Reimagine a legendary piece of music with Laura Bowler’s electrifying take on Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.

Doors 7:00pm
Show 7:30pm
Tickets: see below
19+/No Minors

Co-commissioned by Red Note Ensemble, Music on Main, and Ensemble Offspring, Deconstructing Pierrot is a bold response to Arnold Schoenberg’s celebrated Pierrot Lunaire, widely regarded as a masterpiece of musical Expressionism. In this new work, composer-vocalist-provocatrice Laura Bowler takes Albert Giraud’s original poems and Schoenberg’s music and turns them inside out in an act of creative rebellion.

Premiered at Scotland’s sound festival in 2024, Bowler’s reimagining keeps what she loves and reshapes what she resists. The result is a deeply personal exploration of the artist’s tragic vulnerability: the longing to please, to be heard, and to be seen.

Western Canada’s foremost new music chamber ensemble, Standing Wave, brings Bowler’s vision to life with electrifying precision. The familiar fragments of Pierrot Lunaire remain, but transformed into something vivid, subversive, and that unmistakably belongs to Bowler.

Photo by: Ricordi Harald Hoffmann