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 . . .
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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 . . .
LP-presentatie: Zeno van den Broek & Gagi Petrovic + Jessica Sligter
Gaudeamus & Unsounds: Sounds of the Young Avant-garde
Presentation of the first two LPs in a new vinyl series of Gaudeamus & Unsounds.
Club Fluxus: Diamanda Dramm – Violin Spaces
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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
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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!
Black MIDI – Stargaze & Ceremony Gaudeamus Award 2018
closing concert, glitches, Smile
Stargaze plays ‘Black MIDI’, the newest work by Nicole Lizée. The concert concludes with the presentation of the renowned Gaudeamus Award.
Koerikoeloem – Miranda Driessen
open air, windharps, multiple voices
Music theatre production created by Miranda Driessen, based on the prose poem of the same name by Tjitske Jansen. A multidisciplinary work for eight solo voices, sho (a Japanese wind instrument), a recorder trio and an acoustic installation consisting of eight wind harps.
Ambition – Ensemble Klang
ambient music, circles, metal plates
Ambition is the ambitious ambient music project created by the American composer and 2017 Gaudeamus Award nominee Ethan Braun.
Hidden Agreements, the universe of Sedje Hémon – Ensemble Modelo62
virtual reality, digital decay, painting compositions
Ensemble Modelo62, based in The Hague, performs a new programme based around the recently rediscovered, special, multi-disciplinary work of the Dutch Jewish composer and visual artist Sedje Hémon (1923-2011).
Fabulous Violin – Diamanda Dramm
solo violin, new notes, rising star
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Fenomenal violinist Diamanda Dramm shows a tremendous energy when making music. Together with the Grachtenfestival, Gaudeamus called for young composers to write new notes for her.
The Collectors – Simons | Napolov
percussion and piano, new repertoire, Moritz Eggert
Duo Simons | Napolov are passionate advocates of new repertoire for percussion instruments and piano. Their programme The Collectors is a compilation of works especially written for them.
Standards Project – Gareth Davis
jazz redesigned, bass clarinet, world premieres
Bass clarinetist Gareth Davis, active in everything from hardcore contemporary to noise, electronics or opera, harks back to his fascination with jazz.
Around the World – Keuris Quartet
saxophone quartet, faraway countries, open call
What does a tirade from Ukraine sound like, or a tranquil Swedish landscape, or a rhythm section from the US, or a tropical storm in Taiwan?
Koerikoeloem – Miranda Driessen
open air, windharps, multiple voices
Music theatre production created by Miranda Driessen, based on the prose poem of the same name by Tjitske Jansen. A multidisciplinary work for eight solo voices, sho (a Japanese wind instrument), a recorder trio and an acoustic installation consisting of eight wind harps.
Canti – Maya Fridman
solo, cello, voice, synagogue
Premiere of Canti d’inizio e fine, a technically demanding and thematically profound piece, with references to the Holocaust and the cycle of life and death, written especially for cellist Maya Fridman.
Solo | Shadow | Doppelgänger – Miriam Overlach
solo harp, electronics, video
Versatlise harp player Miriam Overlach brings a programme with an emphasis on live electronics, samples and video.
Oranje Duivels – Kugoni Trio
Flemish-Dutch, commissions, new notes
The Belgian Kugoni Trio consists of a unique line-up of piano, violin and saxophone, and plays mostly music from Belgium.