New NOW Directory 2019 2020

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WHAT IS NEW, NEXT, NOW?

Thanks to the help of many new music devotees we proudly present our first New Music NOW directory!

This directory offers a helping hand by providing an overview of the many urgent & relevant , performers and projects in today’s Dutch new music scene. It also serves as a practical who-is- who-guide of NL ensembles, , stages, festivals, publishers, labels, media and online platforms, funds and their ongoing collaboration with NL-based composers. Although far from complete, it will give you a head start in exploring the current state of the spinning new music NOW scene in The .

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface by Esther Gottschalk p. 3

DUTCH COMPOSERS NOW p. 6-103

NEW SELECTIONS NOW Going Dutch in Tallinn p. 107 And the Award Goes to... p. 109 Dutch Composers NOW at Classical NEXT p. 112 Buma Cultuur p. 118 Nieuw Geneco p. 119

NEW MUSIC NOW DIRECTORY 2019-2020 p. 120-132

About Dutch Composers NOW p. 134 Colophon p. 135

8 9 LAUREATE OF THE NETHERLANDS THE OF LAUREATE COMPOSER TSOUPAKICALLIOPE Calliope Tsoupaki has been appointed Composer Laureate (Componist des Vaderlands) of The Netherlands for 2019-20. As the figurehead of new Dutch music, Tsoupaki connects her compositions to everyday life and contributes to national events. On Human In 1998 Calliope Tsoupaki Rights Day – December 10, 2018 – (Piraeus, , 1963) for Life and Death was performed, a new moved to the Netherlands to solo piece for pan flute. Immediately study with . after the fire in Notre-Dame in Paris, she She became one of the most composed a solo piece for organ: Pour prolific Dutch composers Notre-Dame which was performed in with a distinct voice of her many churches in the Netherlands and own. In her compositions, abroad to express solidarity. The scores she uses elements of early are available as a free download: and contemporary music as componistdesvaderlands.nl/online-partituren well as the and the Middle East. Her solo pieces, , vocal works, ensemble com pieces, orchestral scores p

and are performed in onistdesvaderlands.nl callio the Netherlands and abroad.

Componist des Vaderlands p etsou is an initiative of BUMA

Cultuur. Calliope Tsoupaki is p the third composer Laureate aki.com after Willem Jeths (2014-16) and Mayke Nas (2016-18). 10 11 HERCULES ZUIDAM ROB

“There have been quite a number of composers who have tried to use music to Zuidam composed a new chamber express ecstasy. […] One of for former Marine and baritone the few to have succeeded Bastiaan Everdink, based on the singers’ in capturing genuine rapture life. A story about how a elite soldier in sound is Rob Zuidam. […]” transformed into an opera singer. These

De Volkskrant radiofilharmonischorkest.nl two seemingly separate worlds might have something in common in fighting World premiere: September 2019, one’s battle. Since 2011 Everdink sings Bastiaan Everdink (baritone), zaterda robertzuidam.com as a regular soloist at the Deutsche Oper Annemarie Kremer (soprano), Radio Philharmonic Berlin. Rob Zuidam is known for his great

and James Gaffigan (conductor) g vocal writing and received much acclaim in the Concertgebouw matinee.nl with his opera output. In 2010 Zuidam . Commissioned by NTR ZaterdagMatinee, broadcast received the Dutch Kees van Baaren series in the Concertgebouw

Award for his opera Rage d’amours. Amsterdam. ANNE & ZEF ANNE MONIQUE KRÜS

Monique Krüs’ chamber opera Anne & Zef a lot in common: a violent

is based on the successful play Anne en death, their premature moni Zef by Dutch playwright Ad de Bont. Zef, death and problems with q

a fifteen-year-old Albanian boy from our parents. Their curiosity uekrus.nl time, was killed because of the Kanun, the about each other leads to blood revenge. In the afterlife, he meets poignant, funny and at times Anne Frank and they find out they have melancholy scenes. 14 15 BITCRUSHER FIUMARA ANTHONY

Leading composer Anthony Fiumara and to remember”, wrote de top talented choreographer Kuindersma Volkskrant in a review of create a new performance about her choreography for the ‘pixelisation’ of the world. Junior Company of the Dutch National Ballet. In season In recent years, the name of choreographer 2019-2020 Kuindersma Wubkje Kuindersma has been zooming will engage in an exciting around the Dutch dance scene. “A name partnership with Anthony Fiumara, one of the most celebrated composers in the Dutch contemporary music scene. The point of departure for Bitcrusher, their first full-length creation, is the ‘pixelisation’ of the world: digital reality is taking increasing precedence over analogue reality. Information is getting lost in the translation from reality to the building blocks of pixels. How does our analogue anthon body and soul relate to y

their bit-crushed equal? fiumara.com With an eager interaction between dance and music, Kuindersma and Fiumara go in search of answers. 16 17 SOUNDS LIKE JUGGLING! WAGENAARARTHUR

A playground of motion and sound: composer Arthur Wagenaar, juggler Guido van Hout and instrument designer Dianne Verdonk are joining forces to create new musical instruments that are played by juggling. Think pendulums with resonating springs, waddling swings, and spinning clocks. But also sensors measuring the movement of clubs or detecting the impact of a ball dropping to the floor and translating this into sound. Juggling becomes audible, music becomes visible. The new instruments will be used in a unique performance about being stuck in patterns and breaking out of them. Musical and juggling patterns are used as a metaphor for patterns in real life. Arthur Wagenaar: “We are creating a playground, a refuge. In our world, the rules might change any moment and nothing is impossible. As part of the arthurwa audience, you won’t be able to sit still! Everyone will be juggling our instruments.

Everyone may enter the playground.” g Two versions: 25’ and 60’, both without enaar.nl spoken language and suitable for both indoor and outdoor setting. 18 19 PLANS IN RADICAL COUNTERPOINT FOR 2020 FOR COUNTERPOINT RADICAL IN PLANS HANSKO VISSER

for Piano, Grit and a Dancer. Each piece is linked to what some people call mental disorders; we prefer to call them psychological idiosyncracies. The premiere of Kémény­ madár / Asvogel / Bird from the chimney, a “bio- graphical score” around the live and works of Erno Kiraly (1919-2007) premieres in October, 2020 in Orgelpark, Amsterdam. The score, a set Plan Kruutntoone is bringing out a new of printed lino cuts endowed record with the working title Pas maar with musical parameters, op, want deze tas is van Zorro. The directions and tone stocks is uncompromising trio is aiming for Spring handed over to three other 2020 and recently recorded with pianist composers to write their Reinier van Houdt and producer Dolf version of the piece. All demisluktezi Planteijdt. four versions will be played p

along with work of Kiraly. lankruutntoone.net A release tour along the coolest venues in The invited co-writers are ceda-i-ol Holland and Belgium is in the planning: De Jasna Veličković, Reinier g Ruimte, de Perifeer, Vrooom, Gifgrond, etc. van Houdt and Lucio Tasca. euner.com g

We thank Orgelpark and ica.net While editing, composer Hansko Visser Ensemble Studio 6 from is also working on The Amygdala Sonatas Serbia. 20 21 SPACE JUNK – KATESPACE MOORE JUNK ASKO|SCHÖNBERG Asko|Schönberg, leading ensemble for ’s Space Junk new music based in Amsterdam, performs draws attention to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. problem of space debris. The ensemble’s highly qualified and She converts scientific data motivated perform works from from space into sound to solos to larger-scale repertoire, both in create her composition. concert settings and in interdisciplinary “In my music I want to productions. Collaboration between experience both the musicians, composers and creators is a immense power of nature key element of its work. Creating new and its vulnerability, but also work and commissioning composers is in the imminent danger.” For the ensemble’s DNA. Dutch composers Asko|Schönberg, strongly of a new generation like Wilbert Bulsink, focused on actual topics, Luke Deane (for interdisciplinary this fits into a series of theatre), (focus on new programmes that address technology) and Kate Moore were all social issues such as gender, commissioned by Asko|Schönberg. robotics and climate. askoschoenber g .nl 22 23 DAVID DRAMM, ANNE LA BERGE LA ANNE DAVID DRAMM, BERGE / LA DRAMM DUO The duo Dramm/La Berge has travelled around the world for more than thirty years. With two new releases this year (one with daughter Diamanda) and recent performances in the USA, Canada and New Zealand, David Dramm and Anne La “With a synthesis of the Berge are forging a new chapter in their physicality of pop with ongoing collaboration. the smarts of classical Their programmes range from fully music, Dramm/La Berge composed electro-acoustic multimedia to span a wide arc between an amplified flute and guitar duo. the complex patterns of and the raucous drive of post-punk” Frankfurter Rundschau

“Highly-charged rock guitar, brilliant flute and Ive’s naive- courageous mentality.” Päevalent volsa

“Not only on a musical level, p .nl/dramm-la-ber but also personally, the two musicians understand each other perfectly. This allows them to forge seemingly contradictory elements g

into a colourful and playful e-duo unity.” Eindhovens Dagblad 25 THE CROW AND OTHER SHORT STORIES – KATE MOORE STORIES SHORT OTHER CROW AND THE HERZ ENSEMBLE

Formed in 2017 for their debut concert concert season 2018-2019 at the Orgelpark (Amsterdam), featuring at Muziekgebouw aan the work of composer and artistic director ’t IJ. Alongside Cappella Kate Moore, Herz Ensemble is an eclectic Pratensis, Wishful Singing collective of outstanding musicians who and TEMKO, Herz Ensemble share a common aesthetic and ravenous premiered Moore’s 2018 appetite for the raw energy, creativity Bosch Requiem for and vitality of new music. This collective November Music. of musicians was brought together by September 2019 the program Moore to perform and record her major The Crow and other short works and curate that of the works of stories will be performed her contemporaries. Officially coming in Amsterdam and Den katemoore.or together as a recognised group after Haag, with compositions of the performance and release of Moore’s Moore, including The Dam, Herz Cycle upon which the name of the the composition for which ensemble is derived, they shared her Moore received the Matthijs Zielsverwanten artist residency for the Vermeulenprijs in 2017. g 26 27 ENVIRONMENTS – PETER ADRIAANSZ – PETER ENVIRONMENTS KLANG ENSEMBLE

In 2018 Ensemble Klang marked their fifteenth jubilee with the world premiere of the most ambitious work to date by one of the most lauded Dutch composers, Peter Adriaansz. Environments is an 85’ work for spoken text and a spatialized amplified ensemble which includes an array of microtonally-tuned guitars, winds, vibraphones, and synthesizers. Each of the three continuous movements is accompanied by a pre-recorded speech, exploring mankind’s daily pursuits: intellectual, spiritual and political. A work rooted in our ensembleklan Based in , Ensemble Klang current times, the multiple p eteradriaansz.com are a leading voice for the newest simultaneous layers dive developments in music. Their dynamic into the topic of context and approach to this ‘sonic adventure’ has the modern creed ‘broad

attracted not only a loyal audience but is the new deep’. On a g also some of the most daring composers fundamental level, it asks, .com of this day. how do we listen? 28 29 UNMUTE – YANNIS KYRIAKIDES UNMUTE HAAG DEN SLAGWERK

Slagwerk Den Haag (1977) is fascinated Controllers – wristbands by everything concerned with sound, that monitor movements – pulse and materials. Its six percussionists percussionists and dancers and versatile (co-)creators aim to amaze control a sound database and enrich in every setting imaginable. consisting of material from Both on the traditional arsenal of The Endangered Languages percussion instruments, as well as on Archive (London), a donkey jaws, solar panels, porcelain and digital archive for extinct digital mixers. languages. Movements SDH performs 150 concerts and dance/ and sounds unMute lost music-theatre performances per year and voices through innovative is one of the most active contemporary digital techniques. New classical percussion groups in Europe. digital techniques facilitate Since its inception SDH has commissioned a movement-based hundreds of pieces. The group has soundscape creating a new developed a unique way to create works artistic language. in close interaction with composers either in their percussion studio – which acts as Premiere: October 16, 2019, Amsterdam a rich sound database – or on the theatre floor in direct interaction with other disciplines.

For unMute SDH commissioned composer sla g

Yannis Kyriakides and collaborates werkdenhaa with audiovisual artist/multimedia programmer Darien Brito. unMute is an interactive collaboration between dance, percussion and inventively g .nl controlled electronics. Through MYO 30 31 PULCHALCHIAJEV, THE LAMP, THE HOUSE IS BLACK IS HOUSE THE LAMP, THE PULCHALCHIAJEV, GRAAFF DE HUBA Huba de Graaff takes a special place in the landscape of contemporary music. For de Graaff, composing is also inventing, researching and asking essential questions. Writing good notes is the aim of every composer. But why? What does it mean? Why should it be sung like ‘opera’? And what is actually: The stage is sometimes singing? placed outside, in the street, She rarely writes pure concert music for in gyms, in parks. an instrumental ensemble. Rather, she In spite of the experimental is looking for collaboration with theatre approach and the often makers, designers, and all kinds of artists unusual instrumentation, from other disciplines. But without fixed her work is not ‘difficult’. hierarchy of text, sound and image. That Often she plays with sound- distinguishes her music theatre from reproduction and reversal traditional opera. of audio-perspective, with a proper amount of humour and irony. Opera Liebesleid, at the local gym 2019 Pulchalchiajev – Music theatre about lying in public hubade 2020 The Lamp – Opera on collective uneasiness about singing g

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2021 The House is Black – The protest song as a genre 32 33 STOPPER OF THE SUN EARTH, THE OF MOVER THIEVES, TIME THE AND MOMO SVITLANA AZAROVA

Svitlana Azarova is a Ukrainian/Dutch composer of contemporary , who resides in The Hague The Netherlands since 2005. Her opera Momo and the Time Thieves was commissioned and successfully premiered by the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen 2017 (rated 5 stars in several newspapers). Azarova’s acclaimed orchestral work Mover of the Earth, stopper of the Sun was premièred by Orchestre National d’Île de , conductor Enrique Mazzola at Salle Pleyel, Paris (2013). In the Netherlands it was performed by the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, conductor Marc

Albrecht (2014) and will be azarova.com performed by the Residentie Orkest The Hague, conductor Andrea Battistoni in april 2020. 34 35 GOD’S OWN MUSICIANS – SEUNG-WON OH A.O. OH – SEUNG-WON OWN MUSICIANS GOD’S INSOMNIO

pieces and a commissioning. Jonathan Harvey’s Bird with Pianosong is a beautiful tribute to Olivier Messiaen, in which he brings together a piano, the ensemble and live electronics with the Insomnio is an based ensemble recorded sounds of 40 of ±17 musicians, specialising in 20th Californian birds. In Jukka and 21st century music. In the course of Tiensuu’s recorder concerto more than 20 years of its existence, it Appo (2017) he brings has developed into one of the leading alive the Finnish nature. contemporary music ensembles of the And the Dutch-American Netherlands. Recently, the ensemble met based Korean composer great appreciation for its demanding Seung-Won Oh will write projects with music of, among others, a new piece for Insomnio, Heiner Goebbels, Frank Zappa (The Yellow called Bird Paradise. The Shark) and , or with the program will be performed socially engaged project Utregs Requiem. in Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ Amsterdam and Bird singing: nature’s most elusive song TivoliVredenburg Utrecht, has always been a source of inspiration and at other venues and seun for musicians. In the spring of 2020, festivals. This project and g insomnio.nl Insomnio will present God’s own the programmes mentioned wonoh.or musicians, a new program in which bird above are also available for music from the 21st century will be the performances elsewhere or leading focus. It consists of two recent next year. g 36 37 (UN)FOCUSSED – IVO BOL (UN)FOCUSSED (UN)FOCUSSED (un)focussed is a live brain choreography, effect of the dream machine. in which sensors are being used to At the end Roos and Tashi compare the brain-states of two can direct the laser bundle performers. This performance was by concentrating and point originally commissioned by the it to a light sensor. The Amsterdam Brain and Mind project / VU sensor triggers big blinding University in Amsterdam and developed lights, and with a pure by Ivo Bol and Alberto Novello. mental task they can blind Our two performers Roos and Tashi use the audience and influence their brains to manipulate light (laser) the space. It’s like magic! and sound. Their different brain waves are bent in a circular shape, allowing to Concept Ivo Bol and Alberto Novello depict restlessness with a more noisy spectrum. The data from their brains also Scenography & light design influence the sound environment. Marion Tränkle Flickering of light is used to manipulate and sync their brainwaves, similar to the ivobol.com 38 39 SPAIN’S SILENCED VOICES SILENCED SPAIN’S SASKIA VENEGAS

The core of Spain’s Silenced Voices is to commemorate and spread the work of the Spanish composers who suffered the consequences of the Francoist repression. The result of this research Being 2019 the 80th anniversary of will be played during a the end of the Spanish civil war, Saskia concert with a historical Venegas (composer, artistic director of and informative frame Ensemble Oihua) started researching in where original compositions the Spanish archives for the names and and will be scores of those whose music was banned performed by from public performance. based Ensemble Oihua. The concert will finish with a piece by Saskia Venegas A veces, el silencio es la peor mentira (Sometimes, silence is the biggest lie) which is a critique of the political, social and historical silence that Spain still suffers from.

This programmatic piece saskiavene describes the inhumane proportions, dark past and actual function of g

the “Valley of the Fallen” as.com basilica where the dictator is still buried. 41 LIGHT TRACE LIGHT KOKOLAKIS NIKOS AND YAEL LEVY, SASCHA THIELE

setup consists of one video projection, 6 light panels, stations corresponding to the lights/video and live electronics controlled by two performers, and 8 instrumentalists placed on different parts of the stage in groups. Light Trace is an immersive “What is a musical score and how can it and inclusive experience. become an active part of a performance? One is drawn to an inner How does it alter the way we experience world of visual and sonic sound in space and how does sound landscapes where lights, change the way we experience the ‘space’ video and sounds meet of a musical score?” playfully in a delicate game of revealing and hiding Catchpenny Ensemble, together with musical mechanisms and guest composers and visual artists, aims networks through a magical to approach these questions with Light and intellectual journey. catch Trace, a concert-length interdisciplinary The repertoire of the p work which explores the performance Ensemble consists of enn

space with an interactive, image based new multimedia works by y score. its own composers Yael ensemble.com Beyond providing musical information Levy, Sascha Thiele and to the performers, the visual score is an Nikos Kokolakis, alongside integral part of the stage design, inviting works by commissioned the audience to be immersed in it. The composers and artists. 42 43 TODOS LOS FUEGOS EL FUEGO EL LOS FUEGOS TODOS SHALYGINMAXIM

Todos los fuegos el fuego (All Fires the Fire) constitutes a mysterious and exciting link between music and literature. For the second chapter of the life-long Similar cycle (where the first one is: Lacrimosa or 13 Magic Songs for 7 violins), Shalygin draws inspiration from Todos los fuegos el fuego, undoubtedly the most enigmatic book by the great Julio Cortázar. All short stories in this collection provoke peculiar musical dramaturgic solutions, and an abundance of pseudo-musical forms creates a unique atmosphere, using an enlarged variety of performance techniques.

The project brought together two prominent Dutch quartets – Amstel Quartet & Keuris Quartet. Never before have two saxophone quartets worked together on a piece of such maximshal length and complexity. Todos los fuegos el fuego is a musical cycle that immerses

the listener for more than one hour in a yg mystical act, sparking off the imagination in.com and opening up unknown emotional conditions. EIGHT VANMICHEL AA DER

Music theatre, virtual reality and visual virtual objects, and meet arts come together in Eight. After the woman at various Holland Festival productions such as the crucial moments in her life. operas After Life and Sunken Garden Together with singer and and the digital song cycle The Book actress Kate Miller-Heidke, of Sand, has taken the Nederlands Kamerkoor, another step in applying ‘mixed reality’ set designer Theun Mosk to this new, innovative work. Eight tells and a technical team hollandfestival.nl a woman’s poignant life story in reverse responsible for the breath- vanderaa.net chronological order. Visitors, equipped taking VR experience, Van with VR glasses and headphones, move der Aa shows once again one by one through an installation. why he is one of the world’s They can manipulate physical and most inventive composers. 46 47 SPIRIT OF MUSTAFA OF KLEPPE – JOOST SPIRIT AND GROOT OMROEPKOOR ORKEST FILHARMONISCH RADIO

“I always had a vague notion of the Islam being conservative and restrictive’, he explains: ‘That was until I met Hussein, a Moroccan “I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor man who lost his son to ISIS, Moslem. I am not from the East, not from but who still states Islam the West, for I belong to the soul of the is a religion of love and Beloved.” forgiveness.” In this new composition These words of Jalludin Rumi form Kleppe wants to show the the heart of a new work for choir and similarities, rather than the orchestra by composer Joost Kleppe. differences, between various religions. It will be based on texts of the Sufi/Moslem poet Rumi (1207-1273). “I am honoured to write this for The Netherlands Radio

Choir and The Netherlands radiofilharmonischorkest.nl Radio Philharmonic avrotrosvri

Orchestra, conducted by g Peter Dijkstra.” rootomroe j j da oostkle Premiere: November 8, 2019, g

Tivoli/Vredenburg, Utrecht, concert.nl p

commissioned and broadcasted koor.nl pp by AVROTROS radio. Made possible with support of the e.nl Performing Arts Fund NL. CRASH BLOSSOM – MERIJN BISSCHOPS BISSCHOPS – MERIJN BLOSSOM CRASH WILBERS RIANNE AND BISSCHOPS MERIJN

“A play with so many layers and implications, that it should be seen more than once to uncover everything.” A music theatre play by audio-visual Brabants Dagblad artist Merijn Bisschops and soprano Rianne Wilbers, merging concert and Audiovisual artist Merijn movie. While the borders between fact Bisschops creates total and fiction fade, Blossom is confronted artworks in which various with her greatest fear. The details of disciplines are interwoven her colourful and complex personality in an inextricable manner.

gradually unravel at a peculiar meta- Rianne Wilbers is an meri

level. Music, and images of intense extraordinary singing riannewilbers.nl j beauty, raw emotions humorously put talent with much bravado, nbisscho in perspective. The music theatre play artistic vision, and theatrical is rooted in the reality of creator and expressiveness. She often p performer, and lets it slip away into sings with Silbersee and s.nl hallucinating vistas. VONK. 50 51 DISORDERS – PETRA STRAHOVNIK – PETRA DISORDERS ENSEMBLE MODELO62

How do we deal with ‘mental health conditions’ nowadays? Are we prepared to welcome them and fully support people affected by them? How do we deal with the emotions involved in a mental condition? How can we make better contact with these emotions in order to connect with each other and create a society where ‘not ok’ is not excluded? How do we define as a society what ‘ok’ is?

These questions are the core of the work that composer Petra Strahovnik will produce during her artistic collaboration with Ensemble Modelo62. She will explore the combination of performance art, video, and music in order to bring out what lies inside people afflicted with these mental conditions. She will produce five live installations, presented

in galleries in The Hague (June 2019); p three works for soloist and ensemble etrastrahovnik.eu modelo62.com (September 2019); and an opera, to be premiered in Slovenia in 2020. This project is supported by the ‘Nieuwe Makers scheme’ of Fonds Podiumkunsten, Dioraphte and the City of The Hague. 53 MAXIM SHALYGIN,MAXIM PLEXUS BEC AND SIMONS MARIJN GRAAFF, DE JAN-PETER JACOB VELDHUIS, TER – – STATE ARK NOAH’S NETHERLANDS THE OF NEDERLANDS KAMERKOOR

’t IJ. In a modern take on the classical oratorio, the audience is confronted with the effects of climate change and our ever- For more than eighty years, the increasing consumerism Nederlands Kamerkoor (Netherlands in a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ of Chamber Choir) has enjoyed a place at music, theatre, and thought- the top of the international choral world. provoking lectures. Since the very beginning the choir has The story of the biblical been known for being adventurous and figure Noah will be set innovative. It owes this reputation to to a modern background commissions of works by both well- by screenwriter Eddy known composers and young talent, and Terstall, with famous Dutch a continuous search for new formats and actor Cees Geel taking exciting collaborations. This results in on the role of Noah. The concerts that appeal to all the senses. Netherlands Chamber The choir has been praised by critics Choir provides musical in the Netherlands and abroad: “highly commentary through newly

rewarding”, according to The Times commissioned works by nederlandskamerkoor.nl/ (2017) and de Volkskrant (2016): “a Jacob ter Veldhuis, Jan- leading top ensemble.” Peter de Graaff, Maxim The Netherlands Chamber Choir’s Shalygin, Marijn Simons en (Nederlands Kamerkoor) latest Bec Plexus. stateofthenl commission of works, from both young and established Dutch composers, is The State of the Netherlands will be performed September 7 to the result of a collaboration with debate 14, 2019 in Amsterdam, Utrecht,

centre De Balie and Muziekgebouw aan The Hague and Enschede. 54 55 THE ARSENAL OF UNLIVED THINGS – MAYKE NAS THINGS UNLIVED OF ARSENAL THE AMSTERDAMSNIEUW PEIL

Nieuw Amsterdams Peil is a group founded by Heleen Hulst en Gerard Bouwhuis. It is a fearless that embraces all choice after choice, the lost genres and styles. NAP is well known for possibilities and unfulfilled its interdisciplinary projects combining desires accumulate and new compositions with film, theatre, more and more lives that dance and visual arts. Composers who you have nót lived stack up wrote for NAP include Louis Andriessen, behind you: a treasure trove Rob Zuidam, Calliope Tsoupaki, Martijn full of unused opportunities Padding and Michel van der Aa. and unplayed roles. The Arsenal of unlived How many of your dreams do you allow things of composer Mayke to come true? Every turn you take in your Nas and visual artist Teun life brings you closer to something, but Hocks will be a tragicomic at the same time closes off a multitude music theatre performance of other roads that you might have of ± 50 minutes in which la taken instead. Decision after decision, condition humaine “Life is what happens while you’re busy making plans” (John Lennon) is musically and nieuwamsterdams theatrically visualized in seven tableaux by seven musicians from Nieuw

Amsterdams Peil who ma

are not only musical all- y p kenas.nl rounders, but also have eil.com a strong dramatic stage presence. 56 57 WHAT MARY? ABOUT WISHFUL SINGING In their new programme What about Vos. Kate Moore, Jetse Mary? the five singers of the female a Bremer and Herman capella ensemble Wishful Singing pay Finkers contributed to tribute to the most versatile woman ever: the performance as well. Mary. Arrangements by, among Mary is resuscitated as a multi-tasking others, Sylvia Maessen, woman who needs to keep the plates Daan Verlaan and Bob spinning and really wishes to be every Zimmerman. Mary combined in one. Mother and The new compositions and majesty, Mary Poppins and Bloody Mary, arrangements form links in a Lady Madonna and Maria Callas. chain of old and new music, For the programme, the ensemble shedding new light on works cooperated with various Dutch by Palestrina, Schumann and composers and arrangers. Wijnand van many others. Klaveren and Hayo Boerema composed Directed by Annechien new works, with text by Wendela de Koerselman. wishfulsin g in g .nl 58 59 MATHILDE WANTERNAAR BLAZERS ENSEMBLE NEDERLANDS

For 25 years the Netherlands Wind Mathilde Wantenaar studied Ensemble (NBE) has organized the classical composition competition for composers titled: ‘Next with Willem Jeths and Stop: New Year’s Concert’, an annual Wim Henderickx. She has event for young composers aged 8-18 composed works for the years. Every year 100+ young composers National Opera, Antwerp enter this competition. After several Symphony Orchestra, NBE, rounds and coaching by professional Neon, Liza Ferschtman, composers and the NBE, the winning Ralph van Raat, Johannette composers perform their piece with the Zomer and others. NBE in Dutch concert halls. Mathilde Wantenaar (Amsterdam, 1993) took part in the competition in 2010 and 2011. Her work was commended for its depth and level of engagement. The NBE commissioned Mathilde Wantenaar in 2018 to serve as a musical intermediary for Bach & Sufi, a programme in which the NBE joins forces with musicians from Iran, interweaving various sections from Bach’s Mass in mathildewantenaar.com B Minor with contemporary Persian classical works. Mathilde blended the Iranian moods, melodies and rhythms seamlessly and organically into those

of Bach and vice versa. The project has nbe.nl received sensational reviews and the CD is available on NBELIVE label. 60 61 BRAVE NEW WORLD 2.0 – JONATHAN REUS 2.0 WORLD NEW BRAVE NITE NITE is a structural collaboration between Noord Nederlands Toneel + Club Guy & Roni + Asko | Schönberg + Slagwerk Den Haag. Together they make at least one large hall production per year that goes on tour in the Netherlands and Flanders. NITE forms an interdisciplinary ensemble with dancers who act, musicians who dance, actors who sing. Brave New World 2.0 examines the future of humanity. Artificial intelligence, robots and hyper-intelligent algorithms create opportunities but also raise an important “Innovative total theatre” question: is the world becoming a better Trouw place, or do these new inventions only increase an already existing inequality Inspired by Brave New between the haves and have-nots? World, but also by the works of Naomi Klein, Thomas Piketty and Yuval Harari, director Guy Weizman and writer Rik van den Bos create an arresting, in-your-face Brave New j World 2.0 that’s relevant onathanreus.com to our modern times. A music theatre production

with 23 actors, dancers and nite.nl musicians that will force the audience to think and act. 62 KATE MOORE, ANTHONY FIUMARA ANTHONY KATE MOORE, BÄRTSCH, RILEY, NIK – TERRY CAMEL SHRI TEMKO

After the success of Rainbow in Curved transcribed the keyboard Air , the fans had to wait for parts, and built customised over eleven years before Shri Camel was instruments for it. To temkomusic.com released. An incredible reoccurrence complete the program they of virtuosic keyboard parts but with a invited Nik Bärtsch, Kate special feature: just intonation. Shri Camel Moore and Anthony Fiumara is hardly ever performed by anyone to write responses to this other than Terry Riley until TEMKO masterwork. 65 CINESYMPHONY MEIJ DE JOHAN

In these chaotic times, audiences are The Planets, Symphony looking for visual, innovative, and socially No. 3 Planet Earth tells the relevant experiences. Many orchestras story of the planet Holst are playing film scores to accompany forgot to include: Earth. De Hollywood movies in order to reach a Meij’s symphony is an ode broader, younger audience. We offer a to Mother Earth and – like cines more sophisticated and contemporary Holst’s work – employs a full

approach: The Planet Earth Film + symphony and female choir. y m

Symphony experience. This visually Over the past 12 years, it p hon rich, 48-minute film takes audiences has built a steady following on a deep and uplifting journey from across five continents. yp lanetearth.com earth’s creation to the present day as an The film is offered free accompaniment to a live performance to orchestras that want of Symphony No. 3 Planet Earth by to perform it alongside award-winning composer, Johan de Meij. Symphony No. 3 Planet Written as a sequel to Gustav Holst’s Earth. 66 67 MEMORIAL BOUDEWIJN TARENSKEEN

A musical project by composer Boudewijn Tarenskeen, in which a new Holocaust Monument is presented, designed by Francine Houben Mecanoo Architects. Tarenskeen is preparing a musical project entitled Memorial. This project is an evening-length scenic concert for two singers and the military brass band Johan Friso Kapel, and its theme is a visionary design for a new Holocaust monument, which will be projected during the performance. The music for Memorial will be played by the Johan Friso Kapel, in full array. The choice of this orchestra, which usually lends lustre to ceremonies of national importance with edifying music, is noteworthy; it raises the question of how boudewi the orchestra will adapt to a project that

aims to distance itself from an obligatory theaternadedam.nl j commemorative idiom, or at least makes ntarenskeen.com assiduous attempts to extract itself from the pitfalls of timeworn sentiment, and from the dressage of communal experience. The premiere will be in May 2021 in Amsterdam. 68 69 WE’LL NEVER LET YOU LET DOWN NEVER WE’LL SAMSON RENÉ

The life of cellist Jacqueline du Pré is the subject of this chamber opera. Mattijs and Doris personify an amalgam of friends of Jacqueline who were very close to her, especially during her prolonged sickness (MS). After her death, her sister and brother published a biography about her in which she is depicted as a manipulative and sex- driven personality. A later movie made the scandal even worse. Her friends are enraged, feeling powerless to counter the slander. The actuality of the opera lies in showing how lies and slander (fake news!) can ruin the life and reputation of a great person.

The opera will have its first performance at the Biennale in September 2020. This organisation will also act as a co- commissioner of the piece. Composer René Samson, musicians Mattijs van de Woerd (baritone), Doris Hochscheid renesamson.nl (cello plus and acting role), Frans van Ruth (piano) and Mirjam Koen and Gerrit Timmers (Libretto and stage directing, OT Rotterdam). 70 71 GERMAINE SIJSTERMANS GERMAINE Germaine Sijstermans is a composer and musicians with ‘enabling clarinettist who has been in residence at restrictions’: Friendly Intro since the 2017-2018 season (with restrictions that enable support of ViaZuid). She is working the provided material to towards the premiere of a production blossom. scheduled to take place during Fall 2019. Audience and performers Sijstermans’ concerts are made up are mixed and position of compositions for silence, sound, themselves in a space of space and light. Each performance is their own choice within an an ephemeral occurrence in reality, no installation created by the concert is the same. Listening in silence artist. One can experience forms the root of the music, the material the music alone, or join is abstract, the development of the others in a group. Sound material is organic. comes from all sides, no one The music is written in an open place provides a better view instrumentation and provides the than another. g ermainesi j stermans.com introinsitu.nl

73 FRAMES, DISTURBING LIGHT – RIETEKE HÖLSCHER – RIETEKE LIGHT DISTURBING FRAMES, CROSS MEETING ENSEMBLE

She also composed the music for Disturbing Light, an experience in image and sound where the phenomenon ‘time’ Cross Meeting was established in 2015 for sometimes gets entirely a crossover project between painting and its own mind. Wondering, live music. The name refers to a meeting elusive, multilayered and between the two art forms. The ensemble sometimes undecided consists of Kirsti Apajalahti (violin), – during a performance Joel Vega Salgado (), Pau Marqués of half an hour image i Oleo (cello) and Rieteke Hölscher and music enter into a (piano). The international members of dialogue. Inverted ‘musique the ensemble share their great interest concrète’ and recognizable in contemporary music. Composer minimalistic motifs will Rieteke Hölscher envisons a connection, create a synergy between rietekeholscher.nl not only between contemporary music, image and sound that and the audience, but also reflects the illusion of between different art forms. She wrote endlessness and almost seven Frames as a musical response to undeniable raises questions seven series of paintings of Dutch painter about the universe and Wim Janssen. life itself. 74 75 PLANCTUS CYGNI PLANCTUS GERARD BELJON

Written for solo soprano, arabic vocalist, east and west. I also knew duduk/fujara or saxophone, harp and it would be very exciting chamber-choir, Planctus Cygni is an to mix our western notes anonymous latin poem written in the with these beautiful eastern middle ages, about a swan losing its tones. Festival November way while flying over the sea. The swan Music and the Nederlands panics and is getting very tired and afraid Gregoriaans Festival have to drown, but in the end it reaches the commissioned me to shores. But this is not home! The swan has compose Planctus Cygni.” become an ‘exulata’, ‘al-manfa’, an exile. The result is a 30 minute g “When I read Planctus Cygni,” writes score full of intriguing new erardbel Gerard Beljon, “I immediately saw the music that offers a sea of link with the refugee crisis we face in possibilities and musical j on.nl Europe. To me it was clear that Planctus landscapes for soloists, Cygni is about communication between choir and audience. 76 77 QUARTET AMSTERDAM RECORDER BRISK “Enticing, technical excellence and combines early music with innovative programming”, said the new music as a comment American Record Guide in 2018. Founded or contrast. Well over 75 in 1986, BRISK has since given numerous Dutch contemporary pieces concerts in Holland, many European written for this adventurous countries, Canada, and North and South recorder quartet are listed America, and can be heard on 15 very on the website. well-received CDs. BRISK nearly always brisk.nl 78 79 ORKEST DE EREPRIJS DE ORKEST

Orkest de ereprijs performs compositions many partners and focus on by living composers, as well as interdisciplinarity, education, interdisciplinary projects by a diverse talent development and group of creators in genres such as dance, innovation. Through this theatre and film. We commission young perspective, we have gained composers with professional pieces a unique and renowned ere for our orchestra, which we perform in position within ‘young p ri j the Netherlands and internationally to composed music’ world- s.nl support young talent. We collaborate with wide. 80 81 COMPOSERS POOL COMPOSERS INSTANTTHE

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After the Great War was commissioned one hand German/Austrian by the Finnish Tampere Philharmonic and Late Romanticism (Richard its chief conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali Strauss, Gustav Mahler), and and the Dutch Residentie Orkest. Since on the other hand French 2012 Rouvali has been an admirer of the Impressionism (Claude orchestral work by Verbey, “Musicians Debussy, Maurice Ravel). The really like playing work by Verbey. They two styles existed alongside want to perform his music as beautifully each other, their boundaries as possible.” not clearly defined, and

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Bart de Vrees | Photo: Paul Glazier Bart de Vrees IN TALLINN

SEVEN COMPOSERS FROM THE NETHERLANDS DURING THE ISCM ESTONIAN WORLD MUSIC DAYS TALLINN 2-10 MAY 2019

Nieuw Geneco (the Dutch Composers Association and ISCM Netherlands section) is proud that the ISCM jury selected no fewer than seven pieces by Dutch composers. The composers are very different. With her surrealistic orchestral piece Down the Rabbit Hole Mayke Nas pays tribute to Lewis Carroll and . Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky reflects on the suffering of Christ in No Strastnoy for Dutch Performing Arts promotes Dutch music, theatre and dance on the international stage. The programme choir and a tolling church bell. Vanessa is powered by the Performing Arts Fund NL. Lann, one of the most performed Dutch More information: Susanne Moed | [email protected] composers worldwide, honours Hildegard von Bingen in The Bird That Was Trapped Has Flown for solo soprano, female vocal ensemble, nyckelharpa and kokle, native instruments from the North. dutchperformingarts.nl 108 109

Jasna Veličković develops her own electro-acoustic instruments to create music from electromagnetic fields. She shows her latest results in Remote Me. Christiaan Richter travels to Tallinn with his solo percussion piece Droplets. With a complex interplay of different rhythmic cycles he mimics nature on just five metal objects. Bart de Vrees, a big name in new media and , presents For Flute or piano or mandolin or percussion or or guitar or clarinet or...... A piece for any combination of instruments and video, childishly funny and eerily suspenseful. Vlad Chlek, a composition student from Tilburg, was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and AND THE AWARD composed Wood Painting for ensemble, in which each instrument is connected to GOES TO… one of the characters of the movie. worldmusicdays2019.ee In 2017 the Australian-Dutch composer Kate Moore received the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for her composition The Dam. The jury calls it “both an exciting, immersive composition and a rich sounding of our times. The ultra-soft, mysterious motoric movement with which the work opens, convincingly develops into a grand musical gesture.” 110 111

Dutch composer Joël Bons has won the 2019 University of Louisville for Music Composition for Nomaden, a one-hour work for cello solo and an ensemble of instruments from diverse cultures.

Aart Strootman was the winner of the Reza Namazar won the Willem Breuker Prix Annelie de Man and the Gaudeamus Award: “He is an idiosyncratic composer, Award 2017: “Aart Strootman is a a true representative of the distinctive complete original whose sonic invention Dutch contemporary music scene. In is an inspiration and who approaches this idiosyncrasy, he is clearly related to composition with a remarkable freshness, the man bearing the name of the award: reinventing the sound of each instrument Willem Breuker. His idiom distinguishes within an ensemble down to the finest itself by the space it devotes to the detail. A performer, an improviser, an absurd aspects of our life and the world.” inventor and a unique composer.” On March 11th 2019, Vanessa Lann The Willem Pijper Award is granted received the Buma Classical Award. for a composition with a ‘pioneering She was the most successful Dutch function’. The jury agreed that Hugo classical composer in 2018. Especially Morales Murguía meets that qualification her Dancing to an Orange Drummer in his piece Equid (2014), because it is had many performances. The work was “a remarkably powerful piece of music, frequently performed by the Philharmonie where Hugo Morales, in the space of Zuidnederland, as part of their youth 20 minutes, conjures up a rich world of project Heartbeat with conductor sound using a collection of jawbones.“ Peter Biloen. 112 113 DUTCH COMPOSERS NOW AT CLASSICAL NEXT

THIS YEAR’S FOCUS Vanessa Lann Louis Andriessen Vanessa Lann (New York, The greatest living Dutch composer will 1968) uses the repetition be eighty years old on June 6, 2019: of recognizable figures, as natural talent, innovator, iconoclast, well as structures based on theater maker, Master of The Hague number ratios and patterns, to explore School, icon. With his international concepts of continuity, infinity and silence breakthrough work De Staat in 1976, to place ordinary sounds and gestures in Andriessen changed the face of music. unusual contexts. As a teacher he stood at the cradle of lann.dds.nl countless careers. His compositions have conquered the world. Arthur Wagenaar louisandriessen.nl Arthur Wagenaar (1982), composer and , loves theatre, opera, bands, and classical music and his music is a mixture of all of this. He also loves to invent his own instruments, such as the ‘Disasterphone’ and the Close Call Live app. Collaborations include Susies Haarlok, Young Gangsters, Tafel van Vijf, Duo Leeghwater, and . arthurwagenaar.nl 114 115

Rembrandt Frerichs Rembrandt’s music is well known for its fresh perspective. Touring around Anthony Fiumara the world as a performing-composer Anthony Fiumara works / composing-performer, Rembrandt as a full-time composer, Frerichs (1977) shares with his audiences and enjoyed a successful the joy of bringing brand new music to career as an artistic director and music the stage. On the concerts. Much like journalist. He holds the position of Mozart and Beethoven did in their times, professor of music composition at the Rembrandt uses improvisation as an Academy of Music and Performance Arts ingredient to engage the listener, making (AMPA) in Tilburg. Fiumara is also a much every concert a unique one. appreciated orchestrator. rembrandtfrerichs.nl anthonyfiumara.com

Sophie de Rijck After completing her studies (Utrecht University) and Tango Violin (Codarts) Sophie realised that new compositions in tango are rare. As the arranger for her own (tango) string quartet Pavadita, she starts to compose new work, based on tango features, incorporating classical, contemporary and world music elements. Mostly for string quartet. pavadita.com 116 117

Jan-Peter de Graaff Aspasia Nasopoulou Jan-Peter de Graaff (1992) studied at both Aspasia Nasopoulou (1972) the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (BMus is a composer, pianist 2014, MMus 2016), studying with Guus and curator who was Janssen, and Calliope born in Athens. Her work Tsoupaki, and the Royal College of Music has a poetic, evocative and dynamic where he studied with Kenneth Hesketh. transparency. It is inspired by literature, His works have been performed by The mythology and philosophy from different , The BBC Symphony cultures. In her (well over eighty) Orchestra, the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, compositions she is frequently exploring Ensemble But What About and others. the synergy between music and theatre In 2018 he won the 32nd International by integrating new instruments, visuals Rostrum of Composers award in the and dance. category ‘Under 30’ nasopoulou.eu janpeterdegraaff.com Ned McGowan Composer Ned McGowan’s (1970) music is known for rhythmical vitality and technical virtuosity, winning many awards and being regularly performed by leading ensembles and orchestras around the world. Ned is professor of Composition and Advanced Rhythm and Pulse at the Utrecht Conservatory and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. nedmcgowan.com 118 119

Buma Cultuur is dedicated to music from The Netherlands. Buma Cultuur supports Nieuw Geneco (New Association of Dutch and promotes Dutch music copyright in Composers) is a professional association both The Netherlands and key export that promotes the direct and indirect markets for Dutch music. The aim is to interests of almost 300 Dutch composers. increase the percentage of Dutch music Our aim is to promote the creation of in the Dutch market and foreign markets. new music and increase the visibility of For example, Buma Cultuur has been composers working in the Netherlands. supporting the Dutch festivals November Nieuw Geneco is a source of knowledge Music and Gaudeamus Muziekweek for and inspiration for composers, music years. Buma Cultuur is the initiator of the professionals and the general public. Composer Laureate in the Netherlands. It provides them with practical After Willem Jeths and Mayke Nas, information regarding contacts, business Calliope Tsoupaki has been inaugurated support, composing and performance as the third Composer Laureate. opportunities, and stimulates exchange Buma Cultuur is founded by the Dutch of knowledge and contact among collecting society Buma. colleagues. bumacultuur.nl nieuwgeneco.nl/en/composers

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Music Theater Hollands Diep muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl Zeq Attack zeq-attack.com Holland Opera hollandopera.nl Nationale Opera & Ballet operaballet.nl Orchestras Nederlandse Reisopera reisopera.nl Gelders Orkest hetgeldersorkest.nl Opera2Day opera2day.nl Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest orkest.nl Opera Zuid operazuid.nl Nederlands Kamerorkest orkest.nl Orkater orkater.nl Noord Nederland Orkest nno.nu Silbersee silbersee.com Orkest van het Oosten ovho.nl De Veenfabriek veenfabriek.nl philharmonie zuidnederland philharmoniezuidnederland.nl Urban Myth urbanmyth.nl Radio Filharmonisch Orkest radiofilharmonischorkest.nl Residentie Orkest residentieorkest.nl Festivals Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest rotterdamsphilharmonisch.nl Andriessen Festival Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra concertgebouworkest.nl Amsterdam / May 2019 muziekgebouw.nl Basklarinetfestijn (festival for bass ) Dance Amsterdam, Utrecht, Tilburg / Autumn 2020 basklarinetfestijn.nl Danstheater AYA aya.nl Cello Biënnale Club Guy & Roni clubguyandroni.nl Amsterdam / October 2020 cellobiennale.nl Conny Janssen Danst connyjanssendanst.nl Cultura Nova Dansateliers dansateliers.nl Heerlen / August-September cultura-nova.nl De Dansers dedansers.com Dag in de Branding DOX wijzijndox.nl Den Haag / March dagindebranding.nl De Nieuwe Oost denieuweoost.nl Delft Chamber Music Festival ICK ickamsterdam.com Delft / July delftmusicfestival.nl Internationaal Danstheater internationaaldanstheater.nl Electronic Extravaganza Jens van Daele jensvandaele.com Amsterdam / October splendoramsterdam.com Korzo Producties korzo.nl Faq Festival Maas theater en dans maastd.nl ’s-Hertogenbosch / March faqfestival.nl Nationale Opera & Ballet operaballet.nl Festival Classique NBprojects nbprojects.nl The Hague / June festivalclassique.nl Nederlands Dans Theater ndt.nl Gaudeamus de Nederlandse Dansdagen nederlandsedansdagen.nl Utrecht / September gaudeamus.nl Panama Pictures panamapictures.nl Gergiev Festival Scapino Ballet Rotterdam scapinoballet.nl Rotterdam / September gergievfestival.nl Dansgezelschap De Stilte destilte.nl Grachtenfestival WArd/waRD wardward.be Amsterdam / August grachtenfestival.nl 126 127

Fairs/Showcases Kamermuziekdag (Chamber Music) Utrecht / September kamermuziekdag.nl Classical:NEXT Havik Concerten Rotterdam / May classicalnext.com Amersfoort / June havikconcerten.nl Novembermusic Holland Festival ’s-Hertogenbosch / November novembermusic.net Amsterdam / May-June hollandfestival.nl Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht / December kamermuziekfestival.nl Venues Le Guess Who Concertgebouw / Amsterdam concertgebouw.nl Utrecht / November leguesswho.nl Concertzaal Tilburg theaterstilburg.nl Festival De Doelen / Rotterdam dedoelen.nl Amsterdam / April muziekgebouw.nl Grand Theatre / grandtheatregroningen.nl November Music Intro in Situ / Maastricht introinsitu.nl ’s-Hertogenbosch / November novembermusic.net Korzo / Den Haag korzo.nl Open Recorder Days 2019 Musis Sacrum / Arnhem musisenstadstheater.nl Amsterdam / October openrecorderdays.com Muziekcentrum Enschede wilminktheater.nl/muziekcentrum Opera Forward Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ / Amsterdam muziekgebouw.nl Amsterdam / March operaforwardfestival.nl Muziekgebouw muziekgebouweindhoven.nl Oranjewoudfestival Muziekpodium Zeeland / Vlissingen muziekpodiumzeeland.nl Heerenveen / May-June oranjewoudfestival.nl Nationale Opera en Ballet / Amsterdam operaballet.nl Rewire Oosterpoort / Groningen spotgroningen.nl Den Haag / March rewirefestival.nl Orgelpark / Amsterdam orgelpark.nl Sounds of Music Paradox / Tilburg paradoxtilburg.nl Groningen / November soundsofmusic.nl Philharmonie Haarlem theater-haarlem.nl Strijkkwartet Biënnale Amsterdam Splendor / Amsterdam splendoramsterdam.com Amsterdam / January-February 2020 sqba.nl Stadsgehoorzaal / Leiden leidseschouwburg-stadsgehoorzaal.nl Vrije Noten Componistendiner Steim / Amsterdam steim.org Amsterdam / May 5th muziekgebouw.nl Tivoli Vredenburg / Utrecht tivolivredenburg.nl Wonderfeel Willem Twee / ’s-Hertogenbosch willem-twee.nl ’s-Graveland / July wonderfeel.nl Zeeuwse Concertzaal / Middelburg zeeuwseconcertzaal.nl Zuiderstrandtheater / Den Haag zuiderstrandtheater.nl Series De Link / Tilburg delink.nl Media / Streaming Nieuwe Noten / Amsterdam nieuwenoten-amsterdam.nl Radio4 / Radio radio4.nl Red Sofa / Rotterdam dedoelen.nl Concertzender / Radio concertzender.nl Donderdagavondserie / Amsterdam muziekgebouw.nl Melome / Streaming melome.nl 128 129

Primephonic / Streaming primephonic.nl European Cultural Foundation Connecting Cultural Changemakers culturalfoundation.eu Publishers / Promotors Kunstenbond Ascolta Music Publishing ascolta.nl Union for arts, entertainment, media kunstenbond.nl Blom Music Management blommusicmanagement.com Fonds 21 De Haske musicshopeurope.com Funding fonds21.nl Deuss Music deussmusic.nl Kersjes Fonds Donemus donemus.nl Funding hetkersjesfonds.nl Edition MatchingArts matchingarts.com Kunsten ’92 Molenaar molenaar.com Association for Art Culture and Heritage kunsten92.nl Music Managers Forum NL Labels National Managers Network mmfnl.com NAPK Alaska Records alaskarecords.nl Association for Perfoming Arts napk.nl Attacca Babel attaccaproductions.com Nieuw Geneco Challenge Classics challengerecords.com Association for Dutch Composers nieuwgeneco.nl Channel Classics channelclassics.com Norma Ensemble Klang Records ensembleklangrecords.com Funding / Rights Organisation stichtingnorma.nl Etcetera etcetera-records.com NVER (Klassieke Zaken) Future Classics future-classics.nl Promotion klassiekezaken.nl Unsounds unsounds.com NVPI Audio Association for nvpi.nl Umbrella Organisations / Dutch Performing Arts Funding / Promotion Promotion dutchperformingarts.nl Buma Cultuur Prince Claus Fund Funding bumacultuur.nl Funding princeclausfund.org Buma Stemra Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Rights Organisation bumastemra.nl Funding prinsbernhardcultuurfonds.nl Creatieve Coalitie Sena Coalition Independent Artists and Creators decreatievecoalitie.nl Funding / Rights Organisation sena.nl Cultuur+Ondernemen VMN Advise and Funding cultuur-ondernemen.nl Association of Dutch Music Publishers vmn.nl Dutch Composers NOW VSB Fonds Promotion for Dutch Composers dutchcomposersnow.nl Funding vsbfonds.nl Dutch Culture VSCD Centre for International Cooperation dutchculture.nl Association for Venues vscd.nl Dutch Performing Arts VvNO International Promotion dutchperformingarts.nl Association of Dutch Orchestras vvno.nl 130 131

World Music Forum NL Composers Index National Network World Music Industry worldmusicforum.nl Michel van der Aa p.44, 54 Peter Adriaansz p. 26, 91 Education / Training Louis Andriessen p. 54, 103, 112 ArtEZ Conservatorium Svitlana Azarova p. 32 Conservatorium artez.nl Nik Bärtsch p. 63 Codarts Rotterdam Gerard Beljon p. 74 Conservatorium codarts.nl Han Bennink p. 81 Conservatorium Amsterdam Anne La Berge p. 22 Conservatorium ahk.nl/conservatorium Merijn Bisschops p. 48 Conservatorium Maastricht Hayo Boerema p. 56 Conservatorium conservatoriummaastricht.nl Ivo Bol p. 36 Cultuur & Ondernemen Joël Bons p. 110 Centre Cultural Entrepreneurship cultuur-ondernemen.nl Jetse Bremer p. 57 Fontys AMPA Tilburg Willem Breuker p. 81, 111 Conservatorium fontys.nl Vlad Chlek p. 108 HKU Utrecht David Dramm p. 22 University of Arts hku.nl Anthony Fiumara p. 14, 63, 91, 114 Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen Rembrandt Frerichs p. 115 Conservatorium hanze.nl Huba de Graaff p. 30 Royal Conservatoire The Hague Jan-Peter de Graaff p. 53, 116 Conservatorium koncon.nl Wim Henderickx p. 59 Ig Henneman p. 101 Rieteke Hölscher p. 72 Guus Jansen p. 101 Willem Jeths p. 9, 59, 118 Wijnand van Klaveren p. 56 Tobias Klein p. 100 Joost Kleppe p. 46 Nikos Kokolakis p. 41 Monique Krüs p. 12, 91 Yannis Kyriakides p. 20, 28 Vanessa Lann p. 107, 100, 111, 113 Yael Levy p. 41 Sylvia Maessen p. 57 Ned McGowan p. 117 Johan de Meij p. 64 Chiel Meijering p. 87 132

Misha Mengelberg p. 81 Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky p. 107 Kate Moore p. 20, 24, 57, 63, 109 Hugo Morales Murguía p. 110 Reza Namazar p. 111 Mayke Nas p. 54, 103, 107, 118 Aspasia Nasopoulou p. 117 Georgia Nicolaou p. 101 Seung-Won Oh p. 35, 91 open source network Martijn Padding p. 54 for the dutch world music industry Bec Plexus p. 53 Jonathan Reus p. 60 Christiaan Richter p. 108 Sophie de Rijck p. 114 René Samson p. 68 Maxim Shalygin p. 42, 53 Germaine Sijstermans p. 70 Marijn Simons p. 53 Petra Strahovnik p. 50 Aart Strootman p. 90, 91, 110 dutch world directory Boudewijn Tarenskeen p. 66 Lucio Tasca p. 19 world blend café networkmeetings Sascha Thiele p. 41 Calliope Tsoupaki p. 8, 54, 87, 116, 118 consulting, promotion & research Jacob ter Veldhuis p. 53, 87 Jasna Veličković p. 19, 108 Saskia Venegas p. 38 Theo Verbey p. 91, 102 Daan Verlaan p. 57 Hansko Visser p. 18 Bart de Vrees p. 108 Arthur Wagenaar p. 16, 113 Diderik Wagenaar p. 116 Mathilde Wantenaar p. 58 Bob Zimmerman p. 57 worldmusicforum.nl Rob Zuidam p. 10, 54, 91 134

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