Where the seas touch

A journey through water, love and transformation from Venice’s nocturnal waters to Greece’s fountains of song...

At the threshold of Gibraltar, where two seas meet but do not mingle, begins a voyage through sound and memory. Where the Seas Touch follows this current eastwards: from France’s river of remembrance to Catalonia’s tides of life and emotion, from Spain’s radiant coast to Venice’s nocturnal waters and Greece’s fountains of song where song becomes ritual.

VAN SALON TOT CABARET

Step into a world where music and conversation once intertwined beneath the soft glow of candlelight.

Inspired by the legendary Pauline Viardot-García - mezzo-soprano, muse, pianist and composer - this concert invites you to relive the spirit of her Parisian salon, where art was born not only on stage, but in friendship, laughter and longing.

The evening unfolds like a journey through time: from the intimacy of Viardot’s salon - echoing with Berlioz, Massenet and Chopin - to the vibrant wit of the cabaret, where Weill and Britten play with irony, love and desire.

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THE FLICKERING LANTERN:

A century of women in song

Across a hundred years, women composed in the half-light - between silence and song, duty and freedom.

In The Flickering Lantern, the duo brings their voices to life: Fanny Mendelssohn’s intimate spirit, Viardot’s fearless charm, Chaminade’s grace, Bonis’s mysticism, Beach’s vast solitude, Bosmans’s quiet defiance, Tailleferre’s wit, and Gazarossian’s candlelight hope.

Each song glows with its own flame - fragile, fierce, unforgotten.
Together they illuminate a century of women who turned beauty into resistance.

Each voice, a lantern in the storm - flickering, fragile, eternal.

summertime

A golden afternoon. A garden by the canal, alive with music, laughter and the hush of listening hearts.

In the summer light of Museum Van Loon’s garden, song met sunlight and poetry mingled with the rustle of leaves.

Twice that Sunday, the concert sold out - two audiences gathered beneath the trees to listen, to laugh, to feel.

Summertime became a celebration of love in all its forms: sultry, tender, playful and profound.

Here, under the open sky, music and nature embraced. Laughter turned to stillness, hearts opened, and even the parakeets paused to listen.

 

This was Summertime - a moment when the world stood still, and love itself became the song.

ik ben in eenzaamheid

niet meer alleen

A concert where no one was alone.

 

Some performances already feel special before the first note is played. In this intimate collaboration, Duo Encanto joined forces with Ilia Laporev, guest principal cellist of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, for an evening where music became friendship, and sound became connection.

From Berlioz and Schubert to Massenet  and Braga, each piece unfolded like a conversation between three souls speaking one language: emotion.

The highlight came with the world première of Alphons Diepenbrock’s Ik ben in eenzaamheid niet meer alleen arranged by composer Ardashes Agoshian and performed on the composer’s 160th birthday - a moment where past and present met in harmony.

Made possible by NORMA Grants and featured on Cultuurexplosie, the concert began beneath the lights of De Hallen and flowed into Café Belcampo - a night of warmth, resonance and shared humanity.

MUSICAL OASIS

In a time when the world fell silent, music kept breathing.

Born during the global lockdown of 2021, Musical Oasis became a space of light and connection. Performed for the international conference Living in the End Times - a gathering of writers and scholars from Harvard to Warwick - the duo offered not escape but renewal: an oasis of sound where hope could still take root.

Amid closed halls and quiet streets, Matrix Rotterdam opened its doors, and Schubert’s music found new life. British novelist Maggie Gee wrote afterwards: “Loved the Schubert – and what a voice.”

Then, as now, Musical Oasis reminds us that beauty endures, and that music can still make another world possible.

 

Let us be an oasis for each other. Always.

PASSION

A celebration of women who dared to live, love and burn brightly.

In Passion, Duo Encanto brings to life the heroines who shaped opera and history through sheer force of spirit. From Monteverdi and Haydn to Berlioz, Bizet, Massenet and Puccini, each aria becomes a portrait of courage and desire.

Through music and poetic narration, Natali gives voice to women who choose love over fear, freedom over silence - women whose stories still ignite the imagination.

 

An evening of strength, beauty and fire - where passion becomes art.

SPINNING HEARTS

Longing, love and fate spin endlessly in the heart.

Some stories are whispered, some are sung - and some are woven into the very fabric of time. Spinning Hearts is a journey through passion, desire, and fragile dreams, where music becomes the thread that binds us all.

At the centre stand the women who spin - their hands in motion, their hearts beating to the rhythm of longing. The wheel turns, echoing Gretchen’s unending dream, transforming threads into stories of love and destiny.

The concert brings these stories to life through Chopin, Viardot, Schubert, Bizet, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Massenet, Granados, Mompou, Weill and Tchouhadjian.

 

A world where every note spins a thread of passion - and the heart never stops turning.

MELODIES D'AMOUR

A journey through love, memory and connection.

In Mélodies d’Amour, the duo explorse the richness of French and Greek song, where poetry and music intertwine to reveal love in all its shades.

From Saint-Saëns’ Danse macabre to Ravel’s Five Greek Folksongs (sung in original Greek), the programme moves between light and shadow, memory and desire.

Their years of shared artistry bring warmth, humour and deep emotion to each performance. A dialogue between voice and piano, art and life.

FORGOTTEN SONGS FOR THREE

Falcon soprano Natali Boghossian, double bassist Ardashes Agoshian and pianist Hans van Beelen revive the forgotten treasures of the nineteenth century in newly imagined arrangements.
From Pauline Viardot’s radiant Madrid and Hai luli to Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Massenet, de Falla, Bizet and Delibes, the programme bridges French, Spanish and Russian song traditions through the rare dialogue of voice, double bass and piano.
A world première performance, Forgotten Songs for Three transforms what was once lost into living sound.

 

A night where time stands still, and music finds its way back to the heart.