Stefanie Heinzmann & Mikis Takeover! Ensemble

• Pop

Take a blank musical canvas, six classical instrumentalists and a gifted soul singer and equip them with lush, onomatopoeic brushes. Then lock them in a rehearsal room together and give them two handfuls of catchy pop songs. What happens then? That’s right, that’s when Takeover happens! This time, the wonderful songs of Stefanie Heinzmann are taken over and turned inside out. It will be interesting to see which classical quotations ensemble founder and arranger Miki Kekenj will incorporate into the pieces and which instruments will be allowed to nestle against Stefanie Heinzmann’s sometimes silky, sometimes soulfully powerful vocals. In any case, it will be a sound-painting masterpiece that would have delighted both Da Vinci and Pollock.

PERFORMERS

Stefanie Heinzmann vocals

Mikis Takeover! Ensemble chamber ensemble

Miki Kekenj violin and director