Grant: RTF 077
Detail: Love in the Meantime, for organ and voice, composed and performed by Amarante Nat, has been co-commissioned by RTF with the Hamel Foundation.
The work explores the vulnerable relationship between time and love, drawing on fragments from the English poet W. H. Auden’s poem As I Walked Out One Evening (1940), and will premiere at Orgelpark, Amsterdam on 4 June 2026.
Amarante Nat is an Amsterdam-based composer and vocalist whose work explores sound and timbre through delicate instrumentation, with a particular sensitivity to harmony as a sonic phenomenon and to the relationship between form, space and movement. She describes herself as “feeling comfortable in the poetry of spaces” and as “listening through movement”, which captures something essential about her practice: music for her is not only sonic, but bodily, spatial, choreographic and theatrical.
Alongside her composition studies with Yannis Kyriakides and Martijn Padding at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and earlier with Willem Jeths and Wim Henderickx at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, she trained as a singer with the contralto Noa Frenkel. Voice therefore plays a central role in her work, and is often the point of departure for her compositional process: from the connection to voice, breath and body, she derives gesture, pacing, duration and sonic character. Her work focuses mainly on acoustic instruments, especially organ, brass, string quartet, orchestra and voice.
Photo: Amarante Nat (c) Boris Peters