Festival Sine Nomine gets a makeover
Since its inception, the Festival Sine Nomine has put the string quartet centre stage. From June 8 to 11, in a new format and layout, the festival offers a particularly diverse 9th edition, inviting artists of international renown.
Faithful to the commitment to musical transmission that has animated the event since its creation, it will skilfully combine classical music, jazz and the 7th art. A new eclectic edition that will play with the boundaries between genres! From June 8 to 11, 2017, the 9th Festival Sine Nomine will take over the Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne, the event's new central venue.
With its eponymous festival, every two years the Sine Nomine quartet sets itself the challenge of bringing to a wider audience this refined craft that combines four distinct voices within a single musical resonance. This year, it has chosen to surround itself with emblematic personalities in their respective disciplines, such as the Vogler and Terpsycordes Quartets, Michel Portal & Bojan Z, Marc Ribot, Xasax and Sofja Gülbadamova.
To launch this year's event, the Quatuor Sine Nomine invites Matthias Würsch and the Mozart glass harmonica for a free opening concert on the stairs of the Palais de Rumine on Thursday June 8 at 7pm. The program features two works by Mozart and Alban Berg's masterly Suite lyrique.
Musical transmission and mixing of genres
Spearheading Sine Nomine's transmission work, the concert on Saturday 10th at 2.30pm will bring together the Quartet and some twenty young musicians from the Orchestre des Jeunes de Suisse Romande (OJSR), accompanied by Michel Portal in a program featuring works by Rota, Tchaikovsky, Portal and Mozart. The French clarinettist, saxophonist and bandoneonist will have previously shared the bill for the concert on Friday June 9 at 9:30pm, alongside pianist Bojan Z.
Windows on the 7th art
In partnership with the Cinémathèque suisse, the festival will weave intense and poetic links between music and cinema through two events: the masterpiece The Docks of New York (silent film by Josef von Sternberg, 1928), accompanied live by New York guitarist Marc Ribot, and a conference screening of the documentary films The Seasons (1972) and We (1969) by Artavazd Pelechian.
Also not to be missed: open-air musical performances by festival artists at the Kiosque St-François and Marché de la Riponne.
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