A cellist, lonely with his instrument. And with his inner life. That inner life is incredibly rich: each of us experiences countless changes of moods, thoughts, emotions in a single day. “Dialogues” is a piece in which the cellist enters into a dialogue with himself, a struggle to express simultaneously everything he experiences and feels. Everything demands priority, nothing is unimportant. Jeroen den Herder takes up the challenge of bringing this diabolical score on stage Jan. 28.

Hua-Hsuan Lee answers this chaotic virtuosity with a much more recent score, “Growing Silence,” in which silence simply grows and is accepted: fewer and fewer notes are needed, in the end none at all.