Mediterrane Perspectives

Silvia Rosani: T-O

for five distant voices (2013/14)

Amr Okba: Faith

for three male and two female voices (2013/14)

Sharif Sehnaoui: New work

for voices and electronics (2023/24) ^WP

Amer Ali: New work

for six voices (2025) ^WP

Zaid Jabri: Two songs from Mihyâr of Damascus

for five voices (2013)

Raed Yassin: A Short Biography of a Snake

for six voices and electronics (2021)

Zeynep Gedizlioglu: Kelimeler

for five voices (2014)

Zad Moultaka: Hummus

for bass and six voices (2014)

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Jarich

for three female voices and live electronics (2013/14)

Aya Metwalli: Cabaret Macabre

for five voices (2021)

Youmna Saba: I covered the planet with a dried leaf

for six voices, oud and electronics (2021)

Neue Vocalsolisten

‘T’ stands for God, »O« for the Oceanus. Silvia Rosani draws attention to the refugee dramas taking place in the Mediterranean and at the same time opens up the horizon for ‘Mediterranean perspectives’. For many years, the Neue Vocalsolisten have maintained an intensive dialogue with composer-performers from the Mediterranean region–not least because the voice plays a very special role in Mediterranean musical cultures. Voices from Lampedusa, Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul and Palestine paint a picture of a torn space, charged with conflicts and contrasts as well as common roots and longings, which threatens to break the world apart. ‘Where are we going? The sea has neither a destination nor a logic of paths…’ (from T-O)