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Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Bekijk hoe het Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ een bezoek voor mensen met een beperking of handicap toegankelijk maakt.

https://www.muziekgebouw.nl/nl/pQoZVUw/je-bezoek/toegankelijkheid

God’s own musicians by Insomnio

Birdsong: nature’s most elusive song has inspired musicians for centuries. On 21 March in the Muziekgebouw, Utrecht-based ensemble Insomnio revisits two brilliant 21st-century pieces in which birdsong plays the leading role.

Canto and Karmit North Netherlands Orchestra + Pieter van Loenen

The Dutch-Israeli Karmit Fadael will present a violin concerto with Pieter van Loenen and the North Netherlands Orchestra in the Muziekgebouw on April 11. This special concert, which also returns to Fadael's Frisian roots, interweaves her innovative music with works by Anders Hillborg and the legendary Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt. It promises to be a compelling evening, rich in musical stories and emotions.

A Dust in Time Asko|Schönberg

With A Dust in Time, the American-Chinese composer Huang Ruo wrote a meditative journey in which the strings of Asko|Schönberg never let go of each other on March 7 in the Muziekgebouw.

City Life Asko|Schönberg

Steve Reich’s work has a pulse that lends itself ideally to translating the atmosphere of a metropolis into music. For City Life, he hit the streets to record the sounds of New York. Conversations, car horns and car alarms, a pile driver, slamming doors, and a heart beating. Played on samplers, they form the foundation of Reich’s ode to the city. He conjures up New York, in its unflappable vastness and its hecticness.

Mendelssohn complete Jean-Guihen Queyras + Kristian Bezuidenhout

If there’s one composer who knew how to compose for cello and piano, it’s Felix Mendelssohn. Jean-Guihen Queyras, the audience favourite at the Cello Biënnale and the Muziekgebouw, masterfully crafts a light tone that fits Mendelssohn’s romanticism. Piano magician Kristian Bezuidenhout plays an Erard piano, the same type of instrument that Mendelssohn himself owned from 1832 onwards.

Unique Dvořák Maximilian Hornung & friends

Antonin Dvořák’s lyrical Cello Concerto: known among cellists as the ultimate cello concerto. Five cellos sing the famous piece in an arrangement by Paul Handschke. Moreover, the piece is shown with an entirely new dimension in this arrangement, which shines a light on an array of details easy to miss in the original music. The same effect can be seen in Tchaikovsky’s warm-blooded and romantic Serenade, in an arrangement for four cellos. Join us at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.

Extending String Quartet: Island Suite Solem Quartet + Ayanna Witter-Johnson

Songwriter, composer, pianist and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson was inspired by Jamaican folk song and tells the story of her ancestors with her Island Suite for the Solem Quartet. Nearly a century before her, Bart��k was also concerned with folk music, that from Eastern Europe. And again a hundred years earlier, Beethoven transcended time in his Grosse Fuge; music that �� as Stravinsky said – will always sound contemporary.

Tempo (7+) Oorkaan (hurricane) Ensemble

In music, nothing is more important than the tempo. The beat determines how you experience time. And time seems to be never-ending when you are young and feeling bored. But time disappears like snow in the sun when you are pulled into a special experience. As in Tempo, a performance for a young audience. The members of Oorkaan Ensemble play with your sense of time like true magicians.

The man with the many pianos - Alexander Melnikov

Alexander Melnikov is as crazy as he is brilliant. Not only does he have an immensely wide repertoire, but he also plays many types of pianos. For his internationally acclaimed program Many Pianos, he brings no fewer than four historic keyboards with him to play alongside the Steinway concert grand piano. With fantasies from Bach, via Mozart, Chopin and Scriabin to Schnittke, Melnikov is the guide on an enriching journey of discovery through the minds of these composers. At the same time, in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, he highlights the development from the fortepiano to the modern concert grand piano.

Simon Pierre, Lucile Boulanger + Olivier Fortin with Grace, panache, fantasy

Trio sonatas for viola da gamba, violin and harpsichord. This sober description does not do justice to the sumptuous repertoire. In the Muziekgebouw on February 17.

But I like to sing ... Carolyn Sampson + Joseph Middleton

Carolyn Sampson is ‘the best British early music soprano by quite some distance’ according to Gramophone. But she is also one of the most in-demand lieder singers in the world, together with pianist Joseph Middleton, with whom she enjoys a close-knit collaboration. It is, therefore, high time for a concert in the Great Singers series by Sampson, whose voice bears some resemblance to her idol, Elly Ameling. This ‘voice to fall in love with’ (NRC) effortlessly travels through three hundred years of song history.

Selected by / Doric SQ + Jelmer de Moed Beethoven en Adès

Thomas Adès praises the great composers of the past, while he himself is a contemporary giant. A fascination for music history is reflected in all his compositions.

Brentano String Quartet + Hsin Yun Huang - Mozart, MacMillan, Brahms

Explore the rich history of quintets at The Muziekgebouw on 31 January. From Mozart's dedication to publisher Hoffmeister to Brahms breaking his promise of retirement with the captivating Second String Quintet, each piece unfolds a unique narrative. Delve into the symphonic design of Brahms' work and MacMillan's exploration of quintet possibilities. Witness how these relationships with publishers and life promises shaped the evolution of chamber music.

Kapralova, Martinů and Debussy Pavel Haas Quartet

The Pavel Haas Quartet is in its twentieth season and is in the top ten of the string quartet scene. The quartet takes its name from Czech composer Pavel Haas. Not surprisingly, Czech music is an important pillar in the quartet’s idiosyncratic repertoire. In this concert, the beautiful but rarely performed music of composer Vítězslava Kaprálová will be played.

SUPERNATET and dance Bram Stadhouders

Not an organist but a guitarist playing the Fokker organ with his guitar. Bram Stadhouders creates a unique three-dimensional sound world with his surround guitar. Ambient, electrifying and layered, with the Fokker organ as an unwavering foundation. Meanwhile, dancers add a hypnotic visual component. Bram Stadhouders doesn’t give a concert but rather an experience that puts the organ in a new light at the Muziekgebouw.

Grass Roots - Quatuor Conﬂuence, Isidore String Quartet & Quartetto Indaco

During the festival edition of 2024, many talented young string quartets can be heard. In the program section “Grass Roots”, the String Quartet Biennial presents three promises of the future: Quatuor Confluence, Isidore String Quartet and Quartetto Indaco. With an inventive approach to the repertoire, these three string quartets represent the youngest generation, a generation that is aware of the present and past at the Muziekgebouw.

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