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M.C. Escher’s Imagination selected for International Society for Contemporary Music 2025

M.C. Escher's Imagination was composed in 2021, commissioned by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. And is now selected as one of the eight orchestral pieces for ISCM 2025.
​On June 6, it will be performed by the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lissabon.



Newspaper NRC celebrated M.C. Escher’s Imagination

NRC Annual Review choose M.C. Escher's Imagination as one of the best classical music performances of 2024, and wrote about this: 
The Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Klaus Makela started this year with, among other things, the beautiful M.C. Escher's Imagination by
Hawar Tawfiq and Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
You could imagine yourself in a dream - one from which you do not want to wake up.