The musical colours of Debussy inspired musician/filmmaker Thierry De Mey to create several dance films with a live orchestra. In Prélude à la mer, he contrasts Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's choreography with harshness of a not-so natural disaster: the disappearance of the Aral Sea.

Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa explores the boundaries between Western and Eastern cultures in Blossoming II, aiming to internally cultivate music from this cross-cultural nexus.

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra stands as a masterpiece of the 20th century. Its title may seem paradoxical, yet it perfectly fits: Bartók spotlights each instrument group of the 100-piece orchestra with its own solo moments.

concert in the framework of the 33rd IAMA Conference