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Tue 29 Sep 2020 De Link at Het Cenakel
Electra: FACE
Ensemble Electra will perform Yannis Kyariakides’ multimedia composition FACE. Text, projections and music all reflect the theme of digital face recognition and the interpretation of emotions. These elements constitute a network of data that represent the image we create of ourselves ... Read more
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Tue 6 Oct 2020 Artist ResidencyDe Link at Het Cenakel
Remy Alexander/ Sjors van der Mark
Remy Alexander, artist in residence at De Link in 2020, has percussionist Pedro Paixao and dancer Daniela Rodrigo use the space and the acoustics of Het Cenakel to its fullest extent in a double bill. He has also written a piece for guitarist Sjors van der Mark ... Read more
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Tue 13 Oct 2020 De Link at Het Cenakel
Ensemble Klang: Faust
Ensemble Klang goes back in time with their performance of the music that Willem Breuker composed for his Kollektief to accompany F.W. Murnau’s silent film Faust (1926). Goethe’s magnum opus, visualized in the style of ... Read more
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Tue 27 Oct 2020 De Link at Het CenakelOur own productions
Ives Ensemble: Bailie & Miller
The Ives Ensemble will perform the first international commission by De Link, Perfect Offering by Cassandra Miller. She built her composition around a song in which Leonard Cohen expressed a glimmer of hope. In another commissioned work Joanna Bailie ... Read more
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Tue 10 Nov 2020 De Link at Het Cenakel
Eija Kankaanranta & Aino Peltomaa
In association with festival November Music De Link presents a concert of kantele player Eija Kankaanranta and singer Aino Peltomaa. Kankaanranta plays contemporary compositions on the kantele, a folk instrument that is related to the zither. Peltomaa draws on early music ... Read more
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Tue 24 Nov 2020 De Link at Het Cenakel
Helena Basilova
Pianist Elena Basilova performs music of three consecutive generations of composers. Olivier Messiaen taught Tristan Murail, who in turn had Karen Tanaka as his student. The concert moves from Messiaen’s early pieces ... Read more
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Tue 8 Dec 2020 De Link at Het Cenakel
Eklekto
The Swiss percussion collective Eklekto has a pleasantly broad view of the possibilities of their instruments. They can use cassette tapes as sound source, or highlight timbres and spatial acoustics with four field drums. Ryoji Ikeda, well-known for his minimalist electronic music, ... Read more
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Tue 15 Dec 2020 De Link at Het Cenakel
Miriam Overlach
Harp teacher Miriam Overlach performs with a number of her students in a master-student concert. They will present a wide variety of compositions, ranging from Kaija Saariaho’s spectral music to pieces in which the harp is combined with percussion, electronics, ... Read more
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Tue 5 Jan 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Tomoko Mukaiyama
In End and Beginning pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama surrounds herself with eight double basses and a percussionist. It is for this instrumentation that Galina Ustvolskaya wrote her Composition No. 2 ‘Dies Irae’. Alexander Raskatov used these same instruments in Bells, written for ... Read more
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Tue 12 Jan 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Ties Mellema/ TOEAC
Saxophonist Ties Mellema and the accordion duo TOEAC share a double bill with virtuoso leaps, a foot wearing a clacking tap shoe, and a wandering around a mind doubting with a mixture of terror and ecstasy which way it would prefer to fall as it stands at the edge of an abyss. ... Read more
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Tue 19 Jan 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Alistair Sung/ Goska Isphording
A double bill featuring harpsichordist Goska Isphording and cellist Alistair Sung. Isphording will perform a piece by Janco Verduin that gets ever more complex and an emotionally charged composition by Karol Nepelski. In compositions for cello and electronics Sung translates ... Read more
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Tue 2 Feb 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Juliet Fraser
The English soprano Juliet Fraser will present the four compositions that comprise her recent solo CD spilled out from tangles for the first time in one concert. In each piece her voice is embedded subtly and delicately ... Read more
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Tue 16 Feb 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Herz Ensemble
Performed by the Herz Ensemble the pieces in The Crow and other short stories by the Australian-Dutch composer Kate Moore are a cycle in which she shapes personal history and experience into a mythology. The pieces are related ... Read more
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Tue 2 Mar 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Marco Blaauw
Trumpet player Marco Blaauw, member of the Musikfabrik ensemble and renowned for his work with Karlheinz Stockhausen, will give a solo performance featuring a double bell instrument that was especially made for him. He will perform pieces that Rebecca Saunders and Yannis Kyriakides wrote for him, ... Read more
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Tue 16 Mar 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Sarah Saviet & Joseph Houston
Violinist Sarah Saviet and pianist Joseph Houston focus on sound worlds and ways in which composers may construct them. Anna Cleare toys with contrasting timbres. Morton Feldman drew inspiration from a royal tapestry lost in history. ... Read more
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Tue 30 Mar 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Ragazze Quartet
The Ragazze Quartet will perform works from two composers. They have included three works by Carline Shaw, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2013, in the programme. One of these, The Evergreen, was commissioned by Ragazze. Violist Garth Know, ... Read more
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Tue 13 Apr 2021 Artist ResidencyDe Link at Het Cenakel
Patrick Ellis/ Claire Adams
A double bill with new music by Patrick Ellis, artist in residence at De Link in 2021, performed by students of the AMPA conservatoire. Ellis’ music is characterized by inventiveness and transparency. This concert is paired with a concert by singer and violinist Claire Adams ... Read more
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Tue 27 Apr 2021 De Link at Het Cenakel
Alexis Descharmes & Alexandra Greffin-Klein
The French duo Alexis Descharmes (cello) and Alexandra Greffin-Klein (violin) will present a double portrait of Elliott Carter and Kaija Saariaho, composers with a greatly differing oeuvre. In his music Carter concerned himself with formal structures. Kaija Saariaho’s music ... Read more
