Koop je kaarten voor deze bijzondere concertreeks hier: http://bit.ly/2NznZpG Het Concertgebouworkest presenteert in januari 2020 de concertreeks Mens & Mythe. In samenwerking met de Universiteit van Amsterdam zijn drie programma’s samengesteld over de verhalen achter de Griekse mythologie..

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Concertgebouworkest - teaser Concertreeks Mens & Mythe (in Dutch)

Born in 1990, Clément Peigné first studied the cello at the conservatory in Tours, and subsequently with Xavier Gagnepain and Hortense Cartier-Bresson at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory, where he won prizes for cello and chamber music. Having won an Indiana University scholarship, he took lessons with Janos Starker at the Bloomington School of Music. He then enrolled at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse in Paris where he studied with Marc Coppey, earning a Master’s degree in June 2017. He has also studied with Nicolas Altstaedt at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. Peigné has been a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra since 2015, has taken part in a number of workshops given by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and was a member of the Zermatt Festival Academy. He was a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy 2014 under the direction of Matthias Pintscher, when he worked with such composers as Heinz Holliger, Krzysztof Penderecki and Gérard Pesson. He has focused on contemporary repertoire in various Diplômes d’Artistes Interprètes workshops and in concerts with the Ensemble InterContemporain. In 2015, he founded the Trio Sacher with Eun-Joo Lee and Vladimir Perčević, a group which dedicates itself to twentieth- and twenty-first-century music and frequently collaborates with young composers. From the collection of the Foundation Concertgebouworkest Clément received a beautiful J.B. Vuillaume cello, built in Paris, ca. 1850, on loan.

Concertgebouworkest - Cellist Clément Peigné

??? Attention young musicians, from today on you can apply for Concertgebouworkest Young 2020! More information: https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/young

Concertgebouworkest Young 2019

Enjoy this chamber music concert by the brass boys and girls of Concertgebouworkest Young, conducted by tubaïst Perry Hoogendijk.

Concertgebouworkest Young - Brass

Sixteen-year-old string players from Concertgebouworkest Young play Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major in the Amsterdamzaal. Mendelssohn himself was sixteen years old when he composed this music.

Concertgebouworkest Young - Mendelssohn - Octet in E-flat major

Nick Woud began his percussion studies at the age of eight at the Zaandam Music School. Playing in local drum and wind bands, he was able to fulfil his dream of playing the timpani starting at the age of twelve. While still at school, he became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands and was quickly appointed timpanist. After leaving school, he studied timpani and percussion at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam with Jan Labordus and – later – Jan Pustjens of the Concertgebouworkest. During that time, he subbed frequently as a percussionist with the Concertgebouworkest, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (as timpanist) and all other major Dutch orchestras. Obtaining his conservatory diploma in four years’ time (in 1977), he was appointed percussionist/timpanist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and was named principal timpanist six years later. In 2003, after being a member of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra for twenty-five years, Woud was appointed principal timpanist of the Concertgebouworkest. Woud has taught at the conservatories in Hilversum and Utrecht and returned to his alma mater, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, to teach timpani in 1996. In addition to these activities, he serves as director of studies with the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, and as coach of the European Union Youth Orchestra. He is in high demand as a teacher at percussion courses and symposia and gave masterclasses at conservatoires and universities in Boston, Washington, Lausanne, Tokyo, Seoul, Oslo, San Sebastian, Saragossa and Valencia. Nik Woud published three textbooks on playing the timpani, which are being used worldwide. As a composer, Nick Woud wrote music for tv and radio, chamber music works and – for several years – for symphony orchestra. For many years the timpanists of the orchestra have been playing on various exceptional and historically important timpani from the collection of the Foundation Concertgebouworkest. In 2018 three more timpani were purchased thanks to the Freundeskreis Schweiz, the Swiss Friends of the orchestra.

Concertgebouworkest - Timpanist Nick Woud

Musicians of Concertgebouworkest Young, the new youth orchestra which the Concertgebouworkest has launched in the 2019/2020 season and which caters for European hidden talent aged 14 to 18, are making their debut with Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, KV 525. At the Young summer camp, they participated in an intensive programme of group practice, orchestra rehearsals, chamber music, coaching sessions and workshops led by professional workshop leaders, and classes given by members of the Concertgebouworkest. The Concertgebouworkest views the development of top talent as of the utmost importance. In addition to that, with Young the Orchestra aims to stimulate personal development, a strong sense of community and a democratic mindset. A special program will be designed in collaboration with the United World Colleges Nederland. This new youth orchestra will serve as a bridge between society and a top-level cultural institute.

Concertgebouworkest Young - Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik

? Reminisce with us on an amazing Opening Night 2019!

Opening Night 2019

Matthias Giesen is the Stiftskapellmeister and organist in the basilica of the St. Florian Monastery. He sits on the same bench that Bruckner himself once occupied and plays the great organ that Bruckner himself once played. Directly beneath that organ, the composer lies buried. According to Giesen there is a close relationship between Bruckner the organist and Bruckner the composer; many of Bruckner’s themes were conceived whilst improvising at the St. Florian organ. On that same spot, Giesen talks about his legendary predecessor, the great organ and the Fifth Symphony. Matthias Giesen is a graduate of the conservatories of Cologne and Stuttgart, specialising in organ, music theory, church music and music education. He was appointed Stiftsorganist of the Augustine monastery of St. Florian in 1999 and became Stiftskapellmeister in 2003. He leads the Schola Floriana, the monastery choir of St. Florian and he is the conductor of the Altomonte Orchestra. Dr. Giesen lectures at the Musik-Universität of Vienna and was appointed Artistic Director of the Brucknertage, the festival in St. Florian, in 2006.

Bruckner's Fifth Symphony and St. Florian

Anton Bruckner was born in the village of Ansfelden, in Upper Austria, where his father was the local schoolmaster and verger in the village church. After his father’s death, Bruckner’s mother took the twelve year old to the great monastery of St. Florian, some twelve kilometres away, where he was admitted to the boy’s choir. Here he would receive a thorough training not only as an assistant schoolmaster but most importantly as a musician. The Brucknertage at St. Florian take place in the very monastery where Bruckner spent a substantial part of his life and where he is buried. The monastery was a safe place to him, a spiritual home; he would often return to St. Florian to improvise on the organs in the Basilica and to work on his compositions in peace. The Brucknertage were initiated by Dr. Klaus Laczika, a doctor and himself a child of the region. The artistic director is Matthias Giesen, an accomplished organist and conductor who is musical director of the basilica and, like Bruckner before him, leader of the children’s choir. Apart from his profound love for and knowledge of Bruckner’s music, Dr. Laczika has strong ideas about the relationship between music and medicine. In his own practice in Vienna he often uses music in therapy, basing his work on the idea that the natural rhythms of classical music — as opposed to those of computerised music — match, on a fundamental level, the rhythms of the human body. Bruckner’s almost obsessive preference for strict numerical order corresponds closely with this idea.

Klaus Laczika about Bruckner's Ninth Symphony

Watch the complete concert free of charge at our website: https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/video Listen to Pau Casals' Song of the Birds, with Yo-Yo Ma and the celli of the Concertgebouworkest.

Concertgebouworkest - Casals - Song of the Birds

Chamber music concert of 22 August 2019 by musicians of Concertgebouworkest Young, conducted by musicians of the Concertgebouworkest.

Concertgebouworkest Young - Chamber Music

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Concertgebouworkest - Concert season 2019/2020

In September 2019 the Concertgebouworkest went on tour to beautiful Lucerne. Artist in residence Tabea Zimmermann joined us there as a soloist in Bartók's Viola Concerto.

Artist in residence Tabea Zimmermann in Lucerne

Born in Exeter, Katy Woolley began playing horn at age ten. She studied with Sue Dent and, later, Simon Rayner. Ms Woolley graduated from the Royal College of Music in London with a first-class degree and was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal by the Prince of Wales. She served as principal horn in the European Union Youth Orchestra for two years and undertook further study with Christian Friedrich Dallmann at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Ms Woolley was appointed principal horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra at age twenty-two, having previously been awarded the third horn position while she was still a student. She has joined the Philharmonia Orchestra as a soloist in Mozart’s Horn Concerto Nr. 2, both Richard Strauss’s Horn Concertos, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings and Tansy Davies’ ‘Forest’ Concerto. She has also performed as a soloist with the London Mozart Players and the New York Philharmonic. A passionate teacher, she has been a professor of horn at both the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. As a visiting teacher, she has educated students at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In 2019, Katy Woolley was appointed principal horn of the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam.

Concertgebouworkest - Principal horn Katy Woolley

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