THE CHAMELEONIC PIANIST
Piano, Electronics, and Theatrical Elements
“Chameleonic”
“Sonsoles is one of the great performers of my work”
“Engaged, versatile, intelligent and precise. Excellent dialogue with the electronics”
“Sonsoles gave a recital during the Randspiele Festival that fully convinced me. Her performance of my ‘Dialog Imaginär 2’ for piano and tape was brilliant. Her timing perfect”
“Sonsoles Alonso is a brilliant musician who propels the pianistic dimension into the future. Working with her towards the creation of new musical dimensions is a true pleasure”
“Performing with Sonsoles is sheer joy, the passion that she imparts in her playing is contagious”
“Sonsoles’ playing is pure musical intelligence and technical sovereignty”
“Working with Sonsoles brings up instant chemistry”
COLLABORATIONS AND PRODUCTIONS
PROJECTS
▶︎ Fluxus star Willem de Ridder – Dear Santa…
▶︎ Moritz Eggert & Marko Ciciliani – Dromomania, for 2 grand pianos, electronics and light design
▶︎ Electra New Music – Electra’s Second Life, with electronics and visuals
▶︎ Jannie Pranger – PAT, electronics, voice and piano
▶︎ Albert van Veenendaal & Jozef Dumoulin – Traveling Light Piano Trio
▶︎ Rosa Ensemble & Hans Dagelet – Selling Hoovers In Mojave
▶︎ John Addison & Ville Hiltula – Zorro
▶︎ Jorrit Dijkstra & Jorrit Tamminga – Plunk
▶︎ Kees Wieringa & Dré Wapenaar – BAG, 4 Fazioli grand pianos and electronics
▶︎ John Addison & Ainhoa Miranda – Belle Horreur, piano, cello and bass-clarinet
▶︎ Helena Svestka & Marij van den Boom – HMS
▶︎ Fie Schouten & Karina Erhard – Kaida Trio
▶︎ UCC, Ainhoa Miranda & John Addison – De Regelmeesters
▶︎ Kasia Glowicka & Emmanuel Flores – Piano, electronics and visuals
▶︎ Arnoud Noordegraaf, David Dramm, Cor Fuhler, Yannis Kyriakides, Marko Ciciliani, Iris Hoppe, Nynke Deinema, Oliver Schwabe, Jean-Pierre Sens & Hermelinde Hergenhahn – Nulpunt, 10 grand pianos, electronics and visuals
▶︎ Kees Wieringa, Jeffrey Bruinsma and Mark Nieuwenhuizen – De Opening
▶︎ Laurens van Rooyen & Floris Kortie – Yente Song
HEARD DURING
▶︎ November Music – The Netherlands
▶︎ Gaudeamus Muziekweek – The Netherlands
▶︎ Gentse Vleugels – Belgium
▶︎ Ton Bruynel Festival – The Netherlands
▶︎ Festival Punto Aparte – Spain
▶︎ Randspiele Festival – Germany
▶︎ Rumor Festival – The Netherlands
▶︎ Serie Música Contemporánea @ Fundación March – Spain
▶︎ Ton de Leeuw Festival – Albania
▶︎ Entrepresse @ Treveszaal (Second Chamber) – The Netherlands
▶︎ Trade Missions @ ABN-Amro Bank HQ – The Netherlands
▶︎ New Music Series @ AKBank – Turkey
▶︎ De Suite Muziekweek – The Netherlands
▶︎ Festival Spazio Musica – Italy
▶︎ Festival Neue Musik Darmstadt – Germany
▶︎ Listen to The World – Sweden
▶︎ New Music Series @ Steingraeber & Sohne – Germany
▶︎ Fiesta de Arte Tenerife – Spain
▶︎ Entre Amigos Series @ Auditorio de Tenerife – Spain
▶︎ Ismir Music Information Retrieval Conference – The Netherlands
▶︎ Durf Kapitaal Series @ Muziekgebouw aan ‘t Ij – The Netherlands
▶︎ Festival Boulevard Den Bosch – The Netherlands
▶︎ Callithumpian Consort Series Boston – US
▶︎ Local Stop @ STEIM – The Netherlands
▶︎ New Vanguard Series, Deep Listening Space of Pauline Oliveros New York – US
▶︎ Sanoma FZ Award Ceremony @ Sanoma Publishers – The Netherlands
▶︎ RisK Series @ Paradox Tilburg – The Netherlands
▶︎ Experiment #4 @ Studio Loos Den Haag – The Netherlands
▶︎ Aula de Re(estrenos) @ Fundación March – Spain
▶︎ Epíteto Expresivo @ Fundación BBVA – Spain
▶︎ De Avond van de Langste Nacht @ SJU Jazzpodium – The Netherlands
▶︎ Ciclo de Música Contemporánea @ Cajacanarias – Spain
▶︎ Musik im Neuen Museum Nürnberg – Germany
▶︎ Dear Santa… @ Vredenburg Utrecht – The Netherlands
▶︎ Selling Hoovers in Mojave @ Grand Theatre Groningen – The Netherlands
▶︎ Lunchconcerten @ Concertgebouw Amsterdam – The Netherlands
PIECES WRITTEN FOR HER BY
Peter Adriaansz, Toek Numan, Chiel Meijering, Kasia Glowicka, Marko Ciciliani, Jorrit Dijkstra, Calliope Tsoupaki, Jorrit Tamminga, Riccardo Massari Spiritini, Zlatko Baracksai, Ben Wallet, Matthijs Janssens and Dietrich Eichmann.
ALBUMS and TRACKS
LIVE PERFORMANCES
MORE ABOUT THE PIANIST
Spanish-born, Netherlands-based Sonsoles Alonso is so very much more than just a versatile pianist. Emerging as a major voice in the contemporary piano and live electronics formats, Sonsoles effortlessly mixes techniques, improvises and crosses domains with such unflinching zeal that she has managed to do away with all restrictions on her creative output.
Influenced by her teachers Anthony de Mare and Morton Feldman’s disciple Nils Vigeland, Sonsoles moved to Amsterdam after earning her master’s degree in New York to specialize in the interpretation of contemporary music as a soloist and also as a member of various ensembles.
It has been said of her, “ The highest point of the evening was Luigi Nono’s ‘Sofferte onde Serene’, played formidably by pianist Sonsoles Alonso… ….Alonso brought forth thunder from the most deep and profound caverns of the piano.”
Sonsoles holds degrees in Classical Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid (BM) and the Manhattan School of Music (MM) in New York. She also studied privately with Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg (Germany) and with Philip Kawin in New York. At the Conservatory of Amsterdam she studied ‘Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques’ focusing on rhythmic complexity.
Her popular lectures and masterclasses on the subjects of contemporary music, live electronics and graphic score composition have brought her to universities and conservatories all around Europe including the HKU in The Netherlands and the Lüneburg University in Germany.
GALLERY
