29 Jun 2019
edition 52
Edition 52
The festival finally goes to the sea. With concerts in the Zuiderstrandtheater and a route along the Scheveningen coast, we start the summer.
The festival finally goes to the sea. With concerts in the Zuiderstrandtheater and a route along the Scheveningen coast, we start the summer.
Festival Dag in de Branding is collaborating with Rewire in a musical route through surprising locations in The Hague. The collaboration features a special commission for organ and ensemble by British jazz pianist Kit Downes and Dutch new music group Ensemble Klang. The programme also features American percussionist, composer and visual artist Eli Keszler, Dutch violinist Diamanda Dramm, and the union of electroacoustic composer Henry Vega and cellist Jan-Willem Troost.
We’ve arrived at the 50th edition of Festival Dag in de Branding and that means it’s time for a party! And it’s a day of celebration too for Wim Boerman, the artistic director (and co-founder in 1979) of orkest de ereprijs. He is presented today with the Theo Bruins Award for his ‘unrelenting commitment to win over a larger audience for newly composed music,’ in the words of the jury.
Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (1931) is one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary music. Her music is distinctly original, steeped in religion, crystal clear and ultra-precise.
The New European Ensemble invited her to The Hague for a retrospective of her work. On 5 and 6 October 2018 the New European Ensemble, Residentie Orkest The Hague, and students of the Royal Conservatoire play a selection from her oeuvre, from early atonal compositions she wrote in the Soviet era to music she wrote only recently.
This edition of Festival Dag in de Branding revolves around ‘spaces and fringes’.
To zero in on music now – that is Saskia Lankhoorn’s aim. It is her programming that will shape festival Dag in de Branding for two seasons, and she certainly realizes her ambition in this edition.