Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

Inspired by the Faustus story of Thomas Mann, The Circle of Truth employs a revolutionary combination of theater, art, nightlife, and digital culture to delve into our complex relationship with the truth. In this 2.5-hour interdisciplinary mindfuck, the devil himself assists you in stepping out of your comfortable social bubble to perceive the truth from a fresh perspective. The show spans across our 3000m2 warehouse at the NDSM, taking visitors on a captivating journey through interactive installations and performances by diverse local cultural pioneers.

A Cinematic sound trip. Setareh Nafisi, Oene Van Geel and Giuseppe Doronzo will throw themselves into the moment with everything they have, continuously sculpting and grabbing the sound of the moment. Many years of musical collaboration has shaped their vocabulary. In it, they will seek the conscious and unconscious in a focused way. Experience it with them!

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A Cinematic sound trip. Setareh Nafisi, Oene Van Geel and Giuseppe Doronzo will throw themselves into the moment with everything they have, continuously sculpting and grabbing the sound of the moment. Many years of musical collaboration has shaped their vocabulary. In it, they will seek the conscious and unconscious in a focused way. Experience it with them!

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The second edition of the Day of the Composer will take place on and around Saturday 17 June 2023. A national Day of the Composer is unique in Europe. During the festival, more than 100 composers active in the Netherlands will be in the spotlight. Their work will be heard in more than 100 concerts and performances in over 12 cities. Radio station NPO Klassiek will broadcast new Dutch music all day long. The festival is an initiative of the network and platform New Music NOW, which reports live with online TV. The first names and programmes are known, ticket sales have started. The first names and programmes have been announced and ticket sales are starting now.

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In June 2023, Chamber Choir JIP will celebrate its 10th anniversary!

To mark this beautiful anniversary, we will make JIP20 something extra special: in collaboration with composers and musicians, we will perform a programme consisting entirely of new music, written especially for JIP. We will perform this at the Day of the Composer and the Gaudeamus Festival, among others.

For this anniversary project, Chamber Choir JIP asked five composers to write a work inspired by the choristers' search for perspective, connection and a sense of being at home in the turbulent world we live in. New works that are about the singers themselves, about what moves them, what our individual strengths are as human beings and where we find each other. This results in concerts in which the choir collaborates with five soloists (Iranian and Spanish vocals, trumpet, electronics, piano and percussion), under the title But the sun is still up.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Oene van Geel wrote a work for choir, piano, trumpet and vocal soloists, merging individual perspectives and Iranian influences into a composition about wonder and love for the world and each other. Choral composer Gerard Beljon conducted a unique artistic investigation, asking all individual choir members to submit their most beautiful melodies and then fusing them into a moving whole. In addition, three up-and-coming talents, Maripepa Contreras, Setareh Nafisi and Antonio Moreno Glazkov, each wrote a choral work expressing different perspectives on today's world. In this, the uprisings in Iran, loneliness and connectedness of the individual and belonging play a leading role.

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In June 2023, Chamber Choir JIP will celebrate its 10th anniversary!

To mark this beautiful anniversary, we will make JIP20 something extra special: in collaboration with composers and musicians, we will perform a programme consisting entirely of new music, written especially for JIP. We will perform this at the Day of the Composer and the Gaudeamus Festival, among others.

For this anniversary project, Chamber Choir JIP asked five composers to write a work inspired by the choristers' search for perspective, connection and a sense of being at home in the turbulent world we live in. New works that are about the singers themselves, about what moves them, what our individual strengths are as human beings and where we find each other. This results in concerts in which the choir collaborates with five soloists (Iranian and Spanish vocals, trumpet, electronics, piano and percussion), under the title But the sun is still up.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Oene van Geel wrote a work for choir, piano, trumpet and vocal soloists, merging individual perspectives and Iranian influences into a composition about wonder and love for the world and each other. Choral composer Gerard Beljon conducted a unique artistic investigation, asking all individual choir members to submit their most beautiful melodies and then fusing them into a moving whole. In addition, three up-and-coming talents, Maripepa Contreras, Setareh Nafisi and Antonio Moreno Glazkov, each wrote a choral work expressing different perspectives on today's world. In this, the uprisings in Iran, loneliness and connectedness of the individual and belonging play a leading role.

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In June 2023, Chamber Choir JIP will celebrate its 10th anniversary!

To mark this beautiful anniversary, we will make JIP20 something extra special: in collaboration with composers and musicians, we will perform a programme consisting entirely of new music, written especially for JIP. We will perform this at the Day of the Composer and the Gaudeamus Festival, among others.

For this anniversary project, Chamber Choir JIP asked five composers to write a work inspired by the choristers' search for perspective, connection and a sense of being at home in the turbulent world we live in. New works that are about the singers themselves, about what moves them, what our individual strengths are as human beings and where we find each other. This results in concerts in which the choir collaborates with five soloists (Iranian and Spanish vocals, trumpet, electronics, piano and percussion), under the title But the sun is still up.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Oene van Geel wrote a work for choir, piano, trumpet and vocal soloists, merging individual perspectives and Iranian influences into a composition about wonder and love for the world and each other. Choral composer Gerard Beljon conducted a unique artistic investigation, asking all individual choir members to submit their most beautiful melodies and then fusing them into a moving whole. In addition, three up-and-coming talents, Maripepa Contreras, Setareh Nafisi and Antonio Moreno Glazkov, each wrote a choral work expressing different perspectives on today's world. In this, the uprisings in Iran, loneliness and connectedness of the individual and belonging play a leading role.

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re-Connect consists of an installation of fourteen doors arranged in a circle. The doors connect inside with outside and bring others into contact with our space. Each door incorporates an instrument designed and made specifically for this project. By exploring the sound through the installation, visitors become connected to the performers, to each other and to the space around them. These "door instruments" thus create a playful yet meaningful meeting point.

At four points during the day, a performance will take place by a dancer and a percussionist who will bring the installation to life.

The work can be seen as a "social sound installation. The creators want the audience to physically experience the need for personal connection in order to survive. It constitutes a response to the disconnect between audience and musicians that has occurred during the lockdowns.

Fear and worry about an unknown future led Iranian composer and pianist Setareh Nafisi to develop re-Connect so that connection and hope could blossom again. In doing so, she uses sound as a vehicle to connect people through invisible threads.

re-Connect consists of an installation of fourteen doors arranged in a circle. The doors connect inside with outside and bring others into contact with our space. Each door incorporates an instrument designed and made specifically for this project. By exploring the sound through the installation, visitors become connected to the performers, to each other and to the space around them. These "door instruments" thus create a playful yet meaningful meeting point.

At four points during the day, a performance will take place by a dancer and a percussionist who will bring the installation to life.

The work can be seen as a "social sound installation. The creators want the audience to physically experience the need for personal connection in order to survive. It constitutes a response to the disconnect between audience and musicians that has occurred during the lockdowns.

Fear and worry about an unknown future led Iranian composer and pianist Setareh Nafisi to develop re-Connect so that connection and hope could blossom again. In doing so, she uses sound as a vehicle to connect people through invisible threads.

re-Connect consists of an installation of fourteen doors arranged in a circle. The doors connect inside with outside and bring others into contact with our space. Each door incorporates an instrument designed and made specifically for this project. By exploring the sound through the installation, visitors become connected to the performers, to each other and to the space around them. These "door instruments" thus create a playful yet meaningful meeting point.

At four points during the day, a performance will take place by a dancer and a percussionist who will bring the installation to life.

The work can be seen as a "social sound installation. The creators want the audience to physically experience the need for personal connection in order to survive. It constitutes a response to the disconnect between audience and musicians that has occurred during the lockdowns.

Fear and worry about an unknown future led Iranian composer and pianist Setareh Nafisi to develop re-Connect so that connection and hope could blossom again. In doing so, she uses sound as a vehicle to connect people through invisible threads.

A premiere during MENA IS HERE. Kayhan Kalhor, the unsurpassed grandmaster of the kemenche (the Persian knee violin), and Erdal Erzincan, the Turkish virtuoso on the bağlama (saz), have been playing together for many years and, as a duo, guarantee a wonderful blend of Iranian and Turkish music. Their albums are widely recognized as masterpieces. Both musical giants are embarking on a new project with the Rembrandt Trio, of which this concert is the start.

Before the concert begins, there will be a preliminary discussion with Kayhan Kalhor and classical pianist Yoram Ish-Hurwitz (and also classical programmer at SPOT Groningen). Two musicians who make music from their own backgrounds. What are the differences between Western and Persian music, where do they find each other. We also learn more about Kalhor's background.

Afterwards, Ish-Hurwitz enters into a conversation with Setareh Nafisi. Nafisi describes herself as a multimedia maker driven by the philosophy of "music in context. She comes from Iran and has been living in the Netherlands for over ten years. In Groningen, she studied piano, composition and improvisation at the Prince Claus Conservatory. With her, Ish-Hurwitz will talk, among other things, about what it is like to be an Iranian, female musician, with the Islamic regime in her native Iran. We will close with the film Wayfarer, based on a concept by Nafasi. She was also responsible for acting, composing the music and musical production.

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27th of January 2022.