Concert 23 januari 2025 20:30
Wijkcentrum Heyhoef, Tilburg
To continue their investment in contemporary music, they have recently collaborated with young composers to promote the visibility of new and lesser-known music.
This concert is in collaboration with the Dutch String Quartet Academy (NSKA).
Program:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quartet in C No. 4, K157
Sem Hak - String Quartet No. 1
Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F
Concert 24 januari 2025 12:00
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Triolino is a concert series for young viewers that emerges from the collaboration between music ensemble Oorkaan and professional musicians. Oorkaan is an innovative educational method and works closely with the Austrian Jeunesse, a group that makes classical music by and for youth possible. Language is not a problem: with such an international collaboration, the music is the all-knowing narrator.
The Amsterdam-based Maat Saxophone Quartet, composed of four Portuguese musicians, won the Dutch Classical Talent Award in 2022. The jury report was laudatory, and the reviews of their first album Ciudades were just as. 'About the playing of the Maat Saxophone Quartet, we can be brief: promising, devilishly good, and heavenly infectious in all works,' said Luister.
Programme:
Guillermo Lago Ciudades: Montevideo
Franz von Suppè Dichter und Bauer: Ouverture (arr. Lourenço)
Mendelssohn Capriccio op. 81 nr. 3
José Luís Tinoco No teu poema
Ferenc Farkas Early Hungarian Dances: Langzaam
Mai Cocopelli Triolino-Song
Concert 24 januari 2025 19:30
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois (VS)
ChicagoClassicalReview.com praises the “unflappably elegant style” and the “sublime, radiant playing” of the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. Winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2018, the quartet also received the prestigious Kersjes Prize (the highest distinction in the Netherlands for a chamber music ensemble) and multiple Editor’s Choice Awards from Gramophone Magazine.
Recent projects by the ensemble include the world premiere of the opera Only the Sound Remains by Kaija Saariaho with Philippe Jaroussky and De Nationale Opera, as well as a collaboration with director Rosabel Huguet to reinterpret Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132 for children. The group’s latest release in 2023, Circus Dinogad—a project conceived with mezzo-soprano Hilary Summers and the theorbo and bass clarinet duo of Mike Fentross and Maarten Ornstein—connects eras and genres, from Renaissance songs and folk tunes to a newly composed series of works around the Seven Deadly Sins.
Program:
Carlo Gesualdo (arr. Dudok Quartet Amsterdam), Deh, come invan sospiro
Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3, Hob. III/33
Bushra El-Turk, Three Tributes for String Quartet (American premiere)
Dmitri Shostakovich (arr. Dudok Quartet Amsterdam), selection from Preludes for Piano, Op. 34
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30
Concert 24 januari 2025 20:00
Kapel van Bovendonk, Hoeven
With a fresh perspective, the ADAM Quartet seeks ways to shine its own light on the string quartet, while remaining true to the essence of the genre. With courage and enthusiasm, ADAM made its debut on major Dutch stages such as Het Concertgebouw and Tivoli Vredenburg.
Over the past years, the quartet has performed on major Dutch stages and festivals, including Het Concertgebouw, Tivoli Vredenburg, String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, Grachtenfestival, Stift Festival, Klassifest, Down the Rabbit Hole, Schiermonnikoog Festival, and Storioni Festival.
In 2021, the quartet was awarded the String Quartet Stipendium from the Kersjes Fund and in 2024, it received awards at the Triomphe de l’Art competition in Brussels. The ADAM Quartet has received masterclasses from members of ensembles such as Quatuor Danel, Quatuor Ebene, Ysaye Quartet, Quartetto di Cremona, and the Jerusalem Quartet.
Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach – Aus meinem Herzen grunde
Aleksandra Vrebalov – My desert my rose
Ludwig van Beethoven – ‘Cavatina’ from string quartet no.13, op.130
Ellis Ludwig Leone – Exquisite corpse
John Adams – Toot Nipple
Maurice Ravel – String Quartet in F major M.53
I. Allegro moderato
II. Assez vif, très rythmé
III. Très lent
IV. Vif et agité
Concert 24 januari 2025 20:15
De Kleine Zaal om de Hoek, Bussum
Ruña and Kalle have been playing together in the ensemble ‘The Fancy Fiddlers’ since they were young, under the direction of the renowned violinist Coosje Wijzenbeek. In 2022, they met Connie Pharoah and Mengjie Han and decided to form the Marigold Piano Quartet together. The quartet stands for a passionate and sincere approach to the piano quartet repertoire from all style periods, with an emphasis on communication and dialogue.
Concert 30 januari 2025 19:30
THEATER HEERLEN - LIMBURGzaal
Speechmakers is a concert series that combines classical music with contemporary stories. Dutch top actors tell and perform provocative, current stories, accompanied by suitable compositions. The story feeds the music, the music the story. Previous editions with actors such as Pierre Bokma, Ramsey Nasr, 'Ntianu Stuger, and Gijs Scholten van Aschat and ensembles such as the Ragazze Quartet, Calefax Reed Quintet, Matangi Quartet, and pianist Thomas Beijer were a great success. This time pianoduo Scholtes & Janssens, the Berlage Saxophone Quartet, and the ADAM Quartet are the musicians and Ellen ten Damme, Lars Brinkman, and Soumaya Ahouaoui the storytellers.
Concert 31 januari 2025 18:45 - 2 februari 2025
Sjostakovitsj Festival: Quatuor Danel & Elisabeth Wilson e.a.
In 2025 is het 50 jaar geleden dat Dmitri Sjostakovitsj overleed. Als eerbetoon organiseert SPOT Groningen van vrijdag 31 januari t/m zondag 2 februari een driedaags eerbetoon aan een van de grootste componisten van de 20e eeuw. Zijn vijftien strijkkwartetten, chronologisch en verspreid over zeven concerten uitgevoerd door het internationaal geroemde Quatuor Danel, vormen het kloppend hart van het festival. Afgelopen jaar presenteerde het Frans-Belgische kwartet voor de tweede maal een zeer lovend ontvangen opname van de gehele cyclus. Muziekmagazine Luister bekroonde de cd-box met een 10. (klik hier voor de volledige recensie)
Daarnaast werpen musicoloog Dan Elphick en cellist, schrijver en oorgetuige Elizabeth Wilson (Shostakovich, A Life Remembered) mede aan de hand van herinneringen van vrienden, familieleden, medemuzikanten en andere prominente tijdgenoten licht op de muziek van Sjostakovitsj. Op zaterdag en zondag verzorgt altviolist Alan George i.s.m. de Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie een masterclass. George is oprichter van het wereldberoemde Fitzwilliam Quartet, dat begin jaren zeventig bevriend was met Sjostakovitsj en de ‘westerse’ première verzorgde van zijn laatste drie kwartetten. Tevens kun je op zaterdag en zondag op het podium van de Kleine Zaal aanschuiven bij een Talking Dinner, met livemuziek van The Jazzmob en een lezing van Wilson.
Op vrijdag wordt het festival geopend door musicoloog Dan Elphick en cellist en Rusland-specialist Elizabeth Wilson, schrijfster van het boek Shostakovich, A Life Remembered. Samen geven zij een korte introductie in het leven en de muziek van Sjostakovitsj. Aansluitend hoor je zijn eerste drie kwartetten. Luister naar de jeugdige lichtheid en ontwapenende vrolijkheid in Strijkkwartet nr.1. En eindig deze openingsavond met het Strijkkwartet nr. 3, waarin de componist volgens sommige paranoïde critici gecodeerde, tegen Stalin gerichte boodschappen had gestopt.
Concert 31 januari 2025 19:30
Muziekgebouw Eindhoven
Speechmakers is a concert series that combines classical music with contemporary stories. Dutch top actors tell and perform provocative, current stories, accompanied by suitable compositions. The story feeds the music, the music feeds the story. Previous editions with actors such as Pierre Bokma, Ramsey Nasr, 'Ntianu Stuger, and Gijs Scholten van Aschat and ensembles such as the Ragazze Quartet, Calefax Reed Quintet, Matangi Quartet, and pianist Thomas Beijer were a great success. This time, pianoduo Scholtes & Janssens, the Berlage Saxophone Quartet, and the ADAM Quartet are the musicians and Ellen ten Damme, Lars Brinkman, and Soumaya Ahouaoui are the storytellers.
Concert 1 februari 2025 19:30
Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Spraakmakers is a concert series that combines classical music with contemporary stories. Top Dutch actors tell and perform provocative, current stories, accompanied by suitable compositions. The story feeds the music, and the music feeds the story. Previous editions with actors such as Pierre Bokma, Ramsey Nasr, 'Ntianu Stuger, and Gijs Scholten van Aschat, and ensembles such as the Ragazze Quartet, Calefax Reed Quintet, Matangi Quartet, and pianist Thomas Beijer were a great success. This time, the musicians are pianoduo Scholtes & Janssens, the Berlage Saxophone Quartet, and the ADAM Quartet, with Ellen ten Damme, Lars Brinkman, and Soumaya Ahouaoui as the storytellers.
OTHER DATES:
February 2
7:30 pm | Spraakmakers | Schouwburg Concert Hall Tilburg
February 5
7:30 pm | Spraakmakers | De Flint, Amersfoort
February 7
7:30 pm | Spraakmakers | Wilminktheater, Eschede
February 8
7:30 pm | Spraakmakers | Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
February 9
7:30 pm | Spraakmakers | Amare, The Hague
February 15
Time TBD | ADAM x Elisabeth Hetherington | Cultural Platform Epe
February 20
8:00 pm | Concert | Hallifax, England
February 23
3:00 pm | ADAM x Van Kuijk | Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
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