Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Abel Selaocoe
Debussy, Ravel, Selaocoe
With energy and creativity, Abel Selaocoe combines cello playing, singing and improvisation. He navigates between different genres and styles, and explores the furthest corners of the cello's sound spectrum.
Selaocoe makes his debut with Amsterdam Sinfonietta in a programme that highlights both early 20th-century French classical music and African musical traditions.
Debussy's melancholic and mystical Cello Sonata, in an arrangement for cello and string orchestra, showcases the cello in all its facets. The orchestra shines in Ravel's masterful, swirling ode to the Viennese waltz, in a new arrangement for string orchestra. In his own compositions, which breathe the stories of South African life, Selaocoe is accompanied by his regular musical partner, master percussionist Sidiki Dembélé.
Website: Abel Selaocoe | Amsterdam Sinfonietta
