<![CDATA[LIEKE VAN DER VOORT/ KONTRABAND KOLLEKTIF - News/shows]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:36:44 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[PIVOT 2018/19]]>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:10:56 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/pivot-201819What great news!! I have been selected as one of the participants of PIVOT 2018/19. Check their website to see how amazing this program is. Because it is!]]><![CDATA[Soundstreams 2018]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/soundstreams-2018Very excited to have been selected as one of the participants of Soundstreams Emerging Composers Workshop!]]><![CDATA[Interview with A Course in Dying]]>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:41:17 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/interview-with-a-course-in-dyingI did an interview with Claudia Crobatia of A Course in Dying about my father's suicide, grief and the recently released Atropos. Find it here. ]]><![CDATA[Atropos is out!]]>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:23:52 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/atropos-is-outAfter a successful livestream release, Atropos is now available for purchase and stream:

​CDBaby:
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kontrabandkollektif2

Bandcamp:
https://kontrabandkollektif.bandcamp.com/album/atropos

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4vPWqiQprRThCw9zkANXKk
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]]><![CDATA[Grants]]>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:40:18 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/grantsI am very grateful to have received not one, but two grants in the past two months.
Thank you Canada Council for the Arts (Grant for artistic development) and Ontario Arts Council (Commissioning Grant)!

​I will make the most out of this. ]]><![CDATA[Atropos EP Release]]>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:37:27 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/atropos-ep-release
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Atropos, Kontraband Kollektif's debut EP will be released into the world on January 21st. I would like to bring it into existence with a live stream of the premiere of two new pieces, a solo piece and duet with Mara Nesrallah.

Atropos consists of 5 pieces of music, Oizys, Nyx, Atropos, Athena and Aether. The music is based on my experience of the illness and death of my father. 

As proud as I am of this EP, a celebration is not what this calls for: Atropos is about pain and grief, about feelings of helplessness and doubt, about anger and missing. Opposite feelings that have to exist side by side, inside us. No one can escape this conflict of emotions. No one is immune to pain. The two pieces featured during this live stream draw from these feelings.

I invite you to join myself, Mara Nesrallah and Tom Upjohn for this live stream on the Kontraband Kollektif page on this day and hour, from a place where you feel good, and help us to create a beautiful moment. To all who grieve. 

I want to thank all the beautiful and supportive musicians featured on Atropos:
Emily Steinwall (tenor sax)
Be Mcc-b (bass clarinet)
Justin Orok (guitar)
Hayden Farrar (bass)
Jillana Nickel (marimba and checkers)
Alfie Vienneau (drums)
Maria-Carmela Raso (voice)
Mingjia Jessica Chen (voice and artwork)
Laura Swankey (voice)

I also thank:
Tom Upjohn (producer and mix engineer on Nyx and Athena)
Nick Bonin (recording and mix engineer)
Humber College Lakeshore Campus studio 

Special thanks to Nicole Mertens, Magdalena Malada, Loes Singeling-van Der Voort, Sonja Ja, Amahl Arulanandam, Shelley Marwood, Mara Nesrallah, Shannon Gunn, Christine Duncan, Reuben Ghose, Megan Jutting and Andrew Mullin.
]]><![CDATA[Catenate]]>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:34:40 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/catenateKontraband Kollektif was invited to write a piece for the opening of the ice skate rink at The Bentway. The piece is called Catenate and consists of 7 soundscapes (the 7 parts of the city The Bentway will connect) and a melody throughout.

Thank you for having us!]]><![CDATA[Collaboration with Jumblies and Soundstreams]]>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 04:28:03 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/collaboration-with-jumblies-and-soundstreamsReally excited to announce that in collaboration with Jumblies Theatre I have created a piece inspired by Claude Vivier's Müsik fur das Ende. This is going to be great! Check out Soundstreams Website for more information

https://www.soundstreams.ca/performances/salon-21/endings-lieke-van-der-voort-jumblies-theatre/]]><![CDATA[Art Spin]]>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:11:53 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/art-spinThat was one amazing gig! Thank you for having us, Art Spin! Picture by Art Spin.
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]]><![CDATA[Artspin Toronto]]>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:57:42 GMThttp://kontrabandkollektif.com/newsshows/artspin-torontoKontraband Kollektif will be participating in this years Artspin!

"“Here is the Soil, Here is the Water” is a piece inspired by the recent floods on Toronto Island. It aims to capture waters unpredictability, our perpetual and ancestral ties to it and the belonging to the earth that we as humans share with water. The same lake that we enjoyed last summer, has taken a part of this years' summer away."

A guided improvised piece written by Lieke van der Voort, featuring herself as well as Maria-Carmela Raso and Laura Swankey. Come check it out!
 
Also check out: 
Artspin: www.facebook.com/artspin/?ref=br_rs
Maria-Carmela Raso: www.mariacarmelasounds.com/
Laura Swankey: www.facebook.com/LauraSwankeyMusic/]]>