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A concert that takes you on a trip. Sofia's Trip is a live music experience by Lonelinoise, built around the works Sofia Gubaidulina wrote for bassoon. Bassoonist Thomas Dulfer took up the challenge of taking on this repertoire, lifting it out of the classical concert setting and reshaping it into a musical trip: Gubaidulina's compositions are interwoven with new work by composer Soheil Shayesteh, whose music draws on trance and electronic influences, folk music, and Western contemporary composition, featuring Soheil on kamancheh and Thomas on duduk.

Gubaidulina's music is earthly, confronting, rooted in the raw and the physical. Shayesteh's music reaches for the heavenly, pulling the sound upward into something more transcendent. Together they take you from the earthly to the heavenly.

Thomas Dulfer, bassoon & duduk
Soheil Shayesteh, kamancheh
Lola Descours, bassoon
Irene Kok, cello
Ketevan Roinishvili, cello
Emma Warmelink, cello
Renée Timmer, cello
Jennifer Blom, double bass
Dominique Chabot, double bass
Louis van der Mespel, double bass
Francesca Wiersma, viola
Tobias Borsboom, piano

Repertoire:
Duo Sonata - Sofia Gubaidulina 13’ 2 bassoons
Pendār I - Soheil Shayesteh 5’ kamancheh - electronics - strings
Quasi Hoquetus - Sofia Gubaidulina 15’ bassoon, viola, piano
Pendār II - Soheil Shayesteh 10’ duduk - kamancheh - electronics - strings
Concerto for bassoon and low strings - Sofia Gubaidulina 29’ bassoon – strings
Pendār III - Soheil Shayesteh 15’ bassoon - kamancheh - electronics - strings

Sofia’s Trip is a production by Lonelinoise and has been made possible in part by the generous support of: Fonds 21, BNG Cultuurfonds, Fonds Podiumkunsten, the Municipality of The Hague, NORMA Fund, Van den Berch van Heemstede Foundation, Elise Mathilde Fund, and K.F. Hein Fund.