SPECTRA

SPECTRA is a Belgian ensemble for new music, founded in 1993. Filip Rathé is its artistic director and conductor.

SPECTRA develops numerous trajectories with composers living in Flanders and promotes their work in international and historical contexts. It creates many commissioned works in constant dialogue with reference works from the recent past. SPECTRA offers a wide range of presentation formats and collaborates with composers, theatre makers, visual artists and writers in building non-dogmatic programmes and idiosyncratic interpretations. This has led to collaborations with, among others, Luca Francesconi, Stefano Gervasoni, Philippe Hurel, Guy Cassiers, Fabrice Murgia, Philippe Blasband, Peter Verhelst and others. SPECTRA performs within and outside Europe and at festivals such as Ars Musica (B), Transit (B), Festival Musica Nova (Brazil), November Music Festival (NL), Musica Sacra (NL), Oerol Festival (NL), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (GB), the Traiettorie Festival (It), the Biennale Venezia (It), World Music Days 2010 Sydney (Au), Gaida Festival (Lt), Musica Strasbourg (F) and the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires (ARG). Finally, SPECTRA shares its expertise in the Master na Master programme in the interpretation of contemporary music, in collaboration with the School of Arts Gent.

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