Call for Composers – TouchLab TERMINAL & Gaudeamus
Gaudeamus and Insomnio are launching a Call for Composers to create new works that challenge and expand the artistic research with Insomnio’s TouchLab TERMINAL.
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Photo series nominees Gaudeamus Award 2025
Photographer Rogier Boogaard followed the nominees for Gaudeamus Award 2025 across all their rehearsals, concerts and other adventures in Utrecht during and before Gaudeamus Festival 2025.
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Matthew Grouse wins the Gaudeamus Award 2025
British composer Matthew Grouse is the winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2025. The young composer received the prestigious incentive prize for young music pioneers on Sunday, September 14th during the closing evening of Gaudeamus Festival 2025 in TivoliVredenburg Hertz in Utrecht.
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Bart de Vrees – The State of Dutch New Music
Composer, musician, and curator Bart de Vrees, in his opening speech for the Gaudeamus Festival 2025, reflects on The State of Dutch New Music, in collaboration with Buma Cultuur.
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Festival app TMSQR
Plan your festival visit ahead or on your way to the festival.
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Gaudeamus Award 2026
Application for the Gaudeamus Award 2026 is now open! Composers/creators of any nationality or background who were born after 13 September 1990 may enter their works.
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Gaudeamus Festival 2025 Programme Complete
Today we announce the third and final batch of artists performing at Gaudeamus Festival 2025.
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Open call: Focus Group Participants, Gaudeamus Festival 2025.
The application to join our Focus Group is now open!
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Second wave of artists announced for Gaudeamus Festival 2025
Today we are announcing the next batch of artists for the programme of Gaudeamus Festival 2025!
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First names Gaudeamus Festival 2025 + ticket sales started
From 10 to 14 September, we will present more than 45 concerts, interdisciplinary performances, the Gaudeamus Award, workshops, lectures and a seminar, celebrating our 80th anniversary this year.
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Gaudeamus Award 2025 nominees
Matthew Grouse (1996, GBR)
Golnaz Shariatzadeh (1996, IRN)
Robin Haigh (1993, IRL/GBR)
Yaz Lancaster (1996, USA)
Yixie Shen winner Gaudeamus Award 2024
The young composer received the prestigious incentive prize for young music pioneers on Sunday 8 September during the closing evening of Gaudeamus Festival 2024 in TivoliVredenburg Pandora in Utrecht.
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Pelumi Adejumo – The State of the Arts
Louis Andriessen, with his piece ‘The Republic’, engaged in a discussion about the role of music in politics, asserting that music has never caused the . . .
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Calliope Tsoupaki – The State of Dutch New Music
When it comes to music, we usually talk about melody, rhythm, and harmony. Harmony has an allegorical ulterior motive, its meaning reflecting our desire to . . .
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NIME installations during Gaudeamus Festival
Installations by NIME makers can be seen during the day at various HKU locations, the Academy Gallery and Museum Speelklok.
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GAUDEAMUS ALUMNI: Maya Fridman
In this series of articles, we check in with some of the artists we worked with in the past to see where they are now. Episode 3: Maya Fridman, artist in residence at Gaudeamus in 2018 and 2019.
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