{"id":98553,"date":"2025-09-18T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?p=98553"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:53:50","slug":"nieuwe-noten-amsterdam-en-het-pleintheater-presenteren-het-eerste-blad-blazers-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2025\/09\/nieuwe-noten-amsterdam-en-het-pleintheater-presenteren-het-eerste-blad-blazers-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NUTS AMSTERDAM AND SQUARE THEATRE PRESENT THE FIRST 'LEAF &amp; WIND FESTIVAL'"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><strong>The 1st Leaf &amp; Wind Festival!<br \/>Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam and the Plein Theatre\u00a0<br \/>16 &gt; 19 OCTOBER\u00a0<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam (NNA), the monthly concert series for contemporary chamber music,<\/strong> <strong>presents the 'Leaf &amp; Blazers Festival' for the first time in their six-year existence. A four-day musical event taking place from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 October 2025 at the Plein Theater in Amsterdam Oost. With a programme of established (inter-) national musicians, young talent and crossovers with visual arts and dance, curators Aspasia Nasopoulou (composer) and Fie Schouten (bass clarinetist) will give inspiring new music and compositions a stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At the caf\u00e9, the exhibition 'Electrina's' curated by composer Huba de Graaff features working sketches from the early years of electro-acoustics by Dutch female composers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\"The Plein Theatre is in the middle of an Amsterdam working-class neighbourhood. For me as a wind player (clarinetist), I thought it would be fun to put instruments from a wind band in the spotlight in our first festival. By doing so, I hope to offer a coherent and diverse programme to the people who come to listen and also inspire them to start playing a wind instrument themselves! \"\u00a0<\/em>Fie Schouten (curator)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PROGRAMME LEAF &amp; WIND FESTIVAL<\/strong> <strong>Thu 16 - Sun 19 Oct 2025 | Plein Theater Amsterdam<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:66.77454%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"98558\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2025\/09\/nieuwe-noten-amsterdam-en-het-pleintheater-presenteren-het-eerste-blad-blazers-festival-2\/6d5cb42c-a619-1c68-0bf2-26a34edb7f41\/\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ac9c0eef-c1fb-95c6-98aa-2e8f319c3353.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NNA Leaf &amp; Blazers<\/strong> <strong>Festival | <u>Young &amp; Promising<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday 16 October <\/strong>20:30 - 21:30 hrs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Line up: <\/strong>Jaime Pe\u00f1a Mart\u00ednez (clarinet &amp; composition) ism Guillermo Mart\u00edn-Viana (visual arts) | Femke van den Bergh (bass clarinet solo) | Luis Miguel Aguilar, Brennan Hamilton-Smith (bass clarinet duo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four (bass) clarinetists in this programme are at the beginning of their careers. Jaime Pe\u00f1a Mart\u00ednez comes with his programme <strong>(Not) an Answer<\/strong>, an audiovisual journey that invites you to explore spirituality, magical-religious thinking and its place in modern Western life. Meditative, profound and accessible. Femke van den Bergh's performances include <strong>People of this place <\/strong>by Australian Felicity Wilcox, an aural reflection on Sydney's multicoloured cultural heritage. Luis Miguel Aguilar and Brennan Hamilton-Smith are master jazz students of bass clarinetist Joris Roelofs (Conservatorium van Amsterdam). They will close the programme with a <strong>jazz duo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This concert is also part of the Bass Clarinet Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NNA Leaf &amp; Blazers<\/strong> <strong>Festival | <u>Flute &amp; Traverso<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, 17 October <\/strong>20:30 - 21:30 hrs<br \/><strong>Line up:<\/strong>\u00a0Anne La Berge (flute &amp; electronics), Dorota Matejov\u00e1 (traverso &amp; electronics), La Berge and Matejov\u00e1 close the concert together\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anne La Berge\u00a0<\/strong>- solo recital flute &amp; electronics, own compositions<br \/>La Berge is a founding member of the musician collective Splendor Amsterdam. Her passion for the extremes in both composed and improvised music has led her to the edges of storytelling and sound art as her musical inspirations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dorota Matejov\u00e1\u00a0<\/strong>- solo recital traverso &amp; voice &amp; audiotapes<br \/>Dorota Matejov\u00e1 specialises in the traverso (flute), which she fell in love with for its fragile, warm, human-voice-like sound. Exploring the extended sonorities of this instrument was also a subject of her acclaimed master's thesis THE LIMITS OF TRAVERSO; Exploring the Sound Possibilities of Traverso through Contemporary Music (2020).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NNA Leaf &amp; Wind Festival| <u>Composed &amp; Improvised<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday 18 October <\/strong>20:30 - 21:30 hrs<br \/><strong>Line up:<\/strong>\u00a0Ties Mellema (saxophone) ism Thomas Myrmel (sound), Annette Maye (bass clarinet) &amp; Carl-Ludwig H\u00fcbsch (tuba)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ties Mellema saxophone &amp; electronics, own compositions &amp; improvisations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ties Mellema is indisputably a virtuoso on the saxophone. He has received many awards, including the prestigious Dutch Music Prize. Like La Berge, Mellema is also a co-founder of Splendor. Thomas Myrmel is a composer who unleashes his compositional techniques not only on music but also on text, dance, film and visual media. Together with Anat Spiegel, Thomas founded the experimental rock group Controllar. He is also a co-founder of the Amsterdam-based composer collective Monotak. His expertise as a performing artist is electronic music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Annette Maye &amp; Carl-Ludwig H\u00fcbsch<\/strong>, <strong>bass clarinet + tuba<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both musicians hail from Cologne. They are both also organisers and curators respectively of a festival for creative clarinet music (Festival Multiphonics since 2013) and in a concert series at Atelier D\u00fcrrenfeld Cologne (avant-garde jazz). This duo of highly experienced and versatile musicians fits well with Ties Mellema &amp; Thomas Myrmel's set, also looking for unusual sounds on their instruments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NNA Leaf &amp; Wind Festival| <u>Orpheus Down<\/u> (Ian Wilson, NL Premiere)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday 19 October <\/strong>15:00 - 16:00 hrs<br \/><strong>Line up:<\/strong>\u00a0Dario Calderone (double bass) &amp; Gareth Davis (bass clarinet)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Dario Calderone<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the most representative double bass players of his generation. Trained as a classical performing musician, he decided early in his career to focus on new experimental techniques and the repertoire of the last 40 years.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Gareth Davis<\/strong>\u00a0studied with Antony Pay and Roger Heaton in London and then with Dutch bass clarinet virtuoso Harry Sparnaay in Amsterdam. He was invited by French cellist Alain Meunier to attend the prestigious Accademia Chigiana di Siena on scholarship to study chamber music with Yuri Bashmit, Katia Labeque, Tchaikovsky Prize winner Mario Brunello and Italian composer Luciano Berio, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both musicians, born in Italy and England respectively, are well-known players with international careers in Amsterdam's avant-garde music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>pheus Down<\/strong><br \/><em>Orpheus Down\u00a0<\/em>by Irish composer Ian Wilson was written for them and has not yet been heard in the Netherlands. The work spans 50 minutes and describes in the abstract narrative of the sounds of both instruments the story of Orpheus going into the underworld to find his beloved Eurydice again. The titles of the movements are go from\u00a0<em>The Mourning Song,\u00a0<\/em>via\u00a0<em>At the Gates, Passing Ghosts\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<em>Towards the Light\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Singing Forever<\/em>. Wilson composed more than 200 works from solo to opera that have been performed in many different countries. His compositions have been published by leading publishers Ricordi and Universal Edition.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/plein-theater.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c9383498b7f934890305fae74&amp;id=69f01ef9d3&amp;e=4e0cca0b8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Info &amp; programme<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/plein-theater.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c9383498b7f934890305fae74&amp;id=8126d15974&amp;e=4e0cca0b8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AUTUMN 2025 NEW NOTES AMSTERDAM - SO 21 SEPT, SO 16 NOV, SO 21 DEC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NNA | Liaisons<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sun 21 September <\/strong>15:00 - 16:00 hrs<br \/><strong>Line up:<\/strong>\u00a0Jenna Vergeynst (harp), Myrthe Bokelmann (dance\/performance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Liaisons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Alors tu es vraiment heureux de me voir?\" is one of the intriguing phrases in 'Fid\u00e9lit\u00e9', Georges Aperghis' ominous work for harp and voice from the early 1980s. Four composers each offer a musical rebuttal to Fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 in a new composition. Harpist Jenna Vergeynst and dancer\/performer Myrthe Bokelmann hooked these five works together into an intimate, haunting performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NNA | <\/strong>Jasna Veli\u010dkovi\u0107<br \/><strong>Sun 16 November <\/strong>15:00 - 16:00 hrs<br \/><strong>Line up:<\/strong> Jasna Veli\u010dkovi\u0107 &amp; n.t.b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jasna Veli\u010dkovi\u0107 (RS\/NL) is a composer and performer. Her work revolves around the relationship between sound, technology and experimentation. Since 2008, she has been investigating electromagnetic fields as a source of sound, resulting in her project <em>The Art of Coil<\/em>. She developed the instrument <em>Velicon<\/em> and worked with discarded electronic devices. Veli\u010dkovi\u0107 studied composition in Belgrade and The Hague with Louis Andriessen, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NNA | Luna Quartet<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sun 21 December <\/strong>15:00 - 16:00 hrs<br \/><strong>Line up:<\/strong> Janneke van Prooijen (violin), Jellantjse de Vries (violin), Elisabeth Smalt (viola), Katharina Gross (cello)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Luna Quartet<\/strong>, string quartet for contemporary music, has been striving for the very latest since 2018. Luna Quartet deliberately seeks the frayed edges of new and experimental music, based on the awareness that this is where history is made. Without reserve, the four string players deploy their expertise and go far in pushing boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NEW NUTS AMSTERDAM - NNA<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>New Notes Amsterdam presents intimate concerts for the adventurous listener. This concert series for contemporary chamber music presented by the Plein Theater takes place monthly on Sunday afternoons at the Plein Theater and sometimes on location. Curated by bass clarinettist Fie Schouten and composer Aspasia Nasopoulou, the series provides a stage for brand new compositions and leading musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plein-theater.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c9383498b7f934890305fae74&amp;id=f410dceb2a&amp;e=4e0cca0b8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>More information and tickets <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plein-theater.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c9383498b7f934890305fae74&amp;id=a99b6bbfd3&amp;e=4e0cca0b8a\"><strong>via this link<\/strong><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/plein-theater.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c9383498b7f934890305fae74&amp;id=8e035e82e8&amp;e=4e0cca0b8a\">www.plein-theater.nl<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam (NNA), d\u00e9 maandelijkse concertserie voor hedendaagse kamermuziek, presenteert voor het eerst in hun zesjarige bestaan het \u2018Blad &amp; Blazers Festival\u2019. Een vierdaags muzikaal evenement dat plaatsvindt van donderdag\u00a016 t\/m zondag 19 oktober 2025 in het Plein Theater in Amsterdam Oost. 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