Vivaldi Metal Project's album "The Four Seasons" is released!

Dear fans!

22nd of July 2016 is another extremely important day for our orchestra Sinfonietta Consonus. We would like to proudly announce the official premiere of Vivaldi Metal Project „The Four Seasons” CD.

 What is this all about?

Whole story started in 2013, when head of the project - Mistheria, started to think about making a metal version of “The Four Seasons”. After two years of hard work, this unique idea became reality. Together with Italian bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni (solo artist, TwinSpirits, Kim Bingham, The Italians, BADASS), they gathered a group of over 130 musicians from all over the world and recorded a symphonic-metal opra based on Antonio Vivaldi’s Baroque masterwork “The Four Seasons”. What is more, Mistheria made an innovative choice, something that have never been done before – he decided to add to classic masterpiece lyrics and singers.  Isn’t this impressive?  

Nearly 6 months ago we entered the Radio Gdańsk studio to record symphonic parts arranged by Michał Mierzejewski and along with that we became a part of this amazing experience. It was another opportunity to work with our great collaborators – conductor Szymon Morus and sound engineer Jakub Mańkowski. It was not only great fun but also great honor, as VMP is one of the biggest music projects in history.

The album is a full 74 minutes of intense, passionate, fascinating, powerful and majestic experience!

We hope you’ll enjoy it, as we do!

The full album is FROM NOW available on iTunes! 

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/the-four-seasons/id1117818690

Full information about project 

New management of the Sinfonietta Consonus Orchestra and the Symphonic Theater of Dreams project

On October 25^th, 2015, Joanna Kożuch started close cooperation with Michał Mierzejewski, thus becoming co-manager of the Symphonic Theater of Dreams project, the Sinfonietta Consonus orchestra as well as career manager of the composer and arranger Michał Mierzejewski.

Joanna Kożuch is a fifth-year student of Management (specialty : project management) at the University of Economics in Wrocław and a fourth-year student of Journalism and Communication (specialization: creative writing ) at the University of Wrocław. She is also a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Music Managers .

Michał Mierzejewski about his decision:

"For over a year I managed both my own career as well as the career of our orchestra.  At the same time I worked on music, created  scores and coordinated very demanding projects.

I was also looking for a perfect person to help me/help us put some new energy into our actions, advance all the ideas we share and take over most of my duties.

It was hard for me to trust anyone in this matter but Joanna was the only one who convinced me. I know she is the ideal person who can provide us with comfort and allow us to work on what we love most. Thanks to her work our project will develop even more effectively and efficiently. After a few weeks of cooperation and preparation for the next two projects I became aware that the choice was perfect."

Joanna Kożuch on her joining SC and SToD:

"This is a serious situation. I treat it both as an opportunity and a pleasure. This is one of a few jobs in which by creating a new value you get enriched with that new value. I have always loved  to surround myself with people and music. Now, inevitably, it will be something natural and necessary.

Some accuse me of being an idealist. However, I really believe that saying  "everything is possible" is actually realistic ."

Contact form will appear on official websites very soon.

Joanna Kożuch, photo by Bartosz Kołaczkowski

Official statement on the search for a new management of the Symphonic Theater of Dreams project

Official statement on the search for a new management of the Symphonic Theater of Dreams project

In relation to the statement released on 18th February 2015 which can be found Here , first of all we would like to thank Ms Wioletta Jedynak for the last years of cooperation. It is thanks to her that we are where we are now. We wish her great success and fulfilment in the music industry. 

At the same time we would like to announce that the Symphonic Theater of Dreams project and Sinfonietta Consonus Orchestra are looking for a manager who could take care of our group of talented musicians and artists.

The SToD project and SC orchestra are best known for the projects such as "A Symphonic Tribute to Dream Theater", "A Symphonic Tribute to HAKEN”  and Jordan Rudess’s “Explorations for Keyboard & Orchestra”.

SToD and SCO can offer a wide range of services. For example:

- recording sessions (also with other artists)

- concerts (as well as performances with other artists)

- support for events

and many other services performed by various line-ups (soloists, a string quartet or a huge symphonic orchestra with a choir).

All the people interested should submit their applications (including a biography and references) to the e-mail stodproject@gmail.com. If you have any questions, please send us a message to the same e-mail address. 

Please write "Manager of SToD" as the subject of the e-mail.

Best regards,

Michał Mierzejewski

Symphonic Theater of Dreams originator and arranger

Director of Sinfonietta Consonus Orchestra 

Results - Your votes for Symphonic Tribute to HAKEN

Official Poll is closed! Here are results. From your votes, from our crew`s votes and Haken`s votes, we'll pick a tracklist for full  Symphonic Tribute to HAKEN album. (We will enter to studio propably in the next year).
Thank you for support!

Our single is released. You can order "PREMONITION" here:
Physical version (digital version coming soon!)
Official Trailer




1600 Votes

Aquarius

The Point Of No Return	516
Streams	491
Aquarium	472
Eternal Rain	178
Drowning In The Flood	287
Sun	133
Celestial Elixir	1123

Visions

Nocturnal Conspiracy	610
Insomnia	278
The Mind's Eye	205
Portals	329
Shapeshifter	236
Deathless	284
Visions	1158

The Mountain

Atlas Stone	534
Cockroach King	639
In Memoriam	223
Because It's There	249
Falling Back to Earth	738
As Death Embraces	80
Pareidolia	577
Somebody	268

Official statement - recording session for two projects in June [SToD project, Sinfonietta Consonus orchestra]

Szymon Morus & Michał Mierzejewski
photo by Oskar Szramka

Sinfonietta Consonus orchestra will enter the studio 30th June 2014. Orchestra will record two singles:
 
- Symphonic tribute to HAKEN (arr. by Michał Mierzejewski)
 
- Composition written by Michał Mierzejewski for his upcoming album.


  First rehearsal is planned for 28th June 2014. The orchestra will be conducted by Szymon Morus. We've started work with this amazing talent during recording sessions for Explorations by Jordan Rudess.

Musicians we'll be recorded by Kuba Mańkowski and Jan Galbas at Radio Gdańsk studio.

photo by Bartosz Jeromin

photo by Oskar Szramka

Upcoming plans - Official statement (20.05.2014)

Dear Fans, we're sorry because we're not updating information about our work last weeks, but be sure that we're working very intensiviely on many great ideas and projects. Here are some of them. 

Symphonic Theater of Dreams/Sinfonietta Consonus plans: 

[Symphonic tribute to Dream Theater]

- Planning Symphonic Theater of Dreams Tour in 2015

- Release of Symphonic Theater of DEMOS CD in 2014

- Planning schedule and budget for symphonic tribute to Dream Theater CD #2 2014/2015/2016

- Writing sessions for tour and upcoming second album in 2014/2015

Arranging/Composing/Orchestrating/Recording Session 

[Symphonic tribute to HAKEN]

- Work on Symphonic Tribute to HAKEN single and EP 2014/2015

Arranging/Composing/Orchestrating/Recording Session

[????]

- We are preparing a very "big thing". We can't share more information right now. At this moment we're waiting for official logo and "intro website". 2014

[Michał Mierzejewski`s CD]

- Michał decided to record his own CD (2014/2015). It will be orchestral project with "progressive rock" instruments with additional electronics. It will be very minimalistic and very cinematic. We'll invite some special guests.We will try to record single during recording session of "Symphonic Tribute to Haken".

[Guesting on other bands albums/concerts]

- We're receiving more and more propositions from many bands, artists, companies. We are very proud and thankful for their trust and opinions about our work. We're very young, but very "progressive in life" group. We're still developing, and we know - it is only a beginning of our great journey. Our orchestra, crew, our composer/arranger in last 4 years were working with such great artists, groups and bands as Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy, Transatlantic, Affector, Neal Morse, Flying Colors, Wizdom Music company and many more.

- We can't share names at this moment, but if everything will be good it will be great future. Stay tuned for details.

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Dear fans and followers, We are at this step only because of you.Thank you for amazing support.

Symphonic Theater of Dreams project/Sinfonietta Consonus crew

Vote for a tracklist - Symphonic Tribute to HAKEN

Vote for a tracklist - Symphonic Tribute to HAKEN is online!

Help us and make our decision easier.

Here is -> OFFICIAL POLL <-

Please share this article and poll and inform all fans

 

Symphonic Theater of Dreams presents "Symphonic tribute to HAKEN". Upcoming EP will be arranged by Michał Mierzejewski and recorded by Sinfonietta Consonus. It is second project by Symphonic Theater of Dreams.
Please vote for your favourite tracks and help us to create a tracklist.

Explorations by Jordan Rudess released

We are really excited to announce that very amazing and innovative orchestral project is released. Our orchestra recorded CD with one of the greatest pianist and keyboardist - Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater band.
The story of this project is truly amazing. Preparations has started many, many months ago. We were rehearsing very intensive, orchestra entered to studio for one full month in October. We have spent amazing time in Radio Gdańsk.
Jordan Rudess visited us for 10 days and it was amazing time and incredible experience of our lifes.




Here is official statement by Jordan Rudess:
The story begins back in the 1970s at the Juilliard School of Music, where I first began my musical explorations. I once had the opportunity at Juilliard to watch Pierre Boulez conduct Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”. Passion burst out of each note of the piece, and the intense power of the full orchestral sound made an astronomical impact on me. Fast forward to the present…
In early 2010, my dear friend, the Venezuelan impresario, Emanuel Abramovits, invited me to play a few solo concerts. Emanuel was interested in my classical music background and promised me that, if I wrote an orchestral piece, he would find an orchestra to premier it. In a serendipitous twist of fate, days after I received Emanuel’s invitation, I heard a recording of a student orchestra in Turkey performing versions of Dream Theater songs. Eren Başbuğ, who at that point was only 18 years old, had single-handedly orchestrated and organized that impressive project. The stars had aligned, and through the magic of YouTube, I had found my orchestrator. Eren and I worked closely (thanks to Skype) as I worked on my composition, and by October, 2010, Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra premiered to a sold out crowd at Centro Cultural Corp Banca in Caracas, Venezuela with me at the keyboards and Eren conducting.
Challenges arose when it became time to find a method of recording this piece with a professional orchestra – a process that is costly and complicated. I decided to hold a crowdfunding campaign in order to raise what I would need to pay for the project, and I was amazed when, a few months later, my goal had been reached. At this point, an even larger obstacle emerged: how to find an orchestra that could handle this score. The music is both rhythmically and technically complex and its progressive sections would be especially challenging for traditionally trained classical musicians. Yet, again, the magic of the Internet connected me to Michał Mierzejewski and Sinfonietta Consonus in Poland. They had just released “Symphonic Theater of Dreams”, an album of orchestral versions of Dream Theater music. By their impressive grasp of DT music, I was confident that they would be able to conquer Explorations, and so it was decided that the orchestra would rehearse and record for several months in Gdansk, Poland while I lay my piano tracks down in New York, and then, in November, I would fly to Gdansk to put down some of my additional keyboard and iPad parts and work with the team in person.
I’ve sat in front of my synthesizers for years, twisting the knobs, trying to recreate the vast aural intensity of a live, acoustic orchestra. With Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra, I am finally able to hear one of my own compositions brought to life by that unmistakable sound. In writing this composition, I was able to bring together the elements of the most influential classical music I’ve experienced, along with the rock power and intensity that I am known for in my work with Dream Theater. Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra is a total “progressive” music experience. “Progressive” in that it is a forward thinking composition fusing my classical and progressive/metal sensibilities, but progressive also in showcasing new music technology.Thanks for listening,
Jordan Rudess

You can get the CD from Amazon, CDBaby or iTunes.

Nominations Update: Vote for a tracklist - SToD #2

Soon we will announce new nomination list. It will be list number #9.
"Vote for a tracklist" section is updated. Please check it for more informations