On October 19, the Hague ensemble Kluster5 will play at Festival Dag in de Branding. They present Sonic Panorama in Korzo, inspired by the famous Panorama Mesdag. What do you hear in the buffer zone between city and sea? Kluster5 asks that question with this program full of work by…

Juan Manuel Domínguez is the baritone saxophonist of the Keuris Quartet. During Festival Dag in de Branding they will play at the special location Haags Hoog. There they will perform the program Piece of Cake, with which the saxophone quartet celebrates its tenth anniversary. "It is a Dutch-American set with…

Composer Jan-Peter de Graaff is guest curator of Festival Dag in de Branding on Saturday, October 19. He put together a beautiful program around the theme 'between the city and the sea' and based on his love for the saxophone. His new Concerto metropolitain for saxophone and orchestra will premiere…

On Saturday September 7th the Spotlight Festival will take place in The Hague! The opening of the 2024-2025 cultural season, where The Hague artists and stages present themselves and give sneak previews of what will be shown in the upcoming season. That afternoon, Festival Dag in de Branding and Amare…

On Friday, June 7, the Advice for the Policy Plan for Art and Culture 2025-2028 for The Hague was presented to alderman Saskia Bruines. In this advice, the requested subsidy amount is awarded fully to the Johan Wagenaar Foundation, the organization behind Festival Dag in de Branding. We are very…

For the edition on Saturday, October 19, Festival Dag in de Branding is once again working with a guest curator. This time it is composer Jan-Peter de Graaff. Thanks to him, the sound of saxophones is all over this edition. De Graaff fell in love with the instrument when he…

Composer, performer and theater maker Timo Tembuyser brings his Missa Mama Nova to The Hague. This contemporary mass is a special performance with dance and choral singing about femininity. Tembuyser wants to free 'the archetypal Mother energy' from the corset of the patriarchal Christian tradition. We talked to Timo about…

Myrto Nizami (Greece, 1994) has been maker in residence at Festival Dag in de Branding since the end of 2023. Her music was heard for the first time last March, and in the June edition she presents new work for the first time during the festival. Myrto: 'Can we exist…

Composer Reza Namavar's absurdist chamber opera De betoverende vaatwasser (The Enchanted Dishwasher) can be seen during Festival Dag in de Branding. A kind of radio play based on a dishwasher manual, with strong nods to Vivaldi's oeuvre. Reza told us about Vivaldi, his enchanted dishwasher and the choice of tenor…

Guzmán Calzada Llorente was maker-in-residence at Festival Dag in de Branding for two years. On June 1st 2024 he will conclude his residency with the world premiere of the piece Portraits of fictional spaces in De Regentes. He tells more about this in this video. Portraits of fictional spaces will…