Apr 18 2020 by ToetsdesTijds

FESTIVAL: First Hand Music 2020

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18 en 19 APRIL 2020
Composers Play Their Own Music

At this unique festival composers will perform their own music during the weekend of 18 and 19 April (afternoons and evenings) in the Warehouse Het Veem in Amsterdam. 

The program for this edition is very varied. From the chill tunes of the Micha Molthoff Trio and the pop-inspired Jonathan Bonny group, to the eclectic music of the Monotak composers collective and the cutting edge sounds of Ji Youn Kang and her analog and digital electronics. Also composer and flute player Ned McGowan will present his groovy music together with the brilliant percussionist Pepe Garcia, the duo Perforator will play their new program and the 2017 Matthijs Vermeulen prize winner Kate Moore will play with two guest musicians. Two interactive events will take place at the festival. A “Meet & Jam”, where it is possible for the audience to ask the composers questions about the music-making process (How do you start? Are you already writing with a special musician in your mind? How do you bring out what you have in mind? etcetera) and finally an improvisation with participants of the festival spontaneously playing / jamming around the audience. In addition, there is a special dinner, the “Taste of music” concept created by Anthony Leigh Dunstan, for which the composers prepare a delicious meal for their music. At both events there is therefore room for public interaction and a conversation with artists.

Program:

Sat 15h – Jonathan Bonny Trio / Ji Youn Kang
Sat 18h – Smaakt naar Muziek* (dinned & music)
Sat 20.30h – Micha Molthoff Trio / Monotak
Sun 16h – Kate Moore / Meet en Jam*
Sun 20h – Duo Perforator / Ned McGowan & Pepe Garcia

Location: Werkgebouw Het Veem, van Diemenstraat 410 1013 CR Amsterdam

 

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Photos & credits (from top to bottom):

Monotak © Paul Glazier, Jonathan Bonny © Wilco Smith, Ji Youn Kang © Stephan C. Kaffa, Smaakt naar muziek © Marco Pauws, Micha Molthoff Trio © Peter van Breugel, Kate Moore © Marco Giugliarelli, Duo Perforator © Wout Nooitgedagt, Ned McGowan © Hari Adivarekar, Pepe Garcia © Frank Graphdude


Oct 19 2019 by ToetsdesTijds

TOETSENPARADE 2019

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19 & 20 Oktober

In Werkgebouw Het Veem

“Toets” in Dutch has a double meaning. The first refers to a key, such as one found on a musical or any other keyboard, and the second refers to a test. Our “Toetsenparade” focuses on the keyboard and is a celebration of keyboard instruments that have passed the “test of time”.

The program for the 2019 edition of Toetsenparade is a series of four concerts that will take place on the 19th and 20th of October. This will include a special children’s concert and three thematic concerts that each focus on a specific period and land in the history of keyboard music. In this way, the public will be taken on a musical journey through other time periods and cultures. The children’s concert serves to introduce keyboard music to our newest audiences and motivate budding young pianists just starting their first lessons.

Unique to these concerts is the use of appropriate keyboard instrument of the time featuring the instruments of Jan van der Sangen and Ton Amir. With each concert, a brief description of the instruments and music performed will be shared with the public and at the conclusion of the concert, there is almost always an opportunity to meet and greet the artist over a glass of wine.

Programma

Saturday 19 October 15h: Children’s concert by Beth & Flo. More info

Saturday 19 October  20.15: Jacques Ogg in concert. Music of the 17th & 18th century from France, England, Germany and Austria.

Sunday 20 Oktober 16th: Finnish music by Ere Lievonen

Sunday 20 Oktober 20.15: Spanish Landscapes and Impressions by Marta Liebana en Maria Cano Blanco. More info

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Early bird 15% discount till 1 October!

Discount code: VROEGTOETS

For the children’s concert on October 19, 15.00, 1 adult companion may attend the concert free of charge.


Apr 06 2019 by ToetsdesTijds

FESTIVAL: Music performed first hand 2019

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6 en 7 APRIL

Composers perform their own music

David Dramm & Anne La Berge: © Peter van der Heyden

Last year we launched our festival “Composers play their own music”. After its great success and enthusiasm from the musicians and audience members alike, we decided to make it an annual event.


Hereby, we are excited to announce the festival details for April 2019!
The festival will take place on the 6th and 7th of April with shows at 15h and 20.15h.
All performances will feature composers performing their own works both alone and with collaborating musicians.

Program:

April 6 15h:

Roadrunner: Michel Marang (clarinet), Antonis Pratsinakis (cello) en Erica Roozendaal (accordeon)

Pitch Dark: Arnold Marinissen (percussion), Katharina Gross (cello) and Giny Vos (light design)

                                    —Festival dinner at Cafe MADS—-

April 6 20.15h:

Mark Alban Lotz ( variety of flutes including PVC-tubes) en Alan Purves (percussion and more)

Anne La Berge (flute) en David Dramm (guitar)

April 7, 15h:

Trio Bruinsma. Baas. Verhage: Jeffrey Bruinsma (violin), Reinier Baas (guitar) & Geneviève Verhage (cello)

Meet & Jam:  Musicians from the festival meet and jam – creating new compositions live for the audience to witness!

                                    —Festival dinner at Cafe MADS—-

April 7, 20.15h:

Duo Haanstra en Van Geel: Mark Haanstra (bass guitar) en Oene van Geel (viola)

String quartet Zapp4: Jasper le Clercq (violin), Jeffrey Bruinsma (violin), Oene van Geel (viola), Jörg Brinkman (cello)

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Order tickets online:
€ 15,00/€ 12,50 with discount (Stadspas/65+/CJP/Studentenpas)
Passepartout 6 April two concerts or 7 April two concerts € 25,–/€ 20,– with discount
Passepartout four concerts € 35,–/€ 30 with discount
At the door +2€

This festival is possible through the generous support of:

       

 

Roadrunner: © Michel Marang

Pitch Dark: © Marco Borggreve/Nancy Horowitz

Mark Alban Lotz & Alan Purves: © Sara Anke

Trio Bruinsma.Baas.Verhage: © Abigael van Tijn

Duo Haanstra en Van Geel: © Veenstra Visueel & Udo Prinsen

Zapp4: © Merlijn Doomernik


Oct 06 2018 by ToetsdesTijds

KEYS PARADE AMSTERDAM 2018

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6 en 7 october 2018

In Warehouse Het Veem

Do not miss it!!

Toets des Tijds Concerten (Keys of Times) presents a Festival of instruments from large and small clavichords, harpsichords all the way to heavy fortepianos and modern grand pianos!

The program consists of compositions from Bach’s time and works written by contemporary composers.

During the Festival Rosanne Philippens, Petra Somlai, Gerard van Vuuren and Kaoru Iwamura will tell about differences between the past and now days, loss of some instrument types and why the modern grand piano took over in the keyboard family of instruments since 1850.

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Tickets: € 15,00/€ 12,50 with discount (Stadspas/65+/CJP/Studentenpas)
Passepartout €35,-/30,-€ with discount (Stadspas/65+/CJP/Studentenpas)
if purchaising online
At the kassa on the day of the concert + 2€

Saturday 6 Oct 15:00

Kaoru Iwamura  – table piano* and fortepiano

Programme: McGowan, Egberts, Van Tiddens, Germán, Moreno Camacho, Giron (world premiere), C. Ph. E Bach, ClementiКартинки по запросу Kaoru Iwamura

Kaoru Iwamura is a performer on early keyboard instruments. She won the Muzio Clementi Award, presented to her in the British Finchcocks Musical Museum for her subtle performances on keyboard instruments from 1668 to 1866. Kaoru was born in Tokyo, Japan, where she studied piano at the Musashino Academy of Music. Her passion for the fortepiano took her to the Netherlands where she further pursued her interest in historical performance practice at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. Kaoru has given recitals in the Netherlands, Great Britain, Austria, Germany and Japan, and was featured in a live broadcast in the Dutch AVRO radio4 network. In 2013 she was invited to give a solo recital and masterclass in the ‘Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival’ in Kuopo, Finland, with a scholarship from the Asahi Shimbun Foundation. As a member of the board of the Sweelinck Collection she is committed to the promotion and preservation of a unique collection of fortepianos in Amsterdam. More info:www.kaoruplaysfortepiano.com

* the Puhlman table piano belogs to the Sweelinck Collection in Geelvinck Muziek Musea

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Sunday 7 Oct 15:00

Gerard van Vuuren – clavichord and harpsichord

Programme: Bartók, Stravinsky, Haydn, Satie, C. Ph. E Bach, J. S. Bach, King, d’Anglebert

Gerard van Vuurenwas born in Surinam, he moved with his family to Holland when he was 7 years old. He started playing the piano at age nine, and studied this instrument at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Realising he was getting more and more interested in Baroque music, he decided to switch instruments, and went to study harpsichord with Jacques Ogg at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague – where he graduated in 1992.Together with fellow-students he founded ‘The Beggar’s Banquet’, giving concerts in Holland, England, Germany and Poland.

Gerard has been playing continuo with several other ensembles and choirs. He has also been featured as accompanist at Baroque music festivals, including the International Early Music Course at Mateus (Portugal), where he also took part in concerts in Northern Portugal. Since a few years Gerard also plays the clavichord, and is excited by its possibilities – broadening his technical abilities and musical horizon. Together with Amanda Markwick he is part of the ensemble Il Sussurro.

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Sunday 7 Oct 20:15

Rosanne Philippens  – violin

Petra Somlai – fortepiano

Programma: Beethoven

Картинки по запросу Rosanne PhilippensRosanne Philippens open and communicative style of performance won her first prizes at competitions including the Dutch National Violin Competition (Amsterdam Concertgebouw 2009) and the Freiburg International Violin Competition (2014).

Rosanne has appeared as a soloist under Yannick Nézét-Sequin, Lawrence Foster, Antony Hermus, Michel Tabachnik, with orchestras including the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonisches Orchester Stuttgart, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and she performs regularly at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Berliner Philharmoniker and other prestigious venues.

In the 2017-18 season Rosanne will appear with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in the famous Saturday Matinee Series in the Concertgebouw, with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Sinfonie Orchester Sankt Gallen, the Joensuu Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre International de Genève and at festivals in Iceland, France, Israel, Germany and The Netherlands.

For 2018-19 concerts are scheduled with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Residentie Orchestra The Hague.

Rosanne captures a great love for chamber music. She appears regularly with musicians suchas Nicolas Altstaedt, Vilde Frang, Julien Quentin, Torleif Thedéen, István Várdai, Víkingur Ólafsson, Guy Braunstein, Amihai Grosz and other fine musicians all over Europe and in major halls like the Concertgebouw, the Berliner Philharmoniker,Tonhalle Zürich, Laeiszhalle Hamburg.

In an old Amsterdam warehouse/antique shop, Rosanne is hosting her own concert series called ‘The Amsterdam Salon’. The evening opens with a concert, played by Rosanne and her friends from all over the world, following a clear theme, while the audience listens on comfortable couches, sipping good wine. After the concert there is an artist-jam session until the early hours.

Rosanne started to play violin at the age of three with Anneke Schilt and later on with the famous violin pedagogue Coosje Wijzenbeek. She continued her studies with Vera Beths at the Royal Conservatory in The Haag, and with Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler Akademie in Berlin, graduating from both with the highest possible grades.

On personal recommendation of Janine Jansen, Rosanne plays the ‘Barrere’ Stradivarius from the Elise Mathilde Foundation, the violin that Janine Jansen used to play for fifteen years.

 

Petra SomlaiКартинки по запросу Petra Somlai was born in Hungary where she graduated in conducting and piano performance at the Béla Bartók Conservatory (Budapest) and completed her modern piano degree at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest) in 2007.

She performs at major international early music festivals such as Musica Antiqua Festival – Brugge, Early Music Festival – Utrecht and many other. Petra has given concerts all over Europe, the USA, and Japan. Since 2012 she has performed often as a conducting soloist with various orchestras. Petra Somlai was a professor of Early Keyboards on the faculty of University of North Texas (USA) from 2013-2015.

Currently she is professor of fortepiano at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

 This Festival is sponsored by Gravin van Bylandt stichting en Het Veem
  

Poster design by Jaela van Tijn.


Apr 21 2018 by ToetsdesTijds

FESTIVAL: COMPOSERS PLAYING THEIR OWN MUSIC

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First-hand music!

The Festival Composers Playing Own Music is organised by Toets des Tijds Concerten and presenting music written and performed  by composers from the Netherlands – including many world-famous Amsterdammers. This programme gives a unique overview on how composers create, feel and perform their own music.

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Saturday 21 april 15.00

Diderik Wagenaar

Quang Ngo Hong

Felipe Noriega

Saturday 21 april 20.15

Картинки по запросу Trio Bruinsma

Trio Bruinsma. Baas. Verhage

DUO BAARS – HENNEMAN

Sunday 22 april 15.00

Картинки по запросу Guus Janssen en Wim Janssen

Картинки по запросу Guus Janssen en Wim JanssenGuus Janssen en Wim Janssen

Картинки по запросу Maud Sauer en Monique CopperMaud Sauer en Monique Copper

Картинки по запросу Igor Iofe and Cinzia NisticoIgor Iofe en Cinzia NisticoКартинки по запросу Igor Iofe and Cinzia Nistico

 

Sunday 22 april 20.15

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Картинки по запросу Arjen Gorter

Arnold Marinissen and Katharina Gross

Theo Loevendie, Martin van Duynhoven and Arjen Gorter

Tickets ordered online:
€ 18,50/€ 13,50 with discount (Stadspas/65+/CJP/Student card)
Passepartout 21 April two concerts or 22 April two concerts € 30,–/€ 20,– with discount
Passepartout all four concerts € 50,–/€ 35,– with discount
At thee kassa on the day of the concert: € 19,50/€ 14,50

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Mar 23 2018 by ToetsdesTijds

Novikoff-Makowski Sound Project

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23 March 20:15

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NovikoffMakowski sound project is a new collaboration between the young composer, performer improvisor Stanislav Makovsky and a multidisciplinary saxophone player Evgeny Novikov. Both graduates of Conservatoire de Paris, they naturally started to experiment and improvise with sounds at the live electronics studio at the Conservatoire, in early 2017. After having recorded a few sets of improvisation for saxophone and electronics, by using Ableton live, Max MSP, GRM and IRCAM tools, musicians have discovered a huge palette of sounds and possibilities for this setting: the saxophone overtones and flexibility of sound permitted to create original material for the live performances.

Novikoff-Makowski played their debut concert at the Gaudeamus Music Week in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in September 2017. AIt was well received by the audience and professionals. The project is based on the prerecorded elements, that were evolved and transformed during the performances in such a way that the piece was taking a very different directions in terms of acoustics, style, sound and rhythm. As a crossover project, it observes classical contemporary saxophone techniques, free improvisation, jazz-rock, techno and more.

Tickets: € 18,50/€ 13,50 with discount if ordered online (Stadspas/65+/CJP/Studentenpas)
At the entrance on the day of the concert: € 19,50/€ 14,50

Jan 27 2018 by ToetsdesTijds

FESTIVAL OF ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC 27-28 January

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HENRY VEGA, HANS VAN ECK, HANS VAN KOOLWIJK, FELIPE NORIEGA

ANNE VEINBERG, ANAT SPIEGEL AND ROBERT VAN HEUMEN

27 January 20:15h

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Henry Vega and Anat Spiegel will perform “Wormsongs” for voice and computer

Hans van Koolwijk and Hans van Eck will perform “Sounding Porcelain” for new sound objects and electronics

Hans van Eck will present a tape-composition “Bythos”

28 January 15:00h

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Code & Klavier

 

Concert by Off<>zz, Felipe Ignacio Noriega and Anne Veinberg, featuring the CodeKlavier and special guest Robert van Heumen.

 

    • Off<>zzome New Year (2018), pno and live coding, 20’
    • John Cage, 4’33’’ (1952), pno 4’33’’
    • Henry Cowell, Aeolian Harp (1923), pno 3’
    • Stefan Wolpe, Dance in the form of a Chaconne (1939), pno 2’20’’
    • Einojuhani Rautavaara, Etude Op.42 “Fifths” (1969), pno 1’
  • Nick Collins, Type a Personality (2015) , pno and live electronics 3’

 

Break

  • CodeKlavier- “hello world” (2017) 10’
  • CodeKlavier- Motippets    (2017) 12’
  • Off<>zz and Robert van Heumen (2018) 20’

 

Code & Klavier –  the Toets des Tijds!

A unique program with an array of music that’s played, coded and the combination of the two.

 

This concert is presented by  Off<>zz, Felipe Ignacio Noriega (live coding) and Anne Veinberg (piano), which is an ensemble which draws from classical music practices  to morph live coding and piano performance into a ‘beyond’ classical music experience.  Since March 2017, Off<>zz has been developing the CodeKlavier,  a project supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, which enables the pianist to live code through playing the piano. The concert will also feature one the Netherland’s finest live electronics performers, Robert van Heumen.

 

In this concert, Off<>zz will perform the opening set. Starting with a solo by live coding wizard Felipe Ignacio Noriega and continued with fresh and alternative approaches to piano and live coding music creation.  This will be followed by John Cage’s iconic 4’33’’ and a selection of shorter piano works  by Cowell, Wolpe, Rautavaara and Collins.

 

After the break, they will present their CodeKlavier project. Anne will first perform “hello world”,  winner of the Conlon competition 2017, where the pianist live codes a toy piano sampler. This will be followed by Motippets, a work that combines musical motifs and code snippets as a means of musical programming.  

Finally, Off<>zz will be joined by Robert van Heumen for an action-packed set of live coding, live sampling and live piano playing that  will be a feast of virtuosity on all keys.

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Nov 12 2017 by ToetsdesTijds

12 NOVEMBER: CONCERT WITH BOTH IMPROVISED & COMPOSED NUSIC

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                    GUUS JANSSEN – PIANO – AND DAVID KWEKSILBER – HOBO,CLARINET AND SAX – &

students from the conservatory amsterdam

WILL PERFORM TOGETHER A PROGRAM WITH COMPOSED AS WELL AS IMPROVISED

MUSIC BASED ON IDEAS AND THEMES OF:

GUUS JANSSEN, DAVID KWEKSILBER, MAARTEN VAN ALTENA , DUKE ELLINGTON AND OTHERS

TICKET PRICES:€ 17,50/ STUDENTS, 65+, STADSPAS AND CJP: € 13,50

LOCATION: BUILDING “HET VEEM”, VAN DIEMENSTREET 410 -AMSTERDAM

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Jun 19 2016 by ToetsdesTijds

19 june 2016 reprise ‘Strings in Het Veem’

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Reprise of the Project of Strings (27 April 2014), invented by sound artist Hans van Koolwijk, piano restorer Jan van der Sangen and composer Igor Iofe.

Performed by: Trioduo: Lara Diamand – Soprano, Klaasje Nieuwhof – (alt)flute, Georgina Collington – piano and 5 string players. With new compositions by Martijn Padding and Maud Sauer

Concert starts 15.00 pm. Entrance fee: € 17,50 / € 12,50 (reduction: 65+, “stadspas”, student, CJP, our ‘kortingsbon’ flyer ToetsDesTijds).

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May 15 2016 by ToetsdesTijds

15th of MAY 2016: FINAL CONCERT OF THE COMPOSERS’ FESTIVAL OF AMSTERDAM CONSERVATORY

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As has become already tradition, the final concert of the COMPOSERS’ FESTIVAL will be performed in our TOETS DES TIJDS – CONCERTSERIES 

DATE: SUNDAY 15th OF MAY, AT 15.00

PROGRAM:

TIJMEN VAN TOL: The Creative Process (6′ – for violin and piano)
BORIS BEZEMER: Chant (18′ – for three piano’s)
MARCELO CHACUR POLITANO: Open Score 1 (5′ – for six musicians)
INTERMISSION
BORIS BEZEMER: Mobile (11′ – for electronics)
SIYING LI: Parcels (5′ – for three recorders and piano)
MARCELO CHACUR POLITANO: Wind Spell (6′ – for piano)
CARMEN CLAIRE: I won’t go back (5′ – for voice and electronics)

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CARMEN CLAIR – I won’t go back. voice & electronics: Carmen Clair.

 

MARCELO CACHUR POLITANO – Wind Spell. piano: David Ko.
SIYING LI – Parcels. recorder & piano: artists not known yet.
BORIS BEZEMER – Chant. piano 1: Tijmen van Tol, piano 2: David Ko, electronics: Boris BezemeRIS BEZEMER – Mobile. live electronics: Boris Bezemer.
TIJMEN VAN TOL – The Creative Process. violin: artist not known yet, piano: Tijmen van Tol.

The concert will be quit spatial, with a performance caracter: both artists and public are required to move sometimes through the space…. All fresh & thrilling pieces of new music by young talents!