Rising water
Sunday 17 May / 15:00 - 16:00
Noëlle Drost, soprano / Jorian van Nee, piano / Kadir van Lohuizen, photographer and documentary filmmaker
The impressive photo series After Us the Deluge by photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, shows the splendour of Pacific islands and the vibrancy of metropolises. But that same beauty is under threat as the effects of sea level rise are real. In Rising water soprano Noëlle Drost and pianist Jorian van Nee tell the story of a single raindrop that becomes part of an ever larger whole, right up to a devastating flood. After all, water can both bring life and threaten it. This programme is an invitation to join a musical and poetic journey in which a single raindrop becomes a stream of memories, emotions and landscapes. Get carried away, pause, and rediscover what we lose and find again.
Ave Maris Stella (traditional; arr. Jorian van Nee)
WATERDROP
Kaaija Saariaho (1952-2023)
Il pleut (Apollinaire)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sanglots (Apollinaire)
RIVERS
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Des Fischers Liebesglück (Leitner)
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Der Fischer (Goethe)
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Die Geister am Mummelsee (Mörike)
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Complainte de la Seine (Magre)
Primo Ish-Hurwitz (*2001)
We are changing (due to greenwashing banned ad texts)
FLOOD
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
The Seal Man (Masefield)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Fêtes Galantes (Aragon)
Christian Jost (*1961)
Der explodierende Kopf (Kafka)
George Crumb (1929-2022)
Let it be forgotten (Teasdale)
And traditional liederen from Greenland, the United States, Panama, Indonesia, the Pacific, Bangladesh and the Netherlands (arr. Jorian van Nee).
Great Hall
Evangelical Brotherhood
Zusterplein 12, 3703 CB Zeist
Noëlle Drost / soprano
Dutch soprano Noëlle Drost (1999) graduated from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in June 2023 with a 10 and distinction for ‘being an exquisite exceptional artist on all aspects, illuminating herself and everyone around her’. She is currently developing into a versatile classical singer who is in great demand for song, opera and oratorio at home and abroad. She has won several prizes and can be heard in various Dutch concert halls and the Grachtenfestival. Drost attended Elly Ameling's master class for the TV programme Podium Witteman. She has soloised with Holland Baroque, the North Netherlands Orchestra and sang various opera roles, including Idamante and the title role in ‘L'incoronazione di Poppea’.
Jorian van Nee / piano
Jorian van Nee studies piano with Frank Peters at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Earlier, he took lessons with David Kuyken and Henk Ekkel. He received master classes from Igor Roma, Ronald Brautigam and Jan Wijn, among others. Besides his piano studies, Van Nee also took composition lessons with Willem Jeths.
Van Nee can be heard regularly as a soloist and chamber musician and has played with leading orchestras such as the Residentie Orkest in The Hague and Sinfonia Rotterdam. He gave performances in TV programmes such as De wereld draait door and Podium Witteman and on NPO Klassiek, where he played his own compositions live. Van Nee won several prizes at a young age, including at the Peter the Great festival and the Young Pianist Foundation competition. Jorian plays a Bechstein grand piano from the National Music Instruments Fund.
Kadir van Lohuizen / photographer
Kadir van Lohuizen is a renowned photographer who has captured many conflicts in Africa and elsewhere in the world. He became widely known for his long-term projects, including those on the world's seven rivers, the consequences of rising sea levels, the diamond industry, migration in North and South America and the (bad) way six mega-cities deal with waste.
Van Lohuizen has won numerous prizes and awards in photojournalism and co-founded NOOR Images; an international platform for visual storytelling on issues including the climate crisis, overconsumption, forced migration, the rise of authoritarianism, the injustice of patriarchy and the power of art and music to preserve humanity.
Noëlle Drost evoked an atmosphere that for many rose above the nature of a concert. She knew herself to be a master at showing the power of music to express emotions.
The finest nocturnes of the evening are those by Jorian van Nee: he conjures with colour, slowness and silence and quasi-improvisational sound whispers that carry you away as if in a dream.
Kadir van Lohuizen proves himself a master at making far-reaching global issues visible as well as insightful. He lets the facts speak for themselves.