Geneva-born drummer and composer Arthur Hnatek, recipient of the Swiss Music Prize 2022, presents Adrift as an audiovisual performance created with Berlin-based visual artist 2ms. The work probes the boundaries between electronic music, improvisation and contemporary rhythmic research, pairing acoustic drumming with shimmering electronic textures. Projected imagery and responsive sound design unfold in layered, evolving dialogues that move from sparse, intimate moments to dense, rhythmic surges, shaping a cinematic, immersive atmosphere.

Steve Reich’s landmark Music for 18 Musicians unfolds a shifting sonic landscape built from repeating motifs and cascading harmonies. Performed by Eklekto, Geneva’s contemporary percussion collective, together with Ensemble Contrechamps, the work balances meticulous rhythmic drive with luminous textures. The concert offers an immersive, hypnotic sound experience where pulse and harmony weave in constant transformation, highlighting both the piece’s minimal architecture and its emotional breadth.

Brooklyn-born poet and musician Aja Monet weaves spoken word and jazz-inflected song into a charged, intimate performance. Her voice combines surreal imagery, precise diction and raw emotional clarity, supported by subtle electronic textures and live instrumentalists. Collaborations with leading jazz and soul figures inform a multidisciplinary approach that blends improvisation, rhythmic poetics and melodic hooks. The staging favors close, cinematic lighting and spacious soundscapes, inviting listeners into a communal, urgent evening of reflection and fierce tenderness.

In English.

Under the baton of Gábor Takács‑Nagy, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève sets two operatic worlds in vivid dialogue. Mozart’s theatre of love — mapped through arias from Così fan tutte sung by a cast of six — meets the smouldering energy of Bizet’s Carmen as refracted in Rodion Shchedrin’s orchestral suite. The programme balances intimate vocal exchanges and orchestral colour, with attention to phrasing, texture and dramatic contrast, producing moments of irony, desire and incandescent passion.