Brussels Philharmonic, Vlaams Radiokoor & Brussels Jazz Orchestra

Three conductors, a choir, a big band, an orchestra and soaring ambition: that’s everything you need for Simon Steen-Andersen’s TRIO, a large-scale multimedia spectacle created in 2019. The Danish composer incorporates well-known quotations from musical history and places them in dialogue with archive footage from Südwestrundfunk (SWR). This monumental composition receives its Belgian premiere during Ars Musica. The Brussels Philharmonic, Brussels Jazz Orchestra (BJO) and the Flemish Radio Choir join forces for a collage in which past and present, and the music of yesterday and today, blur into one. A new creation by Oren Bonneh opens the evening. The young composer regards the orchestra as a human jukebox – an instrument capable of shifting between musical styles and combining them in unexpected ways.