DCV 248 – Willem Boogman: Sternenrest

“Without monsters no heroes, without a labyrinth no freedom.” The Greek myth of Ariadne and the gruesome bull man, the Minotaur has fascinated people for centuries. In the new music theater performance An eye in the sea, composer Willem Boogman sheds a different light on this immortal story.

Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam provides a stage to contemporary chamber music. New compositions and leading musicians, combined with current topics. Every month in the Plein Theater on Sunday afternoons you can experience this unique concept in an intimate atmosphere, where afterwards there is oppurtunity to talk with music lovers, connoisseurs and performers.

‘An eye in the sea’ is a music theater production by Stichting Noorderklank. The 75 minutes lasting work presents a contemporary version of the myth of Ariadne and Theseus.

‘An eye in the sea’ is a music theater production by Stichting Noorderklank. In 75 minutes an actual version of the myth of Ariadne and Theseus is presented.

‘An eye in the sea’ is a music theater production by Stichting Noorderklank. In 75 minutes an actual version of the myth of Ariadne and Theseus is presented.

DCV 527 Willem Boogman Moving, an Opera in Progress Asko Ensemble and Stefan Asbury

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.