JMSN and Thelonious Stokes come together in a program spanning live music, video and performance. Centered on unrestrained catharsis and raw conviction, each artist positions themself as both subject and protagonist.

Join us for a rare opportunity to experience these two visionary auteurs probe how identity is reimagined inside a reformed crematorium chapel, a sacred space of transition.

In this first collaboration between Pierre Boulez Saal and TRAUMA, pianist Kunal Lahiry approaches the classical canon not as a monument, but as a structure to be dismantled. Moving from the relentless, rigid climb of Ligeti’s The Devils Staircase to the expansive liberation in the fugue from Beethoven’s penultimate sonata, the repertoire becomes a roadmap for finding tenderness in an increasingly hardened world.