Award Ceremony Willem Pijper Prize
Dick Raaijmakers
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Ritueel Moment
James Tenney
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Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Peter Ablinger
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Regenstück
Hugo Morales
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Equid
Slagwerk Den Haag
The Willem Pijper Award is granted for a composition with a ‘pioneering function’. The jury agreed that Hugo Morales Murguía meets that qualification in his piece Equid (2014), because it is ‘a remarkably powerful piece of music, where Hugo Morales, in the space of 20 minutes, conjures up a rich world of sound using a collection of jawbones. By introducing this traditional Latin-American folk instrument (known as ‘quijada’) into the contemporary percussion repertoire, Morales has composed a work that pairs primitive ritual with acoustic refinement. In many ways, the piece is a logical extension of much of his other work: his choice of materials and the precise but lighthearted nature of his compositions make his music sound as though it has always been around and yet, at the same time, it is very much of its own age.’
Hugo Morales combines the sound of the jawbones with subtle amplification and lo-fi technology in such a way that it blurs the boundary between the acoustic and the electronic. His sound palette makes acoustic instruments often sound like electronic ones, while treating electronic music with such refinement that he gives it the depth of acoustic instruments.

15:00
Nieuwe Kerk
Award Ceremony Willem Pijper Prize
Dick Raaijmakers –
Ritueel Moment
James Tenney –
Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Peter Ablinger –
Regenstück
Hugo Morales –
Equid
Slagwerk Den Haag
2.15 pm panel-discussion with composers Kate Moore, Hugo Morales, Aart Strootman
17:00
Theater aan het Spui
70th anniversary of the Johan Wagenaar Foundation
Cees van Zeeland –
Off-Course (wereldpremière)
Louis Andriessen –
Shared memory
Johan Wagenaar –
Fantasiestukken voor viool en piano op.2
Hendrik Andriessen –
Kwintet voor fluit, hobo, klarinet, hoorn en fagot
Tristan Keuris –
Divertimento voor viool, blaaskwintet en piano
Alexander Voormolen –
Pastorale voor hobo en piano
New European Ensemble
18:00
Theater aan het Spui
Dinerconcert
Henk Badings –
Sonate voor viool en altviool
Léon Orthel –
Sonate voor cello en piano
Henk Badings –
Cavatina voor fluit en harp
Martijn Padding –
Three opposite pieces
Ensemble Academie Koninklijk Conservatorium
mini performances during the festival diner in the foyer
20:00
Korzo
Award Ceremony Matthijs Vermeulen Prize
Aart Strootman –
Upside down
Olivier Messiaen –
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Daan Manneke –
Faux Bourdon
Kate Moore –
The Dam
HERZ ensemble
21:30
Korzo
Hugo Morales –
Phobo1 / Batocatta
Hugo Morales –
Modes of assisted ventilation
Hugo Morales –
Four violinized utensils
Hugo Morales –
Lū
Mei-Yi Lee / Nerea Vera / Aya Suzuki / Lodewijk Bles / José Silva
15:00
Korzo
Sunday 3 December
Nik Bärtsch –
For2Pianos (2017)
Vanessa Lann –
Naked, I (2017)
Pete Harden –
Preservation (Pearl Morpho) (2017)
Tristan Perich –
Dimensional Bloom (2017)
X88: Vicky Chow & Saskia Lankhoorn
14.00 hrs. introduction
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