Tuesday, 29 October 2024|20:00 - 22:00
Tilburg’s pride VONK plays no fewer than 8 premieres in A Songbook of Rare Feelings #2 – the first edition inspired the ensemble, led by Nicoline Soeter, to turn this into an ongoing series. Music and literature merge, associations with different genres can coexist unhindered. With new compositions by Aftab Darvishi and Celia Swart, among others – and a new singer
PROGRAM
New work (2024) – composition Christopher Cerrone, text Andrés Cerpa
New work (2024) – composition Nicoline Soeter, text Liz Berry
New work #1 (2024) – composition Aftab Darvishi, text Liz Berry
New work #2 (2024) – composition Aftab Darvishi, text Liz Berry
New work #1 (2024) – composition Celia Swart, text Lisanne van Aert
New work #2 (2024) – composition Celia Swart, text Lisanne van Aert
New work #1 (2024) – composition Ken Thomson, text Andrés Cerpa
New work #2 (2024) – composition Ken Thomson, text Andrés Cerpa
- Composer(s): Aftab Darvishi & Celia Swart
- Title(s) of the Work(s):
New work #1 (2024) – composition Aftab Darvishi, text Liz Berry
New work #2 (2024) – composition Aftab Darvishi, text Liz Berry
New work #1 (2024) – composition Celia Swart, text Lisanne van Aert
New work #2 (2024) – composition Celia Swart, text Lisanne van Aert - Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra: VONK ensemble led by Nicoline Soeter
Date
- Oct 29 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 20:00 - 22:00
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Composer
Aftab Darvishi
Aftab Darvishi (Tehran, 1987) started taking violin lessons when she was five. Later on the kamancheh (an Iranian bowed string instrument) and the piano followed.
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Composer
Celia Swart
Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.
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Wednesday, 27 November 2024. 20:00 - 22:00
Max Knigge selects Preludes and Images by Debussy and arranged them for the special combination of saxophone and string quartet. These will be complemented by Interludes composed by himself using the different line-ups and timbres offered by the octet.
Location
Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg
- Vredenburgkade 11, 3511 WC Utrecht
Website
https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl
Friday, 29 November 2024. 20:00 - 22:00
Daan Manneke sees the Grote Archipel (Great Archipelago) as his magnum opus. It consists of six parts.
Location
Middelburg, Zeeuwse concertzaal
- Verwerijstraat 14, 4331 TC Middelburg
Website
https://www.zeeuwseconcertzaal.nl/home.html
Friday, 29 November 2024. 20:00 - 21:00
The organist Rafel Riera will perform the work for organ “El perfume de la solitude” by F.
Location
Palma, Basílica de Sant Francesc, Mallorca-Spain
- Plaça de Sant Francesc, 7, Centre, 07001 Palma, Illes Balears
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.. that rare thing: a modern opera that exerts an immediate emotional impact”
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Louis Andriessen
Netherlands, June 6, 1939 - July 1, 2021
Louis Andriessen was born in Utrecht on June 6, 1939.After an early training in composition with his father, composer Hendrik Andriessen, he continued his studies with Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
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Rick van Veldhuizen
Rick van Veldhuizen (*1994, Tilburg) although reared on pop and folk, discovered classical music at the age of 11. He started composing pretty much at that point. Education: Starting in 2008, he studied composition and piano at the Fontys Conservatorium’s Young Musicians’ Academy with Kees Schoonenbeek and Jelena Bazova, respectively.
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Joey Roukens
Netherlands, March 28, 1982
His output includes orchestral works, ensemble works, chamber music, solo instrumental works and an opera. In his music Roukens strives to move away from modernist ways of thinking in search for a more eclectic and more direct idiom, without reverting to some naive neo-style. In doing so, the composer doesn’t shy away from the use of triads, tonal or diatonic harmonies, a regular rhythmic pulse, directness of expression, simplicity, references to popular music and vernacular culture, ‘stealing’ from the musical heritage of the past and the odd trivial turn.
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