Who will be the leading composers five years from now? You might just find out during the final day of Gaudeamus Festival. On this day, the winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2024, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for young composers, will be announced. But the real winner will be the curious listener!
Events
Timetable
Kate Moore & Isabelle Vigier (Expo)
Expo of work-in-progress of Kate Moore's project A Beautiful Path, in which she walks in stages from the east of the Netherlands to the westernmost point of Ireland.
Annabel Schouten & Jurriaan de Vos – Inhout
In this 1-to-1 experience, you are invited to lie down on a comfortable mattress in the cargo box of a delivery bike. During the ride, this bike changes bit by bit into a travelling instrument in which you are seated.
Ensemble Klang – Album presentation
New works by Award 2024 nominees Lucy McKnight, Patrick Ellis and Beniamino Fiorini + 'Vanishing Point' album presentation
The Saga of Sage – Mission 2: Heroes
An ongoing and versatile worldbuilding project set in the metaverse, researching the intersection between music, storytelling and gaming.
But What About + Princess Christina Composition Competition
But What About, together with the young Princess Christina Composition Competition nominees, present new works on the theme 'Painting Exhibition': an interaction between music and visual art.
The Saga of Sage – Mission 2: Heroes
An ongoing and versatile worldbuilding project set in the metaverse, researching the intersection between music, storytelling and gaming.
BUI – ‘What are you building in there?!’ (Ebb version)
A musical ‘ritual playground’ inspired by sounds and rhythm of the city, of which the space and the audience become an essential part.
The Saga of Sage – Mission 2: Heroes
An ongoing and versatile worldbuilding project set in the metaverse, researching the intersection between music, storytelling and gaming.
The Saga of Sage – Mission 2: Heroes
An ongoing and versatile worldbuilding project set in the metaverse, researching the intersection between music, storytelling and gaming.
BUI – ‘What are you building in there?!’ (Flow version)
A musical ‘ritual playground’ inspired by sounds and rhythm of the city, of which the space and the audience become an essential part.
Binkbeats & Henk Schut – OHM (performance)
Live performance within Binkbeats' ongoing interactive installation OHM, in which visitors wander through a world of resonance, texture and polyrhythms.
Emine Bostancı – New notes
Bridging the gap between traditional Ottoman-Turkish and contemporary classical music with folk instruments in works of four composers selected through an open call.
Zubin Kanga – SHOW(ti)ME
‘Cyborg Pianist’ Zubin Kanga returns to Gaudeamus, performing four works that extend the piano, and his body, with cutting-edge technologies.
Gaudeamus Award 2024 Ceremony + HIIIT
Annika Socolofsky and Jinwook Jung explore notions (and lack thereof) of queer love and gender representation in seemingly remote musical genres and places in history.