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Gaudeamus 2025 Netelland Sunday
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ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Mudassir Sheikh (installation)
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.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Oceanic Refractions (installation)
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.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Sophia Mitiku (installation)
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.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Adama Delphine Fawundu (installation)
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.
disappear (Installation)
Kenza Koutchoukali, Tessa Douwstra and Marlou Breuls collaborate in this installation for the Centraal Museum which materializes the process of grief into an interactive installation.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Sophia Mitiku (performance)
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.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Sophia Mitiku (performance)
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.
Stranded FM: Laura Kampman
Found sounds merge with songs on guitar and synthesizer to create a sparkling, cathartic world of sound.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Silent Keynote
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.
Stranded FM presents: Mathilde Nobel
Mathilde Nobel is a Rotterdam-based musician and visual artist whose work bridges ethereal sound design with a deconstructed club sensibility.
Resonate Productions – Nothing Bigger Than Humanity
In the multidisciplinary performance Nothing Bigger Than Humanity by Resonate Productions, we revisit events that changed recent world history, through the eyes of millennials who witnessed them first-hand as children.
Stranded FM present: Skander Jaïbi
Skander Jaïbi is a Tunisian and Dutch composer, audiovisual artist, curator, science educator and one of the founders of the Uncloud Festival in Utrecht.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Sophia Mitiku (performance)
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 & Herz ensemble
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.
Jan Nieuwenhuis & Floris van Bergeijk – 100.
For the exhibition 100, writer and artist Jan Nieuwenhuis sanded down 100 record covers with sandpaper so that everything disappeared except for the women portrayed. The music composed by Floris van Bergeijk makes use of the original records, mirroring the visual process into her sound-based practice.
Nieuwe Noten voor Jawa Manla
Brand new pieces for the Syrian oud player Jawa Manla by Koen Oosterhuis, Anan Alkadamani and Wybe Wiersma.
Postland – Sound of View
The same film four times, with four completely different musical worlds. A sense-stimulating journey through sound, image and perception.
Moritz Eggert
One hour excerpt of Eggert's Hämmerklavier XIII - the eventually-to-be 12-hour physically exhausting tour-de-force for one player.
IEMA-Ensemble 2024/25
Two routes through TivoliVredenburg will lead you from one solo performance to the next, each showcasing the unique personality and style of each ensemble member.
Kluster5 & Aart Strootman – Expeditie
With the strategic use of dramatic music, shadows and flashes, you as a spectator are immersed in the world of the expedition in which every step is a leap into the unknown.
Quatuor Bozzini – Composer’s Kitchen
New pieces by Julia Mermelstein, Lucie Nezri, Niko Schroeder and Corie Rose Soumah developed during a residency under the guidance of mentors Zosha Di Castri and Maya Verlaak.
IEMA-Ensemble 2024/25
Two routes through TivoliVredenburg will lead you from one solo performance to the next, each showcasing the unique personality and style of each ensemble member.
Peni Candra Rini
Musician and singer Peni Candra Rini presents Rara – Allegories of the Southern Sea. Prior to the concert the Gaudeamus Award will be given to one of the four nominees!
Gaudeamus 2025 “Saturday Night”
Nizar & Yasamin – Sujuud (Adoration)
Sujuud is a nuanced interplay between the Arabic and Persian traditions, a dialogue between oud players Nizar Rohana and Yasamin Shahhosseini.
Jan Nieuwenhuis & Floris van Bergeijk – 100.
For the exhibition 100, writer and artist Jan Nieuwenhuis sanded down 100 record covers with sandpaper so that everything disappeared except for the women portrayed. The music composed by Floris van Bergeijk makes use of the original records, mirroring the visual process into her sound-based practice.
M Alberto – RADIO VITÓ
Theatre maker, musician-poet and artist-researcher M Alberto makes spiritual performance art in which they give voice to black, queer, anarchist and sex worker activism.
Basklarinet Festijn
Bass clarinetist Fie Schouten and Chris Watt, along with cellist Katharina Gross, play four diverse and largely brand new pieces by young composers: Jérôme Combier, Bianca Diana Popa, Philip Przybylo and Peter Jakober.
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.
K!ART
With an intermedial approach to live performance, the experimental music ensemble will be playing music by Award nominee Matthew Grouse.
Catching Cultures Orchestra
Musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds play together towards a common language at the intersection of Afrobeat-driven grooves, Latin American folk music and the Middle Eastern, Chinese and Kurdish traditions.
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.
K!ART
With an intermedial approach to live performance, the experimental music ensemble will be playing music by Award nominees Matthew Grouse and Yaz Lancaster.
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.
Aho Ssan & Resina – Ego Death
Music that brims with dark, cinematic intensity, stretching the tonality of the cello to its breaking point and exploring the textures left in its wake.
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.
Quatuor Bozzini, Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor
Kyriakides' Hypnokaséta is a continuous set of 16 pieces for string quartet, improviser and live electronics.
Los Thuthanaka
Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton present a wild and deeply-felt mix of sample collage, the Bolivian Aymara tradition and psychedelic rock.
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Gaudeamus 2025 Uitfeest
Malgosia Fiebig
Every year during the Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig plays music by 20th- and 21st-century composers.
disappear (Installation)
Kenza Koutchoukali, Tessa Douwstra and Marlou Breuls collaborate in this installation for the Centraal Museum which materializes the process of grief into an interactive installation.
BUI – Stenensoep
The improvisation ensemble BUI (Bevordering Utrechtse Improvisatie) makes a musical stone soup with the unpredictable meeting of the place, the dialogue with the audience and the spur of the moment.
Sounds Like Juggling – WARBOEL
When juggling becomes music, a new music genre finds itself in juggling. A theatrical reframing of the juggling tools as self-made music instruments.
Ear to the Earth Ensemble (workshop)
In a 30-minute open workshop on the square in front of Stadsklooster, we make music together using our voices, our bodies and waste materials.
Sounds Like Juggling – WARBOEL
When juggling becomes music, a new music genre finds itself in juggling. A theatrical reframing of the juggling tools as self-made music instruments.
Ear to the Earth Ensemble
Take a dive into ecosystems unseen and discover what surrounds them through listening as Ear to the Earth Ensemble transforms the nature of Stadsklooster Utrecht.
Sounds Like Juggling – WARBOEL
When juggling becomes music, a new music genre finds itself in juggling. A theatrical reframing of the juggling tools as self-made music instruments.
Gaudeamus 2025 Netelland Friday
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Dyane Donck Company & Orkest De Ereprijs – Atmos/Spheres II
New pieces for the 64 spatially arranged speakers of the Dolby Atmos sound system, with live accompaniment by musicians of Orkest De Ereprijs
disappear (Installation)
Kenza Koutchoukali, Tessa Douwstra and Marlou Breuls collaborate in this installation for the Centraal Museum which materializes the process of grief into an interactive installation.
ISLANDS OF CHANGE: Oceanic Refractions (installation)
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.
Katharina Gross, Fie Schouten & Pascal Meyer
Bass clarinetist Fie Schouten and cellist Katharina Gross, along with pianist Pascal Meyer, will present a concert based on a piece by Isabel Mundry, one of the jury members for the Gaudeamus Award 2025.
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.
Mári Mákó – Cylyre
In her new solo performance Cylyre, composer, instrument builder and researcher Mári Mákó explores the relationship between instrumental performance and interactive live electronics.
Het Muziek – The Usual & AESOP 2
New music by Karmit Fadael and Robin Haigh.
Sanam Tahmasebi – Freedom in Fragments (work in progress)
Multidisciplinary performance that unfolds at the intersection of music, dance, poetry, and visual art, inspired by the ''Woman, Life, Freedom'' movement in Iran.
Het Muziek & Silbersee – Recital (for Cathy)
Luciano Berio's Recital (for Cathy) in a new audiovisual rendition by Silbersee & Het Muziek.
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.
Gaudeamus 2025 Lunch break concert
Gaudeamus Academy 2025
Seminar: COLLECTiVEndividual CrEaTiViTy
Lectures and workshops by M Alberto, BUI, Peni Candra Rini, Samira Dibi and Aart van der Maas.
Lecture: The Oud in Focus – Tradition, Centrality and Modern Relevance
The Palestinian oud player Nizar Rohana gives a lecture exploring the enduring relevance of the oud.
Gaudeamus 2025 Thursday
disappear – 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).
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.
disappear – 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).
Anushka Chkheidze – Intricate Pipes
Project based on Chkheidze’s long-held wish to work with the pipe organ — not in a classical sense, but as a programmable instrument expanded by digital tools.
disappear – 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).
Perforator – LIJF!
In the new solo performance Lijf, with new music by Bec Plexus, oboist and performer Kayva van Gangelen turns the female body into an instrument of sound and memory.
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.
Gaudeamus 2025 Wednesday
Bart de Vrees – The State of Dutch New Music
Composer, musician and curator Bart de Vrees addresses The State of Dutch New Music.
Laura Agnusdei
Italian composer and saxophonist Laura Agnusdei presents music from her latest album Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica.
Meet the Nominees
Meet the 4 nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2025.
Quatuor Bozzini
Canadian string quartet Quatuor Bozzini presents music by Award-nominee Robin Haigh, 2022 nominee Bekah Simms and Zosha Di Castri.
BUI – Stenensoep
The improvisation ensemble BUI (Bevordering Utrechtse Improvisatie) makes a musical stone soup with the unpredictable meeting of the place, the dialogue with the audience and the spur of the moment.
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.
Eli Keszler
Drummer, composer and percussionist Eli Keszler (NY) presents his new self-titled album. Music that breathes, creaks and sighs
Tera de Marez Oyens Award Ceremony
Gaudeamus 2024 Sunday
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.
Gaudeamus 2024 Saturday Night
Andrea Voets / Resonate Productions – FOR REAL
Theatrical radio show about the persistent intellectual undermining of women. Stories and live interviews with the audience, accompanied by musicians improvising live.
IEMA-Ensemble 2023/24
Ensemble Modern academists explore the reverberant acoustics of the Nicolaïkerk. New piece by Yixie Shen, 2024 Award nominee.
Aimée Theriot & Concepción Huerta
Sound artist Concepción Huerta and cellist Aimée Theriot use vintage analogue synthesizers and electronic instruments to explore the tension between analogue and digital music, ambient and noise, live electronics and tape recorders.
20 years of Nonclassical: Jasmine Morris
A colourful sound world, where orchestral sounds, feedback and noise meet; recontextualised through the media of synthesizers, a laptop, guitar effects and a cassette player.
ONCEIM + Genevieve Murphy + Christian Marclay
Orchestra of New Creations, Experiments and Improvised Music presents what its name stands for, with equally versatile makers Genevieve Murphy and Christian Marclay.
Joanna Bailie – A giant creeps out of a keyhole
Joanna Bailie, Award 2024 jury member, shows A giant creeps out of a keyhole; her film, which explores how paintings, photographs and field recordings have the power to transport us from one place to another.
Maya Fridman & Sietse van Berkel – Cello x BMX
Maya Fridman & Sietse van Berkel present a special encounter between a top athlete who elevates BMX'ing to art and an artist with unique physical strength.
Riot Ensemble
Exploration of the duality of hi- and lo-fi, and of water as giver and taker of life. Program including works by two 2024 Award nominees: Cem Güven and Beniamino Fiorini.
20 years of Nonclassical: Klavikon
Abstract electronic soundscapes made without loops, laptops or sequencers, but with a unique piano 'prepared' with objects, such as a robot dog.
Jlin & Florence To
New live A/V show with visuals by artist and director Florence To.
Joanna Bailie – A giant creeps out of a keyhole
Joanna Bailie, Award 2024 jury member, shows A giant creeps out of a keyhole; her film, which explores how paintings, photographs and field recordings have the power to transport us from one place to another.
20 years of Nonclassical: NikNak
NikNak seeks out and pushes boundaries: a solo DJ set with improvised elements, on the edge of ambient, glitch and experimental club music.
XTRO + Pelargos Quartet
Electronics, plastic bottles and phones in the works of Charles Baumstark and 2024 Award nominee Patrick Ellis.
No Plexus
Genre-queer electronic music steps out of the club and into nature, with synthetic birdsong and hyper-realistic acoustic instruments.
Gaudeamus 2024 Uitfeest
Malgosia Fiebig
Malgosia Fiebig plays music by 20th and 21st century composers on the iconic carillon of the Dom Tower.
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.
Binkbeats & Henk Schut – OHM (installation)
An intimate sound ritual that visitors wander through, discovering new nuances each time.
Terrapolis x Uitfeest
Terrapolis: een concertserie voor verrassende performances die genres en disciplines voorbij gaan. Tijdens het Uitfeest organiseren we een speciale editie van Terrapolis.
BUI – ‘What are you building in there?!’ (‘endurance’ version)
BUI plays continuously in the hall of the library between 12:00 and 17:00. In their ritual playground, the group relates to the coming and going of people, the sounds present and the passage of time.
CANCELLED: Sounds Like Juggling – WARBOEL
Unfortunately, the performance WARBOEL by Sounds like Juggling cannot be performed on September 7 and 8, due to medical conditions of one of the company's players.
Hashtag Ensemble & MusicAZ
For the unique project Second:ary, the Polish Hashtag Ensemble is developing brand-new pieces in collaboration with volunteers and residents of Utrecht's AZC.
CANCELLED: Sounds Like Juggling – WARBOEL (premiere)
Unfortunately, the performance WARBOEL by Sounds like Juggling cannot be performed on September 7 and 8, due to medical conditions of one of the company's players.
CANCELLED: Sounds Like Juggling – WARBOEL
Unfortunately, the performance WARBOEL by Sounds like Juggling cannot be performed on September 7 and 8, due to medical conditions of one of the company's players.
Darian Donovan Thomas
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and interdisciplinary artist Darian Donovan Thomas presents his debut album - blurring lines between hyper pop, jazz, noise, game and ambient music.
Gaudeamus 2024 Friday
Binkbeats & Henk Schut – OHM (installation)
An intimate sound ritual that visitors wander through, discovering new nuances each time.
NIME Concert: Gaudeamus Lunchbreak
A special and diverse program catered to the Gaudeamus lunch concert audience. The Gaudeamus public is invited to participate in the mobile phone orchestra.
Parker Ramsay
Harpist Parker Ramsay plays a concert built around the piece when i am among the trees by Lucy McKnight, one of the nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2024.
Kate Moore & Isabelle Vigier – A Beautiful Path (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.
Kate Moore – A Beautiful Path: Ossenlied Part I (Performance)
For her project A Beautiful Path, composer Moore walks in stages from the east of the Netherlands to the westernmost point of Ireland. While walking, she develops a new music cycle inspired by troubadours.
NIME Keynote: Darsha Hewitt – Tuning the LoFi Soundscape: DIY Practice and the ‘Political Ecology’ of Music
Darsha Hewitt (CA/DE) is an interdisciplinary sound artist that critically investigates the materiality of music and sound, (planned) obsolescence and the practices of technology that consumer society throws away.
New European String Quartet
Works by two Gaudeamus Award nominees and jury member Zaid Jabri with themes of claustrophobia, intensity, lightness, and touchless sound.
Maat Saxophone Quartet + De Diamantfabriek – Metamorphosis, A Virtual Opera
De Metamorfose van Kafka, een verhaal over een man die in een insect verandert, als een meeslepende ervaring in een virtuele opera door componist Nuno Lobo en kunstenaar Pedro Lobo.
NIME Concert: 5
You are also welcome to attend several concerts and keynotes of NIME with a passe-partout or Gaudeamus day ticket.
Kate Moore – A Beautiful Path: Ossenlied Part I (Performance)
For her project A Beautiful Path, composer Moore walks in stages from the east of the Netherlands to the westernmost point of Ireland. While walking, she develops a new music cycle inspired by troubadours.
IEMA-Ensemble 2023/24
The youth division of Ensemble Modern will play works by IEMA composers and by Ulysses Network composers.
NIME Concert: Audio visual performances
Concert of audio visual performances by makers from the NIME conference programme.
Gaudeamus 2024 Friday Lunch concert
Seminar: Music and Politics
Gaudeamus 2024 Thursday
Binkbeats & Henk Schut – OHM (installation)
An intimate sound ritual that visitors wander through, discovering new nuances each time.
Central Laat: Gaudeamus Festival x Freaky Dancing
Gaudeamus Festival and Freaky Dancing co-curate a colourful evening: Two new intimate works by Award nominees Lucy McKnight and Cem Güven, plus book and album launch and performance by composer Frieda Gustavs.
NIME Keynote: Binkbeats – Organic sounds in the synthesis of electronic music
Keynote voor NIME van producer, multi-instrumentalist en componist BINKBEATS.
lovemusic
Colorful works by current and former nominees for the Gaudeamus Award, and one of 2019 winner Kelley Sheehan.
NIME Concert: Dance and more
A diverse NIME concert, with performances that include dance in variety of traditional and cultural contexts and perceptions through movement and senses in relation to NIME performance.
Futurists Foundation / Jerzy Bielski & Thomas Brand – ZUAM
Opera singers and a deaf dancer perform an immersive opera ritual, featuring sign language, prototalk, folk music from around the world and electronics.
NIME Concert: Explorative NIME
New instruments and interfaces that are explored for their sonic and interactive affordances. The evening concludes with a jam-sessions combining ‘old’ and new NIMEs.
Gaudeamus 2024 Wednesday
NIME Concert: Tactile NIMEs and sensitivity
A concert with interfaces and NIMEs tackling human neurological diversity. Composers, performers and developers explore “tactility in a hybrid world”. Collaboration with NIME conference.
NIME Keynote: Andi Otto & Kristina Andersen – Unarchiving The Hands
Andi Otto and Kristina Andersen tell the story of one of the first sensor-driven musical instruments, The Hands, and the historical and artistic contexts and developments in which it played a significant role.
re: De Staat (expo & performances)
Inspired by De Staat, seventeen composers wrote text-based scores on the relationship between music and politics.
Asko|Schönberg & Ensemble Klang – Louis Andriessen’s De Staat
Rare live performance of Louis Andriessen's De Staat, one of the leading Dutch compositions of the 20th century.
re: De Staat (panel) + Meet The Nominees
Panel discussion on the relationship between music and politics. After that, we meet the five nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2024.
Asko|Schönberg & Ensemble Klang – Oscar Bettison’s On the slow weather of dreams
Bettison is writing a brand new piece in response to Andriessen's De Staat, a mirror composition with a very different atmosphere.
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 Sunday
Gaudeamus Award 2023 Ceremony
At the end of Gaudeamus Festival 2023, the winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2023 will be chosen
Umva!
Intimate, performative installation by Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman with Silbersee.
Duo Dulfer & Witteveen
Three winners of the Princess Christina Composition Competition and young composer Jinwook Jung are developing brand new works for the duo, which will be premiered this evening.
Maat Saxophone Quartet
"Promising, devilishly good and heavenly infectious." - Luister Magazine
NKK NXT & Rosa Ensemble
Minaminotori, a choreography for eight singers and tape recorders.
Quatuor Bozzini
Composer's Kitchen: a residency programme for beginning composers with workshops and master classes, culminating in four new works for the quartet.
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 at Doornburgh
Ways to listen to a river
Artist Nahuel Cano, filmmaker Juan Fernández Gebauer and Ensemble Modelo62 follow the poetic trail that rivers have created in Argentina and in the Netherlands.
BUI
In the performance 'What are you building in there!?' improvisation collective BUI builds a living sound construction in the chapel of Doornburgh country estate.
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 Uitfeest
Moving Strings – Gathering Fantasies
In the ensemble's self-composed programme 'Gathering Fantasies', the exception becomes the rule, as a tribute to otherness.
PUINBAL
Sounds Like Juggling has invented a whole new genre: making music by juggling.
Erwan Keravec
New music by Esther Wu, Angela de Weijer, Ho-chi So and Nicholas Morrish.
PUINBAL
Sounds Like Juggling has invented a whole new genre: making music by juggling.
Exhibitions
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 Saturday Night
Mees Vervuurt – STABAT MATER deconstructed
A promising multidisciplinary maker whose work is characterised by the combination of movement and music.
Quatuor Bozzini & Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
Microtonality and minimalism in the work 'Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release)' by Danish sound artist Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard.
Lalaei
In the musical narrative 'Lalaei', Iranian singer Sarah Akbari, percussionist Karen Willems and the musicians of Zwerm transport us to the Middle East.
Klein
New performance as a one piece drum kit: hi hats nu shotta.
Napolov’s Percussion Marathon
Orkest De Ereprijs and percussionist Konstantyn Napolov join forces for a joint programme.
STRANDED FM: Felisha Ledesma
New body of work, Fading father from me, created utilizing a collaboratively made AM synthesizer.
Nour Darwish & Nour Sokhon – Healing Voices
A collaboration between Gaudeamus and curators Hanna Grześkiewicz and Tyme Khleifi of the new Berlin Raneen Festival.
BAKUDI SCREAM & Moving Strings
Rohan Chander, alias BAKUDI SCREAM, winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2022, with brand new performance with Moving Strings.
Juho Myllylä
Four new works that came about through an open call commissioned by the Grachtenfestival, Gaudeamus and November Music.
Mabe Fratti
Brand new work commissioned by Gaudeamus, in collaboration with Tin Angel Records and Willem Twee Studios.
STRANDED FM: GOSSIWOR 2
John T. Gast has been causing a furore for years with his elusive music, which fuses rock-hard beats with boundless, profound sound explorations.
STRANDED FM: Lamin Fofana
Highly prolific producer, DJ and sound artist Lamin Fofana uses ambient, techno and field recordings as a means of investigating issues of movement, migration, alienation and belonging.
New music from De Dom 2023
Jury talks
Exhibitions
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 Friday
Moving Strings
Works that nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2023 Aya Yoshida and Artun Çekem wrote especially for the festival.
Katarina Gryvul
Brand new performance 'bukimi no tani' for surround sound and live vocals.
IEMA-Ensemble
Music by Maria Vicenza Cabizza and Zara Ali.
Schaduwspel
Studio De Moed with music by Amarante Nat.
Der Sandmann
An audiovisual interpretation of the story collection 'Nachtstücke' by E.T.A. Hoffmann, by Duo Mader/Papandreopoulos and Fly Theatre.
Quatuor Bozzini
Works by two nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2023 Saad Haddad and Aya Yoshida.
Schaduwspel
Studio De Moed with music by Nuno Lobo.
Schaduwspel
Studio De Moed with music by Amarante Nat.
IEMA-Ensemble
Music by Artun Çekem, Adrian Mocanu and Alex Paxton.
Schaduwspel
Studio De Moed with music by Nuno Lobo.
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 Lunchbreak Concert
Exhibitions
Seminar: What do we talk about when we talk about generations?
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 Thursday
Oerknal
New work by Eden Lonsdale.
Joe Puglia – Voices of the Violin
An exploration of how a musician is connected to his instrument, and how they grow together into a musical voice.
Rafaele Andrade & Knurl Quartet
Premiere of the Knurl Quartet.
Kate Moore – A Beautiful Path
Kate Moore kicks off her new project with an exhibition at the Movement Exposed Gallery Space.
Nadar Ensemble Summer School
Adventurous ensemble with a preference for composers who are also inventors in a way.
Oerknal
Works by Gaudeamus Award 2023 nominees Zara Ali, Uri Kochavi, Artun Çekem, plus jury member Agata Zubel.
Modelo62 & Nico Couck
'Moving', a composition by Chaz Underriner, who was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award in 2017.
Kate Moore – A Beautiful Path
Kate Moore kicks off her new project with an exhibition at the Movement Exposed Gallery Space.
Exhibitions
Gaudeamus Festival 2023 Wednesday
Meet the Nominees
Public interview with the nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2023
Asko|Schönberg
Music by jury member for the Gaudeamus Award 2023, Chaya Czernowin and by two of the nominees, Saad Haddad and Uri Kochavi,
Machine Langue
Collaboration between composer Zara Ali, nominated for the Gaudeamus Award 2023, and visual artist Aanvik Singh.
Millennial History
Multimedia performance by musical journalist and harpist Andrea Voets, vocalist and keyboardist Luke Deane, and recorder player Sarah Jeffery.
hand werk
New music by Gaudeamus Award 2023 nominees Zara Ali and Uri Kochavi.
Rafaele Andrade with Timo Hoogland
The inventor of the Knurl: a cello-based, 3-D printed instrument that allows the player to create and manipulate harmonies electronically in real time.
Daan Geysen
Winner of the Canto Ostinato pitch of the Simeon ten Holt Day in TivoliVredenburg.
Asko|Schönberg
Music by jury member for the Gaudeamus Award 2023, Jan van de Putte.
Gaudeamus 2022 Final night
Spaceship Ensemble
Musical spectacle inspired by A Treatise On Evolution by theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft
Orkest De Ereprijs
Listeners from different cultures and traditions meet each other in a new musical melting pot
Laureates of the Netherlands Violin Competition
Four young violinists, who were awarded for the best performance of a new composition
IEMA-Ensemble
Sebastian Hilli returns to Gaudeamus for a special collaboration with animator Jenny Jokela for the IEMA-Ensemble
ADAM Quartet
A young string quartet that combines a love for tradition with great curiosity and individuality
Maya Fridman & Saskia Venegas
The myth of Medusa is a cruel story, which in Venegas' piece painfully unfolds the nightmare of the women who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of gender abuse.
Zubin Kanga & Neil Luck
Multimedia work for piano, video, electronics and MiMU sensor glove
Gaudeamus Award 2022 Ceremony
At the end of Gaudeamus Festival 2022, the winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2022 will be chosen
Cultural Sunday: Around the Singel
Antonii Baryshevskyi, Ihor Zavhorodnii & Olya Zhukova
Three Ukrainian musicians perform pieces by their young, composing compatriots
Curious Ears LIVE: Celebrating Ukrainian music
Three 'podcasts' on the spot with three Ukrainian musicians
KOLYSKA
The project takes Ukrainian folk music as the starting point for musical adventure
Curious Ears LIVE: Celebrating Ukrainian music
Three 'podcasts' on the spot with three Ukrainian musicians
Antonii Baryshevskyi, Ihor Zavhorodnii & Olya Zhukova
Three Ukrainian musicians perform pieces by their young, composing compatriots
BimBamBoehmerBoem!
Terrapolis XL Day 2
Luna (3+)
In the wordless percussion performance Luna, for children from 3 to 6 and their (grand) parents, the performer brings the moon closer to us for just a little while.
Sonic Kayak
Kayaks rigged with underwater environmental sensors generate live music from the marine world.
Esther Wu – The Other
Audiospatial installation for one person to experience at a time.
IN-SITU/CITY: Matteo Gualandi
An ode to memory as a physical space, in a ritual in which fragments of images appear as candles shivering in the dark.
Sounds Like Touch presents Sense of Place
The touchable, experimental audiovisual experience
The Sonic Colouring Sheet (8+)
What are all the sounds that you can hear at the Werkspoorkwartier?
Culture Shock: Tarang Poddar & Hugo Ariëns
Dutch improvising guitarist and Indian tabla virtuoso/singer/drummer embark on a fully improvised sound adventure
Sounds Like Touch presents: Workshop electronics & tactility by Michelle Vossen and Veerle Pennock (Acid Solder Club)
An accessible introduction/workshop to the world of electronics
Angela Wai-Nok Hui
An intimate show, a whisper in listener's ears and an invitation into a strange yet beautiful world
Ensemble Resilience
New works by young composers composed for the idiosyncratic Ensemble Resilience
The Sonic Colouring Sheet (8+)
What are all the sounds that you can hear at the Werkspoorkwartier?
SCREEN DIVE: Screen Swarm presentation & JAM
Our online platform for interactive musical pieces will bridge the gap between the online and offline world at Gaudeamus 2022.
The Sonic Colouring Sheet (8+)
What are all the sounds that you can hear at the Werkspoorkwartier?
Oscar Peters & Wietse Voermans
An adventure in sound that will please fans of musicians such as Sarah Davachi and Kali Malone
CANCELLED: IN-SITU/CITY: Stonework
Stonework has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Frieda Gustavs & Zephyr Brüggen: The Throat Manoeuvre
A new music theatre work, which is a tribute to the human voice as the soul’s most profound mode of expression
Gaudeamus Saturday Night 2022
Jessica Sligter
New composition Celler og Vev for piano, cello and violin.
NONLINE Opera – Futurists
Performance that partly resembles a concert and partly nothing at all.
BUI & But What About Marathon
Carte blanche in De Pit for the whole night.
SCREEN DIVE: Dance, Dance, Absolution
Our online platform for interactive musical pieces will bridge the gap between the online and offline world at Gaudeamus 2022.
B.C. Manjunath & New European Ensemble
Music by Ned McGowan and Award nominees Baldwin Giang and Bekah Simms.
Sonneurs
Bretons doedelzakkwartet speelt muziek van o.a. Jessica Ekomane
Stranded FM presents: Princess Diana of Wales
Ghostly music, rich in textural detail
Hainbach, Bakr Khleifi & Johanna Vargas
New possibilities in between genres, east and west, day and night.
PUINBAL
An exciting and virtuosic mix of object manipulation, installation, music, and performance.
Ensemble Klang
MUSIC FOR BOSCH PEOPLE by Alex Paxton
Stranded FM presents: Sofie Birch & Nana Pi
Electronic musician Sofie Birch makes pure, meditative music.
Rojin Sharafi
The Vienna-based and Tehran-born sound artist, performer, and composer crosses the borders between genres freely, by creating entirely unique musical textures.
Circuit des Yeux
Intense and moving vocalist and composer from Chicago.
Ensemble Klang
The Burning by Ivan Vukosavljević
Joy Guidry
Presentation of debut Album Radical Acceptance
Stranded FM presents: Caline with C
An auditory dialogue between club music and the academic approach that, in the eyes of the artist, can coexist and strengthen one another
Nyokabi Kariũki – Cello Octet Amsterdam
Presentation of debut EP 'peace places: kenyan memories'.
White Boy Scream
Experimental classical project of opera singer and composer Micaela Tobin.
20 x 30 by Stranded FM x Gaudeamus
Gaudeamus Saturday Night Afterparty
Riot Ensemble & Kelley Sheehan
Terrapolis XL Day 1
Esther Wu – The Other
Audiospatial installation for one person to experience at a time.
IN-SITU/CITY: Matteo Gualandi
An ode to memory as a physical space, in a ritual in which fragments of images appear as candles shivering in the dark.
Sonic Kayak
Kayaks rigged with underwater environmental sensors generate live music from the marine world.
Sounds Like Touch presents Sense of Place
The touchable, experimental audiovisual experience
Culture Shock: Modar Salama & Jornt Duyx
The Syrian percussion virtuoso and the Dutch multi-instrumentalist and improviser, who met each other during Culture Shock will take the stage again
Katharina Gross
Cellist collects works for solo cello by at least two composers from every country in the world.
No Patent Pending: 555 Bugs
Performative installation by Maria Komarova
BAKUDI SCREAM & Two Envelopes
Rohan Chander a.k.a. BAKUDI SCREAM solo and new piece by Two Envelopes
Diogo Carriço – Silhouette Nekropolis
Live audiovisual show by pianist Diogo Carriço
Katharina Gross
Cellist collects works for solo cello by at least two composers from every country in the world.
No Patent Pending: BMB con.
Multimedia performance group that balances between music and noise, sound and vision, digital and analogue.
Tijmen Lohmeijer
Composer, producer and interactive designer
No Patent Pending: Antennae
Sonic performance by Adomas Palekas and Greta Galiauskaitė
No Patent Pending: Ultra-Sonic-Face
Performance by Amos Peled
Tijmen Lohmeijer
Composer, producer and interactive designer
BLIK
New trio of Luc Ex, Annelie Koning and Tristan Renfrow.
SCREEN DIVE: Liberation Through Hearing (live)
Our online platform for interactive musical pieces will bridge the gap between the online and offline world at Gaudeamus 2022.
Gaudeamus 2022 Friday Night
IN-SITU/CITY: Annabel Schouten
Sound installation with the intention for it to become one with the environment, both visually and audibly
Michela Amici
Composers wrote music for harpist as commissioned by Grachtenfestival, Gaudeamus and November Music.
SCREEN DIVE: Exquisite Chorus (Playshop)
Our online platform for interactive musical pieces is bridging the gap between the online and offline world this festival.
40 Ways of Being (a Woman)
Viola Blache, Wilma Pistorius, Elisabeth Hubmann and Jacob Lekkerkerker
IN-SITU/CITY: Stonework
A quest for a radical equality between man and stone
IN-SITU/CITY: Annabel Schouten
Sound installation with the intention for it to become one with the environment, both visually and audibly
Nina Dante & Bethany Younge
Pieces from the album Lizard Tongue and Younge's piece Alamargo.
Amstel Quartet & Una Cintina
Maxim Shalygin - Songlessness
Rogier Hornman & Mees Siderius
Furtive Movements by Ted Hearne, jury member for the Gaudeamus Award 2022
Thomas Ankersmit
Analogue modulair synthesizers beyond the clichés
IN-SITU/CITY: Stonework
A quest for a radical equality between man and stone
B.C. Manjunath & New European Ensemble
Four young composers write new music for contemporary music ensemble and master of Indian rhythm.
Katharina Gross & Aurélio Edler-Copes
An overwhelming total experience inspired by shamanism and the search for an ecstatic state of mind.
Jessica Ekomane
Jessica Ekomane creates cathartic, physically intense performances.
Asher Gamedze & Xristian Espinoza
Improv adventure by South-African drummer and Chicago-based anti-disciplinary artist
Lunchpauzeconcert: Ulysses Percussion Ensemble
Gaudeamus 2022 Thursday Night
New music from De Dom 2022
New music by students at HKU Music & Technology and the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
IN-SITU/CITY: Gemma Luz Bosch
Sound installation at the Weerdsluis in Utrecht.
SCREEN DIVE: Ecstasies of Rooms
Expect intimacy, connection and play
SCREEN DIVE: Ecstasies of Rooms
Expect intimacy, connection and play
Two Envelopes
Harpsichord/percussion duo plays music by nominees for the Gaudeamus Award
SCREEN DIVE: Ecstasies of Rooms
Expect intimacy, connection and play
Passepartout Duo
The musicians have developed new ceramic objects, especially for this project, that can generate sound using electronics
Kikker X Gaudeamus: Ensemble Modelo62
Three Degrees from Reality installation invites reflection on the impact of keeping one's distance versus the need for contact.
Riot Ensemble
Spectacular British ensemble plays music by Ann Cleare and Baldwin Giang
Passepartout Duo
The musicians have developed new ceramic objects, especially for this project, that can generate sound using electronics
Myriam Bleau (including artist talk)
Playful comment on the area of conflict between music and technology
Castello Consort
Especially for Gaudeamus, the Castello Consort takes on the challenge of collaborating with two contemporary Dutch composers.
T R O M P O & Nick Dunston
Trio collaborates with key figure from the New York avantgarde scene
Passepartout Duo
The musicians have developed new ceramic objects, especially for this project, that can generate sound using electronics
Kikker X Gaudeamus: Ensemble Modelo62
Three Degrees from Reality installation invites reflection on the impact of keeping one's distance versus the need for contact.
Riot Ensemble
Spectacular British ensemble plays music by Bekah Simms and others
Bram Stadhouders
With the 3D sound experience Orbit, Stadhouders takes the experience of music to an other-worldly level. Every string of his self-developed surround guitar is connected to a different corner of the hall.
Gaudeamus 2022 Opening Night
IN-SITU/CITY: Gemma Luz Bosch
Sound installation at the Weerdsluis in Utrecht.
ENA ENA
ENA ENA by music theatre maker Thanasis Deligiannis and his collective I/O is a hallucinatory, dreamlike recreation of a Greek nightclub from the 1980s.
XTRO – a WASTE of Time
Dynamic percussion trio with ‘pop’-programme
Asko | Schönberg
A programme that spans generations and continents, featuring renowned sheng-player Wu Wei.
Meet the Nominees
Public interview with the nominees for the Gaudeamus Award 2022
But What About
New music by Bekah Simms and Baldwin Giang
Rembrandt Frerichs & de Staalmeesters
Off the Carousel: improvisation/composition with classical musicians
XTRO – Seated
Dynamic percussion trio with contemplative late night concert
ENA ENA
ENA ENA by music theatre maker Thanasis Deligiannis and his collective I/O is a hallucinatory, dreamlike recreation of a Greek nightclub from the 1980s.
Asko | Schönberg
A programme that spans generations and continents, featuring work by Alex Paxton.