ODYSSEYS
Alexandra Soumm - Violin
Illya Amar - Vibraphone
Alexandra Soumm started working with french vibraphonist Illya Amar seven years ago through the Esperanz'Arts Organization, which Illya was the first artist to join. No repertoire existed for these two instruments, so Illya transcribed and composed for the duo, exploring various directions of their musical worlds. With time, and their numerous social concerts in France, the UK, and Cambodia, their repertoire has grown, combing classical music, jazz, and traditional romanian, klezmer, arabic, spanish and armenian music. 2017 was the birth of their first musical one-hour program "Odysseys"
After performing at numerous festivals in France and in Belgium, the duo has played in Konzerthaus Vienna and Auditorium du Louvre.
Odysseys //
Walks in the
Musical Garden //
THE MUSICAL GARDEN
The Musical Garden is a salon in the heart of Brussels, created by french pianist Julien Brocal, where he hosts concerts, conferences, and meditations. The Musical Garden is also a non-profit foundation working with the ideal of permaculture and how to link this ideal in the realm of music.
As part of the Musical Garden, Alexandra will imagine and host a series of podcasts, called " Walks in the Musical Garden ", to share her love of literature and poetry, and linking it to music around different themes. The first podcast will be available in June 2020.
Winterreise
Compagnie
Théâtre
WINTERREISE THEATER COMPANY
Founded in 2008 by director and dramatist Olivier Dhénin, the Winterreise Theater Company, based in Paris, works around the relationship between music, poetry and text, and mostly in the context of symbolist authors.
Alexandra joined the Company in 2014 and worked on numerous projects, as a violinist and a narrator:
JULIUS CESAR JONES, opera by Malcolm Williamson (2014), DER JASAGER by Kurt Weil, (2014), CORRESPONDANCES RICHARD WAGNER (2014), LE MARTYRE DE SAINT-SÉBASTIEN by Gabriele d'Annuzio (2016), ORFEO LAMENTO, after Berlioz and Glück (2017), ALLADINE AND PALOMIDES by Maurice Maeterlinck (2017), UNLASKA by Olivier Dhénin and Philip Glass
(2018), LES GENS DU DOMAINES SANS NOM by Olivier Dhénin (2018), TILIM-BOM FANTASY from Sophie de Ségur and Igor Stravinsky (2018), SERRES CHAUDES by Maeterlinck ( 2019), ORPHELINS by Rilke (2019/2020), LES NOCES D'HÉRODIADE from Mallarmé ( 2020).
Carousel ensemble //
CAROUSEL ENSEMBLE
The Brussels chamber music ensemble CAROUSEL gathers twelve outstanding young musicians around the award-winning Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe. The musicians come from six European countries and are all sought-after chamber musicians and soloists. The 12 members of CAROUSEL have won prizes at renowned competitions such as the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, the Borletti Buitoni Trust Award, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the USA International Harp Competition, the Opus Klassik Award, the Aeolous Competition Düsseldorf, the Bottessini Competition and the German Music Competition.
Alexandra joined the ensemble in the beginning of 2022.