Michael Gordons Trance Ensemble Klang & United Instruments of Lucilin
About the event
A double anniversary in 2026: Michael Gordon's iconic work Trance premiered thirty years ago and the composer himself turns seventy. Trance is a musical whirlwind that has lost none of its power. With breakneck rhythms, crackling brass and furious electric bass and guitar. The top Dutch ensemble Klang and the Luxembourg-based United Instruments of Lucilin know exactly how to handle it. They combine Trance with world premieres by former Componist des Vaderlands Calliope Tsoupaki and the Irish composer David Fennessy. Come and listen at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. Explosive and hypnotic masterpiece for large ensemble
Gordon composed Trance after receiving commentary in a dream from ‘a cross between György Ligeti, Louis Andriessen and my own teacher Martin Bresnick’. Write a work for large ensemble, was the instruction. And so it happened. Trance is a seven-part tour de force of overlapping rhythmic layers, both explosive and hypnotic. Calliope Tsoupaki and David Fennessy are writing for the same impactful line-up of 23 amplified musicians on keyboards, trumpets, trombones, guitars, pan flutes and saxophones.
