HENZE'S VOICES / KLEIN - HOLLAND FESTIVAL

Klein is a London-based outsider musician and artist working across composition, film and performance. Entirely self-taught, she moves between noise, contemporary composition and the odd grime freestyle, drawing on surveillance, urban folklore, humour and hip hop to construct fragmented worlds where fact and fiction blur. 

Siren is a 10-minute composition for voice and ensemble derived from the oscillation of a UK police siren. With the musicians facing away from the audience, the work stages a game of concealment within the ensemble. A prepared instrument operates as an embedded [redacted] presence, surfacing through live improvisation. The work examines surveillance and the limits of free will, framing the siren as a mechanism of state power rather than public safety.

Hans Werner Henze Voices - selection of 16 of the 22 songs
Nathalie Joachim New work (Netherlands premiere)
Klein Siren (world premiere)
Karmit Fadael New work (world premiere) 

The programme features three new commissions, which like Henze's Voices, provide a response to issues of today. 

Christian Karlsen conductor                                    
Carina Vinke mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Hulett tenor
Nathalie Joachim vocals
Klein performer: voice, prepared viola, harmonica and loop pedal
Nora Fischer narrator/soprano
London Sinfonietta

Produced by NTR ZaterdagMatinee. As part of the Holland Festival