Summer of Music: Composer Walk with Kate Moore

COMPOSER WALK

During the composer walks on Saturday August 17 and Sunday September 1, Kate Moore will conduct a workshop about walking and the creative process. Giving an introduction about her project, A Beautiful Path wherein she has composed a long-distance walking route as if it was a musical composition that inspired her to compose music outside, she will take participants on a walking route through the Oosterpark wherein people will listen and observe nature and be creative themselves. Stopping along the way, the participants will perform little sound pieces led by Kate, and will have the space to write, draw, and compose their own work. The notion is to create space for creativity in nature so as to create a dialogue with the natural surroundings, to feel it and sense it and get to know it like an intimate friend.

SUMMER OF MUSIC

Plein Theater devotedly offers a stage for contemporary music. Adventurous and small-scale performances, new compositions and leading musicians; In our regular series Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam you get the opportunity to experience this unique concept in intimate atmosphere every month. And in the summer of 2024, we open the doors of our production house wide. In the Summer of Music in and around Plein Theater in Amsterdam East you get to explore multidisciplinary compositions, get exclusive work-in-progress insights and participate in extraordinary research projects. We invite you to #GetInvolved!

KATE MOORE | ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2024

Every summer Plein Theater invites an artist-in-residence, an artist who will have the opportunity for a few weeks to further develop a performance and with locals and interested participants in the creative process. We are extremely excited to welcome composer Kate Moore as the artist-in-residence 2024!

Kate Moore lives in Amsterdam East and is not just a composer, she earned international recognition and her work has been performed by leading ensembles. She has several prizes to her name including the Gieskes-Strijbis Podium Prize in 2022 and the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize in 2017. To top it off she founded her own ensemble, the Herz Ensemble!

From Monday August 12 to Sunday September 1, Kate Moore will work in her residency on the Ossenlied, which is part of her research project A Beautiful Path.

Het Ossenlied (The Song of the Ox) will be a 54-day hike across Netherlands, England, Wales, Ireland from Oss to Skellig Michael through Oxford to compose an epic story cycle set to music, with a lyre and vielle that she carries with her.

In her research period the composer allows herself to explore the creative process through writing, composing, improvising and documentary in dialog with nature and the environment whilst walking long distance routes carrying musical instruments.