Tom Yang (voice) and Alain Roudier (piano) are performing Franz Schubert’s Le Voyage d’Hiver (Die Winterreise) in the upcoming concert presented by the association Le Temps Rentrouvé as part of the concert series in Villenueve Lez Avignon, France, on August 30, 2026.
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Nicolas Deletaille: chamber music concert series
The Belgian virtuoso cellist Nicolas Deletaille enjoyed a residency at Wassard Elea most recently in 2023, and had previously had a residency and touring concert series together with pianist Alain Roudier and composer René Mogensen in the Cilento, Southern Italy during 2010. Nicolas Deletaille is an active performer, engaged in concert-touring around the world. SinceContinue reading “Nicolas Deletaille: chamber music concert series”
Featured guests: Esther Lamneck and Mara Helmuth
Musician Esther Lamneck (clarinet and tárogató) and Composer Mara Helmuth enjoyed a collaborative residency at Wassard Elea in the Spring of 2025, in the two apartments The Philosopher and The Poet. Here they worked on a new music project. One work resulting from this residency was Wind Blown Rain for computer and tárogató. The videoContinue reading “Featured guests: Esther Lamneck and Mara Helmuth”
Featured Guest: Prof. Thomas Kiørboe
Professor Thomas Kiørboe (Dr. Scient), of DTU (Technical University of Denmark), enjoyed a residency in ‘The Philosopher’ during the Spring of 2025 and here he worked on the research article ‘Diatoms–copepods: An evolutionary arms race’ now published and available at https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70355. Professor Kiørboe is the author of about 270 peer reviewed journal articles and 2Continue reading “Featured Guest: Prof. Thomas Kiørboe”
Featured Guest: Owen Gray, visual artist
My paintings are a slow journey into the what’s known yet unclear in our inner worlds. Just like a dream, all the elements can never fully be realized, yet with time, new discoveries are illuminated.
Owen Gray
Featured Guest: Jane Goldberg, Changing Times Tap Dance Company inc.
The distinguished tap-dancer and tap-dance historian Jane Goldberg has had several residencies at Wassard Elea, together with partner Owen Gray (see separate blog entry), most recently in the Autumn of 2025. As artistic director of Changing Times Tap Dance Company Inc., a non-profit preservation, promotion, and performing entity, begun in 1979, Goldberg began teaching atContinue reading “Featured Guest: Jane Goldberg, Changing Times Tap Dance Company inc.”
Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist
“A village is a work of survival, of crumbling and repaired corridors, curling up hills for protection, for worship, community, for beauty and time to remember its story. Places built for protection are beautiful. Beauty is a kind of camouflage.” Jerilyn Jurinek What, René, did I get out of staying in Wassard Elea’s apartment inContinue reading “Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist”
Featured guest: Prof. Mads Nygaard Folkmann, scholar
Featured Wassard Elea guest: Prof. Mads Nygaard Folkmann is Professor of Design Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.
Featured Guest: Jaana Lönnroos, visual artist
Visual artist Jaana Lönnroos was resident at Wassard Elea during 2022, and we are delighted to share some images of work she produced while there. These artworks were part of an exhibition at Galeria Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland.
Featured guest: Anna Jacobina Jacobsen, illustrator
We were delighted to host Anna Jacobina Jacobsen from Denmark for the month of September, 2022. She came to Ascea to work on ideas for a new picture book.