Summer of Music Final Concert

Revolver (2021): Kate Moore (voice and ancient instruments), Meiyi Lee (percussion), Georgia Burashko (voice), Beate Loonstra (harp), Dario Calderone (bass), Jellantsje de Vries (violin), Susanne Rosmolen (cello)

Inspired by the kinetic physicality and aesthetics of balance found in Ken Unsworth's work, the music embodies a feeling of suspension between movement and stasis. Evolving and revolving melodies, poised skilfully in polyrhythmic structures, the music creates an intoxicating and emotional impression. There is a feeling of constant motion and flow of sonic currents that typifies much of Kate Moore's music.

The music shifts from the material world, the gradually shifting stone-like cycles of the title track "Revolver", the restrained power and poignancy of "The Boxer" to the various slow unfurling melodies of the tightrope inspired "Song Of Ropes", and finally to a contemplation of the immaterial in "Way Of The Dead"

Ossenlied/ Song of the Ox (work-in-progress): Kate Moore (composer and performer), Georgie Burashko (singer), Meiyi Lee (percussionist)

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

Het Ossenlied (The Ox Song) 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. Inspired by troubadours and epic poets of ancient times, following in the tradition of the Tain, Edda, Mabinogion and Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales, composer Kate Moore is inpired to write her own story cycle while long distance walking and composing with a lyre and vielle that she carries with her.

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.