Previous Events
BUI Toolbox Presentation
For the past 2 years BUI has been involved in artistic research for a New Makers trajectory at Gaudeamus. On December 12th BUI will share their toolbox with a performative presentation.
Culture Unlimited: Mojgan Shajarian & Noordpool Orkest
A celebration of female courage in a compelling journey through East and West, starring renowned Iranian singer Mozhgan Shajarian.
Culture Unlimited: New European Quintet & Lumen Trio
European jazz and chamber music with lyrical, melancholic melodies and a minimalistic, cinematic touch
U? Festival: Catching Cultures Orchestra
During the U? Festival, CCO will perform a number of compositions commissioned by Gaudeamus.
Synthese Fundraiser for Lebanon
With Nizar Rohana and Snakeskin
Culture Connection: Walid Ben Selim
The French-Moroccan singer, rapper and poet Walid Ben Selim pays a musical tribute to the famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Day of the Composer: Annabel Schouten
Throughout the day, musicians travels through the Netherlands and play music by the local city composer in various cities. The train ends in Utrecht, where music by the young sound artist Annabel Schouten can be heard.
Gaudeamus Terrapolis: Celia Swart + Sean Bell + Sjors van der Mark
In this concert series, we present musical performances that redefine the idea of what a musical performance can be and can signify.
KuuB Concert: Flare Quartet
The Flare Quartet, formed in 2020, delivers 20th and 21st century composed music in a fresh, innovative and accessible way.
Residentie Orkest plays Angela Slater
New piece by Angela Slater performed by Residentie Orkest.
Gaudeamus presents: King Sisters + Natálie Kulina
Twice a year Gaudeamus and Podium Hoge Woerd present music that lets you listen - and see - in a completely different way.
KuuB concert: Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten
Enthusiastic advocates of contemporary music play music by young Turkish composers.
Dag van de Componist: Kamerkoor JIP
Kamerkoor JIP celebrates its 10th anniversary with five new compositions, as part of the Day of the Composer.
Dag van de Componist: Jonás Bisquert
A train with musicians travels through the Netherlands for a day, ending in Utrecht, where music by the boundless and always curious composer Jonás Bisquert can be heard.
Gaudeamus Terrapolis: Show Pony, Julian Alexander & RDS
Performances that redefine the idea of what a musical performance can be and can signify.
Synthese
Aus den Sieben Tagen / Mathilde Nobel / ZULI / Guenter Råler / Garnett
Performania (5+)
“The superlative of fun” - Cultureel Persbureau
Kikker X Gaudeamus: Stonework
Espen Hjort & Mees Borgman / Landmarks
Synthese: Helena Basilova & Gigi Masin
Partner event with Synthese and EKKO
KuuB concert: Composer’s portrait Bianca Bongers
Concert around the work of the Dutch composer Bianca Bongers, following her recently released CD Surrounded by Air on the label 7 Mountain Records.
Kikker X Gaudeamus: At The Spot Where I Find Myself
New performance by Genevieve Murphy.
KuuB concert: Ode to Willem Pijper
New music by Christine Cornwell.
New Traditions #2
Meral Polat Trio & Sabr Ensemble
Barbarella #1
Recurring initiative of De Helling, Rosa Ensemble, BUI and Gaudeamus to promote adventurous Utrecht music.
Gaudeamus Terrapolis #1
First edition of Gaudeamus Terrapolis, our brand new concert series for adventurous, multidisciplinary performances in De Nijverheid.
Screen Dive workshop: FAKE NEWS | STAY TUNED
Prior to the first edition of Gaudeamus Terrapolis, our platform for interactive sound art Screen Dive organises two workshops.
Screen Dive workshop: Social Distortion
Prior to the first edition of Gaudeamus Terrapolis, our platform for interactive sound art Screen Dive organises two workshops.
Open rehearsal Rembrandt Frerichs & De Staalmeesters
Experience how Rembrandt Frerichs' new project with classical musicians comes about in a playful and investigative way.
Screen Dive: Hypercollective by Jago Thornton
Screen Dive, our platform for interactive sound art pieces, is getting its 3rd round of new pieces and updates. Hypercollective by Jago Thornton is an ‘audio canvas’ on which anybody in the world can make a contribution, at any time.
Screen Dive: Let`s Embody The Music by Robert Nettleship
Screen Dive, our platform for interactive sound art pieces, is getting its 3rd round of new pieces and updates. Let's Embody The Music is a visually interactive piece in which the participants will create a drum kit-based soundscape through the medium of webcam triggers. They will be able to create their own soundscape by letting their bodies breathe.
Club Fluxus: Two Envelopes
Founded in 2015 by percussionist Jacob Vanneste and harpsichordist Lisa Kokwenda Schweiger, Two Envelopes merges combinations of performative elements and electronics with classical elements.
Catching Cultures Orchestra
During Gaudeamus New Traditions you will hear music traditions from all over the world come together in an adventurous and festive way. A mini-festival in and outside of the venue of Podium Hoge Woerd.
Trio SonCe
During Gaudeamus New Traditions you will hear music traditions from all over the world come together in an adventurous and festive way. A mini-festival in and outside of the venue of Podium Hoge Woerd.
But What About – Just Press Play (4+)
During Gaudeamus New Traditions you will hear music traditions from all over the world come together in an adventurous and festive way. A mini-festival in and outside of the venue of Podium Hoge Woerd.
Gaudeamus New Traditions #1
During Gaudeamus New Traditions you will hear music traditions from all over the world come together in an adventurous and festive way. A mini-festival in and outside of the venue of Podium Hoge Woerd
Screen Dive: Instrumentalising Your Desire; Effective Meditations Protocol by James Hazel
Screen Dive, our platform for interactive sound art pieces, is getting its 3rd round of new pieces and updates. Instrumentalising Your Desire; Effective Meditations Protocol® is a work created by James Hazel, in which one turns to the realm of the sonic as a medium that can reveal employees’ deeper machinic-desires, both in and out of the work-play-space.
Screen Dive: Grinding Gears by Eagle WU
Screen Dive, our platform for interactive sound art pieces, is getting its 3rd round of new pieces and updates. Grinding Gears is a simulation of a city of gears made in different countries, made to simulate and compare the daily routines of two different countries while using the simulation data as a source to change parameters of sound.
Musical Utopias #4
Spaceship Ensemble, who are doing a residency with Gaudeamus in 2022, present a musical spectacle inspired by 'A Treatise In Evolution' from one of The Netherlands’ most iconic scientists, the theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft.
Screen Dive: Alterations by Amba Klapwijk and Paul Boereboom
Screen Dive, our platform for interactive sound art pieces, is getting its 3rd round of new pieces and updates. Alterations is a work created by the young composer Amba Klapawijk and scenographer Paul Boereboom.
Synthese – Ragazze Quartet & Jessica Ekomane
Synthesis is a quest for the amalgamation of three at first sight very different genres; modern classical, electronic and pop.
Club Fluxus: Blink Quartet
Centred around the compositions of George Dumitru, inspired by circular shapes and cyclical movement.
Knalpot & Frank Wienk (Binkbeats)
Two progressive giants in the crossover of improvisation and electronics are joining forces for the first time.
KuuB concert: Modelo62
Tesla's plasma lamp, extremes in light and sound, telephone frequencies and everyday boxes: unusual sources of inspiration for the music of this concert.
Screen Dive: Blush House by Zygmund de Somogyi
Screen Dive, our platform for interactive sound art pieces, is getting its 3rd round of new pieces and updates. Today, we premiere Blush House by the British-Filipino composer, artist, performer, and curator Zygmund de Somogyi.
Michela Amici Trio plays Esther Wu
The Michela Amici Trio plays Collage in discord (2020) by composer Esther Wu from Hong Kong, originally written for a cancelled Club Fluxus concert.
Charity evening for Ukraine
We are appalled by what is happening in Ukraine. That is why Gaudeamus, TivoliVredenburg and the Russian cellist Maya Fridman join forces for a charity concert for Ukraine.
Spaceship Residency Launch Concert
Spaceship Ensemble is doing a residency with Gaudeamus in 2022, which they are officially kicking off with this online concert.
Club Fluxus: Van Amsterdam Duo
Brother and sister Van Amsterdam have always enjoyed shaking things up.
Club Fluxus: Alistair Sung
Concert for solo cello and electronics, with new pieces developed with Aart Strootman, Molly Joyce, Morris Kliphuis and Qasim Naqvi.
WATCH AGAIN: Asko|Schönberg – Late Night
Brand-new music by Award-nominated Gen Tanaka and Annika Socolofsky - who ended up winning the Award.
WATCH ONLINE: Black Page Orchestra
Music by Award-nominated Jenny Beck, 2017 Award-winner Aart Strootman, Andys Skordis and Alessandro Baticci.
Club Fluxus: Oerknal
An exploration of the phenomenon of virtuosity in all its guises, in works by Ayres, Tenney and others.
postponedClub Fluxus: Michela Amici Trio
Harpist Michela Amici’s trio from The Hague presents the results of three years of close collaboration with young composers who are exploring the visible and invisible relationships between space, people and their bodies.
Residentie Orkest performs Fjóla Evans
Piece chosen from the orchestral pieces submitted for the Gaudeamus Award 2020
Residentie Orkest performs Fjóla Evans
Piece chosen from the orchestral pieces submitted for the Gaudeamus Award 2020
Club Fluxus: Trio Napolov | Fridman | Sandee
The work of painter Vincent van Gogh, who died 130 years ago, through the eyes and ears of three different composers.
Gaudeamus Sessies #25: Rieteke Hölscher + Udo Prinsen
During our irregular Sessions, Gaudeamus presents previews, try-outs and work-in-progress sessions of young ensembles and talented composers, from our own productions or those of partner organisations.
Club Fluxus: Ensemble Resilience
The international Ensemble Resilience explores new sound possibilities in contemporary classical music.
Club Fluxus: Pentacle Surround Sound
In The Pentacle, a 15.3 Surround Sound System invented by Fedde ten Berge, artistic coordinator of STEIM, you are embraced by sound.
Gaudeamus Radio Time with Luke Deane and Boris Bezemer
In this next four-hour Gaudeamus Radio Time radio special the duo will dispense recordings gently into your headroom – or other space –, incidentally share observations and considerations in different ways, and answer your phone call live in the studio at Stranded FM through digital radio waves.
Gaudeamus Sessies #24
During our irregular Sessions, Gaudeamus presents previews, try-outs and work-in-progress sessions of young ensembles and talented composers.
T R O M P O – Virtual concert
T R O M P O is a new music ensemble dedicated to the performance of the music of now. In their virtual concert for Gaudeamus, they play pieces by Remy Alexander, Fabián Roa and Laura Nygren.
Club Fluxus: Protokols – Rutger Muller Ensemble
Live stream can be watched again until 17 June
Gaudeamus x Stranded FM: Archive Dive
Gaudeamus and Stranded FM commissioned five contemporary artists to dig up music from the vast archives of 75 years of Gaudeamus and make something new with what they found.
Zoom Meeting – XTRO
Zoom Meeting is a virtual concert commissioned by Gaudeamus. A Covid-19 induced conceptual fever dream and a journey into the minds and bodies of three musicians losing sense of reality while being stuck at home with nothing to do.
Club Fluxus: Biophonica – Evelien van den Broek
A penetrating performance that is a mix of electronic music, pop music, contemporary classical and sound art.
Basklarinetfestijn 2020 – percussie(ff)
This programme is an ode to the bass clarinet and to new music from now and then.
Basklarinetfestijn 2020 – percussie(ff)
This programme is an ode to the bass clarinet and to new music from now and then.
postponedRalph van Raat – 75 years Gaudeamus
75 years and 2 days after the first ever Gaudeamus concert, Gaudeamus and TivoliVredenburg celebrate this anniversary with a concert by Ralph van Raat.
postponedKuuB Concert: XTRO
FLOW, by percussion trio XTRO, is a continuous, theatrical show merging pieces by contemporary composers such as Thierry de Mey, Steve Snowden and German Calle.
Club Fluxus: ICP Orchestra
The ICP’s musicians derive so much fun from playing, and sowing confusion contributes to their pleasure. The music is packed with surprises, unexpected twists, supple grace and strange outbursts.
Gaudeamus 75: Ralph van Raat in De Doelen
Pianist Ralph van Raat plays a program of contemporary music in De Doelen in the context of the jubilating Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
Gaudeamus 75: NTR Zaterdagmatinee
Commissioned for the jubilating festival, Yannis Kyriakides is writing a new piece for orchestra, four voices and electronics.
Gaudeamus 75: NTR Zaterdagmatinee
Commissioned for the jubilating festival, Yannis Kyriakides is writing a new piece for orchestra, four voices and electronics.
Walking concert: BUI – Improv in nature
A trip in which music, spoken word, dance and sonic sculptures relate to birdsong, wind sounds and sunlight through the trees.
Synthese #2
Synthese #2 takes over the Antonius church in Lombok for one night to put the French composer Olivier Messiaen in a new light.
Club Fluxus: Maya Fridman & Diamanda Dramm
Two wilful young musicians, cellist Maya Fridman and violinist Diamandra Dramm, have been given carte blanche.
KuuB concert: MoesMánia
Concert in the context of the the surreal, city wide party MoesMánia to celebrate the 111th birth year of the Dutch surrealist Joop Moesman.
Genesis – Kamerorkest van het Noorden
Het Kamerorkest van het Noorden and narrator Guus Kuijer take you with them to the world of the biblical story Genesis.
Club Fluxus: Amstel Quartet & Keuris Quartet – Maxim Shalygin
Two of the Netherlands’ most exciting saxophone quartets join forces to perform 'Todos los fuegos el fuego' by the Dutch/Ukrainian composer Maxim Shalygin.
Club Fluxus: But What About – Pendeltrap
A project focussing on American composer/conductor Patrick David Clark, who studied with Louis Andriessen, with concerts and workshops in New York and in the Netherlands.
KuuB Concert: BUI
Impro is alive and kicking again in Utrecht! Not in the least thanks to BUI, a club of young musicians who are committed to the Promotion of Utrecht Improvosation (Bevordering Utrecht Improvisatie).
KuuB Concert: Vincent van Amsterdam
Vincent van Amsterdam, an extremely versatile accordionist, plays four new works, by Heather Pinkham, Berry van Berkum, Merijn Bisschops and Christiaan Richter.
Ensemble Modelo62 – Intercity Sessions
Immerse yourself in the unusual sound-world of Modelo62. During the Intercity Sessions you not only listen to music, but you also may participate with your voice or instrument.
Club Fluxus: Perforator Performania!
With hobo, joystick and motion sensors, Perforator makes contemporary electronic music that is created live on the spot.
Ensemble Klang & Ivan Vukosavljević present ‘The Burning’ @ Le Guess Who?
The Burning is a hypnotic and intense 45-minute long live composition that moves between the transformed guitars and Klang’s regular instruments.
AEAEA @ Le Guess Who?
Le Guess Who? and Gaudeamus present the premiere of new project by Patrick Higgins and Nicolas Jaar, two of today’s most acclaimed musical visionaries and explorers.
KuuB Concert: Germaine Sijstermans
A six-piece acoustic ensemble plays a new composition with installation of clarinettist Germaine Sijstermans. Featuring Antoine Beuger, Leo Svirsky and others.
Jacob Lekkerkerker: Cathedral Mobile @ Nicolaïkerk
Cathedral Mobile is a new sound world with organs, acoustic and electronic sound sources. Different musical worlds – minimal, electronic, classical and jazz – merge . . .
CANCELLED: Club Fluxus: The Chronometer’s Orchestra ft. Matangi Quartet
DUE TO PRODUCTION REASONS OF THE BAND, THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Gaudeamus Sessies #23
Previews, try-outs and work-in-progress sessions with Gagi Petrovic & Trash Panda Collective, Merel Vercammen and Maya Fridman.
Club Fluxus: Zwerm & Fred Frith – 5x Averechts
Together with Fred Frith, the figurehead of the avant-garde, the gentlemen of the electric guitar quartet Zwerm go in search of undiscovered sounds and textures. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH TIVOLIVREDENBURG
Club Fluxus: Oerknal & Clara Iannotta
Ensemble Oerknal! is placing Italian composer Clara Iannotta in the limelight. In this lively programme, Oerknal! places her uncompromising work alongside music from the Renaissance and other sources of inspiration. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH TIVOLIVREDENBURG
Gaudeamus Sessies #22
During our irregular Sessions, Gaudeamus presents previews, try-outs and work-in-progress sessions. In Session #22 duo Nadezda Filippova (piano) and Vitali Karagkezidis (composition) and a new piece by Wilbert Bulsink and Rosa Ensemble.
KuuB Concert: Rieteke Hölscher – Disturbing Lights
Composer Rieteke Hölscher present the multidisciplinary work 'Disturbing Light' in cooperation with graphic designer Marij Janssen.
Club Fluxus: But What About – Disrupted Transmissions
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH TIVOLIVREDENBURG Disrupted Transmissions is the title of the programme devised by ensemble But What About (BWA) in collaboration with singer/composer Aurélie Lierman.
KuuB Concert: Tom Sanderman – Whoever You Are Come Forth
Saxofonist Tom Sanderman plays post-minimal music by Kate Moore, Aart Strootman, Remy Alexander and others on 28 February in Kunstruimte KuuB in Utrecht.
Gaudeamus Sessies #21
During our irregular Sessions, Gaudeamus (the platform for young music pioneers’ development) presents previews, try-outs and work-in-progress sessions of its own productions, young ensembles and/or talented composers.
Gaudeamus x Conlon: Disklavier Projection Works
Gaudeamus and Stichting Conlon present Disklavier Projection Works in Museum Speelklok. The self-playing piano is put in a new context, using electronics, digital projections and live coding.
Club Fluxus: Kluster5 – Dutch Focus
Kluster5 is a young ensemble based in The Hague that produces a unique, modern sound which is particularly evident in new works written especially for the ensemble. Tickets are available through TivoliVredenburg
LP-presentatie: Zeno van den Broek & Gagi Petrovic + Jessica Sligter
Presentation of the first two LPs in a new vinyl series of Gaudeamus & Unsounds.
KuuB Concert: Martin van Hees – solo guitar
Albumrelease for the second solo cd Remgewogen with new compositions for classic guitar by Aart Strootman, Jan-Peter de Graaff and Christiaan Richter, as well as existing pieces by Louis Andriessen and Roderik de Man.
Gaudeamus x Le Guess Who: Lucy Railton
Lucy Railton’s voice has bloomed from the root of more than 25 years of classical instrumentalism. The cellist and electronic composer’s acclaimed 2018 solo debut . . .
Gaudeamus x Le Guess Who: Eli Keszler
With his nimble improv playing, composer Eli Keszler can make an average drum kit sound like electronic textures. It’s not much of a surprise that . . .
Gaudeamus x Le Guess Who: Sarah Hennies & Jessica Sligter
So what do inventive New York-based sound wizard Sarah Hennies and avant-folk/electronic artist Jessica Sligter have in common? Well, they’re both reality-augmenters: Hennies can use . . .
Gaudeamus x Le Guess Who: ONCEIM & Stephen O’Malley present ‘Gruides’
The ‘Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales’ (ONCEIM) is an orchestra of 34 musicians dedicated to the art of creation and experimentation; often . . .
Gaudeamus x Le Guess Who: ONCEIM & Éliane Radigue present ‘Occam Océan’
The ‘Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales’ (ONCEIM) is an orchestra of 34 musicians dedicated to the art of creation and experimentation; often . . .
Club Fluxus: Diamanda Dramm – Violin Spaces
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH TIVOLIVREDENBURG Viola Spaces by Garth Knox is a household name in the field of contemporary music for viola. Together with Diamanda Dramm he composed Violin Spaces, a sequel to Viola Spaces: a series of concert studies for solo violin.
Club Fluxus: Jesse Passenier & The Fluid Orchestra
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH TIVOLIVREDENBURG The young composer Jesse Passenier operates on the frontier between classical music and jazz. Think of Ligeti, Ravel, big band, jazz, lyrical melodies and colourful harmonies!
Something in this Universe – Genevieve Murphy / Nicole Beutler Projects
Obsessive-compulsive disorders: there ’s something about the endless drive for perfection. It is endlessly tempting, and so addictive. Something In This Universe, a solo by composer, musician and performer Genevieve Murphy, is balancing on the tipping point between control and destruction.
Something in this Universe – Genevieve Murphy / Nicole Beutler Projects
Obsessive-compulsive disorders: there ’s something about the endless drive for perfection. It is endlessly tempting, and so addictive. Something In This Universe, a solo by composer, musician and performer Genevieve Murphy, is balancing on the tipping point between control and destruction.
Gaudeamus Sessies #20
During the 20th edition attention is paid to the preview of Koerikoeloem, a music theater performance by Miranda Driessen to the eponymous prose poem by Tjitske Jansen and the sound installation Disturbing Light by composer Rieteke Hölscher and visual designer Marij Janssen.
KuuB Concert: Maya Fridman
This concert season Gaudeamus brings you an intimate series of concerts in KuuB, a gallery annex mutifunctional space for art and culture in a picturesque old part (museumkwartier) of Utrecht.
Gaudeamus Sessies #19
During the Gaudeamus Sessies we present try-outs of our own productions, previews of the Muziekweek and work-in-progress by young ensembles and (yet) unknown composers.
KuuB Concert: Ezequiel Menalled & Maribeth Diggle – Falling
This concert season Gaudeamus brings you an intimate series of concerts in KuuB, a gallery annex mutifunctional space for art and culture in a picturesque old part (museumkwartier) of Utrecht.
Gaudeamus Sessies #18
During the Gaudeamus Sessies we present try-outs of our own productions, previews of the Muziekweek and work-in-progress by young ensembles and (yet) unknown composers.
Kuub Concert: Konstantyn Napolov
This concert season Gaudeamus brings you an intimate series of concerts in KuuB, a gallery annex mutifunctional space for art and culture in a picturesque old part (museumkwartier) of Utrecht.
Gaudeamus Sessies #17
During the Gaudeamus Sessies we present try-outs of our own productions, previews of the Muziekweek and work-in-progress by young ensembles and (yet) unknown composers.
KuuB Concert: Aart Strootman
Aart Strootman opens brand new Gaudeamus concert season with an unusual concert in KuuB. Includes free drink afterwards.
Gaudeamus @ Le Guess Who?
In november Gaudeamus and festival Le Guess Who? join forces and present on Sunday 12 November Visible Cloaks, Sarah Davachi & Circuit (Gaudeamus artist-in-residence Jerzy Bielski's band).
Lecture Wesley Goatley
In the lecture Data Sonifaction and Network Politics, Goatley takes you into the world of his work, his installations, specifically based on his work The Dark Age of Connectionism.
The Sound of Empty Space
During the Muziekweek the sound installations in Festival Hub TivoliVredenburg are the work of the Canadian sound artist and composer Adam Basanta.
The Sound of Empty Space
During the Muziekweek the sound installations in Festival Hub TivoliVredenburg are the work of the Canadian sound artist and composer Adam Basanta.
The Sound of Empty Space
During the Muziekweek the sound installations in Festival Hub TivoliVredenburg are the work of the Canadian sound artist and composer Adam Basanta.
The Sound of Empty Space
During the Muziekweek the sound installations in Festival Hub TivoliVredenburg are the work of the Canadian sound artist and composer Adam Basanta.