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22-03-2023:

L’ALQUIMISTA in Barcelona

Next week we will begin the rehearsals for music theater performance L'ALQUIMISTA in Barcelona, at the Teatro Nacional de Catalunya. Michael De Cock created and directs a theatre adaptation of the book The Abyss by Belgian writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Lutenist Jurgen De bruyn joins the stage and, together with composer Alain Franco, provides the soundtrack for the story, which is set in 16th-century Europe with a focus on the last years of the Bruges doctor and alchemist Zeno and on universal themes of humanity and freedom in turbulent times.

The premiere will take place on the 11th of May 2023. The tickets are on sale vie TNC.

15-11-2022:

The Mass Man in Amsterdam

De Theaterkrant describes The Mass Man as "intriguing musical meditation on mass, power and manipulation".
The full review is available on the website.

11-08-2022:

MAfestival - PREMIERE

We had the pleasure of showing THE MASS MAN to a sold out audience in Concertgebouw Brugge. Prior to the performance, Muziektheater Transparant director Wouter Van Looy and artistic director of Zefiro Torna Jurgen De bruyn shared their thoughts with the audience. They explained how Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti and his masterly book on the themes of mass and power, medieval crusader songs and film images by Wim Catrysse form the raw material for a gripping music theatre performance.

Theatre critic Johan Thielemans wrote an engaging review.

20-05-2022:

CD release Time Crawls

The CD TIME CRAWLS is out on the label HOMERECORDS.BE and also available on our webshop (> CD).

Zefiro Torna takes us into a timeless universe with a reinterpretation of the 17th century broken consort music. Melodies intuitively created by flute player Jowan Merckx received a new arrangement for flute, violin, viola da gamba, violone, harp and lute by composers Marnix De Cat and Martin Valcke. The new written music bears traces of baroque and traditional music from all over Europe. The music, which is sometime melancholic, sometimes nimble and festive, fascinates by its ingeniously crafted texture and invites to dance.

30-08-2021:

BALSAM on tour


This autumn, the alchemistic laboratory BALSAM with Laika, Theatre of the Senses will be on tour again. After two series of performances at the Boulevard Festival in Den Bosch and Cultura Nova in Heerlen in August, the team is ready for it! Prepare yourself for a bewitching ritual in which music, scents and flavours immerse you in the shimmering world of alchemy. Besides the Greenwich+Docks International Festival in London and a tour to Portugal and France, BALSAM also passes by a number of Belgian venues.

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The Allegory of Desire

— The Song of Songs in Western and Oriental traditions (2013)

Zefiro Torna – Vocalconsort Berlin – Ghalia Benali

Scattered Rhymes

— A tribute to Francesco Petrarca (2012)

Zefiro Torna feat. Annelies van Gramberen – Frank Vaganée Trio

Lassus Pub Crawl

— French chansons, Italian villanelles and German drinking songs (2015)

Zefiro Torna – diverse lokale vocale ensembles

—  (2019)

Jurgen De bruyn - Gustave Min

Llibre Vermell

— Llibre Vermell De Montserrat (2012)

Psallentes – Zefiro Torna

B.I.G.

— Story of Bewildering Inner Growth (2017)

Zefiro Torna - Ultima Thule

Micro/Cosmos

— Installation / solo performance Jurgen De bruyn (2015)

Jurgen De bruyn

De Fragilitate

— Piae Cantiones School songs and hymns from medieval Finland (2006)

Zefiro Torna – Antwerps Kathedraalkoor

JUST=

— Jurisdiction in seven sounds and scenes (2017)

Zefiro Torna – ARSENAAL/LAZARUS

Hermit

— New perspectives on Jerome Bosch's Hermit Saints Triptych (2016)

Jurgen De bruyn – Tom Hannes – Mauro Pawlowski – Timo Van Luijk

Plus Nulz Regretz

— The private Cabinet of Margaret of Austria (2015)

Zefiro Torna – Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven – Ief Spincemaille

Les Tisserands

— Cross-over between folk, jazz and early music in the spirit of the Cathars (2006)

Zefiro Torna – Amorroma – Traces

NERF

—  (2013)

Zefiro Torna – Ultima Thule

Amore Amoro

— Heavenly madrigals by Giaches de Wert and Claudio Monteverdi (2014)

Zefiro Torna – Vlaams Radio Koor o.l.v. Hervé Niquet

Tears of Joy

— A wonderful musical blend from 17th century England (2009)

Zefiro Torna

APOCALYPSO

—  (2012)

Zefiro Torna – Abbatoir Fermé

Shadows

— A meditation about temporality set to music by Jeroen D'hoe with live calligraphy by Brody Neuenschwander (2011)

Zefiro Torna – Jeroen D'hoe – Brody Neuenschwander

Parallallemande

— Dual unity cycle (2007)

Zefiro Torna – ZOO/Thomas Hauert – Tom Hannes

Te Ros!

—  (2009)

Pantalone – Zefiro Torna – Ros Beiaardcomité

In Flagrante Delicto

— Gesualdo da Venosa - A letter to Maria d'Avalos (2009)

Zefiro Torna – Ensemble Polyfoon – Tom de Hoog

Assim

— Dick van der Harst based on Jacob Obrecht (2008)

Zefiro Torna – Het Nieuw Gents Stadsblazerscollectief

Puzzled

—  (2007)

Zefiro Torna – Zoo/Thomas Hauert

Greghesche

— a musical treasure of the venetian renaissance (2008)

—  (2020)

Zefiro Torna