Young Soloists of the Metropolitana

Metropolitana, the institution that oversees the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and three musician training schools, is starting a partnership of proximity (and complicity) with the recently opened Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art. Throughout the season, multiple ensembles of different shapes and sizes will perform at the museum with varied repertoires.

In this first meeting, divided into two moments, we will discover the expressive power of percussion, capable of uniting past and present, tradition and experimentation, in new and surprising sounds. In Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine, Viet Cuong transforms crystal goblets into instruments, evoking ethereal timbres. J.S. Bach's famous Cello Suites, revisited in this way in transcriptions for percussion, reveal new colours and rhythms, highlighting the universality of these masterpieces. Elliot Cole's Posludes invite you to listen to the vibraphone played with bows, delicate and hypnotic sound fabrics that intertwine in a musical choreography. The dialogue between tradition and innovation continues with excerpts from Händel's Water Music, here in dialogue with the contemporary language of Tan Dun, who also explores the musicality of the element of water.