Between Heaven and Earth
Premiere January 09, 2025, Theater & Concertzaal Orpheus (NL)
How do we ensure that our lives are useful and valuable? How do we establish that the things we undertake are and remain meaningful? Major existential questions that have occupied mankind for centuries, but to which varying answers have also been given over time. In it's new programme If it's not God, at least Man, the young saxophone quartet Osimun takes the audience on their quest to find out how the relationship with God (or the lack thereof) has changed our Western European way of living together.
Starting from the days when God as Creator and Ruler still provided man with an all-encompassing existence (Maslanka's Recitation Book), the journey continues via the romantic celebration of the earthly and the human (Saxophone Quartet by Glasunov & Fanny Mendelssohn Song without Words) to the elevation of the individual (Sólo el-misterio by Pérez-Villegas). Finally, via the new composition Nocturne by Arjan Linker, we land in the present, in which the deep longing for spirituality is combined with electronic forms of expression.
Now reflecting on the evolution of man, then again breaking through the traditional barrier between stage and audience, the young saxophone quartet Osimun forges an almost spiritual connection with the audience with this theatrical concert If it's not God, at least Man. The Osimun Quartet is a finalist in the 'Dutch Classical Talent' competition.
Photo © Juri Hiensch
Credits Cast & Crew
Osimun Saxophone Quartet:
Soprano Saxophone: Diego Dávila
Alto Saxophone: Fátima Alcázar
Tenor Saxophone: Inés González
Bariton Saxophone: Ricard Martínez
Composition David Maslanka, Alexander Glasunov, Fanny Mendelssohn, Joan Pérez-Villegas, Arjan Linker
Arrangements Osimun Saxophone Quartet
Stage direction Annechien Koerselman
Setdesign Osimun Quartet in samenspraak met Annechien Koerselman
Costumedesign Osimun Quartet & Annechien Koerselman
Lightdesign Annechien Koerselman
Production Osimun Quartet
Technics Thomas Myrmel
Organisation Osimun Saxophone Quartet & Dutch Classical Talent
CALENDAR
Amsterdam Splendor December 16, 2025 16.00h try-out
Apeldoorn Theater & Concertzaal Orpheus January 09, 2025 20.00h
Den Bosch Willem Twee January 12, 2025 15.30h
Tilburg Schouwburg Concertzaal January 16, 2025 20.30h
Enschede Wilmink Theater January 19, 2025 11.00h
Amsterdam Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ January 22, 2025 12.30h
Eindhoven Muziekgebouw January 23, 2025 12.30h
Leeuwarden De Harmonie January 30, 2025 20.30h
Nijmegen De Vereeniging Februari 02, 2025 15.00h
Arnhem Musis February 05, 2025 12.00h
Haarlem Philharmonie February 06, 2025 20.00h
Maastricht Theater aan het Vrijthof February 09 2025 11.30h
Groningen SPOT February 12, 2025 12.00h
Utrecht TivoliVredenburg February, 12 2025 20.30h
Rotterdam De Doelen February 16, 2025 15.00h
Oranjewoud (NL) Museum Belvédère February 24, 2025 15.00h
Mérida (ES) Calle José Ramón Mélida March 09, 2025 19.00h
Mollerussa (ES) Sant Marti May 09, 2025 19.00h
Barcelona (ES) Sant Marti May 10, 2025 19.00h
Rösrath (DE) Schloss Eulenbroich May 18, 2025 15.00h
Utrecht TivoliVredenburg June 01, 2025 14.00h Finale Dutch Classical Talent
More information: www.osimunquartet.com/
If it's not God, at least Man is made possible by Dutch Classical Talent 
