Asko|Schönberg opens season with full programme at home and abroad

Concerts and performances September 2023

Opening Gaudeamus Festival 2023 - September 6

This evening, Asko|Schönberg's programme is dedicated to transverse minds, composers who know how to break free from conventions and expectations. They play with our perception of time, challenge us to embrace microtonal intervals and integrate non-musical sounds into their dramaturgy. Music will be heard from nominees for the 2023 Gaudeamus Award Saad Haddad and Uri Kochavi, and from jury members Chaya Czernowin and Dutchman Jan van de Putte.
NB Asko|Schönberg's concert is part of a full-length opening programme.
Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg Opening Gaudeamus Festival 2023 - Asko Schönberg (askoschoenberg.nl)

Free radicals - September 14

Again, idiosyncratic creators take centre stage. In addition to works by Chaya Czernowin, Saad Haddad and the Jan van de Putte, who can also be heard at Gaudeamus, compositions by twentieth-century rebels Ives and Xenakis will be heard. Excitement guaranteed!
Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Free radicals - Asko Schoenberg (askoschoenberg.co.uk)

Yara's Wedding - 14 to 16 September

Selected by the Dutch Theatre Jury, special revival in Dutch Theatre Festival.

The (almost) musical Yara's Wedding is a production by NITE, Schauspiel Hannover, Asko|Schönberg and Slagwerk Den Haag, directed by Guy Weizman. The theme of the performance is the complex relationship between the 'East' and the 'West', framing the other based on origin, colour, orientation and social status. No confrontation is avoided in this very musical and lively performance with 15 actors, dancers, singers and musicians from different backgrounds and nationalities.
Amsterdam, ITA Yara's Wedding - Asko Schoenberg (askoschoenberg.nl)

Musica festival Strasbourg - 15 and 16 September

Asko|Schönberg opens 41 on 15 September^e edition of Musica, the festival in Strasbourg. The ensemble is joined by Clipping, hip-hop sensation from the US, in the opening programme including the rousing Hoketus By Louis Andriessen.
A morning recital will follow on 16 September, featuring music by composers with an eye for folk music and swing, such as Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky and Louis Andriessen.
Strasbourg Opening concert Musica, Festival Strasbourg - Asko Schönberg (askoschoenberg.nl)

Cage &Beyond - September 21

In the &Beyond series, we each take a composer as our starting point and look at his influence on and relationships with other composers. In this edition, John Cage is the starting point. The way composers seek and find freedom in their way of composing is central. The programme is compiled by our violinist Joseph Puglia, who presents it and takes the audience into the world of composers and their methods. Besides Cage, music by John Zorn, Pierre Boulez and Erik Satie, among others, can be heard.

Amsterdam - Muziekgebouw Cage &Beyond - Asko Schoenberg (askoschoenberg.nl)

Cambio madre - September 25

Together with Festival Ghent, Muziektheater Transparant and soloists from the Muziekkapel Koningin Elisabeth, Asko|Schönberg performs the world premiere chamber opera Cambio madre.
Rosa Montero's libretto tells in witty dialogue the story of a couple who want to get divorced and discuss this with their children for the first time. To make matters worse, the husband's mother and lawyer turn up. The latter is a family friend and as a lawyer specialises in divorce, but he turns out to be slightly closer to the mother than expected...

Ghent, Festival of Flanders Cambio madre - Asko Schoenberg (askoschoenberg.nl)