Cellist

Following acclaimed sold-out performances in Paris’s Cité de la musique, Brussels and Lisbon, French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg bring Wieder-Atherton and filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s D’Est en musique to the US, in conjunction with a retrospective of Akerman’s films at the Museum of Modern Art and a screening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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D’Est en musique (From the East)

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

D’Est en Musique presents Chantal Akerman’s semi-fictional travelogue in a musical collaboration with her partner, celebrated cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, performed live by Wieder-Atherton and award-winning pianist Sarah Rothenberg. Akerman’s 16mm film, first shown in 1993, was shot in Poland, Ukraine, East Germany, and Russia amidst the unstable period following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Observing landscapes and people, the poignant film evokes an uneasy malaise through long, extended shots and looping repetition. Akerman re-edited the film in 2005 and paired it with musical selections by Wieder-Atherton that include masterworks by composers including Béla Bartók, Frédéric Chopin, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Alfred Schnittke, and Boris Tchaikovsky. Presented in collaboration with Monday Evening Concerts.

Cellist

Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Events

Past events

16 - 17 Jan, 2026

D’Est en musique (From the East) · Dacamera

12 - 13 Jan, 2026

D’Est en Musique · Redcat - Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cello in D’Est en Musique by Composers

Redcat - Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater

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