Alondra de la Parra conducts Bartók, Enhco (world premiere), and Thum / Hamilton — With Caleb Teicher, Tom Thum, and The Impossible Orchestra
Festival Paax GNP 2025: Rhythmic Architectures
Cast
Caleb Teicher — Dancer
Tom Thum — Beatboxer
The Impossible Orchestra
Alondra de la Parra — Conductor
Program notes
The 2025 Festival Paax GNP hosts the world premiere of a work unlike any you’ve seen before: Thomas Enhco’s Concerto for Tap! This one-of-a-kind concerto, commissioned by the festival, features the dizzying talents of award-winning choreographer and dancer Caleb Teicher, a champion of interdisciplinary dance collaborations. In the same program, entitled Rhythmic Architectures, the virtuoso members of The Impossible Orchestra, led by the electrifying Alondra de la Parra, bring out all the atmosphere and character of Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. This absolute feast of innovative percussion is rounded out by the astounding beatbox skills of Tom Thum in Thum Prints, created by Thum and composer Gordon Hamilton, another illustration of the boundless creativity of music and its profound relationship with the human body.
Created by Alondra de la Parra and nestled in the paradise of the Mexican Caribbean, the Festival Paax GNP comes to medici.tv for its 2025 edition, and you can catch four live broadcast concerts all with the extraordinary Impossible Orchestra and internationally renowned soloists in symphonic favorites, contemporary classics, and thrilling world premieres, plus special features produced by medici.tv!