CAMERATA BERN - Once Upon a Time

Violist Lawrence Power presents his debut program for CAMERATA BERN as a "musical stream of consciousness". As a great story in two parts, told with the means of music. Part one leads from the tragic fate of the Carthaginian queen Dido in Henry Purcell's work to the Celtic songs in a viola concerto by Sally Beamish and Gertrude Stein's surrealistic memories of the "once round" world in John Cage's Living Room Music to a farewell greeting from Peter Maxwell Davies to a fishing village on the Scottish Orkney Islands.

Once again, the journey in part two begins in Baroque England: with Matthew Locke's music to William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Driven by such storms, the journey continues via Elizabeth Maconchy's masterfully polyphonic Allegro to the (as yet) unknown shores of a new viola concerto by Irish violist and composer Garth Knox, inspired by a seafaring ballad.

Date and time
January 10, 2026, 17:00

Address
Bern, Paul Klee Center

Organizer
CAMERATA BERN

Works
Purcell, Veress, Henze and others

Management
Lawrence Power - conductor, viola and violin

Admission price
One-way tickets: CHF 45.- / 65.- / 85.- || Reduced tickets from CHF 5.-

Contact us
+41 31 371 86 88, info@cameratabern.ch

Website
https://www.cameratabern.ch/konzerte/once-upon-a-time-2