Zefiro Torna

ZEFIRO TORNA – where time breathes in sound

For thirty years, the transhistorical music ensemble ZEFIRO TORNA has been on an epic journey through time and sound. Since 1996, the ensemble has been the silent force behind a continuous metamorphosis of time and sound. What began as a search for forgotten voices from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods has grown into a mesmerising interplay between past and future – a musical alchemy in which tradition and innovation merge into something that is not easily defined.

Unbound by stylistic boundaries or linear time, the ensemble makes unusual connections – between music and literature, science and mysticism, visual art and movement. This cross-pollination gives rise to performances that are not merely concerts, but rituals: haunting, layered and symbolically charged.

ZEFIRO TORNA works with virtuoso musicians from all over Europe and resonates with artists and thinkers who dare to break with the familiar: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ghalia Benali, Mauro Pawlowski, Sigrid T'Hooft and companies such as Abattoir Fermé, LAIKA, LOD music theatre and Muziektheater Transparant, among others.

Their creations resonate in sacred and secular spaces: from the understated splendour of Concertgebouw Brugge to the cosmopolitan energy of festivals such as MA Festival, Laus Polyphoniae, Klarafestival, Greenwich + Docklands International Festival and O. Festival Rotterdam.

Award-winning and released on labels such as Et’Cetera, Warner Classics, Homerecords and Antarctica Records, their oeuvre continues to expand – like an invisible stream that constantly branches out, condenses and evaporates.

ZEFIRO TORNA is not an answer, but an invitation to listen. To what was, what is – and what is yet to be revealed.