Seth Parker Woods is one of the most versatile artists currently on the scene, and in that capacity the perfect addition to the DAS HAUS line-up; he has mastered different musical genres and time periods and often searches for cross pollination with multimedia, technology and other art forms. He welcomes influences from Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's dance movements and the use of color in Jean-Michel Basquiat's work. He is also one of the leading voices on identity politics within the classical music scene and was one of the founding members in the Chineke! Orchestra, the British orchestra that almost solely consists of musicians of color.

He's performed with our very own Belgian Ictus Ensemble (which we hosted last season!) but also shared the stage with Basel Sinfonietta, Atlanta Symphony and Seattle Symphony. He's collaborated with artists and composers like Louis Andriessen, G. F. Haas, Helmut Lachenmann, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Lou Reed and Dame Shirley Bassey.

Parker Woods takes with him a varied and deeply personal programme, titled ‘This Be Their Verse’, with music by contemporary composers like Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Nathalie Joachim, Monty Adkins, Chinary Ung and Devonté Hynes, the British producer better known as Blood Orange. The different parts of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 weave everything together. This suite has a symbolic significance in Parker Woods' life and makes this programme feel like an autobiographical chronicle. But above all, this evening will be a societal please for freedom, identity and humanity.