Concert 20 juni 2025 12:30
TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
The Lunch Concerts are the springboard for both your weekend and for emerging talent, taking place every Friday. Bring your sandwiches and admire the talents of the future, coming from all conservatories in the Netherlands. The best part is that the admission is free.
The Otilka Quartet, with Iris van Nuland and Lucien Renette on violin, Francisca Galante on viola, and Stefano Bruno on cello, is a dynamic and international ensemble that continues to captivate the audience with a fresh perspective on the world of classical music.
Founded in September 2020 at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, the Otilka Quartet emerged from a shared passion for classical music and the intention to push the boundaries of the traditional string quartet. Under the mentorship of renowned musicians, including Ed Spanjaard, it has quickly established itself as a promising ensemble in the world of chamber music. With their repertoire choices and qualities, the four musicians have garnered attention from platforms such as Podium Klassiek, NPO Klassiek, and the Concertzender.
This concert is in collaboration with the Dutch String Quartet Academy (NSKA).
Concert 4 juli 2025 13:40
De Groene Heuvels, Beuningen
Make sure you land in the Green Hills on time, because mainstage Hotot opens on Friday with Clean Pete's Rabbit Revue, a spectacular parade filled to the brim with well-dosed mayhem and excitement. Featuring theater, dancers, classical music, pop, and carnival. With special guests, including the Dudok Quartet, Roos 'Roosbeef' Rebergen, Thijs 'Ambiance' Boontjes, and a fifty-member youth choir. Exclusively created and presented for Down The Rabbit Hole by Clean Pete - the harmonious twin sisters Loes and Renée Wijnhoven - so a definite must-see at your favorite place to be.
Concert 5 juli 2025 11:45
De Groene Heuvels, Beuningen
That the four twenty-somethings of the Animato Quartet are anything but dusty is as clear as a bow above water. Because more energetic and passionate than these string devourers from The Hague, qualitatively superior besides, they still have to be born. Not for nothing the quartet is known as the most promising young string quartet in the Netherlands, which also manages to break the necessary pots internationally, with a combination of classical works and contemporary compositions. Their overflowing trophy case says the rest.
Concert 6 juli 2025 13:00
Landgoed Groeneveld, Baarn
‘Layered and intense playing, with a wide palette of colours,’ praised the jury of the Kersjes Prize about the Animato Quartet, whilst the jury of Dutch Classical Talent mentioned their ‘sparkling energy.’ The perfect company for the dynamic Hannes Minnaar, and together they form the ideal cast for Dvořák’s Second Piano Quintet from 1887. A warm work, straight from Dvořák’s happy place – his estate in Vysoká – where he also composed his eighth symphony and Rusalka. Forests, water, and ‘simple’ country culture can all be heard in this music.
Concert 6 juli 2025 16:00
Pandora Studio, Den Haag
Come to an intimate concert at Pandora Studio. We are giving a classical concert for a small audience, including a glass of wine.
All pieces will be introduced by the musicians, and after the concert there will be a drinks reception where you can talk to them and share your own perspective.
Program:
F. Schubert (1797–1828): Sonatensatz
J. Turina (1882–1949): Círculo: Fantasía, op. 91
I. Amanecer
II. Mediodía
III. Crepúsculo
G. Fauré (1845–1924): Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Andantino
III. Allegro vivo
Concert 7 juli 2025 20:00
Studio 150, Amsterdam
Trio Jakob, winner of several international awards, is an ensemble with the goal of exploring the repertoire for piano trio and creating a unique sound landscape through the fusion of three distinct personalities.
The trio has performed in prestigious halls and international music festivals - including the Fundación Juan March (Madrid), TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht), the Stadsgehoorzaal (Leiden), the Fringe Festival in Torroella de Montgrí, the Livorno Music Festival (Italy) and the Prisma Poliedric Festival (Italy). They have been awarded in various chamber music competitions, including the XVI CIM Les Corts in Barcelona, the II Concurso Cambra Románica in Andorra and the La Follia Nuova International Competition in Italy. They received the Prix Champagne Mailliard from the European chamber music competition of FNAPEC, as well as the second prize in the chamber music competition of Juventudes Musicales España in 2021 and the third prize in the Anton Garcia Abril International Chamber Music Competition in 2022.
With an extensive repertoire that encompasses the many facets of piano trio literature from the past 300 years, the trio closely collaborates with contemporary composers. They were commissioned for Stealing Time D by Octavi Rumbau, commissioned by JMI Catalonië, and contributed to the soundtrack of the documentary The Invasion (2024) by Sergei Loznitsa.
Since its founding in 2014, Trio Jakob has worked with many prominent musicians, including Dirk Mommertz, Michel Strauss, Isabel Charissius, Lorenza Borrani, Heime Müller, Peter Nagy and Claire Désert, as well as ensembles such as the Vogler Quartet, Gryphon Trio and Cuarteto Casals. Currently, the trio is studying at the NSKA - Netherlands String Quartet Academy - under the direction of artistic director Marc Danel and guest teachers such as Luc-Marie Aguera. They are also part of the ProQuartet academy and have participated in the annual meetings of the International Chamber Music Campus of Jeunesses Musicales in Weikersheim, thanks to a full scholarship from JMI-Deutschland.
The trio is currently affiliated with the network Le Dimore del Quartetto, which organizes concerts and residencies in European historic heritage.
Program:
F. Schubert (1797-1828): Sonatensatz
J. Turina (1882-1949): Círculo: Fantasía, op. 91
G. Fauré (1845-1924): Pianotrio in d minor, op. 120
Concert 22 augustus 2025 20:00
Kerkzaal Evangelische Broedergemeente Zeist
The ADAM Quartet concludes their period as Quartet¬ in¬Residence at the Zeister Muziekdagen with a special program. Together with soprano Elisabeth Hetherington, they sing about nostalgia and the search for a lost ideal with music by Orlando di Lasso, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Franz Schubert and Thomas Adès. Love, loss, and the transience of the idyllic are central in this program. Each composer shows their own perspective on the transience and beauty of life.
Program: Tomas Adès: Arcadiana, stories of love and transience
Concert 23 augustus 2025 11:00
's-Graveland, NL
The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote a series of twelve character pieces for piano, in which each month of the year is musically portrayed, based on texts by, among others, Pushkin and Fet. The Dudok Quartet has arranged some of these works.
In his string quartets as well, Tchaikovsky is not far from the feelings of ecstasy, as well as the melancholy inspired by nature and beauty.
The first string quartet in D major captures the infectiousness of spring. The popular second movement is based on a folksong that the composer heard from his sister Aleksandra's family, at the Davidoff's house in Kamenka in Ukraine, whistled by a house painter.
Joseph Haydn is surprisingly natural in this context. In the movements from his Seven Last Words, there is no creed dogma, but an almost tangible silence, interspersed with the rough jolts of an earthquake. Haydn reveals himself here as a composer of landscapes — not in glistening descriptions, but in moods and contrasts. The Dudoks know how to let such music breathe: without embellishments, but with a keen ear for what lives beneath the notes.
Program:
J. Haydn (1732-1809)
From The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross:
Introduzione
P.I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
from The Seasons Op. 37a:
- September
- October
J. Haydn
From The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross:
- Consumatum est
- Il Terremoto
P.I. Tchaikovsky
String Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11
Concert 27 september 2025 20:00
De Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam
On September 27th, the NSKA Friends Concert will take place at the iconic Waalse Kerk in Amsterdam. Prior to this concert, the two quartets that will perform will participate in public masterclasses with the Otilka Quartet and Cong Quartet, also at the Waalse Kerk, under the guidance of Marc Danel and Stefan Metz.
Admission to the Friends Concert is free for Friends of the NSKA and invitees. Registration for the public masterclasses and/or the Friends Concert can be done via info@nska.nl.
Keizersgracht 241
1016 EA Amsterdam
info@nska.nl
