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Percussion The Hague

'Blind' for non-existent soloist and ensemble - Asko|Schönberg, Slagwerk Den Haag & Jameszoo - Premiere 4 Oct, tour until 9 Nov

by one of our members
5 July 20235 July 2023
1 min read
MUSIC, PRESS

Jameszoo wanted to disappear from his music. That failed completely, he tells himself. But what a glorious failure. He developed an instrument that is not only self-playing, but also improvises and communicates with musicians playing live. They let the non-existent soloist challenge them to unpredictable musical playing. Electroacoustic wrestling Asko|Schönberg and Slagwerk Den Haag enter into a collaboration ...

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Who said modern music was humourless and cerebral again? American Kelley Sheehan wins in Music Week full of humour and reflection

by Thea Derks
10 September 2019
6 min read
MUSIC, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

For a moment, the envelope seems unopenable but then Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven conjures up the redeeming paper after all. 'The winner of the 2019 Gaudeamus Award is Kelley Sheehan!' The little American almost falls off her stool in amazement. Probably not entirely by chance, the new music organisation has positioned her right in the middle of her four fellow candidates. - She herself would...

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Kate Moore wins Matthijs Vermeulen prize - as first woman ever

by Thea Derks
1 December 201730 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

On Saturday 2 December, Australian-Dutch composer Kate Moore (b 1979) will receive the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for her composition The Dam. The prize money is €20,000, made available by the Performing Arts Fund. The prize was established in 1972 and named after the Dutch composer and critic Matthijs Vermeulen (1888-1967). Until now, it invariably went to men, some even getting it two...

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Dobrinka Tabakova writes double concerto for Lucas and Arthur Jussen: 'It shimmers with energy'

by Thea Derks
9 November 20179 November 2017
6 min read
MUSIC, PODIUM ART

The AVROTROS Friday Concert cherishes mainstream masterpieces as well as less heard and new repertoire. In the 2017-18 season, no fewer than five (world) premieres are on the programme, three of them composed by a woman. - Come and see that among the national orchestras. Friday 17 November will hear the brand new double concert Together Remember to Dance by British/Bulgarian Dobrinka Tabakova. She composed it on...

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Adventure in The Hague: 5 reasons to go to Rewire (sultry madness is 1 of them)

by Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg
25 March 201730 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Rewire is once again just around the corner. From 31 March to 2 April, the festival takes place in the city centre of The Hague. The young festival does so with a choice of colours and flavours, (just) outside the mainstream. So: where adventure and the great unknown are actually perks - diametrically opposed to Guus Meeuwis on the main stage....

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Sounding moths, ink drops and string mists in Cello Biennale

by Thea Derks
28 October 201620 February 2017
6 min read
Cello Biennale, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

'He likes a joke,' says Fedor Teunisse of Slagwerk Den Haag, calling composer Brendan Faegre (1985) onto the Bimhuis stage. The young composer explains how the percussionists and the Biennale Cello Band should perform his Magical Quest for the Enchanted Armor. 'It's a game piece,' he says enthusiastically. 'The four percussionists and four cellists...

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Cello Biennale opens spectacularly: Maarten Mostert likes to go big

by Wenneke Savenije
22 October 201620 February 2017
7 min read
Cello Biennale, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

The Cello Biennale Amsterdam, the world's largest cello festival taking place from 20 to 29 October in Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, has begun and it is already taking a battering. For ten days, 27 international cello soloists, 6 orchestras, 11 ensembles, 1 choir and many musicians from 26 countries will give over 800 performances. From morning...

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Alexander Khubeev wins Gaudeamus Award 2015

by Thea Derks
14 September 201523 August 2018
4 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

This year, too, the Gaudeamus Award went to an Eastern European. In 2014, Ukrainian Anna Korsun won the coveted competition for composers under 30; this year, the €5,000 prize goes to Russian composer Alexander Khubeev* (1986, Perm). This was announced on Sunday 13 September in TivoliVredenburg by Henk Heuvelmans, for many years the driving force behind...

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Four reasons to go to Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun

by Thea Derks
30 October 20147 October 2020
5 min read
DANS, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

After the world premiere of Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun by Seung-Won Oh yesterday at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, the audience stood up as one to applaud Slagwerk Den Haag and the soloists. It was therefore a magical performance, which will be repeated at De Doelen in Rotterdam and at Theater aan de...

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Ironing or hitting

by Thea Derks
2 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

It will be difficult to choose how we will musically fill our next weekend: will we stay in Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Marimba Weekend, or do we travel to The Hague, where Day in the Branding is devoted entirely to the string quartet? In short: are we going to string or strike? Those unable to choose can visit later this month at Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Slagwerk Den Haag - they just both do it!

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Crushingly good: Nine Rivers by composer James Dillon, with conductor and percussionist Steven Schick @HollandFestival

by Fransien van der Putt
9 June 201330 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

From the mild, everyday cacophony around the Muziekgebouw in the afternoon, on the terrace by the IJ, you'll get into the silence of the concert hall in a few steps. For three and a half hours (with over two hours of breaks in between), Asko|Schönberg, Slagwerk Den Haag and Capella Amsterdam will play and sing your ears off. Steven Schick (a.o. once Bang on a Can), not only conducts, but also takes charge of the middle part of the concert, at the Bimhuis, as a percussionist. Under his inspired direction, 'Nine Rivers' navigates between spectacle and purism: a battle between complex form and the simplicity of raw sound matter.

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Successful Holland Festival closes record edition amid uncertainty over future

by one of our members
26 June 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Photo: Pierre Nydegger To conclude. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we were able to meet with...

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#HF11: We chat with Jeroen Stout, Daniël Bertina, Fransien vd Putt and Wijbrand Schaap.

by one of our members
25 June 201113 February 2019
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

In conclusion. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we had a great time with our new...

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