NOVA SONANTIA
Since 2023, Mattias Spee has collaborated frequently with Nova Sonantia, a string ensemble that focuses on contemporary classical music, lesser-known repertoire from history and thematic concert programmes. Due to their overlapping interest, it only seemed natural that Nova Sonantia and Spee should work together. Over the years they have had many fruitful collaborations.
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MULTI-GIFTED ARTISTS
For their first collaboration in the fall of 2023, Spee and Nova Sonantia presented a concert program entitled Multi-Gifted Artists. All the works on the program were written by composers who were active in a different discipline of art besides music, including Arnold Schönberg, Bob Hanf, Geza Frid and Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. For this occasion, Spee wrote a new piece for piano and strings, premiered by and dedicated to Nova Sonantia. In this new composition Loria, Spee searched for the boundary between egalitarian chamber music and a hierarchical division between soloist and accompaniment. The concert was broadcast by the Concertzender.
Multi-Gifted Artists
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CONCERT BIJ KAARSLICHT VLIELAND
In the summer of 2024, Spee and Nova Sonantia played a concert on Vlieland focusing on contemporary composers. On the program were several compositions by Spee and some newly written works by other composers, including Si vis pacem, para musicam by Benno Bonke, Travel to the Forty-Two by Floris Heijdra and a Miniature for string quartet by Ramin Amin Tafreshi.
Concert bij Kaarslicht Vlieland
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COMPOSERS ON DUTCH SOIL
In the fall of 2025, Nova Sonantia and Spee collaborated again. This time, they presented a concert program entitled Composers on Dutch Soil. The music had been written by contemporary composers from all over the world, but all compositions had been written in The Netherlands. The concert included works by David Richter, Bruno Vicente, Apollon Kalamenios, Martin Lo-A Njoe and also several premieres, such as It Was Snowing Butterflies for piano trio by Patrick van Deurzen, Tres Poemas de Eva Veiga for piano quintet and voice by Federico Mosquera and Salome for cello and piano by Mattias Spee.
Composers on Dutch Soil
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