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Support Europa Ritrovata 2015



Europa Ritrovata is a young music ensemble in a fast growing process. About a year and a half ago we formed a small group consisting of a few musicians specialised in early music and a choreographer. We’ve been growing so fast that now, between the team, dancers and musicians, we’re up to 30 young artists in our full form.
 

We feel the need to work together in such a way that all of us would be part of our performances in the same meaningful way. This means that during any given creative process, every performer encounters all the involved disciplines that will ultimately form the performance.


From a musical point of view we not only perform the historical repertory written for our instruments, but also invite composers to write new music for these instruments. This gives us the opportunity to integrate the voice of a living author in our process.


This way we can experience a first hand communication with the source of the music, which also means a direct dialog between the composer and not only the musicians, but also the choreographer, filmmaker or costume designer.

So far we have performed baroque and new repertory in Brussels and Paris, each time in collaboration with at least one other art form. Now we are preparing our biggest performance so far within the framework of  Museum Night Fever in Brussels.

In this event a selection of Brussels museums opens their doors to young artistic talent and invites them to create new work, related to the collection and spirit of the museum. In this edition we set up a collaboration with Coudenberg, the archeological site of the former royal palace of Brussels, which burnt down in 1731. The site now serves as a museum, a dim-lit mysterious underground labyrinth hidden underneath the streets of Brussels.

Our team consists of our orchestra, lead by baroque flutist Matteo Gemolo, choreographer Ivan Schauvliege accompanied by a team of dancers, filmmaker Vincent Pieraerd, the Chapter One collective and costume designer Anke Laerenbergh who will come down from Sweden to work with us. Countering our acoustic sounds will be electronic musician Enrico Pigozzi.

The program for these six hours of performance promises to be rather diverse. Next to the historical repertory which includes works by Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Carolus Haquart, Jean-Philippe Rameau and more, we also have three composers write new repertory for our team. From within Belgium Joachim Brackx will write his third work for us. We also have Italian composer Federico Costanza and Albert Behar from New York as our participating composers.

As a new ensemble, in full development, we need your help to start up our mission. Your donation could and will help us with developing our existing and new projects and grow as a group. Your generosity can help us reward our young musicians, composers, dancers, filmmakers, costume designers and so on. You can help us build our vision.

A whole-hearted thank you from our team!
 
To listen more of us:
https://soundcloud.com/europaritrovata

Europa Ritrovata

Matteo Gemolo - music director
Ivan Schauvliege - choreographer

Musicians

Laurence Servaes - soprano
Matteo Gemolo - traverso
Justyna Novakovic, Kinga Ludvai - traverso & recorder
Shiho Ono, Stijn Schmeddes, Izana Soria, Neepa Acharya - violin
Benjamin Lescoat, Louise Moreau - viola
Fredrik Hildebrand - gamba
Lies Wyers, gamba - gamba, cello
Claire-Sarah Fouché - double bass
Justin Glaie - theorbo
Henriëtte Wirth - harpsichord

Dancers
Arno Ferrara, Esse Verbruggen, Hong-Ling Chen, Flora Gaudin, Saskia De Ronde, Oscar Casamajor (CHPT. 01), Sofian Korzylecka, Sara Sacha Golijanin, J. Anane,

Video team CHPT. 01
Vincent Pieraerd, Toon Minnen,  Marnik Boeckaerts, David Garcia

Electronic music performer/Sound engeneer
Enrico Pigozzi

Assistant choreographer
Mário Branco

Costume designer
Anke Laerenbergh

Composers
Joachim Brackx
Albert Behar
Federico Costanza

Organizer

Matteo Gemolo
Organizer
Brussels

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