Sunday 20 September, 14:00

Amaté – Intercultural Encounters #3: The Oriental Piano

Booking Required

Coraline Parmentier presents Kitab al Kanuz, a film-concert blending piano, electronic timbres and Middle Eastern soundscapes. The pianist-composer performs on a Yamaha C7 and a Turkish-style keyboard (Yamaha PSR-5000), exploring quarter-tones and textures drawn from her albums Kitab al Kanuz and Aswat Bahr al Mayyit. Collaborator Bager Sen contributes mantra compositions and aksak rhythms, rooted in ancestral meters. The piece balances cinematic imagery and intimate ritual, inviting an immersive, pulse-driven listening experience.

Rue de l'Athénée 4,
1205 Geneva

Photo Credit: Karla Isidorou

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Photo Credit: Karla Isidorou

Wednesday 10 March, 19:30

Festival Antigel – Warhaus

Performances

Alhambra

Under his Warhaus moniker, Maarten Devoldere transforms dandy elegance into nocturnal, sensual pop. His deep, exposed vocals and sharp, grime-tinged rhythms push familiar melodies toward feverish abandon, blending hypnotic lyrics with gqom-inspired beats. Across five albums he navigates seduction, melancholy and bristling intensity, channeling echoes of Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg and Tom Waits. The live show alternates intimacy and eruption, a chiaroscuro of refinement and raw electricity that lingers long after the last chord.

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Saturday 14 November, 19:30

Geneva Symphony Orchestra

Performances

Victoria Hall

Led by conductor Anthony Fournier, the Geneva Symphony Orchestra accompanies pianist Lan Anh Nguyen in a programme that juxtaposes Grieg’s passionate Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, with Brahms’s monumental Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68. The evening charts a journey from intimate lyricism to thunderous orchestral climaxes, highlighting delicate solo passages, dense Romantic textures and dramatic dynamic contrasts. Listeners are drawn into a vivid sound world where clarity of phrasing meets muscular orchestral power.

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Sunday 13 September, 12:30

Season Closing Day

Performances

La Chaloupe à vapeur

An intimate season-closing afternoon of live music and communal dance. Folk‑rock singer‑guitarist Chess’co offers warm voice-and-guitar songs that mingle with the rhythms of an open milonga, inviting both listening and movement. The program balances acoustic storytelling and close-up dance, with light and sound shaping a convivial, slightly nostalgic atmosphere. Performers and dancers create spontaneous encounters between melody and tango steps, producing an accessible, social experience that moves from relaxed listening to lively floor moments.

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Wednesday 9 June, 20:00

Gli Angeli Genève

Performances

Victoria Hall

Under the direction of Stephan MacLeod, Gli Angeli Genève delve into Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride with a luminous period-informed approach. Soloists Tamara Bounazou (soprano), Antonin Rondepierre (tenor), Thomas Dolié (baritone) and Edwin Fardini (bass) shape an intimate dramatic arc, where elegant phrasing and warm continuo textures reveal the work’s moral intensity and lyrical clarity. The programme balances orchestral refinement and vocal expressivity for a concentrated operatic portrait.

In French.

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Saturday 4 October, 21:30

Dazzling Killmen + Passage de Disques

Performances

Cave12

Reuniting after roughly thirty years, Dazzling Killmen return with a fierce, uncompromising sound that blends pre/math rock, post-metal, hardcore-punk and jazz-core textures. Their intense, tightly wound compositions unfold with brute energy and intricate rhythms. The evening also features a specially curated DJ set by Passage de Disques (Bamba Triste and Fuxy Lady), weaving experimental grooves that complement the live assault and expand the night’s sonic palette.

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Wednesday 7 October, 21:30

Anthony Pateras

Performances

Cave12

Anthony Pateras presents a new solo piano set that synthesizes compositional and improvisational practices from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on electroacoustic techniques and radical sound exploration, the performance assembles a lexicon of approaches, textures and extended techniques into a single structural live block. Expect a rigorous, curiosity-driven sonic journey that blurs composition and improvisation, revealing virtuosity, meticulous timbral detail and adventurous formal thinking.

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Amaté – Intercultural Encounters #3: The Oriental Piano