Edition 70 / 31/1/2 Jun 2024

Edition 70

The presentation of the Willem Pijper Award takes centre stage in this edition of Festival Dag in de Branding from 31 May to 2 June. Composers Cecilia Arditto and Trevor Grahl will be presented with this composition award from The Hague City Council by alderman Saskia Bruines in Amare. Of course, Arditto and Grahl’s work can be heard in the festival, which this time stretches over three days.

And there is more, much more. Tenor Marcel Beekman and the saxophonists of the Amstel Quartet perform Reza Namavar’s absurdist operatic radio play The Enchanted Dishwasher – wacky, compelling, and not to be missed. Another exciting piece of musical theatre can be enjoyed on Friday night: Timo Tembuyser’s MISSA MAMA NOVA, a choral concert about ‘archetypal Mother energy’. And Heather Pinkham presents a new edition of her successful Music for Empty Spaces project, featuring new solo pieces by nine composers.

An important part of Festival Dag in the Branding is the development programme for promising young makers. Maker-in-residence Guzmán Calzada Llorente crowns his two-year collaboration with the festival with a major work for ensemble Modelo62. New maker-in-residence Myrto Nizami presents a first scene from the new chamber opera she will be developing during her residency.

program 31 May 2024

20:15

Theater aan het Spui

Timo Tembuyser – MISSA MAMA NOVA

Timo Tembuyser

program 1 Jun 2024

14:30

Amare Concertzaal

Presentation Willem Pijper Award

Trevor Grahl – Music for Malmö (fragment)
Arjan Linker – Jhalla in Raga Darbari
Cecilia Arditto Delsoglio – Tissue

Symphony orchestra of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam / Drummado Wijnhamer, conductor

16:30

Korzo

Myrto Nizami – Prima Materia: part I
Heather Pinkham – Music for Empty Spaces

Kristia Michael, soprano / Ensemble Modelo62 / James Oesi, double bass / Pamela Smits, cello / Susanna Borsch, recorder, electronics / Saskia Lankhoorn, piano / Thorwald Jørgensen, theremin / Tammo Heikens, surbahar / Suzanne van Berkum, bassoon / Tatiana Koleva, percussion / Charlotte Houberg, soprano

19:15

Nieuwe Kerk

Reza Namavar – De betoverde vaatwasser (een absurdistisch hoorspel)

Marcel Beekman, tenor / Amstel Quartet

21:00

Theater De Regentes

With an introduction by the composer at 20.30

Guzmán Calzada Llorente – Portraits of fictional spaces

Ensemble Modelo62 featuring ensemble Heliosfero

With an introduction by the composer at 20.30

program 2 Jun 2024

14:15

Orgelpark Amsterdam

Cecilia Arditto Delsoglio – La Arquitectura del Aire
Cecilia Arditto Delsoglio – Del Cielo a Casa/From Heaven to Home
Trevor Grahl – Of Ancient Days
Trevor Grahl – Śpiewnik (‘liedboek’)

Trevor Grahl, organ

Timo: “fuck, I wrote another Gloria.”

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: “Is there an ‘I’ left without a mask?”

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…

Reza Namavar: “Marcel Beekman sings all roles!”

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…

Take a look behind the scenes!

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…

Cecilia Arditto: “I was overwhelmed and overjoyed”

The Willem Pijper Award will be awarded to two laureates on June 1 during Festival Dag in de Branding. Cecilia Arditto Delsoglio receives the prize for her orchestral work Tissue (2019) and Trevor Grahl for Music for Malmö (2019) for solo organ and electronics. Music journalist Joep Stapel talked to…

Guzmán: “This work really feels like the start of something new.”

Composer Guzmán Calzada Llorente has been maker in residence at Festival Dag in de Branding for the past two years. In the June edition of the festival he presents the final piece of his residency, titled Portraits of fictional spaces. In this interview Guzmán reflects on the past two years,…

Cecilia Arditto and Trevor Grahl receive Willem Pijper Award

The presentation of the Willem Pijper Award is central during Festival Dag in de Branding from May 31 to June 2. Composers Cecilia Arditto and Trevor Grahl will receive the composition award from the Municipality of The Hague on June 1 in Amare by councilor Saskia Bruines. About the award…

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