On October 15, Ensemble Modelo62 from The Hague will present their Three Degrees from Reality in a sold out Korzo. A hybrid work: in the performance three different works of art come together and visitors play an important role. We spoke to Ezequiel Menalled, Luz Lassizuk and Yolanda Uriz from…

In Wake The Dead, horn player Morris Kliphuis and pianist Joanna Duda bring old and new music, improvisation and electronics together. They do this together with the Baroque ensemble of the Royal Conservatoire. Wake The Dead will premiere on 14 October at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam and can be heard…

From September 2022, Guzmán Calzada Llorente will be composer-in-residence at Festival Dag in de Branding for two years. Guzmán is a composer, guitarist and sound designer of Uruguayan-Spanish descent. He did the Master in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. During his residency with Dag in de Branding,…

Primo Ish-Hurwitz invited twenty young composers to write a three-minute piece for the piece Toonzetters. The piece will be performed on October 15 in Amare. We asked Primo how Toonzetters came about and what assignment the composers were set to work on. How did you come up with the idea…

Peter-Jan Wagemans wrote the piece Cycles, which will be performed on October 15th, for drummer Friso van Wijck and pianist Matthijs van Wijhe. The piece is an extensive work between jazz and modern and consists of twenty short pieces. We talked to Peter-Jan about his inspirations, his choice of instruments…

After a hot summer, we are looking forward to a refreshing new cultural year! This season we are organizing three editions of Dag in de Branding: Sat 15 October, Sat 4 March and Sat 17 June (during Composer's Day). Traditionally opened during the UIT Festival The Hague on Sunday 4…

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…