Name: UNDR
Start: 2025-05-28T20:00:00
Location: Cité de la Musique

Jean Rondeau

Tancrède D. Kummer

Philharmonie de Paris

A recording of the concert Hector Berlioz - Requiem will be made, directed by Stéphane Aubé, produced by the Opéra national de Paris with the support of the Orange Foundation, sponsor of the Paris Opera's audiovisual broadcasts, for a live broadcast on Friday 22 May 2026 at 8:00pm on Paris Opera Play, the Paris Opera's streaming website.

Hector Berlioz

Cité de la Musique

Harpsichordist Jean Rondeau and drummer Tancrède D. Kummer are familiar with the thin line stretched between interpretation, improvisation, and creation, which inspires them to create pristine and unclassifiable artistic projects. Conceived as a derivative of the form of Bach's Goldberg Variations , UNDR closely captures a writing of a protean nature, both personal and collective, logical yet random, transcended by gesture. Drawing on the Icelandic root of " undr " (wonder), the two composer-performers also summon in a broad polyphony the words of Valère Novarina, Shura Rusanova, and Ezra Pound, and imbue their reappropriation with the wonder that characterizes their connection to music and their quest for poetry.