Arne Deforce (cello)

At the request of the Handelsbeurs, cellist Arne Deforce is once again putting together a concert program, this time for solo cello. In search of new aesthetics, the cello was 'reinvented' several times in the 20th century. Four classics from the contemporary repertoire for solo cello show not only that the cello remains deeply rooted in Western art music, but also how an unbridled imagination in the study of the sound itself has given the 16th-century instrument a completely new meaning. Conceived as a satellite structure, Deforce's program shows very diverse dimensions of contemporary cello playing. The concept of the 'strange melody' is central. Between 'difference' and 'distinction', 'body' and 'sound', 'polished' and 'carved', 'tone' and 'noise', the spectral and energetic dimensions of the sound are played with and the cello is expanded from classical twelve-tone instrument into a hyper-expressionistic sound source. Themes, forms and motifs are no longer central, but the play of densities, intensities and forces.

During the concert, the works will be explained by Deforce itself.