Live art projections will accompany the music of Saariaho, Prokofiev, Dayer and Rotaru.
On 22 September 2024, Abraxas Ensemble invites you to listen to Kaija Saariaho’s duet Tocar, Sergei Prokofiev’s Overture on Jewish Themes Op. 34 for clarinet, string quartet and piano, and Ecce filius tuus for ensemble by Geneva composer Xavier Dayer. To close the concert, saxophonist Sara Zazo Romero joins the ensemble for the Swiss premiere of Shakti for saxophone(s) and large ensemble by Diana Rotaru. Art projections by Alexandra Cupsa, the ensemble’s graphic designer, will accompany the works Tocar and Ecce filius tuus.
Abraxas Ensemble, who we are
Abraxas Ensemble was founded in 2021 by Alexandra Vizman, Eugène Carmona, Emile Abeille and Adeline Mélo, four musicians from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne. The initiative stems from their desire to promote contemporary and 20th-century music in the Leman Lake region. From the outset, the ensemble adopted a variable-geometry structure, allowing it to adapt to the variety of forces specific to the music of our time. This has naturally led it to develop its artistic activity along two lines: the ’Grand Ensemble’ concert series, which gives pride of place to repertoire written for large ensembles, and the ’Abraxas Décomposé’ concert series, which leaves room for the solo instrument and various chamber music ensembles. Abraxas aims to create a regional cultural hub where performers, composers, audiences and other art forms can come together around contemporary music. We therefore give priority to collaboration with composers, interdisciplinarity and concert-mediation.
How your support will be used
Your support will be used to cover the performance and production costs of this new project. In particular, it will allow the ensemble to work with living composers, bringing today’s music to life.
Above all, thanks to your support, we will also be able to offer remuneration commensurate with the scope of the work to the young local musicians who make up the ensemble.
We are financed mainly by grants and donations, so your support is particularly valuable to us.
