Name: Meandering With the Wind by Petra Cini and Sean Bell
Start: 2025-06-13T20:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-13T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Vestdijk 25

Meandering With the Wind by Petra Cini and Sean Bell

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In a time of growing polarisation and social distress, this project aims to create and presenta music that explores a dialogue between the old and the new by exploring the intersectionof contemporary musical practices with early music, and that indirectly addresses thequestion of musical identity as European makers.The project consists of the writing of a new work by Italian composer/pianist Petra Cini for piano, synths, voice, baroque guitar and electronics, that will take inspiration from theIntavolatura de Cimbalo (1576) by Italian composer Antonio Valente, and the creation ofnew arrangements by Norwegian countertenor/performance artist Sean Bell of songs byEnglish composer John Coprario from the collection Funeral tears (1606) for the sameinstrumentation. The new piece and arrangements will then be weaved together withdifferent pieces to curate programmes that we plan on presenting in 2025-2026 in a seriesof concerts in Europe. <a href="https://youtu.be/U-VEYNXmZg4" title="https://youtu.be/U-VEYNXmZg4" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/U-VEYNXmZg4</a> Petra Cini is an Italian composer and pianist. She has worked with, among others, GerardBouwhuis, Ensemble Klang, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, and the Residentie Orkest, and hermusic has been presented at venues like the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ (Amsterdam, NL),Nationale Opera &amp; Ballet (Amsterdam, NL), TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht, NL), and theAuditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (IT). Petra holds a Master’s in Compositionfrom the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, supported by an Excellence Scholarship, and aMaster’s in Piano from the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” (10/10). She also studied pianowith Gloria D’Atri and at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imolawith Jin Ju. As a soloist, she has performed at Muziekgebouw aan't IJ (Amsterdam, NL),Splendor Amsterdam (NL), Korzo Theater (The Hague, NL), and the Auditorium Ente Cassadi Risparmio di Firenze (IT). She was awarded the Henk van der Meulen prizefor the best composition exam (2024, Royal Conservatoire The Hague) and funding byStichting De Zaaier for the research project “The Musical Metaphor and RepresentationTheory” (2023). She has collaborated with mathematicians Raf Bocklandt and Eric Opdam(University of Amsterdam) for the development of SO(3) ETUDES and has given seminars at IRCAM, Paris (FR) for the MaMuPhi seminar series (2024) and at the Municipality of TheHague for the week of Innovation organized by the ministry of Culture, Education andScience (2023). Petra Cini is a composer and pianist focusing on the creation of musical representations(metaphors) of mathematical groups analyzed through the lenses of violence and purity.Her works address questions of musical rendering of abstract meaning. Alongside her mainartistic objective, she engages with an exploration of the intersection of early andcontemporary music and of irrational imagery and ideas. She is also concerned with thedevelopment of a rhythmic and contrapuntal sensitivity as reflected in her repertoirechoices as a pianist. Her artistic output ranges from large ensemble compositions to soloperformances, working both acoustically and with electronics. Sean Bell is a countertenor and performance artist from Oslo, Norway. He holds a Master’sdegree in Early Music Voice from the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (NL), where hestudied with Catrin Wyn-Davies, Pascal Bertin, Robin Blaze, Peter Kooij and TinekeSteenbrink. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performance and Music Pedagogics fromthe Norwegian Academy of Music, studying with Mona Julsrud. Sean performs operatic,chamber, and sacred works from the classical and early music canon. He also investigatesnew methods of interpreting this repertoire. Through contemporary sonic imaginations hehas made new arrangements of old works, including a synth-pop album of songs by JohnDowland. His investigation into refiguring early repertoire has led to a series ofcollaborations and solo performances on the border line between classical music andperformance art. Sean also works extensively with contemporary music and has premieredand commissioned several pieces for countertenor. Sean has worked with a variety ofensembles including Ny Norse Messingkvintett (New Norwegian Brass quintet), Oslo 14,Early Voices and The Norwegian Soloist’s Choir. Bell plays baroque guitar, is an activeimproviser, and engages in instrument building and music electronics. In 2021 he made hisdebut at Høstutstillingen (the Norwegian state’s annual exhibition) with his performancework ’Stille Amare'. In November 2023 he made his solo debut at the Norwegian Operaand Ballet in the role Johan in the opera ‘Ingenting (Nothing)’ by David Bruce. In spring2024 he did a European tour of his album ‘Dowland Downloaded’. Sean Bell – Short Artist StatementAt the core of my artistic practice is how I relate to the repertoire I perform. My interpretationand artistic choices are informed by my relationship to the material. This is oftenexperimental, investigative and questioning. Different materials and ideas are often woventogether by my own poetic approach. I am an active improviser, play baroque guitar andbuild instruments and music electronics. I consider all of my work to be a form of research,investigating how these multiple strands of my artistic identity as a performer can coincideand reinforce each other

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