HAPPY WORKERS DAY to all the hardworking women and men out there! We celebrate it with our new videoclip ‘Workers Union’, a contemporary classic written by Louis Andriessen in 1975. Performed in an instrumentation for contrabass recorder, contrabass panflute, viola, accordion and percussion. Full performance of the piece during the opening concert of the PRIX Annelie de Man on 22 May 2018 in Amsterdam. Put your headphones to hear great bass flutes sounds! Special thanks to Donemus Publishing.

Black Pencil: Sit Fast Tarih: 21 Şubat 2020 Mekan: Borusan Müzik Evi Video: Özge Balkan

World premiere, November Music Festival, 10 November 2018. Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, Den Bosch (The Netherlands) Peter Vigh - composition, libretto Ensemble BLACK PENCIL Jorge Isaac - recorder Matthijs Koene – pan pipes Esra Pehlivanli - viola Marko Kassl - accordion Enric Monfort - percussion Netherlands Female Youth Choir Wilma ten Wolde – choir conductor Irene Verburg - vocal coach Gregory Charette - conductor Pim van Lommel - speaker (special guest) Video Recording: Kees Jongboom Moving Media Audio: NTR 0:00 Unpronounceable 04:55 emptiness-rest 09:09 retirement 15:12 Tunnel 20:00 Light 1 being of light 22:02 Infinite / non-worldly 19:55 Light 1 being of light 22:06 Fear 25:50 Light 1 being of light 34:43 Time 36:50 Reminder What kind of world is hidden behind death? Everyone has secretly thought about an afterlife. The fascination for near-death experiences is not unknown to anyone. In Totaliter Aliter Ensemble Black Pencil and the National Women's Youth Choir make a return trip to the afterlife. The music by the Dutch composer Peter Vigh was specially written for this project. Totaliter Aliter, is Latin for ‘Totally Different’. A medieval term that a monk passed on in a dream after he had seen the universe after death. ‘Totaliter Aliter. It is completely different than we imagine. " Visions of the afterlife, like those of Hildegard von Bingen, are centuries old. Just like near-death experiences which are still often experienced today. The renown Cardiologist Pim van Lommel took the near-death experiences seriously and collected numerous cases to provide insight into this mysterious fact. His book ‘Consciousness Beyond Life’ has become a bestseller and his research published in The Lancet has been picked up worldwide. Peter Vigh got inspired byt the work of Pim van Lommel. In the combination of the mysterious, colourful line-up of the Black Pencil ensemble (recorder / panflute / viola / accordion / percussion) and the young voices of the National Women's Youth Choir, he saw the ideal sound world to lift the veil of the afterlife. https://www.blackpencil.org

Recorder virtuoso Jorge Isaac (Contrabass Recorder) & Enric Monfort (Cajón), members of the ensemble BLACK PENCIL, performing an own arrangement of 'Hari-Hara Sutha' by the Indian percussionist B.C.Manjunath. Jorge Isaac is Recorder Professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory and artistic director of the Catalogue of Recorder Repertory. He has given a large number of performances and masterclasses over the globe. Enric Monfort focus on crossovers between classical, contemporary and non-western music scenes. He has collaborated with the main European ensembles and orchestras. This work, originally intended for a percussion group, has been arranged for the project 'Pulso Llanero' of the ensemble BLACK PENCIL. Production: Visisonor Foundation www.visisonor.org

Roderik de Man's "Fuerza Interior". Written for Black Pencil (2011) Live @ Borusan Music House, Istanbul. February 2020. Ensemble BLACK PENCIL Jorge Isaac - recorder Matthijs Koene – pan pipes Esra Pehlivanli - viola Marko Kassl - accordion Enric Monfort - percussion www.BlackPencil.org Video Recording: Özge Balkan Photography & Video Production Audio: Borusan Music House

BLACK PENCIL plays "Can You Find the Unmoving?" by Gabriel Malancioiu*. Live recording at Goede Rede Concerten, Almere - 25 September 2020. * World premiere

1st of May We would like to share with you an iconic work from Louis Andriessen. Last minutes of WORKERS UNION live at Borusan Music House, Istanbul.February 2020.

Please enjoy this short video of Martijn Padding talking about his composition and some performing moments from us. "Baldwine Close ups" was composed for Black Pencil in 2018 and commissioned by the Fonds Podiumkunsten. Live recording at Borusan Müzik Evi, 21 February 2020, Istanbul.