A programme of songs and chamber music exploring human mobility and exile, including Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and works by Egon Wellesz and Alexander Zemlinski, interspersed with excerpts from the book The Freedom of the Migrant by the Czech-born philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920-1991).
Ensemble Émigré are:
Sigridur Osk, mezzo-soprano
Norbert Meyn, tenor
Ingrid Pearson, clarinet
Christopher Gould, piano
Joseph Kohlmaier will read excerpts from 'The Freedom of the Migrant’ by the Czech-born philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920-1991).
Ensemble Émigré was founded by Norbert Meyn in 2016 following the “Singing a Song in a Foreign Land” project at the Royal College of Music.
