Dur­a­tions in Space - Sei­gla 2026

Durations in Space is a staged recital for cello and piano that explores the relationship between sound, space, and the perception of time.

Through works by Olivier Messiaen, György Kurtág, Arvo Pärt, and Morton Feldman, cellist Nina Vanhoenacker and pianist Ann-Kristin Sofroniou invite audiences into a listening experience where sound unfolds across the room and time seems to expand, contract, and dissolve. Using subtle movement and spatial reconfiguration, the performance invites audiences to listen carefully to how time and space distorts each other.

As sound travels through the space and reaches listeners from changing perspectives, familiar notions of musical continuity and duration are gently transformed.

Performers:
Ann-Kristin Sofroniou is a Cypriot-Swedish pianist, composer, and researcher whose work bridges contemporary and early music through improvisation, artistic research, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Nina Vanhoenacker is a Belgian cellist specialising in contemporary and experimental music. She performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and frequently collaborates across disciplines including film, dance, and visual art.
https://www.ninavanhoenacker.be/

Duration: approx. 60 mins., without intermission.

Discounted Tickets (students, Schumann Society members, low-income): 2.500kr in Harpa's box office.

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More information, festival programme and artists bios available at www.seiglafestival.com and in the festival zine Seiglazine.

Harpa is the main sponsor of Seigla 2026. The music festival Seigla is supported by the Icelandic Music Fund, SUT and Ruth Hermanns Music Fund, Ýlir, FÍH Culture Fund, Iceland University of the Arts and Friends of Seigla.

Promoter

Seigla