Live at Cantaleum presents "Songs of travel"

Description

Paths – outer journey, inner path
Travel means setting out. Losing oneself, marveling, dreaming – and perhaps returning changed. Three composers tell of such paths in this concert: landscapes, encounters, and the quiet movements of the soul. Robert Schumann's song cycle op. 39 after poems by Joseph von Eichendorff leads into the romantic world between natural experience and longing. Maurice Ravel's contemporary Jacques Ibert presents a wanderer between dream and reality in his Don Quichotte songs – passionate, humorous, and deeply human. In Ralph Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel, the journey ultimately becomes a symbol of human life: with its hopes, encounters, farewells, losses, and search for meaning. The musical evening is curated by Swiss bass-baritone Evan Gray and Swiss pianist Valentina Pfister. Gray, raised in Winterthur and trained at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, has been a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera since 2025. As a Lied singer, he specializes in romantic repertoire. Pfister works as a Lied pianist and chamber musician in Switzerland and across Europe, performing in major concert halls and festivals. An evening about being on the move – and about what one learns about oneself along the way. After the concert, Evan Gray and Valentina Pfister invite you to a personal meet & greet. During an aperitif, there will be an opportunity to converse with the artists, ask questions, and wind down the evening together.

Highlights

• Concert evening "Songs of Travel" on December 1st at 7:30 PM
• With Evan Gray and Valentina Pfister
• Works by Schumann, Ibert, and Vaughan Williams

General Information

The concert "Songs of Travel" at Cantaleum Zurich explores the outer and inner journeys of humans. The performance features romantic songs and is presented by artists Evan Gray and Valentina Pfister.

Location

Oberer Heuelsteig 15, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland

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