Ensemble Klang is programmed twice this edition during Festival Dag in de Branding. Both pieces are sensory-stimulating. We spoke to Pete Harden of Ensemble Klang and asked him about the collaboration with artist-in-residence Thomas van Dun and the music theater piece Follow by Igor C. Silva, which they will perform…

Are you a composer who has graduated and not yet 35 years old? Would you like to further your career in an extensive two-year trajectory at Festival Dag in de Branding in The Hague? Send in your plan and become composer in residence at Festival Dag in de Branding! You…

On May 21st composer Gabriel Paiuk will, together with visual artist Sebastián Diaz Morales and cellist Arne Deforce, perform a new version of Sound Theory (The Clouds), which premiered last autumn during the Gaudeamus Muziekweek. We spoke with Gabriel about his sources of inspiration and the relationship between vision and…

Artist-in-residence at Festival Dag in de Branding. On Saturday 21 May he will present his new composition in collaboration with. New European Ensemble and soprano Gita Rebeka. In this video he tells more about his work. Brazilian composer Julian Maple-Oliveira, who studied not only composition but also sonology, loves alternative…

Artist-in-residence at Festival Dag in de Branding. On Saturday 21 May she will present the result of her residency in the Barth Kapel. In this video she tells more about her work. Harpist Michela Amici has put together a program of new compositions for baroque harp and song that offer…

On Saturday June 18, 2022, New Music NOW organizes the first Day of the Composer, the motto for this day is Long live the Composer! A celebration of new music. Music by composers active in the Netherlands can be heard throughout the country: not only in concert-halls and theatres, but…

On May 21, Arthur Klaassens will perform the piece Oboi, Che Melancolia by composer Klaas de Vries. This piece is somewhere between an installation and a performance, in which the audience is allowed to sit, lie down, walk and of course: listen. We spoke with Arthur this extraordinary piece.  …

During Festival Dag in de Branding on 20 and 21 May, the three artists-in-residence will present the result of their residency. We spoke to composers Julian Maple-Oliveira and Thomas van Dun, and harpist Michela Amici for a short introduction! What does it mean to you to be an artist-in-residence at…

On February 26, the piece Parallax will be performed by Het Collectief and soprano Katrien Baerts. We spoke with composer Jan-Peter de Graaff about conspiracy theories, the new Amare and his collaboration with Katrien Baerts. Your piece Parallax is about conspiracy theories. Where does your fascination with this subject come…

Ensemble Modelo62 will perform two pieces by Claudio Baroni on February 26. We spoke with Ezequiel Menalled, founder and conductor of Modelo62, about the composer, what he missed most during the pandemic and how it influenced Modelo62 as an ensemble.  You had to make some last-minute changes to the programme…