Violinist and vocalist Diamanda La Berge Dramm will grace the stage with a sonic journey that will take you by surprise. She interweaves Bach, Cage, and Glass effortlessly with her own stories and songs and continuously seeks to unfold her violin, both in sound and conceptually.
Diamanda La Berge Dramm grew up in a musical family in Amsterdam and has been playing the violin since she was four years old. From a young age, she was always around key players within the classical music and avant-garde and improv scene. When she was thirteen, she premiered Louis Andriessen's solo piece 'Raadsels' during the Holland Festival 2005 at het Concertgebouw. Dramm studied in The Hague, Boston and Amsterdam. Upon graduation, she received the John Cage award for her achievements in contemporary music. In 2018 she was awarded the Dutch Classical Talent Award, and in 2019 the Deutschlandfunk Förderungspreis. In the meantime, she's become an internationally renowned soloist, chamber musician and band member. Dramm has worked with musical innovators like Alvin Lucier, Garth Knox and Georg Friedrich Haas. Her own work is often interdisciplinary and stems from longterm collaboration, as is the case with poet SJ Fowler and fashion brand Maison the Faux. Dramm also co-founded Splendor Amsterdam.