Metamorfose after M.C.Escher

"a musical/visual spectacle par excellence", "a brilliant concept, brilliantly executed", "a really enjoyable concert" - ArtsTalk Magazine​

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Optical illusions, dream worlds and endless spirals. The works of MC Escher have become iconic across the world. To celebrate the beloved artist’s 125th birth year NEuE teamed up with the DeFrame collective and composer-conductor Vlad Maistorovici to create a mind-bending program. connecting Escher’s iconic imagery to music through live, audio-reactive 3D images.

New work by Romanian composer Vlad Maistorovici, a touching homage to the famous Metamorfose as well as Maistorovici’s arrangements of Bach’s canons, so closely connected to Escher’s mathematical world are among the highlights. The program includes Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im spiegel, also reflected in Escher’s work, as well as the mathematically unified Konzert für 9 Instrumente by Anton Webern, another composer whose use of canons and variations connects with Escher’s imagery.

*Metamorfose after M.C.Escher was distinguished with the Romanian Academy Award

Sample program:

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V. MAISTOROVICI Tekenen 

for viola, cello and motion reactive video, based on M.C.Escher's Drawing hands and J.S.Bach's BWV 1007 and BWV 1079

V. MAISTOROVICI Little Harmonic Tesseract

hyperbolisation for ensemble based Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth (formerly BWV 591)

J. S. BACH Endlessly rising canon from Das Musikalische Opfer BWV 1079 (orch. V. Maistorovici)

A. WEBERN Concerto for 9 instruments op. 24

J.S. BACH Canon per augmentationem, contrario motu from Das Musikalische Opfer BWV 1079 (orch. V. Maistorovici)

A. PÄRT Spiegel im spiegel

J.S. BACH Seek And Ye Shall Find from Das Musikalische Opfer BWV 1079 (orch. V. Maistorovici)

V. MAISTOROVICI Metamorfose after M. C. Escher

for ensemble of 15 instruments

J. S. BACH Canon a 4 from Das Musikalische Opfer BWV 1079 (orch. V. Maistorovici)

Night Music: the chamber works of Vlad Maistorovici

​In 2012 the Romanian Cultural Institute in London has inaugurated their season with a multimedia concert conducted by Vlad Maistorovici entitled Night Music: the chamber works of Vlad Maistorovici. The project was further developed at the SHIMF festival with site-specific video mapping, as part of an artist-in-focus series of three concerts that also saw Maistorovici perform chamber repertoire.

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Sample program:

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V. MAISTOROVICI R.E:M!X for 12 instruments

V. MAISTOROVICI Cadence En Espace for viola and piano

V. MAISTOROVICI Dream Shreds for flute, clarinet and string trio

V. MAISTOROVICI tranScent for solo piano

V. MAISTOROVICI Night Music for string quartet

V. MAISTOROVICI Khadina for 8 solo instruments