The making of the LAKE pilot —-> made during the rehearsal week in Enschede in January 2012.
(Thanks Ramin)
The future of LAKE….
Ok, so it’s time to take action and get ready to see what the future of LAKE will be. We definitely want to finish the whole opera (specially a duet with M and the GoldFish!) so the following weeks I will start contacting people for evaluations and advices on how to continue the project and how to make it better, which hopefully will result in a full, upgraded, production.
Let’s go LAKE team!
PS. Soon we will start sharing videos from the project on the blog :) and the image above was corrected…
The day after…
I only wanted to say thanks to all the Lake team. Thank you for this amaizing week in which I have learned a loooooot. What a nice feeling when the speaker said that the public prize was for Lake!! I am looking forward to meet you all again soon!! “It was a nice day, wasn’t it?”
Dani
Get to know: Our choreographer/director!
Cinthya Oyervides is a mexican choreographer and performer born in 1981. Today she studies a masters degree in Scenography at the Minerva Academy in Groningen.
“…It was a big challenge since this was the first time I directed an opera. I was very lucky to have Luc Boyer in the team with all his comments and proposals and Dorine Cremers as dramaturg. I learned a lot in the process and it was great to work with the talented and professional singers and musicians. Thanks a lot to everyone…”
Arend’s dream…
“… I had a really weird dream last night. I was having an extra rehearsal with Felipe Noriega for a big new piece he just composed. The music was amazing. I needed 24 drums and Felipe was singing and dancing! We were rehearsing on a ship which was sinking. But it didn’t matter since Felipe was paying me €10.000,- to do the job, he said.
Then something really strange happened. Suddenly we were outside of the ship which began shrinking! It became really tiny and a small boy picked it up to put it in his mouth…”
So we never saw the 24 drums back, neither did I receive the €10.000,-
Instead we will continue on the real composition. The LAKE project will enter a crucial stage today. Alexandra (who plays the Goldfish) will finally be back just like Dani, the tuba player. So this morning we will focus on music only and really make permanent decisions about phrases, timing and musical ideas. I am really looking forward to enter the fine-tuning stage since everything is really coming together now
arend
Get to know: our Tuba player!
Dani Sánchez was born in Salamanca (Spain) on 1986. Started playing tuba at the age of 11. He got his Bachelors degree first at Salamanca Conservatory and later at Conservatorium van Amsterdam where he is currently finishing his Masters degree in tuba with Perry Hoogendijk. Since he arrived to the Netherlands four years ago he keeps developing his career as a profesional tuba player and has been invited to play with orchestras like Holland Symfonia, Nederlands Philharmonicsch Orkest, Radio Kamer Filharmonie, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He has played with conductors as Mariss Jansons and Kurt Masur. He also has participated in projects working with composers such as Kaija Saariaho and Sofía Gubaidulina. Nowadays he is taking part on Lake, with music by Felipe Ignacio Noriega.
“Suddenly I found myself playing in this exciting project surrounded by very talented people who actually like to work hard and enjoy by doing it. For me it is a great experience and I am looking forward to keep on working with all of them…”
Get to know: picnicker woman #2!
Réka Takácsy (Hungary, 1987) started her musical education at the age of six. Since elementary school she participated in different artistic projects, such as plays, concert tours and stage art performances. She also attended solo singing lessons where great opera artists were challenging her both professionally and personally. She was a member of Angelical Girls’ Choir taking part in concert tours and recordings, for instance: International Opera Festival Miskolc (H), Budapest Spring Festival, and International Choir Olympic Games in Athens. She currently lives in Amsterdam and studies Social Science at the Vrije Universiteit, taking singing and acting lessons in the meantime.
“… This week in Enschede, we are working very hard to live up to our expectations. It is a very intense work but the benefits pay for themselves. The creation process is great! I am happy to be a part of an artistic production that pushes borders and challenges me in different ways. I look forward to the outcomes of this special project… Lake.. “
Memories of a Rehearsal…
While rehearsing the GoldFish Aria our GoldFish and M gave us a beautiful improvised moment… it seems someone likes Tango!
Get to know: Our repetitie Pianist!
Anne Veinberg from Australia is currently in the last stage of her Masters degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she is a student of David Kuyken.
In 2009, Anne won the Grachten Festival Conservatory Concours, was the keyboard finalist in the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Young Performers Award in 2008 and a semi-finalist in the 2011 Gaudeamus Interpreters Prize a.o.
Anne is a versatile musician, performing both classical and contemporary repertoire, including electro-acoustic and musictheater works. She frequently collaborates with composers and with Felipe Ignacio working on the premier of his piano trio ‘OreaMrepus’. Anne has also worked as rehearsal pianist with the DNOA.
“I am very excited to join the all amazing, and inspiring team for LAKE!”
Get to know: our Composer!
Felipe Ignacio Noriega (1982) was born in Mexico. Back in those days he studied electric guitar, electric bass and Jazz harmony. He eventually graduated from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM) in Mexico City as both Licentiate in Composition and in Music Theory, recognized by Trinity College London. In Autumn of 2009 he came to the Conservatory of Amsterdam to study with Jorrit Tamminga and Willem Jeths, and is currently in the 1st year of the Masters in Composition. Once familiar with this new country he began working with Music Theater, specially opera, founding together with Marcos Rabello and Emmanuel Flores the collective Amsterdam Chamber Opera, with whom he has already worked in 2 opera arrangements (La Princesse Jaune and La Voix Humaine, the latter presented in Salvador, Brazil), and the original music theater pieces “El Ombligo” and “Woest!”. In November 2010 he won the 1st prize of the Tromp Concours composition competition Eindhoven with his percussion quartet “InRed: Two views” based on a painting by Paul Klee.
“This production is a dream come true. A chance to write an original opera, to work it from scratch, to be coached efficiently, to have a great team making this dream come alive, to meet and work with superb, talented people, to learn, to learn, to learn and to keep developing as a composer. i love it and i am so grateful to everyone making this happen…”
A little surprise for the New Year!
This is the LAKE image for the flyer and the poster, made by Judit Németh (from Hungary). Thanks to her for our nice picture which was as good as a christmas and new year present…
We wish you all an amazing New Year filled with love and happiness! 
After the first rehearsal…
We are getting over some big crashes while swimming. As we are going deeper into the water, we find some difficulties… Thanks the experience we’re learning how to work together, even if we don’t agree at some points. Unfortunately, one of us already jumped out of the Lake. Marcos, our ex-director couldn’t find the word with the librettist, Nikolett. His leaving was the moment, when we thought, the next play was going to be a soap opera about making Lake. But no worries, we’re moving back on the right track and with the help of our lovely choach and all the nice people around us we’ll manage!
Let’s see what’s next!
P.S. Santa Claus! Please bring us peace and a lot of smiles :)
Get to know: our percussionist Arend Bruijn!
Begon op 17 jarige leeftijd met klassiek slagwerk en kreeg les van Rombout Stoffers. Studeert aan het conservatorium van Amsterdam. Hier studeert hij tot op heden bij Nick Woud, Peter Prommel, Mark Braafhart, Victor Oskam, Gustavo Gimeno en Ramon Lormans. Ook volgde hij marimba masterclasses van Nancy Zeltsman, Theodor Milkov en Pius Cheung.
Arend heeft bij meerdere orkesten meegespeeld, waaronder het Jeugdorkest Nederland en de Radio Kamer Filharmonie. Ook is hij net begonnen met een duo voor cello en slagwerk waarmee hij de wereld van kamermuziek wil ontdekken.
Verder werkt Arend als slagwerkdocent bij de Oranje Harmonie in Hilversum en geeft orkestslagwerk-workshops bij de slagwerkgigant ADAMS onder de naam ‘Aan De Slag’.
“Voordat ik in aanraking kwam met slagwerk en het conservatorium had ik al een grote liefde voor film en theater. Op jonge leeftijd speelde ik mee in verschillende dans -en theaterstukken. Het lijkt me fantastisch om op een creatieve manier muziek met theater te combineren en het LAKE project leven in te blazen.”
