Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe (b. 1995) is a contra tenor, performer and director of operatic and visual productions. He interweaves elements from opera with pop, electronics, ballet and performance, and sees theatre as an echo chamber in which old and new forms exist interchangeably. “I'm conducting a conversation between the past and the present, rather than coming here to burn the place down.” Benjamin is not interested in presenting a clash of styles, but in ‘connecting’: his work builds bridges between genres, art movements, artists and audiences.
Benjamin’s work surprises with radical scenographies and highly diverse casts. He entices dancers to sing and singers to dance – thus questioning notions like musical perfection and virtuosity in one fell swoop. All of this results in deeply sensitive, overwhelming shows with the power of rituals that resonate with today's world.
Composer and producer Valgeir Sigurdsson is known for his immersive sound world, often blurring the boundaries between contemporary classical music and electronic production. An explorer of implicit sound, he composes for film, visual media and stage. He is also active as a composer of concert works and opera, and as a performing musician.
Recent film work includes Grímur Hákonarson's The County, and An Acceptable Loss, a political thriller by Joe Chappell starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tika Sumpter.
At Greenhouse Recording Studios, Reykjavík, which he founded in 1997, Valgeir has worked extensively as a producer, engineer and/or arranger with artists from all over the world, including Björk, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Feist, Tim Hecker, Anohni, CocoRosie, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Víkingur Ólafsson and many others.
Elisabeth Klinck studied violin at Luca School of Arts Leuven, Royal Conservatoire in Brussels and University of Gotëborg. Since 2019, she has been studying 'live electronics' at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and working as a freelance (alto) violinist.
Klinck currently works mainly on her own music and creations, characterised by frugality and a sense of poetry. She also creates music for theatre performances (The Importance of beeing Flemisch, Night Swimming, Bambiraptor) and is co-founder of the contemporary music ensemble Nemø.
Klinck has already played solo sets in concert hall AB, at KRAAK Festival, at the Miry Concert Hall,... She is active in the classical, electronic as well as experimental scene, and is currently working on her solo debut.
From the 2022-2023 season, Klinck can be seen in Miet Warlop's NTGent performance ONE SONG - Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV.
The fictional figure of Isabelle Lewis was born from an encounter between composer and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson, countertenor and director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, and violinist Elisabeth Klinck. What connects them is a shared instinct: to dismantle form and rebuild it from within.
Their debut album Greetings, released in October 2024 on the Icelandic label Bedroom Community and premiered at Ancienne Belgique, introduced a distinct sonic world — one in which theatrical vocality, sculpted electronics and extended violin dissolve the borders between pop, contemporary composition and experimental sound.
Following an intense writing period in Rome in the winter of 2025, the trio returned to Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavík to develop new material. The first batch of songs will be released as an EP in May. The work deepens the language first heard on Greetings: denser in texture, darker in tone, and more uncompromising in its emotional reach.
Isabelle Lewis exists as a mutable, sensual presence with shifting identities. Through Meirhaeghe’s operatic intensity, Sigurðsson’s finely detailed production and Klinck’s fragile precision, each piece unfolds as a layered terrain of tension and stillness, where melancholy and pulse coexist.
On stage, Isabelle Lewis becomes a charged ritual. Structure loosens. Precision meets volatility. The performance moves between concert, theatre and installation, drawing the audience into a space where categories collapse and something unfamiliar takes shape.
From spring 2026 onward, Isabelle Lewis returns to the stage with this new chapter.
A one-of-a-kind combination of electronic and contemporary classical music
The project is a co-production with B-Classic, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Nordlysfestivalen and C-mine.
This production was realized with the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian federal government, Gallop Tax shelter and Het Nieuwstedelijk.
