Tcha limburger biography sample

Text: Mischa Andriessen
Photos: Eric van Nieuwland

A long sustained note on the violin, gradually accompanied by the soft polyphonous vocals of tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.

Then the harmony is abruptly and irrevocably broken by the unusually intense shriek of a man. His cry lasts no longer than ten seconds, but the mental echo, the reverberation of this shout from the depths of the heart, stays with the listener for quite some time, maybe even a lifetime.

The first minute of Sfogava Con Le Stelle, the piece that opens the breathtaking project I Silenti, is one of the most moving in music.

That’s down to the class of composer Fabrizio Cassol, who created the masterpiece based on the madigrals of Claudio Monteverdi. And to the virtuosity of the Bruges-born multi-instrumentalist and singer Tcha Limberger, who in the few seconds described above tells a sweeping story that, in those brief moments, opens