November Music cuts through all genres as it presents the very latest music. Ranging from adventurous composed music, jazz, and world music to music theatre, hypnotizing minimal music, progressive rock, and sound installations.

November Music opens with a brand-new Bosch Requiem written by Kate Moore, this year’s festival composer. John Zorn returns to Den Bosch, following his successes in 2017, with eight concerts in a single day featuring the cream of the crop of the New York scene. Ensemble in residence at NN2018 is Silbersee, with three performances. Highlights John Zorn Bosch Requiem 2018 COBRA ft. Bill Frisell & Craig Taborn Kate Moore Solo Saxophone Wishful Singing Barbara Hannigan & Steve Gosling Cappella Pratensis Jack Quartet & Felicia van den End Herz Ensemble Petra Haden & Julian Lage Trio Matzer Theaterproducties Secret Chiefs 3 e.a. November 2018 | ’s-Hertogenbosch Female International 2 - 11 composers top artists and performers Klangforum Wien Kate Moore John Zorn Claron McFadden Red Note Ensemble Nora Fischer Diotima Quartet Trio Mediaeval Anoushka Shankar Sanne Rambags Georges Aperghis James Dillon Genevieve Murphy Maja Ratkje Rebecca Saunders Dyane Donck Jennifer Walshe Beat Furrer & Metropole Orkest

Jazz & World Post-minimal Dez Mona & B.O.X. Secret Chiefs 3 Anoushka Shankar & Metropole Orkest weekend Amir ElSaffar Gavin Bryars Claron McFadden Amir ElSaffar Ragazze Quartet Michael Wollny Monica Germino Klangforum Wien Silbersee & Mayke Nas Jakob Bro & Ben van Gelder Tom Sanderman Lucia Cadotsch Wolfert Brederode Cello Octet Amsterdam 20 venues * 90 concerts * Martin Fondse & Omar Bashir Amsterdam Sinfonietta * 10 days * @novmusic @novembermusicNL www.novembermusic.net NOVEMBER MUSIC 2018 OVERVIEW

The first widely-known female composer was Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179). PROGRAMME DAILY OVERVIEW page 4 There are roughly 1,000 years between her and Mayke Nas, the Composer Laureate of the Netherlands. Men have dominated the musical landscape for most of the FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER page 14 intervening period. In hindsight, the majority of the makers and performers that SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER page 15 featured during the past 25 editions of November Music have also been male. Time to make up for lost ground, in other words. This is no hardship as there are so SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER page 24 many great – and often young – female makers and performers. Today, at November Music 2018, over 40% of the festival participants are women while Kate Moore is our MON 5 NOV JOHN ZORN IN ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH II page 28 first female composer in focus. That is to say, we are heading in the right direction. And is it a coincidence that two men – Peter Vigh and Steven Kamperman – took TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER page 30 inspiration from Hildegard von Bingen’s work? Then there is John Zorn, who is returning to ’s-Hertogenbosch by his own request, and will take along no less a TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER page 33 person than soprano/superwoman Barbara Hannigan. Pure chance? Unlikely. Do women sound differently from men? That is up for debate and you are cordially TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER page 39 invited to decide for yourself while listening to all these fantastic women (and men) at this year’s festival. TUESDAY 9 NOVEMBER page 45 Bert Palinckx en Theo van Dooremalen TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER page 53

STAF BOARD TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER page 67 Heleen Moors festival manager Lucas Vis chairman Koen Graat programmer Gerton Heyne treasurer KUNSTMUZIEKROUTE HOW DOES IT WORK? page 71 jazz & world / Edo Dijksterhuis member communication Karen Neervoort member KUNSTMUZIEKROUTE HOW DOES IT WORK? page 72 Bernard Jussen technical coordinator Annette den Heijer member Klaartje Wouters marketing coordinator MORE ABOUT MUSIC page 86

COMPONIST IN FOCUS page 88 TEXT / PHOTOGRAPHY / VISUALS teksten Mark van de Voort vormgeving Anke Schalk (toelgroep) fotografie La Fabrique ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE page 89 des Regards, Lucas Kemper, Juri Hiensch, Paul Cowan, Naomi White, Julia Fullerton-Batten, CF-Wesenberg, Michael Jungblut, Merlijn Doomernik, Erik de Jong, Scott Irvine, Marco Borggreve, STREET MAP AND LOCATIONS page 90 Shervin Lainez, Nicola Kostic, Halie, Marleen Sleeuwits, Jacqelien Wielaard, Tom Roelofs, Anja Beutler, Suzanne Waijers, Nichon Glerum, Pascale Miller, Olivia Oyama, Joris Buijs, Sarah PRACTICAL INFORMATION page 92 Wijzenbeek, Frank Auperlé, Lukas Beck, Klara Beck, H.B. Lindsley (Library of Congress), Jérémie Mazenc, Annaleen Louwes, Merijn Bisschops, Majanka Fotografie, Gemma van der Heyden, FUNDERS AND PARTNERS page 94 Karolina Zapolska, Martha Colburn, Moniek Ammerlaan, Jörg Steinmetz, Josh Pulman, Maria Stijger, Yuval Hen, Ed Berger, Alice Gebura, Brendon Heinst, Annelies van der Vegt, Kees van de Subject to modification. Please go to our website for up-to-date information. Veen, Agata Zelechowska, Annabel Jansen en anderen. www.novembermusic.net 2 3 FRIDAY 2 NOV

7-10 PM Bosch Requiem 2018 / Kate Moore Theater aan de Parade

SATURDAY 3 NOV

12.30- 2-3 PM 1.15 PM 7-8.15 PM Monica Tom 3.30- Sanderman 4.15 PM Ken Thomson Sextet 9-10.15 PM Germino Gavin Bryars Ensemble Noordbrabants Monica 4-5 PM Verkadefabriek Muzerije Verkadefabriek Museum Germino Red Note Muzerije Ensemble / James Dillon 7-8.15 PM 9-10.15 P Willem Twee Silbersee & Anna Enquist Concertzaal Mats Eilertsen Grote Kerk & Trio Mediaeval Willem Twee Concertzaal

7-8 PM 9 PM-1 AM HYOID / Jennifer Walshe PLUG Verkadefabriek Kruithuis

SUNDAY 4 NOV

11.30 AM-6 PM KunstmuziekRoute 3-5.30 PM Lucia Cadotsch / 6.30-7.30 PM diverse locaties 8.30-9.45 PM Blokkenschema p. 6-7 Elliot Galvin Trio Cello Octet Amsterdam / Verkadefabriek Michael Gordon Amsterdam Sinfonietta Grote Kerk & Claron McFadden Verkadefabriek

4 5 SUNDAY 4 NOV / KUNSTMUZIEKROUTE AM PM 11.30 12 .30 1.30 2 .30 3 .30 4 .30 5 .30 Location Monica Germino Muzerije Pleitzaal VIOLIN Noordbrabants Museum ROUTE Niek Baar p 74-75 Statenzaal Diamanda La Berge Dramm Verkadefabriek Cabaretfirma Oene van Geel / Heather Ware / Stadsbibliotheek LET’S Frederieke Saeijs DANCE Aspasia Nasopoulou Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal ROUTE p 76-77 Ulrike Doszmann / Batja ten Kortenaar / Bank van Leening TEMKO Noordbrabants Museum Maya Fridmann Statenzaal CELLO ROUTE Doris Hochscheid Pand 18 Bovenzaal p 72-73 Katharina Gross Design Museum Den Bosch

Fie Schouten Theater Artemis Bovenruimte

IT TAKES Tony Roe & José Quevedo Verkadefabriek Cabaretfirma TWO ROUTE p 78-79 Genevieve Murphy / TOEAC Theater Artemis Benedenzaal

Gábor Tarján Muzerije Hofzaal Maja Ratkje / Kathy Hinde / Willem Twee Kunstruimte Red Note Ensemble SOUND & Miranda Driessen Grote Kerk VISION ROUTE p 80- 81 iii Kruithuis

Alfred Momotenko Willem Twee Kunstruimte

Ian Richter Museum Slager LESS IS MORE ROUTE Vivian Choi Willem Twee Concertzaal p 82-83 VONK Bij Katrien

SPORT Ikarai Pand 18 Benedenzaal ROUTE p 84 Mathijs Leeuwis Willem Twee Concertzaal

AMPA fc Jongbloed / TEMKO Willem Twee Poppodium ROUTE p 85 AMPA Ensembles Werkwarenhuis MONDAY 5 NOV JOHN ZORN IN ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH II

1.30- 3.30-4 PM 2.30 PM The Hermetic 4.30- 5.30 PM Documentary Organ Songs 6-7 PM Verkadefabriek Nr. 20 for Petra Chamber 7.30-8 PM Solo 8.30-9 PM Sint-Janskathedraal Theater aan Music Saxophone Midsummer 9.30- de Parade Willem Twee 10.30 PM Concertzaal Jheronimus Bosch Moons 11 PM- Jumalatteret / Art Center Noordbrabants 12 AM Holy Visions Museum COBRA Grote Kerk Verkadefabriek

TUESDAY 6 NOV

7-8 PM Jelena Kostic´ / Dyane Donck 8.30-9.45 PM Verkadefabriek Club Guy & Roni / Slagwerk Den Haag Verkadefabriek 7-8 PM Installatie Expeditie Kruithuis

WEDNESDAY 7 NOV

12.30-1.30 PM Anthony Fiumara / 7-8 PM Aart Strootman Calefax / Georges Aperghis 8.30-10 PM Verkadefabriek Willem Twee Concertzaal Dez Mona ft. B.O.X. 8.45-10 PM Theater aan de Parade Silbersee Verkadefabriek 7-8 PM Opera Zuid / 8.30-9.30 PM Jan-Peter de Graaff Dick de Graaf New Quartet Verkadefabriek Verkadefabriek

8 9 THURSDAY 8 NOV

6.45-8 PM 8.30-11 PM Ragazze Quartet / Mayke Nas Benjamin Herman / Secret Chiefs 3 Willem Twee Concertzaal Willem Twee Poppodium 8.30-10 PM 6.45-8.30 PM Peter Gijsbertsen Silbersee / Karlheinz Stockhausen Theater aan de Parade Grote Kerk 8.30-9.30 PM Installatie Expeditie Kruithuis 7-8 PM Sanne Rambags 9.15-10 PM Verkadefabriek philharmonie zuidnederland / TEMKO Verkadefabriek FRIDAY 9 NOV

12.30- 1.30 PM 5.30- Bauwien 6.30 PM van der Meer 6.45-7.45 PM 7-8 PM Installation Sanne Klangforum Willem Twee Expedition Concertzaal Rambags Wien / Rebecca Kruithuis 8.30-9.30 PM Verkadefabriek Saunders Omar Bashir Verkadefabriek Willem Twee Concertzaal 9-10 PM Klangforum Wien / Beat Furrer 7-8.15 PM Verkadefabriek Diamantfabriek / Meriç Artaç 10.15-11.30 PM Verkadefabriek L’Hijâz’Car Verkadefabriek 9-10 PM 7-8.15 PM Muziektheater Duo Simons / Transparant / Napolov Hilda Paredes Muzerije Theater aan de Parade

10 11 SATURDAY 10 NOV

12.30-1.30 PM Diotima Quartet 2-3 PM 4-5.15 PM Willem Twee Concertzaal Cappella Amsterdam / Wolfert Brederode / Boudewijn Tarenskeen Matangi Quartet Bij Katrien Verkadefabriek 6.30-8 PM Steven Kamperman 7-11.15 PM Grote Kerk 4-5.15 PM Colours of Improvisation Verkadefabriek 2-3 PM New European Ensemble / Merijn Bisschops Oene van Geel 7-8 PM & Rianne Wilbers Muzerije Spectra / 9-10 PM Muzerije Nora Fischer / Asko|Schönberg / 4-5 PM Rozalie Hirs Richard Ayres Installation Willem Twee Concertzaal Theater aan de Parade Expedition 2-3 PM 7-8 PM Kruithuis 9-10 PM Installation Electra / Yannis Black Pencil / Expedition Kyriakides Kruithuis 4-4.45 PM Peter Vigh Verkadefabriek Ekatarina Levental / Jheronimus Bosch Chris Koolmees Art Center Design Museum Den Bosch 7-8 PM NYX 9-11 PM 4-5 PM Pand 18 Installation NYX Expedition Pand 18 Kruithuis

SUNDAY 11 NOV

12.30-1.30 P Icebreaker 2-3 PM 3-4.15 PM Verkadefabriek Cello Octet (6+) Anoushka Shankar 4-5 PM Verkadefabriek & Metropole Orkest Cello Octet (6+) 8.30-9.45 PM Verkadefabriek Verkadefabriek Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound Verkadefabriek

12 13 BOSCH REQUIEM 2018 – LUX AETERNA: VIVID MUTED KATE MOORE MONICA GERMINO Wishful Singing / Cappella Pratensis / Herz Ensemble / TEMKO Louis Andriessen / Michael Gordon / David Lang / Julia Wolfe

Fri 2 nov November Music 2018 opens with a brand-new Mass for the Playing very softly on her instrument has opened up new Sat 3 nov Theater aan Dead on All Souls’ Day. This continues the tradition of the Bosch dimensions for the famous American/Dutch violinist Monica Muzerije Pleitzaal de Parade Requiem, now in its eighth year. November Music commissioned Germino. Owing to an unpleasant hearing disorder, Germino 12.30-1.15 & 7-10 PM festival composer Kate Moore to write the requiem Lux Aeterna: can no longer play loud or amplified music. She has managed 3.30-4.15 PM € 25 / € 12,50 VIVID. She created a work of spiritual imaginative power for to make a virtue of this necessity through her collaborations € 15 / € 7,50 early music specialists Cappella Pratensis, the all-female a with the world-famous composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, composed / cappella group Wishful Singing, TEMKO, and Moore’s own Herz Julia Wolfe, and Louis Andriessen. Sun 4 nov modern vocal / Ensemble with stars such as violinist Joseph Puglia and pianist Muzerije Pleitzaal minimal music Vivian Choi. Porcelain water pipes and flutes are just some of They wrote new work especially for Germino with considerably 12.30-1.15 & the instruments used in Lux Aeterna: VIVID. reduced violin decibels. Or, as Michael Gordon encouragingly 3.30-4.15 PM told Germino, ‘I am going to write a piece for you that is so KunstmuziekRoute Eric Alink, the city chronicler of Den Bosch has written a text muted that I do not care if anyone can hear it.’ around the theme ‘Eerst geloven, dan zien’ (‘Believing is seeing’ composed / specifically for this night. The evening starts with a tour along minimal music several sacred places where the audience is treated to a numbr of musical and theatrical interventions. This year, too, Madeleine Matzer and Jur van der Lecq (Matzer Theaterproducties) are responsible for staging the Bosch Requiem. Saskia van der Linden is the production designer.

14 15 WHOEVER YOU ARE COME FORTH TANZ/HAUS: TRIPTYCH 2017 TOM SANDERMAN JAMES DILLON Louis Andriessen / Anthony Fiumara / Kate Moore / Aart Strootman / Red Note Ensemble Remy Alexander The acclaimed British music magazine The Wire wrote that Sat 3 nov Sat 3 nov The young and virtuoso saxophonist Tom Sanderman has James Dillon’s composition Tanz/haus is a brilliant piece of Willem Twee Noordbrabants a passion for the mesmerising sounds of minimal music. music; its construction solid, its expression human, with a Concertzaal Museum Statenzaal In his latest programme he looks into the future as he breathtaking and shimmering orchestration. (formerly 2-3 PM presents various Dutch successors, part of the post-minimalist The Scotsman is one of the most colourful composers in De Toonzaal) € 15 / € 7,50 movement. Europe. His works pair an intriguing complexity with an 4-5 PM original and lush dreamy sound world. € 18 / € 9 composed / Sanderman: ‘Composers such as Anthony Fiumara, Aart minimal music Strootman, Kate Moore, and Remy Alexander all love the Tanz/haus: triptych 2017 is performed by the Scottish Red Note composed / genre. Their creations inspire me.’ Ensemble and partly funded by November Music. The score electronics allows for an enormous gong, electrical guitar, accordion, The Dutch composer (and godfather of post minimalism), three strings, and electronics. Louis Andriessen, has pride of place in the programme. The piece recently won an RPS Award, the most important Sanderman arranged Andriessen’s rarely performed work composition prize in the UK. Toespraak (1979) (‘Speech’) especially for this occasion. Also featured is the premiere of Sleeping Water by Remy Composer James Dillon will be interviewed about his work Alexander, commissioned by November Music. and motives after the conce

16 17 KEN THOMSON SEXTET A HISTORY OF THE VOICE JENNIFER WALSHE Sat 3 nov The American saxophonist, clarinettist, and composer Ken HYOID Contemporary Voices Verkadefabriek Thomson operates within the rich area of tension between Clubzaal improvised and composed music. The New Yorker explores The human voice, in all its motley varieties, is utterly fascinating Sat 3 nov 7-8.15 PM the interaction between well-wrought contemporary music and to the pioneering Irish composer Jennifer Walshe. A History Verkadefabriek € 15 / € 7,50 the spontaneity of jazz with his sextet. He is an excellent fit for of the Voice sees Walshe unleash a true big bang of human Kleine Zaal November Music’s philosophy, in other words. articulation. From arch vocal imitations of Tom Cruise talking 7-8 PM jazz / composed / about his Scientology passion to moaning operatic death scenes € 18 / € 9 minimal music As one of the permanent members of Bang on a Can All- and petty facts regarding medieval singing. Stars, Thomson knows the modern post-minimalist repertoire music theatre / like his own hand. Plus, he uses every possible opportunity ‘A compilation of YouTube material, winks at rock culture music & visuals to indulge his love for the jazz classics. Influences ranging and jeers at pompous scientific research made it clear that from Thelonious Monk to György Ligeti can be heard in his contemporary music does not necessarily happen in isolation’, variegated music – virtuoso jazz with a huge emotional scope. wrote Veto magazine (Belgium).

The sextet also consists of Anna Webber (tenor sax), Russ Walshe performed with the Arditti Quartet at November Music Johnson (trumpet), Nick Finzer (trombone), Adam Armstrong 2016. This time, the vocal ensemble HYOID from Brussels will (contrabass), and Daniel Dor (drums). play her work.

18 19 STILLE NACHT AM SILBERSEE MEMORABILIA SILBERSEE & ANNA ENQUIST Mats Eilertsen Trio & Trio Mediaeval Arvo Pärt / David Lang / Jörg Brinkmann

Sat 3 nov A poetic song night brimming with romantic vistas just before Contrabassist Mats Eilertsen is a pivotal figure in the rich and Sat 3 nov Grote Kerk year’s end. Ensemble in residence Silbersee presents a literary multi-hued Norwegian jazz scene. His project Memorabiliae Willem Twee 7-8.15 PM midnight mass, comprising stories and reflections, words and encompasses his own trio, with drummer Thomas Strønen Concertzaal € 22 / € 11 music, together with the Dutch writer Anna Enquist. At the and Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje, as well as the renowned (formerly heart of the concert evening is David Lang’s masterly The little Trio Mediaeval. The three female vocalists from Norway are De Toonzaal) composed / match girl passion. This gripping winter passion (a retelling of specialised in medieval part-song but equally adventurous 9-10.15 PM music & literature Andersen’s Little Match Girl) won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008. when it comes to the contemporary repertoire. € 18 / € 9

Music plays an important part in Anna Enquist’s poetry and Past and present converge in a magical way as jazz combines jazz / world / novels. Tonight, her words give expression to themes such as with chamber music, Norwegian folk, and part-song in composed hope, doubt, and consolation. Also featured are new pieces Memorabilia. Musical beauty and tranquillity as experienced in by cellist/composer Jörg Brinkmann and Da pacem Domine, the barren North of Europe. Arvo Pärt’s popular choral work. Stille Nacht am Silbersee is an unmissable musical evening. Tranquil, inspirational, and inspired.

20 21 GAVIN BRYARS ENSEMBLE PLUG Niels Broos & Jamie Peet / Lolina / Barbara Ellison Sat 3 nov Gavin Bryars’ moving minimal piece Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Verkadefabriek Me Yet, was built around a recording of a singing homeless The time-honoured smoke of battle has cleared while the Sat 3 nov Grote Zaal man. It made a big impression as soon as it was released in historic sabre-rattling fell silent a long time ago but Kruithuis 9-10.15 PM 1971. A later version, in which none other than Tom Waits took PLUG will once again set ablaze the beautiful Kruithuis. 9 PM-12 AM € 15 / € 7,50 it upon himself to sing the second voice, became a global hit. A perfect location for electronic sound experiments and exciting € 12 / € 6 Now the veteran British composer will perform his magnificent musical performances alike as was evident at November Music composed / piece with his own Gavin Bryars Ensemble at November Music. in recent years. electronic music / minimal music rock / music & The 75-year-old Bryars has created a unique and lyrical The night starts with a tour around the sound installations (see visuals repertoire in which he collaborated with kindred souls such as page 30). Subsequently, there is a performance by Lolina (Inga Waits, Brian Eno , theatre maker Robert Wilson, and guitarist Copeland) with cinematic and ornate songs full of sultry twisted Bill Frisell. As well as his much-loved hit the ensemble plays rock and electronic splurges. Next up is the Irish composer Beckett Songbook, Lauda (con sordino), and The Flower of Barbara Ellison, whose music evokes mysterious sound worlds. Friendship. The explosively grooving duo Jamie Peet (drums) and Niels Broos (keyboards) is the final act at PLUG

22 23 Sun 4 nov Kunst muziek Route LUCIA CADOTSCH Sun 4 nov Diversity abounds at November Music’s annual ELLIOT GALVIN TRIO Various locations KunstmuziekRoute. Ranging from a music theatre performance 11.30 AM-6 PM about the legendary boxer Muhammed Ali to concerts with top A double concert with two young and adventurous European Sun 4 nov c 20 / c 10 violinists like Monica Germino and Diamanda La Berge Dramm, bandleaders who ooze musical originality, Lucia Cadotsch and Verkadefabriek and a new flamenco project with pianist Tony Roe. Not to Elliot Galvin. Clubzaal composed / jazz / mention unique sound installations, cross-overs between music 3-5.30 PM world music / and modern dance, and renowned Dutch cellists. Experience The Swiss vocalist Lucia Cadotsch recently released Speak € 15 / € 7,50 electronics / rock / all of this and much, much more at the KunstmuziekRoute. Low, one of the most attractive jazz albums of 2017. Her music music theatre / is lyrical and melancholic as well as exciting and sultry. jazz / rock installations / A single ticket – exchanged for a wristband on the day – gives Accompanied by bassist Petter Eldh and saxophonist Otis music & dance access to all concerts. You can compose your own programme! Sandsjö she sings never-heard before versions of well-known The concerts tend to take place in unusual venues such as classics. The Guardian: ‘Remember the name Lucia Cadotsch – small churches, museums, and theatres. Most concerts are you’re going to be hearing a lot of it (*****)’. performed more than once to make choosing even easier. British pianist Elliot Galvin is a key member of the Mercury- Practical tips and concert information can be found on nominated group Dinosaur. He also has his own trio called The page 71 and further. See also the KunstmuziekRoute Influential Machine, having released the eponymous album programme schedule on page 6-7. early this year. ‘Visionary stuff’, was how the Evening Standard described it. Galvin effortlessly forges a unique musical identity, together with bassist Tom McCredie and drummer Corrie Dick, as he draws inspiration from a variety of sources. 24 25 8 ANDRIESSEN & MOORE MICHAEL GORDON AMSTERDAM SINFONIETTA / CLARON MCFADDEN / Cello Octet Amsterdam HARRIET KRIJGH Louis Andriessen / Kate Moore / David Lang / Krisztina de Châtel Sun 4 nov The American composer Michael Gordon is obsessed with the Grote Kerk sound of a homogenous ensemble in which all members play Amsterdam Sinfonietta throws new light on one of Louis Sun 4 nov 6.30-7.30 PM the same instruments. Gordon is exploring the possibilities Andriessen’s most beautiful works. Dances for soprano and Verkadefabriek € 22 / € 11 of such a unique ‘sound entity’ with panache, which often ensemble will get a brand-new choreography for this occasion. Grote Zaal culminates in mesmerising minimalist works. As one of the Meanwhile, Krisztina de Châtel has developed a solo dance for 8.30-9.45 PM minimal / founding members of New York’s famous Bang on a Can he Tim Persent. The wondrous Dances is performed by soprano € 25 / € 12,50 composed knows how to build intricate bridges between rigorous minimal Claron McFadden; the same as when it premiered in 1991. music, the vitality of rock and the openness of jazz. minimal / Andriessen’s exciting music has made a big impression outside composed / music November Music, Cello Octet Amsterdam, and Cello Biënnale the Netherlands as well. This is very evident, among others, & dance Amsterdam commissioned Gordon to write the composition 8 from David Lang’s lucidly structured post-minimalist music. for the illustrious Cello Octet Amsterdam. The ensemble is The American composer has created a new work that features well-known for its scintillating richness of sound which inspired on the programme. Lang is well-known for the way in which he composers such as Arvo Pärt, Mauricio Kagel, Philip Glass, combines influences from early music, rock, and minimal music. and Terry Rile Tonight’s leading ladies are the cellist Harriet Krijgh and (again) singer Claron McFadden. Last but not least: a new composition by festival composer and Andriessen pupil Kate Moore.

26 27 3.30 PM 4.30 PM THE HERMETIC ORGAN NR. 20 SONGS FOR PETRA John Zorn Petra Haden, Jesse Harris, gratis Julian Lage Trio

Mon 5 nov John Zorn in ’s-Hertogenbosch II 6 PM 7.30 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOLO SAXOPHONE JACK Quartet, Felicia van den End John Zorn Mon 5 nov John Zorn returns to November Music! The New York Various locations composer/saxophonist/bandleader was so charmed by the and times festival, the city, and the locations last year that he wanted to Day pass € 95* come back. And when Zorn heard the Dutch flautist Felicia van Variable prices for den End play during the 2017 festival he decided to write new separate concerts work for her. His Nachträglichkeit for flute and the JACK Quartet (see website) premieres on Monday 5 November during this second edition * this includes of John Zorn in ’s-Hertogenbosch. He is also taking along the the XL festival pass world-famous soprano Barbara Hannigan for the premiere 8.30 PM that gets you a 50% of Jumalatteret. The day ends with a unique performance of MIDSUMMER MOONS discount on all other COBRA in which Zorn uses special signs to switch on and off Julian Lage, Gyan Riley November Music the musicians – including Bill Frisell, Craig Taborn, and Julian 2018 concerts Lage – from the stage. composed / jazz / John Zorn (1953) has been the emperor and linchpin of the rock / visual music / Downtown improvisation scene in New York since the 1970s. 9.30 PM modern vocal An extraordinary composer, consummate improviser, musical JUMALATTERET provocateur, and intrepid adventurer whose creative fantasy 11 PM Barbara Hannigan & Steve Gosling and energy knows no bounds. COBRA THE HOLY VISIONS Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Sarah Brailey, Elizabeth Bates e.a. Craig Taborn e.a.

28 29 INSTALLATIE EXPEDITIE 2018 (UN)BOUND iii / Geert-Jan Hobijn / Dianne Verdonk / Elise ’t Hart / Evelina Rajca / JELENA KOSTIC´ / DYANE DONCK Falco Pols A search for the power and vulnerability of modern women. Tue 6 nov Tue 6 Nov With its dramatic dusky chambers and corridors, the Kruithuis The Serbian/Dutch choreographer Jelena Kostic´ unfurls an Verkadefabriek 7-8 PM is the perfect location for topical sound installations and intense dance performance about real and lengthy relationships´ Kleine Zaal Thurs 8 Nov (sound) performances. Courageou festivalgoers can join in (Un)Bound. Dutch sound artist Dyane Donck has made a 7-8 PM 8.30-9.30 PM expedition leader Bart van Dongen on a tour of the vaults of the soundtrack for the performance that is influenced by modern € 15 / € 7,50 Fri 9 Nov historic building. Artists of different generations present sound rock music, contemporary soundscapes, and experimental 5.30-6.30 PM installations tailored to this 17th-century former gunpowder sound art. Sat 10 Nov magazine. music & dance / 2-3 PM Three dancers are united through solidarity and abhorrence in electronics 4-5 PM The Italian/Dutch composer, sound artist, and member of the (Un)Bound. In the midst of this cyclone, an elderly woman enters 9-11 PM iii collective Matteo Marangoni is the curator of this exploration. the stage. Her personal story confronts dancers and audience Kruithuis He invited five makers to create new installations, custom- alike with its provocative take on past and future. € 8 / € 4 made for this splendid location. They use simple resources and materials to evoke pure sound poetry. ‘Kostic´ presents powerful and tangible images that show how installations / someone can survive against the odds.’ (****) Theaterkrant music & visuals / The Expedition closes with two live performances, by Dianne electronics Verdonk and trio Ohm, on the night of Saturday 10 November.

30 31 MECHANICAL ECSTASY GRIDS CLUB GUY & RONI / SLAGWERK DEN HAAG ANTHONY FIUMARA Aart Strootman Tue 6 nov Ace dancers Club Guy & Roni join forces with Slagwerk Den Verkadefabriek Haag as they present their festival hit Mechanical Ecstasy, at Composer Anthony Fiumara is not afraid to embrace beauty or Wed 7 nov Grote Zaal November Music 2018. It has already been performed in many to seek the boundaries of tonality and accessibility. His works Verkadefabriek 8.30-9.45 PM places (from the Oerol Festival all the way to Paris). Repetitive radiate the intoxicating rapture of minimal music, the cogency Clubzaal € 20 / € 10 beats and mesmerizing dance will make you forget the world, of rock, the appeal of baroque and polyphone music. Since 12.30-1.30 PM however briefly. This performance by Club Guy & Roni with September he is also a composition professor at AMPA in Tilburg. € 12 / € 6 music & dance / Slagwerk Den Haag is an ode to the blistering rave parties music theatre / at the end of the 1980s. The electric guitar features prominently in Fiumara’s oeuvre. rock / electronics The composer has written a series of solo works for the composed / Eleven dancers and actress Maartje van de Wetering instrument in the past 12 years that he refers to as Grids; tight minimal music (a Maestro winner) go all out. Composer Jan-Bas Bollen minimalist frameworks summoning unexpected sound worlds. and the well-known Thijs de Vlieger (NOISIA) have created Guitarist Aart Strootman recorded the eponymous album that compelling music that is played live by three Slagwerk will be presented at the concert. Den Haag percussionists. Oh, and the performance will morph into a party… After the concert there will be a conversation with Anthony Fiumara and several young composers including Genevieve ‘As if a visual shrapnel bomb is exploding’, wrote Dagblad van Murphy and Jan-Peter de Graaff. het Noorden.

32 33 CALEFAX REED QUINTET DE GRENS Georges Aperghis / Stacy Garrop JAN-PETER DE GRAAFF Via Zuid / Opera Zuid Wed 7 nov Georges Aperghis is seen as one of today’s most intriguing Willem Twee makers. The French/Greek composer seems indefatigable as The bloody First World War ended exactly 100 years ago. Wed 7 nov Concertzaal he continues to extend the language of sound in his virtuoso This historic day gets very close to the bone in Dutch composer Verkadefabriek (formerly pieces. Aperghis is coming to November Music for the world Jan-Peter de Graaff’s personal and intimate chamber opera. Kleine Zaal De Toonzaal) premiere of Wind Waves, a work that he wrote for the Calefax De Grens (The border) is set on the date the German emperor 7-8 PM 7-8 PM Reed Quintet. The premiere fulfils the Dutch quintet’s long-held Wilhelm II went into exile in the neutral Netherlands, one day € 15 / € 7,50 € 18 / € 9 wish. Calefax collaborated intensely with Aperghis. Bach’s most before the official armistice. De Graaff created the opera with experimental work, Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), was librettist Yuri Robbers and director Saskia Bonarius. music theatre / composed an important source of inspiration for the composer. composed Jan-Peter de Graaff uses an accessible and eclectic sound In addition to the much-anticipated premiere, Calefax will play language in his compositions with the verve of jazz, the a spanking new work by young American composer Stacy suspense of film music as well as undiluted romanticism and Garrop who has been making waves with her colourful and adventurous rhythmical patterns. His new chamber opera is lyrical musical narratives. performed by ensemble But What About with guest violinist Pieter van Loenen. Mezzosoprano Eva Kroon and soprano There will be an interview with composer Georges Aperghis Ginette Puylaert voice the leading roles before the concert starts (at 6 PM).

34 35 SÁGA DICK DE GRAAF NEW QUARTET DEZ MONA FT. B.O.X. (lecture concert)

Wed 7 nov ‘Unfailingly gorgeous music that felt exotic and familiar at once’, The American specialist Saxophone Journal sounded the Wed 7 nov Theater aan de is how The New York Times reviewed Sága, a performance by praises of saxophonist Dick de Graaf, a restless seeker who Verkadefabriek Parade Pleinzaal the Belgian group Dez Mona and ensemble B.O.X. From jazz to continuously manages to extract new secrets from jazz. He also Clubzaal 8.30-10 PM post-rock, from gospel to tango, Dez Mona’s songs touch the explores the techniques that are deployed in contemporary 8.30-9.30 PM € 20 / € 10 heart. Vocalist Gregory Frateur’s unique and heavenly timbre composed music. De Graaf became the first jazz musician to € 15 / € 7,50 takes central stage. take a Ph. D. at Leiden University. His doctoral thesis focuses rock on the innovation of musical improvisational language through jazz / composed Dez Mona opts for an invigorating dive into musical history as it the use of 20th-century composition tools. The saxophonist takes the plunge with the musicians of Baroque Orchestration X incorporated his findings in the compositions that appeared on (B.O.X.). The overwhelming and ground-breaking performance the album Bird Buzz. The Dick de Graaf New Quartet comprises combines elements from classical music, intimately framed in Loran Witteveen (piano), Stefan Lievestro (bass), Jimmi Hueting gorgeous pop songs. Epic tales from Iceland and Greenland as (drums), and of course the man himself. well as Norwegian myths inspired the music. ‘One of the most playful, challenging, and cheering jazz releases of the past months… De Graaf’s tenor has a warm and inviting tone’ (****) de Volkskrant about Bird Buzz.

36 37 DIDO DIDO RADIO RUSLAND Silbersee / Nicole Beutler / NBprojects / Ulrike Quade Company / RAGAZZE QUARTET / NOËL S. KEULEN Capella Brabant Mayke Nas / Sofia Goebaidoelina / Dimitri Shostakovitsj / Sergej Rachmaninov Wed 7 nov DIDO DIDO zooms in on the tragic fate of Dido, the mythical Verkadefabriek Greek queen. Choreographer Nicole Beutler and musical The Ragazze Quartet shares the stage with actor Noël S. Thurs 8 nov Grote Zaal leader Romain Bischoff were inspired by Henry Purcell’s most Keulen in Radio Rusland. It takes the audience up into the ether Willem Twee 8.45-10 PM famous aria Dido’s Lament. Capella Brabant, a choir from Den for the evening, together with Composer Laureate Mayke Nas Concertzaal € 18 / € 9 Bosch, has a guest role. Rootless and crossed in love, Dido and writer Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer. (formerly decides to end her life. De Toonzaal) music theatre / Russian string quartets by Shostakovich and Gubaidulina can 6.45-8 PM music & dance Five singers and one dancer take their motivation from Dido. be heard during the concert but also interviews, speeches, € 18 / € 9 They animate a doll that resembles the puppets in the commercials, and other historic recordings in which Stalin, Japanese Bunraku tradition, imbue her with life, make her Putin, the Dutch politicians Zijlstra and Dijkhoff and quite a few composed / music breathe. As in a feverish dream they penetrate the core of others are featured. We see a composer getting entangled in & literature Dido’s desperation and determination. Using songs and an impassioned flood of words. Composer Mayke Nas created musical instruments from all corners of the world they dissect, the framework around the individual pieces in which her latest repeat, and rearrange the classical aria. DIDO DIDO is a string quartet Etherkwartet nr. 9 is also embedded. gripping farewell opera that goes deeply under the skin. The booklet on Mayke Nas will be presented during the concert. ‘Everyone will eventually yield for the pure power of Purcell’s notes. The performance ends with a punch on the jaw… Try to keep your eyes dry if you can.’ (****) de Volkskrant 38 39 STIMMUNG FRIEZE OF LIFE SILBERSEE SANNE RAMBAGS Karlheinz Stockhausen / Anthony Fiumara / Seung-Won Oh ft. Basel Rajoub / Håkon Aase / Jeroen van Vliet / Joost Lijbaart

Thurs 8 nov A 20th-century masterwork. It may be 50 years old by now The Dutch music scene is putting the young talented Thurs 8 nov Grote Kerk but has not lost any of its radiance. Stimmung was one of the improvising vocalist, Sanne Rambags, in the spotlight. 7-8 PM 6.45-8.30 PM most accessible and wonderful works by Germany’s best- November Music asked her to put together her own ‘dream Fri 9 nov € 18 / € 9 known post-war composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen. A choral ensemble’. She didn’t hold back and approached the Syrian 6.45-7.45 PM work lasting over an hour in which the master unleashes a saxophonist Basel Rajoub – whose Soriana Project made Verkadefabriek composed magisterial play of overtones and sizzling sound clouds that a big impression at November Music 2017 – the Norwegian Clubzaal unfold as a rainbow of tones in every colour imaginable. violinist Håkon Aase, of Mathias Eick Quintet fame, the Dutch € 15 / € 7,50 pianist and Boy Edgar Award winner Jeroen van Vliet, and Silbersee is the ensemble in residence during this edition of percussionist Joost Lijbaart. Rambags couples Arabic sound jazz / world November Music. It performs this trailblazing work alongside riches to jazz influences from the inventive Scandinavian two brief compositions. One is by Dutchman Anthony Fiumara scene, the so-called Nordic sound. and the other by the Dutch/Korean composer Seung-Won Oh. Rambags found the inspiration for her commissioned A concert like a nocturnal ritual, brimming with voices and composition in the soul-searching oeuvre of the Norwegian atmosphere. painter Edvard Munch; especially his series The Frieze of Life: ‘He is a painter who beautifully interprets strong emotions such as fear, love, and jealousy in his work.’ 40 41 BENJAMIN HERMAN’S BUGHOUSE PETER GIJSBERTSEN / CICONIA CONSORT / SECRET CHIEFS 3 HANS EIJSACKERS Bart Visman / Willem Jeths / Benjamin Britten e.a. Thurs 8 nov A double concert at full throttle. It kicks off with the Dutch jazz Uitreiking Nederlandse Muziekprijs Willem Twee saxophonist Benjamin Herman who played with the New Cool Poppodium Collective. Tonight he presents modern urban jazz music of the The tenor Peter Gijsbertsen excels in terms of versatility Thurs 8 nov 8.30-11 PM highest order with his new group Bughouse. The result is fizzing and musical courage. The Minister of Education, Culture and Theater aan de € 20 / € 10 punk jazz, raw and energetic, with drummer Olav van den Berg, Science of the Netherlands, Ingrid van Engelshoven, will Parade Pleinzaal bassist Peter Peskens (Jungle By Night), and guitarist Reinier present him with the Dutch Music Award, the highest music 8.30-10 PM jazz / world / rock Baas. award in the Netherlands, at November Music 2018. Sometimes € 25 / € 12,50

Gijsbertsen shines in Schubert and Strauss songs, at other ^ Composer/guitarist Trey Spruance and his celebrated collective times he is on an opera stage, performing works by Verdi composed Secret Chiefs 3 fully adhere to New York’s adventurous spirit. and Janáček. With his elegant diction and pure tenor sound, Earlier, Spruance worked with iconic Mike Patton bands such Gijsbertsen did very well at the International Vocal Competition as Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. Secret Chiefs 3 is well- (IVC) ’s-Hertogenbosch 2012. known for its esoteric and exotic cocktail of musical styles that contains elements of surf rock, world music, gipsy swing, death Gijsbertsen and pianist Hans Eijsackers give a recital featuring metal, African funk, and incidental music. The Secret Chiefs new work by composer Bart Visman, songs by Henri Duparc and 3 will perform compositions from John Zorn’s Masada cycle the entire Bosch Cyclus, three songs that IVC commissioned at November Music 2018, in a spectacular and extraordinarily from the composers Jeppe Moulijn, Willem Jeths, and Monique vibrant arrangement Krüs. Gijsbertsen delves into the work of Benjamin Britten and Francesco Paolo Tosti after the intermission, together with the 42 Ciconia Consort from The Hague. 43 DARKNESS RISES FANTASTIC WOMEN AART STROOTMAN BAUWIEN VAN DER MEER & CAECILIA BOSCHMAN philharmonie zuidnederland / TEMKO led by Karel Deseure Kate Moore / Rozalie Hirs / Georgia Nicolaou / Barbara Okma / Calliope Tsoupaki Thurs 8 nov Composer/guitarist Aart Strootman is fascinated by poetic Verkadefabriek fusions of music and technology. For Darkness Rises, he found Fortunately, there has been an increasing focus on female Fri 9 nov Grote Zaal inspiration in the lonely Pioneer 10, a space probe that was composers in the past years. The soprano Bauwien van der Meer Willem Twee 9.15-10 PM launched in 1972. The probe has quite a long way to go for the and pianist Caecilia Boschman pay tribute to these fantastic Concertzaal € 18 / € 9 foreseeable future. It is a beacon of our human civilisation in an and unconventional ladies in their recital Fantastic Women. (formerly immeasurable universe. The last time NASA managed to make De Toonzaal) minimal / music & contact with the space probe was on 22 January 2003. Fantastic Women has the stature of a song recital and the 12.30-1.30 PM visuals vivacity of a variety show. The theme of this remarkable song € 15 / € 7,50 Strootman has converted into music the final data set that project is women’s affairs: 10 composers address the position NASA received from Pioneer 10 for the South Netherlands of women in the 21st century, using powerful as well as topical composed Philharmonic and his ensemble TEMKO. Dries Alkemade made music and texts. a film to support this orchestral journey through space, using the images that accompany the probe on its enigmatic trip The Fantastic Women are Kate Moore, Aleksandra Bajde, Rozalie Hirs, Anda Kryezin, Renske Vrolijk, Georgia Nicolaou, Barbara Okma, Annelies van Parys, Calliope Tsoupaki, and Yiran Zhao. The director of this all-female project is Jorinde Keesmaat. 44 45 MADAM KOO DUTCH GOLDEN COLLECTION MERIÇ ARTAÇ DUO SIMONS | NAPOLOV Diamantfabriek / AKOM Ensemble Moritz Eggert / Yannis Kyriakides / Jan-Peter de Graaff / Samuel Penderbayne Fri 9 nov Art can offer solace and a chance to reflect. Particularly in times of Verkadefabriek suspicion and fear. The Norwegian/Dutch director Ingrid Askvik and Percussionist Konstantyn Napolov and pianist Eke Simons Fri 9 nov Kleine Zaal the Turkish/Dutch composer Meriç Artaç have made an absurdist form an explosive duo, which will present a new commissioned Muzerije Pleitzaal 7-8.15 PM chamber opera about the search for trust and faith in an unstable piece by the controversial German composer Moritz Eggert 7-8.15 PM € 15 / € 7,50 world. Their latest performance, for the music theatre company at November Music. He loves to colour outside the box and € 15 / € 7,50 Diamantfabriek, refers to the current culture of angst in European regularly wrong-foots his audience. Eggert embraces the music theatre cities and in Turkey. exception and wants to get through to a new audience for composed contemporary music in this way. His work The Collectors will Their chamber opera Madam Koo is about the crumbling trust offer more than ‘just music’; Eggert is well-known for adding between people in a climate of growing anxiety (whereas in reality theatrical surprises. we are experiencing one of the safest eras in history). Soprano Ekaterina Levental (Madam Koo), baritone Mattijs van de Woerd Also featured is Yannis Kyriakides’ Once There Was, a suite (Oak), and performer Maartje Goes (Miku) play the leading parts. of eight works for percussion, piano, and soundtrack. Music that is based on traditional children’s songs. In addition, the duo plays shorter pieces by Jan-Peter de Graaff and Samuel Penderbayne. 46 47 KLANGFORUM WIEN led by BEAT FURRER [PART 1] KLANGFORUM WIEN led by BEAT FURRER [PART 2] Rebecca Saunders / Jan van de Putte Beat Furrer / Jan van de Putte

Fri 9 nov Klangforum Wien is considered one of the most prominent Composer and founder Beat Furrer conducts some of his own Fri 9 nov Verkadefabriek contemporary music ensembles in the world. A European major works during Klangforum Wien’s second concert of the Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal choice selection of top musicians from different countries. evening. Furrer writes extraordinarily communicative music Grote Zaal 7-8 PM Klangforum Wien is based in Austria and Dutch audiences that is brimming with wondrous sounds, compelling rhythms, 9-10 PM € 18 / € 9 rarely get a chance to admire the ensemble in their own and theatrical expression. The highlight of the programme are € 18 / € 9 country. Now the full complement of musicians is coming to his lyrical timbres in Intorno Al Bianco for clarinet and string composed November Music to play not one, but two concerts on this quartet. Furrer won the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music composed Friday night. Prize last year.

The first concert puts the spotlight on the British/German Dutch composer Jan van de Putte’s recent commissioned composer Rebecca Saunders. Her compositions are rich in composition, Cette agitation perpétuelle, cette turbulence timbre and well-known for their extensive dynamic range and sans but will also be heard during Klangforum Wien’s second her predilection for glowing Klangfarben (tonal paintings). concert. Van de Putte: ‘This piece continues where my last work Saunders’ sound performance Skin, with soprano Juliet Frasier, ended. Razende Stilstand was written for ensemble STOLZ. takes central stage. Naturally, Klangforum Wien also plays a It depicts the modern world, in which everything is speeding up world premiere; a brand-new commissioned work by the Dutch whereas simultaneously it increasingly appears to be grinding composer Jan van de Putte. to a halt.’ 48 49 OMAR BASHIR HARRIET ft. Tony Overwater / Ruven Ruppik / Ahmed El Maai / HILDA PAREDES Abderrahim Semlali Muziektheater Transparant / HERMESensemble / Claron McFadden

Fri 9 nov The Bashir family is legendary among fans of the oud (Arabic The exceptional life of the Afro-American freedom fighter Harriet Fri 9 nov Willem Twee lute). Munir Bashir (1930-1997) set out a new course for Arabic Tubman (approx. 1822-1913) is the focus of this spanking new Theater aan de Concertzaal music by introducing the oud as a sparkling solo instrument. His music theatre piece. The idea was conceived by soprano and Parade Pleinzaal (formerly son Omar Bashir (1970) has followed in his footsteps. He knows female lead Claron McFadden with composer Hilda Paredes. In 9-10 PM De Toonzaal) how to keep alive the tranquil poetry of the oud like no other. In their music-theatrical portrait, new life is breathed into Tubman’s € 20 / € 10 8.30-9.30 PM his refined solos, he manages to interweave the gracefulness impressive story, narrated in an intimate fashion. € 18 / € 9 of the traditional Arabic music with the invigorating freedom of music theatre / jazz and improvised music. Bashir has worked with musicians It is a poignant tale about freedom, which needs to be told time composed world / jazz such as Quincy Jones and Jordi Savall. and again and is as topical as ever.

November Music and the Oud Festival present a special ad-hoc Harriet Tubman managed to escape slavery as a young woman project around Bashir. He joins forces with contrabassist Tony via the secret pathways of the renowned Underground Railroad. Overwater, all-round percussionist Ruven Ruppik, qanun-player At risk of her life, she returned numerous times to liberate Ahmed El Maai, and violinist Abderrahim Semlali. hundreds of others. She fought in the American Civil War and contributed to the abolition of slavery

50 51 DIOTIMA QUARTET Rebecca Saunders / Misato Mochizuki / Gérard Pesson / Clara Iannotta

The French string quartet Quatuor Diotima has played at Sat 10 nov L’HIJÂZ’CAR November Music before, during the special Helmut Lachenmann Willem Twee Day. The group presents the Dutch premiere of a new work Concertzaal Fri 9 nov Whether it sounds raw and exciting or poetic and exceptionally by Rebecca Saunders. The composition Unbreathed was (formerly Verkadefabriek beautiful, the French quintet L’Hijâz’Car creates a subtle commissioned, among others, by November Music. Saunders De Toonzaal) Clubzaal balance between traditional and modern elements from Arabic explains that she has been juxtaposing the concepts ‘denial’ 12.30-1.30 PM 10.15-11.30 PM music, jazz, and chamber music. The Mediterranean music and ‘remote’. The inventive composer plays around with € 18 / € 9 € 15 / € 7,50 culture is its springboard but L’Hijâz’Car is open to literally pitches, intensity, and timbres as she builds up to an impressive all musical genres; from the trance music of the Tuaregs to climax. Diotima also performs pieces by the composers Misato composed world / jazz Fred Frith’s art rock experiments and Kurdish vocal arts. Mochizuki, Gérard Pesson, and Clara Iannotta for the first time The exhilarating and seductive mix is like a world cinema in the Netherlands. for the ears. Quatuor Diotima was founded in 1996. It focuses on 20th- Or, as the German jazz magazine Jazz thing described it, century repertoire and is seen as one of today’s best string ‘In this quintet the direct energy of Led Zeppelin combines quartets. with Rabih Abou-Khalil’s musical brainteasers and Louis Sclavis’ imaginative folklore.’ There is an interview with Rebecca Saunders at 11.30 PM. 52 53 PSALM 151 CRASH BLOSSOM BOUDEWIJN TARENSKEEN MERIJN BISSCHOPS / RIANNE WILBERS Cappella Amsterdam / TOEAC Nobody likes to look in the mirror for a merciless confrontation Sat 10 nov Sat 10 nov Text and music are inextricably linked as far as composer with their own image. Yet, this is precisely what happens to the Muzerije Pleitzaal Bij Katrien Boudewijn Tarenskeen is concerned. This equally applies to the protagonist in audio-visual artist Merijn Bisschops’ and soprano 2-3 PM 2-3 PM world premiere of his Psalm 151 for which he has requested Rianne Wilbers’ latest and very personal music performance € 15 / € 7,50 € 20 / € 10 contributions from well-known Dutch drama and literary Crash Blossom. The colourful and complex personality of writers. Freek de Jonge, Willem Jan Otten, Mustafa Stitou, singer Crash Blossom is dissected during a musical and composed / composed / music Judith Herzberg, and Ramsey Nasr all wrote texts that are the visual trip. music & visuals & literature starting-point for Tarenskeen’s composition. As she struggles with the blurring boundaries between fact and Cappella Amsterdam’s seven singers render various psalm fiction, she is confronted by her biggest fear: herself. Concert interpretations together with the accordion duo TOEAC. Poets, and film seamlessly flow together in this powerful performance. novelists and essayists – some of whom are believers, whereas Bisschop’s and Wilber’s tour de force is rooted in their own others are renegades or converts – wrote eight very individual reality but they have let it slip through their fingers as they got song texts. Ranging from a speechless haiku to a weighty lost in rambling voices and hallucinatory views. pamphlet 54 55 RUINS & REMAINS WOLFERT BREDERODE Matangi Quartet / Joost Lijbaart / Wolfert Brederode

Sat 10 nov The Dutch pianist and jazz composer Wolfert Brederode has Verkadefabriek released several albums on the famous ECM label. He is also Clubzaal a mainstay of saxophonist Yuri Honing’s quartet. Typical for PORTRETCONCERT 4-5.15 PM Brederode’s playing is its cinematic character and the subtle OENE VAN GEEL € 15 / € 7,50 and often lyrical aural blends that he uses while enchanting New European Ensemble his listeners with a combination of chamber jazz, rock, and jazz / composed classical music. Violist and composer Oene van Geel – active in ZAPP4 and Sat 10 nov Estafest – is a musical Jack-of-all-trades and Boy Edgar Prize Muzerije Hofzaal The horrors of World War I – which ended 100 years ago on 2013 winner. He is a well-kown improvisator but has been 4-5 PM 11 November – informed his 10-part suite Ruins & Remains increasingly prolific as a composer in recent years. The New € 15 / € 7,50 (for string quartet, piano, and percussion). The composition European Ensemble throws new light on this extremely varied emphasizes human duality through opposites such as musical career. composed / world improvisation versus composition, minor versus major, and abstraction versus melody. A musical contemplation Van Geel has put together elements from various musical styles on the destructive side of human nature but equally an ode for his surprising and exciting new works. Jazz, Indian music, to resilience. classical chamber music, and his own virtuoso improvisations are sources of inspiration for these compositions. Soloists include oud player Nizar Rohana and violinist Emlyn Stam 56 57 LA VOIX HUMAINE MYRIAM FRANCIS POULENC NYX Ekaterina Levental / Chris Koolmees Eternal life… It may seem a blessing but can easily turn into Sat 10 nov Sat 10 nov This extraordinary performance in the context of the Jean a curse. Whitley Strieber’s horror classic The Hunger revolves Pand 18 Design Museum Cocteau exhibition in the Design Museum Den Bosch is a joint around Myriam. A curious creature, who lives forever but is 4-5 & 7-8 PM Den Bosch initiative by November Music and the museum. Cocteau’s play forced to bid her loved ones farewell. A never-ending quest € 15 / € 7,50 4-4.45 PM La Voix Humaine (1928), about a man and a woman saying for love. NYX (composer Dyane Donck and mezzosoprano Entree: museum goodbye, was rearranged into a one-act opera by Francis Els Mondelaers) breathes life into Myriam’s lonely destiny in rock / soundscapes ticket Poulenc after 30 years. an interdisciplinary opera with soprano Claron McFadden in a & electronics virtual role. composed / Chris Koolmees, the director, came up with an idea for the music & visuals staging of the opera that puts an entirely different spin on it. Donck and Mondelaers pool their skills to create performances The subject is of all times: a person disengaging from society. in which modern-classical influences, rock, and electronic The protagonist in this contemporary setting frantically tries music combine. Myriam is a special and sensory opera trip that to maintain a connection with the outside world like a kind of culminates in a very individual songbook. The members of the webcam girl. Mezzosoprano and performer Ekaterina Levental audience wear headphones during the performance in order to is the leading lady. immerse themselves in Myriam’s dark domain.

58 59 HILDEGARD DREAMS OF AIRS STEVEN KAMPERMAN ROZALIE HIRS Wishful Singing / Wynanda Zeevaarder / Marc Pantus SPECTRA / Nora Fischer led by Filip Rathé

Sat 10 nov The magical world of the medieval composer and mystic Few people are aware of the fascinating system that underlies Sat 10 nov Grote Kerk Hildegard von Bingen continues to stir the imagination. She our hearing. Minute differences in frequency, for example, can Willem Twee 6.30-8 PM was a powerful woman, a German Benedictine abbess who create the illusion of a pulse. This phenomenon is also referred Concertzaal € 18 / € 9 constructed her own language, wrote about female sexuality to as binaural beating. Rozalie Hirs uses binaural beats in (formerly and allowed her nuns to put on plays, which was very unusual her new composition Dreams of Airs to stimulate brainwaves De Toonzaal) composed / in the 12th century. Her music has a timeless beauty. Composer that are conceived to be present during conditions such as 7-8 PM music theatre Steven Kamperman wrote an opera that is contemporary but meditation, sleep, dreaming or creative processes. € 18 / € 9 also Gregorian around an authentic performance of Hildegard’s best known vocal masterpiece Ordo Virtutum (Order of the The piece Dreams of Airs offers a unique listening experience composed Virtues). It premieres at November Music. and carries the audience along through hypnotising accelerations and decelerations. Vocalist Nora Fischer, In Kamperman’s music-theatrical piece Hildegard, Von Bingen’s who was at November Music last year with The Secret Diary recurring melodies sometimes appear in a recognisable form of Nora Plain, will perform this world premiere with SPECTRA, but they are also surprising, due to a new perspective. From an eminent Flemish-Belgian ensemble that returns to November baroque to contemporary witha hint of the blues; Kamperman Music after a number of years. welds everything into a sparkling and kaleidoscopic aural 60 universe. 61 Programm Colours of 7-8 PM Martin Fondse Orkest ft. Omar Bashir & Remy van Kesteren 8.45-9.30 PM Jakob Bro Trio & Ben van Gelder Improvisation 8.45-9.30 PM Michael Wollny Trio & Émile Parisien

Sat 10 nov Improvisations, playing music, and jazz in every hue of the MARTIN FONDSE ORCHESTRA Verkadefabriek rainbow. Colours of Improvisation is a standard fixture at ft. Omar Bashir & Remy van Kesteren Grote Zaal each edition of November Music, which is good news for 7-11.15 PM open-minded jazz aficionados and curious music lovers. The Martin Fondse Orchestra from the Netherlands lets its audience unreservedly € 28 / € 14 The stage is cleared during an entire evening tonight. share in the euphoria and ecstasy of playing music. Composer, pianist and Boy Therefore, excellent musicians from around the world can Edgar Prize winner Fondse knows like no other how to bring together disparate build bridges between improvisation, jazz, composed music, musical spheres. He comes to November Music together with the internationally jazz / rock / world and global sounds without having to cross any borders. renowned oud player Omar Bashir and the hugely talented and versatile harpist Remy van Kesteren; two very special guests indeed.

MICHAEL WOLLNY TRIO JAKOB BRO TRIO & ÉMILE PARISIEN & BEN VAN GELDER

The German pianist Michael Wollny is seen in his own country as one of the most The Danish guitarist Jakob Bro seduces listeners with his subtle and multi-layered important jazz musicians of today. Wollny has mastered the European jazz language pieces of music, which are full of evocative sound clouds. Melancholic soundscapes but can just as easily add ingredients from rock and modern classical music. with great feeling and an impressive lyrical aptitude. Not surprisingly, the famed Since the French saxophonist Émilie Parisien has joined the Michael Wollny Trio, ECM Records has released a lot of his work. Bro always is accompanied by the it is becoming a European super group that can take the audience for a crazy but percussionist Joey Baron, bassist Thomas Morgan and, especially for this occasion, enjoyable musical ride that varies from whispering lyrical melodies to rhythmical the Dutch alto saxophonist Ben van Gelder who is well-known for his elegant and explosions and roughly everything in-between. imaginative playing.

62 63 FACE THE GARDEN YANNIS KYRIAKIDES RICHARD AYRES / MARTHA COLBURN Electra Asko|Schönberg led by Bas Wiegers

Sat 10 nov Facial expressions are an endless source of fascination for The Garden is a cyclical narrative about a man who is so Sat 10 nov Verkadefabriek the Dutch/Cypriot composer Yannis Kyriakides. His brand-new dissatisfied with his life that he starts to dig in his garden with Theater aan de Kleine Zaal composition Face for the Electra ensemble is a multimedia the aim to reach the centre of the earth. Or he climbs a tree Parade Pleinzaal 7-8 PM piece for voice, violin, recorders, live electronics, and video. and is carried off by clouds and birds ever higher into the sky. 9-10 PM € 18 / € 9 Kyriakides has collaborated closely on this project with the Eventually, he ends up next to that same tree in his garden. The € 20 / € 10 Dutch/German visual artist and photographer Johannes British/ Dutch composer Richard Ayres translated this weird and composed / Schwartz. wonderful tale into a song cycle for singer Joshua Bloom and composed / music & visuals ensemble Asko|Schönberg. music & visuals The performance uses, among others, photos taken by Schwartz of the unique collection of Dutch anthropologist Ayres found his inspiration in Jheronimus Bosch’ grotesque Kleiweg de Zwaan, hypermodern 3D prints, and texts by fantasy world and Dante’s visionary Divine Comedy. The Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire. composer also used texts he heard in films or in the pub. His colourful and playful music is complemented by the hallucinatory Kyriakides has created a compelling score for Electra, which illustrations of the American video artist Martha Colburn. is performed by Diamanda La Berge Dramm (violin), Susanna Borsch (recorder), Michaela Riener (soprano) and Saskia ‘Ayres’ music never derails for it is already off the rails’, according Lankhoorn (piano). to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.

64 65 TOTALITER ALITER ICEBREAKER PETER VIGH Anna Meredith / Kate Moore e.a. Black Pencil / Nationaal Vrouwen Jeugdkoor Icebreaker navigates the vast landscape of contemporary Sun 11 nov Sat 10 nov Ensemble Black Pencil and the Netherlands Female Youth cross-over music. The 12-piece British ensemble, led by flautist/ Verkadefabriek Jheronimus Bosch Choir go to the hereafter and back again in Totaliter Aliter. The composer James Poke, seeks out the connections between rock, Clubzaal Art Center world premiere of Peter Vigh’s eponymous work features the jazz, avant-garde, and minimal music. The collective has earlier 12.30-1.30 PM 9-10 PM visions of Hildegard von Bingen made audible and the Cantigas played the works of Louis Andriessen, Brian Eno, and Philip € 15 / € 7,50 € 15 / € 7,50 de Santa Maria. Visions of the afterlife are often reminiscent of Glass. the impressive and universal reports of people who have been composed / composed able to go beyond death during Near Death Experiences. Icebreaker concerts in the Netherlands are few and far between minimal music / but for November Music’s closing day the ensemble put together rock Composer Peter Vigh’s new composition is informed by a special programme with only female composers. It includes a this subject matter. He thought the intriguing and varied customized ensemble version of Kate Moore’s successful work instrumentation of ensemble Black Pencil (recorder, panpipes, The Dam for which she received the Matthijs Vermeulen Award viola, accordion, and percussion) and the young voices of the last year. The rousing and mesmerizing piece Nautilus by the Netherlands Female Youth Choir seemed the ideal combination popular British cross-over composer Anna Meredith guarantees to glance at the great beyond. musical fireworks. The programme also features the work of Jobina Tinnemans, Elizabeth Kelly, Kerry Andrew, and Linda Buckley. 66 67 METROPOLE ORKEST STRINGS FT. ANOUSHKA SHANKAR & MANU DELAGO led by JULES BUCKLEY

The British/Indian sitar player Anoushka Shankar is a Sun 11 nov CELLOKRIJGERS (6+) phenomenon in progressive world music. The daughter of Verkadefabriek OORKAAN / CELLO OCTET AMSTERDAM the legendary Ravi Shankar, she knows the Indian classical Grote Zaal tradition inside out but has always given it her own idiosyncratic 3-4.30 PM Sun 11 nov The cello warriors are coming! They are strong, flexible, and and modern twist. Shankar has received a Songlines Best Artist € 25 / € 12,50 Verkadefabriek have nimble fingers. Armoured with a cello and bow they go to Award and six Grammy Award nominations to date. Kleine Zaal battle, prepared to meet each and every challenge along the world / rock 2.30-3 & 4-5 PM way. Big dangers, the unknown, and obstacles on the road. Equally multifaceted is the Austrian percussionist Manu Delago. € 8 / € 4 The cello troopers rattle their bows like sabres. Using humour This rising star on the European progressive music scene and exciting music they move elegantly around as the fight studied classical percussion and specialised in the ‘hang’, music theatre / rages. A performance for young and old people with heroic a relatively new percussion instrument that consists of two steel family concert courage. What are the powers you need to become a fighter? half-shells placed on top of each other. He has played with The Cinematic Orchestra, Björk, and Bugge Wesseltoft. Cellokrijgers (Cello warriors) is a performance about putting on a brave face, winning and losing, being vulnerable, and Shankar and Delago got to know each other in London. There the power of music. The famous Cello Octet Amsterdam plays was a musical click from the word ‘Go’ and their collaboration curiously heroic music by composer like Béla Bartók, György was inevitable. The Metropole Orchestra Strings, led by Jules Ligeti, and Philip Glass. Buckley, backs up the super duo.

68 69 Sun 4 nov Kunst muziek Route AMIR ELSAFFAR’S RIVERS OF SOUND

Sun 11 nov According to Downbeat magazine, Amir ElSaffar (trumpet, On foot or by bike? It is one of many dilemmas you face Sun 4 nov Verkadefabriek santur, vocals) should no longer be regarded as a bridge- during November Music’s ‘traditional’ KunstmuziekRoute. Various locations Grote Zaal builder between jazz, classical, and Arabic music. Downbeat Splendid locations in the inner city will be opening their doors 11.30 AM-6 PM 8.30-9.45 PM wrote that, ‘ElSaffar has moved beyond building bridges; his to let in concertgoers between 11.30 AM and 6 PM. A single € 20 / € 10 € 18 / € 9 music has become the river’. ticket provides a raft of choices from 25 or so concerts and This year, too, November Music’s closing concert brings performances. Plus, you compose your own programme. jazz / world / together musical lines from different parts of the planet. Virtually all of the concerts are repeated to make it easier to composed The musical finale is in safe hands with ElSaffar who left a great hear your favourites. They are grouped into different routes impression after playing at the festival in 2015. but these are mere suggestions The American brings his 17-piece group Rivers of Sound for which he recruited phenomenal musicians from the fields of HOW DOES IT WORK? jazz and Arabic music. Tickets for the KunstmuziekRoute can be exchanged for wristbands at the concert locations on the day. This wristband ElSaffar grew up in Chicago. He played trumpet with Marc provides access to all concerts on the route. The number of Ribot, Vijay Iyer, and Jason Moran. As he wanted to know more visitors at each concert is strictly limited. Do not arrive late about the musical traditions of his forebears, he spent some at the venue for NOBODY WILL BE ALLOWED IN once the time in Iraq to study the maqam tradition. ElSaffar won this maximum of visitors has been reached. Wristbands can also year’s Downbeat poll for the most talented trumpet player and be bought at the concert venue composer. The information about the concerts on the KunstmuziekRoute Uniquely poised to reconcile jazz and Arabic music,’ The Wire starts on page 72.

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MOON SUITE WILMA PISTORIUS Doris Hochscheid

A woman who thinks herself a mermaid is trapped in a moonlit 1.30-2, 3-3.30 & landscape. A poetic image that composer Wilma Pistorius 4.30-5 PM chose as the starting-point for her fascinating cello solo Moon Pand 18 Suite (2016). Doris Hochscheid, together with director Ganna Bovenruimte Veenhuysen, turned it into a theatrical performance. The texts, the lighting, and the projection add an extra dimension to the composed cellist’s dramatic playing. The work gives voice to the cyclical journey of the mermaid, guided by the moon.

CANTI D’INIZIO E FINE VORSICHT, KATHARINA! MAXIM SHALYGIN JAN VAN DE PUTTE Maya Fridman Katharina Gross

11.30 AM-12.15 PM The young Dutch/Ukrainian composer Maxim Shalygin Cellist Katharina Gross loves to step outside the boundaries of 1.30-2.15 & & 1-1.45 PM embraces beauty and uses a direct sound language. In Maya the normal performance practice. Music in a theatrical setting 3.30-4.15 PM Noordbrabants Fridman he has found an extraordinarily dedicated performer. and compositions with a strong dramatic focus have her full Design Museum Museum Statenzaal The Dutch/Russian cellist combines razor-sharp technical attention. Jan van de Putte composed Vorsicht, Katharina! Den Bosch prowess with a huge emotional range. Canti d’inizio e fine is a specifically for her. This new solo work has a long build-up Auditorium composed six-part cycle based on the writings of poets who died in World and is very emotionally charged. Van de Putte is one of the War II. In addition, Shalygin chose Paul Celan’s legendary most idiosyncratic Dutch composers. His work always reaches composed German-language poem Todesfuge as an epilogue. Fridman beyond the boundaries of the strictly musical as it explores the provides the vocals. subconscious. Serbian and Ethiopian music are his surprising sources of inspiration. 72 73 VIOLIN VIOLIN ROUTE ROUTE KUNST KUNST MUZIEK MUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE

MUTED MONICA GERMINO Louis Andriessen / Michael Gordon / David Lang / Julia Wolfe

12.30-1.15 & The need to play her violin pianissimo opens new dimensions 3.30-4.15 PM for the celebrated American/Dutch violinist Monica Germino. Muzerije Pleitzaal Owing to an unpleasant hearing disorder, Germino can no longer play loud or amplified music. She has now turned this composed curse into a blessing through collaborations with the world- famous composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Louis Andriessen who wrote original work for Germino with considerably reduced decibels.

SONGS FROM A CIRCLE ONUR TÜRKMEN Diamanda La Berge Dramm

11.30 AM-12 PM, As vibrant as her name 1-1.30 & sounds, as impressive 2.30-3 PM and versatile is the Verkadefabriek young violinist’s career. Cabaretfirma Diamanda La Berge NIEK BAAR Dramm (1991) grew up György Kurtág / Einar Englund / Heather Pinkman composed between key figures in classic, modern, and The Dutch classical violinist Niek Baar (1991) won first prize at 2-2.30 & improvisational music. the prestigious Oskar Back Violin Competition early this year. 3.30-4 PM She won the Dutch A future violin giant, who feels at home with the classical as Noordbrabants Classical Talent well as the more modern repertoire. Baar put together a Museum Award this year and was awarded the Kersjesprijs. The Turkish multifaceted solo recital for November Music. Self-evidently, Statenzaal composer Onur Türkmen wrote Songs from a Circle specifically it features the music of his favourite composer Bach but there for her in 2017. The work is based on six poems that are are also surprising solo pieces by Von Biber, György Kurtág, composed connected through the theme of melancholy. and AMPA student Einar Englund on his music stand. Plus a new composition by Heather Pinkman. 74 75 LET’S LET’S DANCE DANCE ROUTE ROUTE KUNST KUNST MUZIEK MUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE

IKAROS ASPASIA NASOPOULOU Joe Puglia / Emmy Storms / Manuela Tessi

Writer Henk van der Waal was inspired by Icarus’ myth for his 2-2.30 & 5-5.30 PM existential poem: ‘In de ogen van de god’ (Querido, 2014) (In Verkadefabriek the eyes of the god’). Composer Aspasia Nasopoulou created Kleine Zaal an enchanting dance performance to go with the text for two VOOR ALTIJD SAMEN, EN TOCH OOK ALLEEN violinists, a dancer, and a movable screen that is animated by composed / Ulrike Doszmann / Batja ten Kortenaar / TEMKO the video projection. Nasopoulou has been using various texts music & dance / in her recent work that she weaves into the structure of the music & visual 11.30 AM-12 PM & Choreographer Ulrike Doszmann is fascinated by the music with its gentle contemporary lyricism. 1-1.30 PM hallucinatory patterns of minimal music. When she heard Bank van Leening TEMKO play The Time We Share she was deeply touched. The melodies and musical patterns shift magically alongside BOOG composed / each other and fuse together in Fred Jacobsson’s composition. Frederieke Saeijs / Heather Ware / Oene van Geel music & dance Doszmann was immediately inspired to create a dance arrangement. Batja ten Kortenaar and Ulrike Doszmann The Dutch violin virtuoso Frederieke Saeijs is totally besotted 2-2.30, perform the choreography together with TEMKO members with her lovely historical instrument, a Pietro Guarneri built in 3-3.30 & Aart Strootman (guitar) and Fred Jacobsson (bass guitar). Venice in 1725. The violist/composer Oene van Geel has 4-4.30 PM written a work for her with dancer Heather Ware Stadsbibliotheek (LeineRoebana) and in close collaboration with Saeijs herself. Together, Ware and Van Geel are bookending this unique composed / performance with Frederieke Saeijs in the middle. The outcome music & dance is a composition brimming with sound poetry and swirling movements that culminates in tranquillity. 76 77 IT TAKES TWO IT TAKES TWO ROUTE ROUTE KUNST KUNST MUZIEK MUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE

THE EXPLORATION OF THE FLAMENCO METROPOLIS Tony Roe & José Quevedo

THE ONE I FEED Music that creates a heightened state of pure emotion. There 4-4.30 & GENEVIEVE MURPHY is a cry of ‘Duende’, followed shortly afterwards by flamenco 5-5.30 PM TOEAC music. The music makes hearts beat louder and flexes muscles Verkadefabriek as part of ecstatic dancing sessions. The Dutch pianist Tony Roe Cabaretfirma 12-12.45 & Composer Genevieve Murphy likes to explore cross- and the Spanish flamenco guitarist José Quevedo met some 2-2.45 PM pollinations between performance art and contemporary music. years ago at the Flamenco Biënnale. They clicked musically and world Theater Artemis In the performance The One I Feed – the composition was the collaboration continues. The pair manages to combine the Benedenzaal commissioned by November Music – the accordion duo TOEAC fiery flamenco soul of the Andalusian Jerez de la Frontera with descends into the vaults of the human brain. A compelling passionate, contemporary improvisations. composed process; the entire audience is watching and listening. One’s safety is not guaranteed during this performance once Murphy starts to play the duo against each other – live on stage. LATITUDE/LONGITUDE GÁBOR TARJÁN Eve Tebbe & Niels Meliefste LYRISCH LAAG 1.30-2 & Gábor Tarján’s source of FIE SCHOUTEN 3-3.30 PM inspiration for Latitude/ Frederik Neyrinck / Georgia Nicolaou / Michael Finnissy Muzerije Hofzaal Longitude is the enigmatic book Atlas of Fie Schouten is one of the most ardent advocates of 3.30-4.15 & composed Remote Islands by Judith contemporary bass clarinet music. She presents a very special 5.15-6 PM Schalanskys. Tarján gives programme at November Music with three premieres of three Theater Artemis voice to distant islands markedly different composers from three countries. The Bovenruimte in his composition, which ensemble consists of Fie Schouten and Marij van Gorkom (bass is rich in contrasts as per clarinets), Eva van de Poll (cello) and Beltane Ruiz Molina composed usual. Latitude/Longitude (contrabass). The programme is set up to have an internal is built from several scenes; like musical still lives. crescendo – from a single bass clarinet and one low string With harpist Eva Tebbe (Duo Bilitis) and percussionist player to two bass clarinets and two low string players. It is Niels Meliefste (Slagwerk Den Haag). also a homage to Harry Sparnaay, the prominent bass clarinet champion and Fie Schouten’s former teacher, who died this year. 78 79 SOUND SOUND AND VISION AND VISION ROUTE ROUTE KUNST KUNST MUZIEK MUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE

KOERIKOELOEM MIRANDA DRIESSEN Naomi Sato, Axolot Trio e.a. CENT SILENCES 3-4 PM The Dutch composer Miranda Driessen based her Grote Kerk Alfred Momotenko Grote Kerk groundbreaking music theatre performance Koerikoeloem on Tjitske Jansen’s eponymous poem. The sound ritual is performed The sound installation Cent Silences by composer Alfred 11.30 AM-5 PM composed / by eight solo voices, a Japanese sho and a recorder trio. The Momotenko is a tribute to the victims of World War I, which Mon 5-Thurs 8 nov music & literature most important player is the wind, which plays an installation ended exactly 100 years ago. Collectively, all the silences 9 AM-5.30 PM of eight Aeolian harps. to commemorate the end of this war would add up to 100 Fri 9 nov minutes, i.e. if our civilization would observe a single minute 9 AM-8 PM for each year. Thus Cent Silences...’ Momotenko subtly Sat 10 & Sun 11 nov gives voice to these 100 silences, based on scenes from the 11 AM-5 PM life of a soldier. He has used sounds from various archive, Willem Twee including those produced by a set of original war instruments, Kunstruimte environmental sounds, and marching songs. electronics & soundscapes / installation / music & visuals AEOLIAN iii MAJA RATKJE / KATHY HINDE Geert-Jan Hobijn / Dianne Verdonk / Elise ’t Hart / Evelina Rajca / Red Note Ensemble / Andreas Borregaard Falco Pols

2-2.30 & Aeolian puts Kathy Hinde’s imposing home-made wind machines With its dramatic chambers and dusky corridors, the Kruithuis is 11.30-12.15, 4-4.30 PM central stage. People are operating these startling machines the perfect location for topical sound installations and (sound) 1.30-2.15 & Willem Twee without the use of electronics. performances. Artists of different generations present sound 3.30-4.15 PM Kunstruimte All this human energy is deployed to create air and – eventually installations that are completely tailored to the 17th-century Kruithuis – sound. The Norwegian composer Maja Ratkje wrote the music gunpowder magazine. The Italian/Dutch composer, sound artist, composed / for this exceptional clash between sound art and contemporary and member of the iii collective Matteo Marangoni has curated composed / installation / music. Aeolian is performed by the Danish accordionist Andreas the exploration. He invited five makers to create new installations, installation / music & visuals Borregaard and the Scottish Red Note Ensemble. custom-made for this splendid location. Sound artist Bart van music & visuals Dongen is the expedition leader. 80 81 LESS IS MORE LESS IS MORE ROUTE ROUTE KUNST KUNST MUZIEK MUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE

CONSERVANT IAN RICHTER Anthony Leigh Dustan / Anna Meadors / Kevin Clark

1.30-2, The American saxophonist Ian Richter looks for challenges 3-3.30 & where music theatre and multimedia projects intersect. 4-4.30 PM Composers often go that little bit further. Richter plays three Museum Slager recent solo pieces. Anthony Leigh Dunstan’s huh captures the restive search for the enigma of someone talking to themselves. composed Apophony, by Anna Meadors, plays a shrewd game with words and sounds. In Kevin Clark’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, music and poetry tell the dramatic story of a waverer who is slowly consumed from the inside out, due to indecision.

SONGS FOR VONK VONK Nicoline Soeter / Brechtje / Molly Joyce VIVIAN CHOI Kate Moore / Unsuk Chin 12-12.30, The crossover ensemble VONK found the inspiration for 2-2.30 & Songs for Vonk in the process of evolution and rock culture. The Korean/Australian pianist Vivian Choi is one of the most 3.30-4 & 4-4.30 PM Three female composers – Nicoline Soeter, Molly Joyce, and passionate promoters of brand-new piano repertoire. 5-5.30 PM Bij Katrien Brechtje – were invited to complete a new composition based The American music magazine Fanfare called her ‘the exemplar Willem Twee on these themes. Songs in which influences from contemporary of the modern global pianist’. In the course of two intensive Concertzaal composed / rock composed music as well as avant-garde rock are evident. The sets, Choi draws from her rich catalogue and plays work by her (formerly music stretches across genres and is driven by an appetite for favourite composer, Kate Moore, including the classic Spin Bird De Toonzaal) surprising languages. VONK consists of soprano Rianne Wilbers, as well as recent pieces such as Bestiary (2016) and Lucidity- saxophonist Tom Sanderman, composer Nicoline Soeter, Eyes of Hands (2018). Choi also launches into sections of the composed / clarinettist Erwin Muller and percussionist Reggy van Bakel. very expressive Piano Etudes by the South Korean composer minimal Unsuk Chi. 82 83 SPORT AMPA ROUTE ROUTE KUNST fc JONGBLOED KUNST MUZIEK and other AMPA Ensembles led by Aart Strootman MUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE The student ensemble F.C. Jongbloed has been surprising the audience with spectacular programmes for over 10 years. Of 11.30 AM, 12.30, course it will be present at November Music in 2018. This time 1.30, 2.30 & with a poppy programme that presents arrangements of music 3.30 PM by Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, and others. A better conclusion of the Werkwarenhuis afternoon in the big hall of the Willem Twee poppodium is hard to 4.30 & 5.30 PM MUHAMMAD imagine. Earlier, three smaller ensembles will play three smaller Willem Twee Ikarai works in Werkwarenhuis, mainly written by Dutch composers, poppodium including the spectacular I Delayed People’s Flights By Walking 12.30-1, The fledgling Dutch crossover ensemble Ikarai pays homage to Slowly In Narrow Hallways by Mayke Nas and Wouter Snoei in composed music 2-2.30 & the great boxer Muhammad Ali. Ikarai takes a different view of which percussionists play on blackboards. The students of AMPA & visuals 3.30-4 PM boxing in this performance. (Academy of Music and Performing Arts) in Tilburg will show that Pand 18 The epic fight between Ali and George Foreman in 1974, also young musicians are the future.. Benedenzaal called ‘Rumble in the Jungle’, is a perfect vehicle for a musical score; rhythmical and elegant but with hard-hitting jabs as well jazz / as uppercuts. The famous audio fragments of the legendary gecomponeerd match and Ali’s dazzling speeches are used in this sparkling performance. An exciting round-up between classical music, jazz, and rock.

GALIBIER Mathijs Leeuwis ALL IS DELUSION Collectief BouwmeesterDonck 11.30 AM -12 & The mouths of many cycling fans will start to water on seeing 12.30-1 PM images of the Galibier. This Giant of the Alps has a height of Lost in delusion. For most people this can turn out wrong Tue 6 through Thurs Willem Twee 2645 metres and poses a real challenge for every participant of whereas artists know what to do with hallucinations. Collectief 8 Nov Concertzaal the Tour de France. Dutch composer and pedal steel guitarist BouwmeesterDonck (aka sculptor Iris Bouwmeester and 9-5.30 PM (formerly Mathijs Leeuwis brings an instrumental ode to the most beautiful composer Dyane Donck) creates an alienating atmosphere in Fri 9 nov De Toonzaal) and painful cycling ascends in the world. its installation All Is Delusion using seductive sculptures and 9-8 PM The rest of the breakaway group consists of Marzio Scholten intriguing sounds with a dark undertone. All Is Delusion shows Sat 10 & Sun 11 Nov jazz / rock / (guitar), Mischa Porte (drums), and Mathijn den Duijf (piano). a desolate scene that manifests as a cinematic and intangible 11-5 PM music & visuals landscape. Willem Twee ‘Finally! Someone who pushes pedal steel guitar into this Kunstruimte century. Great album!’ Nico Dijkshoorn sound installation 84 85 MORE ABOUT MUSIC FOR PROFESSIONALS Would you like to find out more about a composer’s or musician’s motives or about the stories behind the music? Various activities, mostly free of charge, give the Art criticism (in collaboration with Kunstloc Brabant) Thurs 8 nov | 3 PM audience the opportunity to look behind the scenes. Go to our website for additional Verkadefabriek and updated information, www.novembermusic.net International visitors’ programme for foreign Fri 9 through Sun 11 Nov INTERVIEWS WITH COMPOSERS programmers and festival directors (in collaboration Verkadefabriek with Dutch Performing Arts) Sat 3 nov | 5 PM James Dillon (& Richard Steinitz, oprichter Willem Twee Concertzaal van Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) MuDaChiefs for musicians, dancers and theatre Wed 7 through Fri 9 Nov makers (in collaboration with DansBrabant) Muzerije Wed 7 nov | 6 PM Georges Aperghis Willem Twee Concertzaal

Sat 10 nov | 11.30 AM Rebecca Saunders COMPOSERS’ PORTRAITS AMPA / FHK Willem Twee Concertzaal door musicologe Thea Derks The musicologist Joep Christenhusz has The Academy of Music and Performing The concert ticket gives access to the interviews been commissioned by November Music Arts of the Fontys School of Fine and to portray festival composer Kate Moore. Performing Arts in Tilburg has geared Dimitri van der Werf has edited/written its project week to November Music SYMPOSIUMS AND MEETINGS a compilation about Composer Laureate 2018. In this context, the students of Mayke Nas. Both publications can be the departments classical music, jazz Tue 6 nov | 3.30 PM Dance and Music with LeineRoebana, obtained during the festival as well as and composition will perform or attend Verkadefabriek Ulrike Doszmann, Jelena Kostic & Dyane Donck the composers’ portraits that have been concerts. (in collaboration with DansBrabant) published during earlier festival editions. These are listed on the website and can There will also be masterclasses Wed 7 nov | 1.30 PM Composers in the year 2018 with Anthony Fiumara, be downloaded as PDFs. and workshops with composers and Verkadefabriek Genevieve Murphy, Aart Strootman, Jan-Peter de musicians active at the festival. Graaff en Remy Alexander (in collaboration with AMPA)

Thurs 8 nov | 6.45 PM Book presentation Composer Laureat EDUCATION MEDIA Willem Twee Concertzaal Mayke Nas Cultural education is vital to stimulate the NTR, VPRO and the Concertzender Fri 9 nov | 2 PM Music and Religion: heavenly or hellish? appreciation and understanding of new are recording various concerts. Verkadefabriek with Martin Hoondert, Joep Franssens, Kate Moore, music among children and teenagers. A November Music supplement is Peter van Praagh November Music invites pupils of primary published as part of the VPRO Gids (in collaboration with Tilburg University) and secondary schools and (music) in October. studentsfor tworkshops, talks, concerts, and tours. 86 87 COMPONIST IN FOCUS KATE MOORE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE SILBERSEE

The Australian/Dutch composer Moore has been featured at November The Dutch production house Silbersee Silbersee collaborates with theatre Kate Moore (1979) uses minimal Music a number of times and is now lifts contemporary music theatre to an makers, composers, dancers, circus means to unleash grand emotional returning as the festival composer. She entirely new dimension. They are game performers, and urban artists. This sound panoramas of slowly shifting has been commissioned by the festival for anything that puts the spotlight on results in performances that are patterns and mesmerising vistas. Lush to write the new work Lux Aeterna: contemporary opera and unorthodox physical, poetic, and endearing in a forces of nature are a major source VIVID in the context of the Bosch multidisciplinary performances, as unique way. of inspiration for Moore. Pure musical Requiem 2018 (p. 14). Her compositions evident from their much-lauded Homo theory and gracious organic forms are also performed by Amsterdam Instrumentalis last year. Now they Silbersee performs its enthusiastically collide in her compositions. She writes Sinfonietta (p. 27), Icebreaker (p. 67), are back. As ensemble in residence received DIDO DIDO (p. 38) and their work which borders on minimal music but pianist Vivian Choi (p. 83), singer they present three very different version of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s equally references the rock-like muscle Bauwien van der Meer (p. 45), and performances during the festival. classic Stimmung (p. 40) at November flexing dynamics of Louis Andriessen. saxophonist Tom Sanderman (p. 16). Music 2018. Stille Nacht am Silbersee The interest in her music has grown Silbersee is under the direction of the (p. 20) is a collaboration with the author exponentially in recent years in the A book about Moore’s work and motives, inspiring artistic leader Romain Bischoff. Anna Enquist and cellist Jörg Brinkmann. Netherlands as well as abroad. written by music journalist Joep The miracle of the human voice is its Moore won the prestigious Matthijs Christenhusz, will appear as part of our leitmotiv. Vermeulen Award in 2017. series of composers’ portraits.

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PRINS E ZUIDWAL W E G 90 91 PRACTICAL INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY & PARKING

November Music 2018 takes place in various locations in November Music 2018 takes place in various locations in ’s-Hertogenbosch. The central festival hub is the conservatory ’s-Hertogenbosch (see map). Verkadefabriek is the central festival (serre) in Verkadefabriek where you can have a drink and lounge hub. It is easily accessible from the train station or by car. There is to our DJs’ music ample parking in the vicinity. For the other concert locations in the inner city we advise the parking garages Wolvenhoek or St.-Jan. TICKET SALES If you are visiting multiple locations it may be a good idea to rent an OV-fiets (public bicycle) at the train station. Tickets for November Music 2018 are on sale at www.novembermusic.net or at the Verkadefabriek box office (T 00 31 73 681 81 60). They can also be purchased at the OVERNIGHT STAY IN ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH concert venues during the festival (unless sold-out). A visit to November Music for more than one day is not just worth it due to the music. ’s-Hertogenbosch itself, with its historic and XL DISCOUNT PASS welcoming centre, is an ideal destination for a multi-day trip. There are numerous hotels and B&Bs for an overnight stay. Would you like to attend multiple concerts at November Music 2018? With the Festival pass XL (€ 37.50), which is strictly persona,you will get 50% off per concert ticket. Please note, CONTACT do not order your tickets after purchasing the discount pass until you receive a confirmation email! When you buy a day ticket November Music www.novembermusic.net for the John Zorn programme on 5 November, a festival pass XL Boschdijkstraat 45 [email protected] is included. 5211 VD ’s-Hertogenbosch

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The Dioraphte Foundation supports artistic Our contribution to November and cultural projects of a high qualitative Music gives extra support to many standard with a national or international extraordinary compositions created reach. November Music can count on our by Dutch composers. Buma supports support this year, too, in order to facilitate its and promotes contemporary music international programming, which is aimed and jazz made by composers and at a broad public. Culture is a treasure that lyricists from the Netherlands. should be shared; not then but now.

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