vioro.co presents DESIRE

Desire describes the distance between where you are and where you want to be. But can we live without desire? Or is desire an essential force for betterment and growth?

How is desire born, struggled with, consummated, enjoyed, sustained, abandoned, lost, or perhaps overcome? 

How do we react when our desires are dashed or obliterated? 

What changes when our desires are fulfilled?

Explore the varied shades of desire, as Margaret Plummer and Thomas Victor Johnson weave their way through a metaphorical life cycle, from birth to oblivion. Featuring works by Mahler, Berg, Debussy, Britten, Fauré, Copland, Schumann, Berlioz and Barber.

Bar @ 19:00 with drinks and snacks available from the sustainably-sourced Lobe Block kitchen.

Music @ 20:00 with a perfectly placed interval.

vioro.co presents WINTERING

Acclaimed Canadian soprano and pianist Rachel Fenlon performs Franz Schubert's Winterreise in a Liederabend that embraces the familiar and the novel. Taking inspiration from the melancholy of winter as a metaphor for darkness, we invite you to explore the themes of loss, grief, anger, and loneliness, to blissful moments of solitude - through the lens of the bright light of Berlin in summer.

Doors @ 19:00 with dinner and drinks available from the kitchen at Lobe Block, who delight in creating sustainably-sourced, seasonal food using high quality, local ingredients.

Music @ 20:00 with the bar and canteen remaining open to help sate your post-concert inclinations while offering you a space to reflect on the musical and thematic offerings of the evening.

vioro.co presents DEVOTIONS

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ema Nikolovska and Kunal Lahiry together with violist Friedemann Slenczka present a programme dedicated to the human connection with nature, with one another, and questions examining our finitude.

Ema, Kunal and Friedemann lead this adventure with composers and poets of today and the past interacting dramaturgically, including songs with and without words - served with shots of fantasy and whimsy.

Inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and John Donne and their awe in witnessing the beauty of humanity and the natural world, we invite you to a celebration of delectable universes of music and words.

The trio presents music from Aaron Copland, Emily Doolittle, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge, Olivier Messiaen, Héloïse Werner, Tansy Davies, George Crumb, and Sergei Prokofiev.

Doors @ 19:00 with full dinner service and drinks available from the kitchen at Lobe Block, who delight in creating sustainably-sourced, seasonal food using high quality, local ingredients. 

Music @ 20:00 with the bar and canteen remaining open to help sate your post-concert inclinations while offering you a space to reflect on the musical and thematic offerings of the evening.

vioro.co founding members Simone Easthope, Paull-Anthony Keightley & Thomas Victor Johnson together with Jonathan Ware present WANDERING

We invite you to share in this search for meaning and purpose, finding solace - as humans always have - in nature, in connection with each other, and through music and poetry.

The plight of those forced to flee their homeland is in stark focus today, with unspeakable atrocities taking place through Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We contemplate what it means to be displaced from one’s country and community, and remind ourselves of the many millions of people worldwide who have been displaced, forced to find their place in a foreign land.

Featured in this concert are the sweeping settings by Medtner and Liszt of Goethe’s ‘Wandrers Nachtlied’, one of his most well-known poems, and one that has inspired many composers and painters.

Works by Schubert, Strauss, Grieg and Barber dealing with two of the most powerful sources of peace - nature and love - will complete the programme.

Doors @ 18:30 with dinner and drinks available from the kitchen at Lobe Block, who delight in creating sustainably-sourced, seasonal meals using high quality, local ingredients. 

Music @ 20:00 with the bar and canteen remaining open to help sate your post-concert inclinations while offering you a space to reflect on the musical and thematic offerings of the evening.

Tickets €20 at the door. Reservations recommended.