Neue Vocalsolisten

The Goethe-Institut Zypern is collaborating with the Pharos Arts Foundation, for a unique concert by the Neue Vocalsolisten, from Stuttgart in Germany, within the framework of the 14th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival. 

The seven singers of the Neue Vocalsolisten see themselves as explorers and discoverers: in exchange with composers, they are constantly searching for new forms of vocal expression. One focus is on collaboration with artists who virtuously exploit the possibilities of digital media, with an interest in networking, in playing with genres, in dissolving space, perspectives and functions. Thus, the projects of the Ensemble are characterised by idiosyncratic interdisciplinary formats between music theatre, performance, installation, and concert staging. Their work, with more than 30 premieres annually, is considered worldwide to be leading and unique in the field of contemporary vocal music. The Neue Vocalsolisten have been instrumental in shaping the genre of vocal chamber music theatre, with hundreds of works having been composed especially for them, and with collaborations with other top-class specialist ensembles and orchestras, international opera houses, independent theatre scenes, electronic studios, important festivals and concert series of new music all over the world. 

Ten years after their debut in Cyprus, as part of the Pharos Contemporary Music Festival, they return to The Shoe Factory, joining forces with the leading clarinettist Gareth Davis, to perform an electrifying programme of masterly and theatrically vibrant works by Georges Aperghis, Evis Sammoutis, Zeynep Gedizlioglu and Carola Bauckholt.