A Spotlight on sound wizard Hawar Tawfiq! He wrote the new composition Afsanáy Taws(The Fable of the Peacock) especially for Wonderfeel, for soprano Elisabeth Hetherington and ensemble. He drew inspiration from Jean de La Fontaine’s fable The Peacock Complaining to Juno and Marc Chagall’s accompanying illustration. What makes this particularly special is that, for the first time, Tawfiq uses a text in his native Kurdish language, Sorani (سۆرانی). For him, that language is a form of coming home: an inner place where memory, imagination, and sound converge. Also featured are Tawfiq’s Dialogos for violin and piano, and the atmospheric Voyage, based on poetry by Rumi and the American-Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran.

Elisabeth Hetherington - soprano
Aleksey Semenenko - violin
Maya Fridman - cello
Anna voor de Wind - (bass) clarinet
Jan Willem Rozenboom - piano
Pepe Garcia - percussion
Hawar Tawfiq - composition

Photo: Danny van Emmerik