duikt een geheim agent uit Denemarken op. Werpt zijn komst licht op de zaak, of begint nu een veel duisterder spel?

DDD – marathon
Het live-hoorspel bestaat uit 7 afleveringen verdeeld over 3 blokken. De blokken kunnen ook los van elkaar kunnen worden bijgewoond. Elk blok begint met een korte samenvatting van het voorafgaande.

zondag 23 juli, 13.00-17.00 uur
Festival Wonderfeel, ‘s Graveland

 

 

Ode to my parents

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“An ode to my parents”

 

An ode to my parents will air on Radio 1 on Sunday afternoon, 15 May, 9pm. It is a portrait of Daniel Cross, artistic director of Rosa Ensemble.

His music theatre production Akasha, A brief theatre of everything will premiere at the end of this month on Operadagen in Rotterdam. “My work is actually quite mono thematic’, he says. It’s always about life and death, good and bad. Carine van Santen talks to him about the relationship between Cross’s family history and his work. How does his life story come through in his music? Everything I do is an ode to my parents, he says.

Cross has been the artistic director of Rosa Ensemble since 1997. In Akasha, Cross is inspired by the theory of the Akasha field, a theory that states the past, present and future of the universe are interconnected. With a dizzying mirror decor, Rosa Ensemble literally floats through space.

 

 

Radio Doc

“Een ode aan mijn ouders” 

Broadcast on Sunday 5 May, 21.00hrs on Radio 1

 

Rosa Hits Back

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Rosa is celebrating its 15th birthday this year. The group was founded by musicians from the Utrecht Conservatory in 1997. Since then the group evolved into an appealing and leading music company that excels in mixing contemporary music with pop music and wonderful music theater.

Rosa absorbed the glorious work of Captain Beefheart (“Selling Hoovers in Mojave”) and collaborated with Spinvis, Hans Dagelet, Eric Vloeimans, Jan Jaap van der Wal and Collective 33one3rd. Rosa played in the Netherlands, in Canada, Great Britain, Brazil and Malta. In fifteen years, the Rosa Ensemble built a repertoire exploring all corners of contemporary and popular music. To celebrate its 15th anniversary Rosa released two CD”s: The ‘Anticantate ‘, one of Rosa’s most successful multi media programs, and a greatest hits CD titled ‘Shortbread & Outcakes’, both availiable in a limited edition.

Line up:
Stephanie Pan: vox and loops, Jessica Sligter: vox and guitar, Eefje de Visser: vox and guitar, Peter Jessen: double bass, Wilbert Bulsink: keys, Jeroen Kimman: guitar, Ainhoa Miranda: clarinet, Koen Kaptijn: trombone, Daniel Cross: percussion, Thomas Koopmans: sound, Elizabet van de Kooij: light