The guest curator of this edition of Festival Dag in de Branding is music publicist Jacqueline Oskamp. And not without reason: on 7 June, in Amare's Conservatoriumzaal, she presents to the audience her brand-new Louis Andriessen biography, Groots is de liefde (‘Love is an excellent thing’) and is herself presented…

Composer Sander Germanus (1972) has been working with microtonality for over thirty years. He used to compose for orchestras and ensembles, but to be able to express his ideas better, he has now founded a microtonal jazz fusion group. Cool band name, Sander. “Thank you.” How would you characterize the…

Violinist Jellantsje de Vries forms a duo with pianist Bobby Mitchell, with whom she will play a chamber music programme in the Paleiskerk on Saturday afternoon. Jellantsje is the daughter of Klaas de Vries. What does your father's music mean to you? "Quite a lot, actually... It comes very close…

Royal Conservatoroire teacher and director of the Société Gavigniès Renee Jonker brought the couple György and Márta Kurtág to the Netherlands in 1997, where they lived for two years. Marta Kurtág passed away in 2019. Jonker and the Kurtágs always kept in touch. You were recently with Kurtág in Budapest.…

Are you a composer who has a music degree and is 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…

Composer Klaas de Vries turned 80 last summer. And he has written a major new orchestral work for the Residentie Orkest. Reason enough for Festival Dag in de Branding to honour De Vries with an extensive festive edition that lasts the entire weekend. Mid-December, De Vries talked about his life…

Klaas de Vries, one of the Netherlands’ greatest composers, turned 80 this summer and… he has just written a major new orchestral work. Reason enough for Festival Dag in de Branding to honour De Vries with a festive and extra-long edition from 21-23 March 2o25, which he was invited to…

On Saturday evening, October 19, during Festival Dag in de Branding, Concerto Metropolitain, by guest curator and composer Jan-Peter de Graaff, performed by the Ardemus Saxophone Quartet and the Residentie Orchestra, had its world premiere in Amare. NRC gave the concert four stars and wrote "The railways as a source…

Composer and pianist Aspasia Nasopoulou is artistic director of Orkest De Ereprijs, the new music ensemble in the east of The Netherlands. During Festival Dag in de Branding, the ensemble presents six recent pieces from the Ereprijs repertoire, selected in collaboration with guest curator Jan-Peter de Graaff. Aspasia: "For Festival…

Composer Jan-Peter de Graaff takes us on a historic tram through The Hague and tells us extensively about being a guest curator, his love for the saxophone and how he is inspired by old trams and freerunners. Watch the video!