🌕 1000 regrets under an empty sky 🌑
On January 16th @thehappenstancers present ALWAYS DARKEST DAWN ALWAYS as part of 21C MUSIC at @koernerhallrcm
Music by Kaija Saariaho, Ana Sokolovic, Arnold Schönberg, Du Yun, Philip Glass, @katharine.p , Josquin des Prez, and more.
music — Oi Kuu by Kaija Saariaho
performed by @eomnomnom + @bradcherwin
video/audio by @fish_sh_0111@sbproductionco
Tickets available via our website and link in bio
Generous support for ALWAYS DARKEST DAWN ALWAYS and The Happenstancers’ 2025/2026 season is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and our 2025 media partner TorontoToday.
#21cmusic #newmusic #chambermusic #art
🕯️the night’s silence is spoken by the moon🕯️
On February 20th and 28th @thehappenstancers present DIE NACHT/DER MOND.
The performance will feature works by Jörg Widmann, Kaija Saariaho, Gabriel Fauré, György Kurtág, Lori Freedman, Péter Eötvös, Thomas Adés, and Johannes Brahms.
video by @fish_yu_0111@sbproductionco
audio by @mattantal
music — Sonata 7 by Johann Rosenmüller (arr. @trevorwilson.conductor and The Happenstancers)
performed by — @alehoboe@spauldingplaysviola@eomnomnom@bradcherwin@matpuli
Tickets available via our website and link in bio
Generous support for DIE NACHT/DER MOND and The Happenstancers’ 2025/2026 season is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and our 2025 media partner TorontoToday.
#clarinet #cello #art #chambermusic #piano
out of focus, but I love this picture. my forever #1. i will miss you always little black dog, round head, big head, my bat-eared frog-bear, my little old man. in one million years i could never return a fraction of the love you gave us.
if I was able to bring you a moment of joy and a feeling of peace and security in life, and to act with courage and see with clarity for you as we faced the end, then it will have been the most important task i can ever have hoped to accomplish.
RIP troy ❤️🖤❤️🖤
🔮Future Pastorale @thehappenstancers
⏰ June 4 @ 8 pm
📍The Registry Theatre @registrytheatre (122 Frederick St.)
💵$30/$5 student with ID
In FUTURE PASTORALE, three performers create a path connecting the past and future. Using Claude Vivier’s rarely-performed and enigmatic Ojikawa as a foundation, the artists construct an evening of collaboratively composed/improvised acoustic and electronic performances that explore the imagined pastoral expanses of antiquity and link them to the endless digital landscapes of tomorrow. This work features poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence as well as text manipulations and generative poetry created by the performers with tools utilizing artificial intelligence. Taking inspiration from the Knee Plays of Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, these texts are then fragmented and layered.
Framing Vivier’s work with spoken-word recitations and collaboratively composed works by Cherwin, Pino, and Young, FUTURE PASTORALE challenges the expectations of Vivier’s forward-thinking and experimental trio. Recasting Vivier’s work as nostalgic and historical — in a subtle upending of the expected understanding of Ojikawa as contemporary — FUTURE PASTORALE envisions expansive new possibilities for the chamber music recital, blending abstract narrative, improvisation, spoken word poetry, collaborative composition, and theatrical lighting to evoke a future that is equal parts celestial and computerized.
💻🖼️🎼
This performance is part of Open Ears Festival 2026, which takes place June 4-7, 2026.
This experimental sound festival brings a transformative sonic experience to the Kitchener-Waterloo region, designed for curious ears!
Go to www.openears.ca to view the full festival schedule and purchase your festival pass.
sight-seeing at the Sea of Tranquility with intergalactic explorers @juliamirzoev@eomnomnom & @danikaloren 👽👽👽
three performances last week of The Close Encounters of Faith Friesen by @danikaloren (a gorgeous new micro-opera for voice, violin, cello, and bass clarinet) with Against the Grain Theatre. thank you to everyone who came out!
🕯️the happ crew for DIE NACHT/DER MOND🕯️
Thank you to everyone who came out last night to the SOLD OUT final show of this project.
@bradcherwin #clarinet
@eomnomnom #cello
@joongaboong #piano
@billy_crystal lighting design
@hoitongkeung production and operations manager
please excuse the potato quality phone recording…. 😇
there’s always one you haven’t heard. super fun time exploring yet another kurtág miniature, this time with @bradcherwin .
check out the video for more of my thoughts on this piece. there’s also a very similar (but not the same) <versetto> on piano — it has a super different feel because of the nature of the instrument, but the passivity of it is something that i think can be brought into this kind of instrumentation… despite the challenging nature of trying to play it…
#cello #bassclarinet #newmusic #contemporaryclassical #györgykurtág
”The Happenstancers take the time and expertise to craft really beautiful music” - @ludwigvantoronto
Thank you @ludwigvantoronto for selecting DIE NACHT/DER MOND as a Critic’s Pick choice this week! One last performance for this programme on Saturday, February 28th!
Tickets available via our website and link in bio
Music by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, Jörg Widmann, Kaija Saariaho, György Kurtág, Lori Freedman, Péter Eötvös, and Thomas Adés.
Generous support for DIE NACHT/DER MOND and The Happenstancers’ 2025/2026 season is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and our 2025 media partner TorontoToday.
🕯️shot of Widmann’s Sphinx’s Sayings and Riddle-Canons, from our dress rehearsal last Friday. Thank you to everyone who attended the performance! One more show this weekend🕯️
Come out this Saturday (Feb 28th) for the 2nd performance of DIE NACHT/DER MOND
Tickets available via our website and link in bio
Music by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, Jörg Widmann, Kaija Saariaho, György Kurtág, Lori Freedman, Péter Eötvös, and Thomas Adés.
Generous support for DIE NACHT/DER MOND and The Happenstancers’ 2025/2026 season is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and our 2025 media partner TorontoToday.
🕯️with 3 steps, enter a sensuous world of night-characters and delightful grotesqueries🕯️
This Friday and next Saturday (Feb 20th and 28th) join @thehappenstancers at Array Space for DIE NACHT/DER MOND.
Music by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, Jörg Widmann, Kaija Saariaho, György Kurtág, Lori Freedman, Péter Eötvös, and Thomas Adés.
Tickets available via our website and link in bio
Generous support for DIE NACHT/DER MOND and The Happenstancers’ 2025/2026 season is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and our 2025 media partner TorontoToday.
🕯 shadowed gestures and the face of the moon 🕯
On February 20th and 28th @thehappenstancers present DIE NACHT/DER MOND. A door opens into a fantastic world of night-characters and delightful grotesqueries.
Music by Jörg Widmann, Gabriel Faure, Thomas Adés, Kaija Saariaho, György Kurtág, Johannes Brahms, and others.
Tickets available via our website and link in bio
Generous support for DIE NACHT/DER MOND and The Happenstancers’ 2025/2026 season is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and our 2025 media partner TorontoToday.
#cello #piano #clarinet #art #chambermusic
👥 1000 regrets under an empty sky 👥
photos from @thehappenstancers show last friday at 21C Music @koernerhallrcm taken by @thomasli_photography
Thank you to everyone who came out for this performance!
Generous support for ALWAYS DARKEST DAWN ALWAYS and The Happenstancers’ 2025/2026 season is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and our 2025 media partner TorontoToday.
