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Brussels Philharmonic: Maya Verlaak & Cassandra Miller

Name: Brussels Philharmonic: Maya Verlaak & Cassandra Miller — Music as social experiment - or as a reminder how to cry
Start: 2026-06-20T20:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-20T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Flagey

Music as social experiment - or as a reminder how to cry

Tectonics Festival

Sat 20 Jun 20:30

Studio 4

tickets

20 Jun

20:30

tickets

combi ticket | Tectonics Festival | 20.06.26 | 30 €

18:00 - Xenakis & Scelsi- Studio 4
19:00 - Jennifer Torrence - Studio 1
20:30 - Maya Verlaak & Cassandra Miller- Studio 4

Program

Maya Verlaak, Sci-Volo Palla (world premiere) (2026)
Cassandra Miller, Dad Goes to the Mountain (world premiere) (2026)
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*commission Brussels Philharmonic
**co-commission Brussels Philharmonic, BBC Radio 3, L'Auditori Barcelona, Radio France, Festival d’Automne, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

artist(s)

Brussels Philharmonic
Ilan Volkov, cond.
Sarah Saviet, violin
Jasmijn Lootens, cello

On Saturday, two brand-new creations take the stage: Maya Verlaak and Cassandra Miller each composed a new work for the Brussels Philharmonic.

Maya Verlaak, in her typical fashion, tosses aside all conventions and turns – with new rules, electronics, and a classical orchestra setup – the piece into a social experiment.

Cassandra Miller wrote Dad Goes to the Mountain as a single-movement composition in four chapters, for her father: "In his old age, he developed vascular dementia which impacted his spacial awareness and short-term memory, but which left his personality largely intact. I feel he was somehow transfigured by the experience. This transfiguration—and lightness—are the topics of this piece.”

In the context of