7 August 2024 - The Gaudeamus Festival this week announced its full programming. The festival, which takes place from 4 to 8 September at numerous locations in Utrecht, includes more than 45 concerts, interdisciplinary performances, the Gaudeamus Award, workshops, lectures and a seminar.
Festival highlights
- Opening night: Performance of 'The State' by Louis Andriessen by Asko|Schönberg and Ensemble Klang
- ONCEIM & Christian Marclay: Performance of the French orchestra
- ZUAM: Presentation of Futuristic Foundation
- Nonclassical: Programme in association with London label
New announcements
Hashtag Ensemble - Second:ary
The Polish Hashtag Ensemble is developing some brand new pieces in collaboration with volunteers and residents of Utrecht's AZC. During workshops, stories, smartphone photos and audio clips are collected, which the ensemble uses as graphic scores. The performance will take place at Stadsklooster Utrecht during Utrecht's freely accessible UITfeest.
Concepción Huerta and Aimée Theriot
This sound artist and cellist present new work composed during a residency at Willem Twee Studios in Den Bosch. They explore the field of tension between analogue and digital music, ambient and noise, live electronics and tape recorders.
Kate Moore - A Beautiful Path
Composer Moore presents work-in-progress from her unique project in which she is developing a new music cycle while walking from the east of the Netherlands to the west of Ireland. Utrecht will feature 'Ox Song Part 1'.
Jlin
Influential US electronic musician Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton), together with artist Florence To, will perform an audiovisual show featuring work from her latest album 'Akoma'.
Maya Fridman
Cellist Maya Friedman, former artist in residence at Gaudeamus, together with former world freestyle BMX champion Sietse van Berkel, presents the programme 'Cellos x BMX' on TivoliVredenburg's KF Hein square. Watch the video.
Other highlights
- XTRO and Pelargos Quartet play 'Dis/re]-connecting' by Charles Baumstark
- But What About presents new works with finalists of the 2024 Composition Competition of the Princess Christina Competition
NIME conference
Simultaneously with the festival, the NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) conference will take place from 2 to 6 September. More than 250 experts in the field of musical instrument construction and development will come to Utrecht. Some NIME events are part of the Gaudeamus Festival.
Dutch producer BINKBEATS (Frank Wienk) is involved in both the NIME conference and the Gaudeamus Festival, with an installation in the former Pieter Baan Centre and his performance 'OHM' on the closing day.
For more information on NIME-related events during the Gaudeamus Festival, visit https://gaudeamus.nl/?s=nime and www.nime2024.org.
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