Sunday 26 April, 11:00

Fanny Mendelssohn

Performances

The OSR showcases the works of Fanny Mendelssohn as part of the 2025-26 Chamber Music Series at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. Musicians Sidonie Bougamont, Claire Dassesse, Luca Casciato, and Léonard Frey-Maibach will perform her String Quartet in E-flat major, Piano Quartet in A-flat major, and Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11. Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, as talented as her brother, composed despite the biases of her time. Her compositions reveal a vibrant personality and boldness, suggesting the remarkable potential she could have realized.

Place de Neuve 5,
1204 Genève

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Photo Credit: Niels Ackermann

11 – 13 February

Chiara Bersani — Sottobosco

Performances

Pavillon ADC

Choreographer Chiara Bersani invites the audience into the undergrowth of an imagined forest, performed in duo with dancer Elena Sgarbossa and a group of workshop participants. The piece stages bodies limited by disability to probe movement, survival and collective care. Inspired by confinement and the inequalities revealed by the pandemic, it turns the stage into an ecosystem — a vibrating floor, layered soundscape and a shared spatial attention — where small gestures, bodily memory and vulnerability become transformative forces and the basis for a newly imagined community.

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5 February – 1 March

Festival Antigel

Cool Stuff Performances

Multiple locations

Festival Antigel transforms Geneva into an experimental cultural playground each winter, a three-week laboratory of innovation. Programming mixes renowned and emerging artists across music, performance and visual projects, revealing unexpected sites and blending disciplines. The festival foregrounds diversity and social engagement, bringing together varied audiences through bold curations. Lighting, sound and staging often shape intimate, cinematic atmospheres, while collaborative projects emphasize discovery, collective energy and the thrill of shared, ephemeral encounters.

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11 – 13 February

Complete Játékok cycle

Performances

Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

Artistic direction by Cédric Pescia frames a collective traversal of György Kurtág’s landmark piano cycle Játékok, performed by students and young pianists from HEM, CMG, CPMDT, IJD and pre‑college programmes. The cycle presents Books I–X alongside the world premiere of the unpublished Book XI, a sequence of miniatures that are playful yet exacting. The repertoire explores gesture, texture and concentrated musical language, creating an intimate sonic landscape that balances delicate detail with sudden bursts of intensity. Presented for Kurtág’s centenary and CMG’s 190th anniversary.

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11 – 22 February

Simple Machines

Performances

Théâtre des Marionnettes

Choreographer Ugo Dehaes replaces his human troupe with extravagant robot-dancers endowed with an artificial intelligence that invents their own choreography. Intimate and unsettling, the performance invites the audience to sit around a table as the mechanised performers execute an uncanny, rhythmic ballet. Marie Peeters’ dramaturgy frames questions about labour, profit and the place of culture, while Wannes Deneer’s scenography and musical composition shape a tactile, immersive atmosphere. The piece blends humour, critique and physical precision.

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28 January – 13 February

Séduction

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

After spending six years in prison, a solitary con artist embarks on a journey of reintegration. Suddenly, a woman claiming to be his daughter appears, bringing up a missing sum of money, a cult, and an heiress tied to wartime exploitation. With the support of a therapist who was involved throughout his incarceration, the characters delve into a world of deception, identity quests, and shared guilt. This existential thriller delves into the fragmented nature of reality and memory.

In French.

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Wednesday 11 February, 19:00

Antigel Festival – Ghostwoman

Performances

Villa Tacchini

Ghostwoman is a Canadian duo reviving the spirit of Americana with vintage-modern textures, garage lines and psychedelic atmospheres. Led by multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko and joined by drummer Ille van Dessel, their music blends lo-fi grit, grunge intensity and post‑apocalyptic themes into cinematic songs conceived for the stage. Their album Welcome to the Civilized World channels wide-open road imagery and stark, melancholic melodies, offering an evocative, immersive live experience.

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Fanny Mendelssohn