Sunday February 6 – 8:30 PM Miranda Driessen: 3 Voices - Morton Feldman

Feldman composed the work in 1982 for the American singer Joan La Barbara. Although it is a largely wordless composition, fragments from Frank O'Hara's poem 'Wind' sometimes appear. In 3 Voices, only a few sentences from the poem are used. One in particular: 'Who'd have thought that snow falls'. Feldman's composition has a special form: one singer, who sings a trio with two absent voices, which are sounded through 2 spatially placed speakers.

Miranda Driessen

Miranda first heard the CD recording of 3 Voices by Joan La Barbara during her solo singing-light music studies at the Maastricht conservatory. The work made a huge impression and became the turning point in her repertoire from jazz to contemporary music. From 2001 to 2009 she studied classical singing with Charles van Tassel, who herself had collaborated with Feldman, and sang in the Asko Chamber Choir and the Cluster Chamber Choir, both specialized in the performance of contemporary ensemble singing. She performed with them throughout the Netherlands, including at festivals such as November music, Musica Sacra Maastricht, Sounds of music Groningen. She was also part of the revival of Xenakis' Oresteia by Asko/Schönberg i.c.w. Muziektheater Transparant, and the 7-hour performance of The great learning by Cornelius Cardew in collaboration with. the Ives Ensemble in the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ. In 2017 she sang the premiere of Temple of time by Sinta Wullur during the Holland Festival in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. In recent years she has also been active as a composer and produced her own music theater performance Koerikoeloem, in which she regularly substituted herself.