Cantus Ansambl
 

Cantus Ensemble announces rare performances, and four-time Porin Award winner Berislav Šipuš is about to complete his new work, which will premiere on 27th May

Will the Cantus Ensemble concert, scheduled for 27th May, live up to its title and truly bring "Something completely different"? Come to Lisinski on Monday and find out!
 
And did the members of the Cantus Ensemble actually follow Stockhausen's instructions and spend four days "in complete isolation, silence, and without food" before performing Golden Dust? You can check for yourself on Monday...
 
The concert on 27th May will open with Luciano Berio's composition Circles, which symbolically "closes another circle," another concert season in the Cantus Ensemble's long-standing journey through the vortices and currents of New Music. The composition Circles was composed for the great Cathy Berberian, and in Zagreb, it will be interpreted by the equally great Martina Gojčeta Silić. On the occasion of its premiere, Berio wrote: "Music is never pure: it is an attitude, it is theater." So you know what to expect.
 
The concert program also includes something entirely new! Berislav Šipuš has decided to build on Berio's Circles, composed for voice, harp, and percussion, by completing a composition ... from the edge of a song ..., for a singer and actress, with three harps, percussion, deep instruments, and electronics.
 
For the composer who won four Porin Awards this year, writing until the last breath has never been unusual. Will the ink of the sheet music dry in time for the concert? Check it out on Monday!
 
In Šipuš's work, we will hear the second vocal diva of the evening, Ivana Srbljan, and a new acting talent, Dora Dimić Rakar. And then, to conclude the concert, Stockhausen's Goldstaub – as another "#something different." If you've never encountered the concept of intuitive music, now's your chance!
 
At this final stop of this season's journey – in this "truly different" piece where there is no sheet music, and only a few lines of text guiding the performance – the Cantus Ensemble will be joined by the great Italian flutist Roberto Fabbriciani, our esteemed saxophonist Tomislav Žužak, renowned guitarist and composer Zoran Šćekić, composer and electronic artist Tomislav Oliver, and even Šipuš himself on the piano.
 
"Close your eyes, just listen," says Karlheinz Stockhausen. And what will we hear? "Something completely different", they say!
 
Regardless of everything, some things remain the same. Like the exciting feeling of experiencing something new, interesting, and unusual. Just what we always expect from the Cantus Ensemble!

 

 
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Concert cycle Cantus Ansambl is supported by City of Zagreb and international activities by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.