Programme – Festival
Gaudeamus 2025 Wednesday
Zeno van den Broek & HIIIT & Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Brand new performance for six human percussionists and five percussion robots. An exploration of the ever-changing relationship between people and machines.
Yaz Lancaster & medium. / SMASH.duo
Gaudeamus Award nominee Yaz Lancaster gives a concert that will showcase all facets of their artistry, joined by their death ambient project medium. and SMASH.duo.
Quatuor Bozzini
Canadian string quartet Quatuor Bozzini presents work commissioned for Zosha Di Castri, and new compositions by Award-nominee Robin Haigh and Amarante Nat.
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[dis]appear – Kenza Koutchoukali, Tessa Douwstra (LUWTEN) & Marlou Breuls
Audiovisual installation about the emptiness of grief, by director Kenza Koutchoukali, musician Tessa Douwstra and designer Marlou Breuls. This evening with live performance by Tessa Douwstra (LUWTEN).
NADAR Ensemble – Summer School
Yearly, Nadar Ensemble organizes an international summer school for young composers and sound artists. This year with participants Matthew Grouse, Eveline Vervliet, Nina Fukuoka and Paul Scully.
SMASH.duo
Trumpeter Chloë Abbott and percussionist Moritz Koch have set themselves the mission of revamping the classical concert experience. With music by Sara Zamboni, Jessie Marino, Vicente Atria and Golnaz Shariatzadeh.
Gaudeamus 2025 Lunch break concert
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Gaudeamus 2025 Friday
Asko|Schönberg & Silbersee – Recital (for Cathy)
Luciano Berio's Recital (for Cathy) in a new audiovisual rendition by Silbersee & Het Muziek, followed by new material by Karmit Fadael and Robin Haigh, two compositions dialoguing with Berio's.
Laurence Gaudreau & Audréanne Filion
A performance for two cellos with live electronics, building an emotional, intimate landscape with influences from classical, experimental, ambient and noise.
NADAR Ensemble – Don’t Leave the Room
Four dystopian views of the world come together in this interdisciplinary performance dealing with censorship, post-apocalyptic struggle and (mis)communication. With music by Alexander Khubeev, Golnaz Shariatzadeh en Galina Ustvolskaya and a film by Abbas Kiarostami.
Gaudeamus 2025 Netelland Saturday
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Thomas Azier
In his new performance and album Power To The People Who Don’t Want It, Azier revisits his own musical compositions through a minimalist approach, morphing synth, sax and his voice into a cinematic piece.
Nyokabi Kariũki & Cello Octet
In her performance Birdsongs from Kĩrĩnyaga in collaboration with the Cello Octet Amsterdam, Kariũki takes voice and field recordings to explore the rich interplay between nature and human heritage.
Nana Adjoa & Cello Octet
Special, new arrangements of her repertoire - old and brand new - with the Cello Octet, which will also perform with Nyokabi Kariũki the same evening.
COW Shift Z – Last Fantasy For My Early 20s
COW Shift Z, composer and maker of experimental electronic music, presents her ambitious EDM opera Last Fantasy For My Early 20s.
Gaudeamus 2025 Netelland Sunday
Gaudeamus 2025 Sunday
Islands of Change
A sonic exhibition during the festival across various locations in and around de Lange Nieuwstraat, featuring five installations and performative pieces, lectures, panels and workshops.
Kate Moore
For her ongoing project A Beautiful Path, composer Moore walks in stages from the east of the Netherlands to the westernmost point of Ireland. Now will present the premiere of the first completed work she wrote during this project.
Quatuor Bozzini – Composer’s Kitchen
New pieces by Julia Mermelstein, Lucie Nezri, Niko Schroeder and Corie Soumah developed during a residency under the guidance of mentors Zosha Di Castri and Maya Verlaak.
Nieuwe Noten voor Jawa Manla
Brand new pieces for the Syrian oud player Jawa Manla by Koen Oosterhuis, Anan Alkadamani and Wybe Wiersma.