Past and Future Silences
Guy Livingston, piano, Ned McGowan, flute; Nafiss Nia, poetry; met Madelief Lammers, vocals; Magdalena Spinka, vocals; Maya Willemse, piano
Spoken Word, Music, Poetry, Electronics, at the Maarten Luther Kerk, Amsterdam Zuid
with special guest artists from the HKU
Date: Friday, June 18th @ 7pm
Program: music of George Crumb, Anton Webern, Ned McGowan, Vanessa Lann, and Guy Livingston, plus “silence” music by performers and composers from the HKU Musician 3.0 program!
Ik wil terug naar het verloren moment
Nafiss Nia, uit esfahan mijn hoopstee
naar de vergeten lach
naar de tuin en de vijgenboom.
Ned McGowan is a flutist and contemporary classical music composer, born in the United States, living in the Netherlands. Known for rhythmical vitality and technical virtuosity, his music has won awards and been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw and other halls and festivals around the world by many orchestras, ensembles and soloists. As a flutist he plays classical, contemporary and improvisation concerts internationally and he has a special love for the contrabass flute. Ned is a professor of composition, ensembles and Advanced Rhythm and Pulse at the Utrecht Conservatory and lecturer of Artistic Research at both the Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam and the Fontys School of Performing Arts Tilburg. In September 2016, Ned started an artistic research PhD about speed, frame and time in music at the Leiden University and the DocARTES program in Ghent.
Nafiss Nia is dichter, (scenario)schrijver, Filmmaker, cultureel ondernemer en public speaker.
Nafiss is tevens directeur/Hoofdprogrammeur van Stichting Granate in Amsterdam en programmeert in die hoedanigheid festivals als Granate Festival, Duizendenéén Film&Poëzie, Televisieprogramma 1001 Gezichten en het project Poëzie op de stoep.
Gedichten en andere werk van Nafiss zijn opgenomen in meer dan veertig verzamelbundels, bloemlezingen en (literaire) tijdschriften. oa ‘Blauw goud’ samengesteld door Patrick Riubroeks en Thomas Mölmann en ‘Ik weet niet welke weg je neemt’, samengesteld door Arie Boomsma en in Tirade, Meander, Liegende konijn, Balustrade, NRC next, Trouw, Volkskrant, Groene Amsterdammer en Deus ex Machina. Ze draagt regelmatig haar gedichten voor op literaire podia.
