Ensembles

DUO Hartig - Broekhans

Duo Hartig - Broekhans, have more than 25 years of enjoying painting music together. They started as an ensemble suggested by their chamber music teacher Jan Gruithuyzen at the Rotterdams Conservatorium who recognised their compatibility and interest in the same way of expressing music and the sound they wish to bring to the listener.

In 2004 they won a prize at the Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera ‘Gaetano Zinetti in Verona.

In July 2022 a cd ‘D a r k V e l v e t’ came out on the label Challange Records with pieces written and arranged specially for this project.

Since then they have given recitals in Italy, The Netherlands, Serbia and Finland.

Roctet

In 2016 begon Nederlandse eerste vaste strijkoctet de podia te veroveren, toen altvioliste Francien Schatborn en voormalig concertmeester Ronald Hoogeveen hun strijkersvrienden uit het Radio Filharmonisch Orkest bijeen brachten.

ROctet – voluit het Radio strijkoctet – heeft in zijn korte bestaan reeds veel wervelende concerten kunnen geven in verschillende concertseries en ook live op Radio 4. Een strijkoctet wordt meestal gevormd door twee bestaande kwartetten of acht solisten als een ad-hoc ensemble, daarom is het niet een vaak geziene formatie.

ROctet stelt zich ten doel -geheel in de geest van het RadioFilharmonisch Orkest- zowel bestaand repertoire uit te voeren als een avontuurlijke samenwerking te zoeken met toonaangevende componisten van deze tijd.

In 2020 verschijnt de debuut CD van ROctet met werken van Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Dmitri Schostakovich en Nikolay Afanasyev (nooit eerder opgenomen Dubbel Kwartet “Novoselje”).

ROctet bestaat uit:

Joris van Rijn viool
Dimiter Tchernookov viool
Masha Iakovleva viool
Julija Hartig viool
Francien Schatborn altviool
Frank Brakkee altviool
Eveline Kraayenhof cello
Anneke Janssen cello

Ensemble REI

Rei is an ancient Greek word from a quote of an ancient Greek scientist, Heracleitus. He was the first one who realized that in the core of all things, the material is not vast but flowing. His quote is one of the most famous of all times: “Ta panta rei”. Which means: Everything flows.

Nowadays, we live in a world that enhances this fact more than ever before. Everything changes constantly and rapidly. Our ensemble has the ambition to resemble our society and way of life in the modern era: we play in flexible combinations of chamber music formations with a core of string instruments, from duo to large ensemble and from Baroque to Rock!

Another important element of Ensemble Rei is to combine as many different nationalities as possible. Our idea is that music unites people as an universal language. It stands above borders and boundaries of countries, regions, languages and cultures and builds bridges between the intellect and the emotions of all human beings. In a time of strong polarization on all fronts, we find that music and the arts should form an example of how all of us, so extremely diverse, can start celebrating what we have in common rather than challenge our differences. Reed more…

Ludwig

Ludwig is een collectief van gedreven ambitieuze musici en creatieve denkers die hun sporen verdiend hebben in het culturele veld. Ludwig ontleent inspiratie aan zijn artistieke geestesvader Beethoven, wiens ondernemerschap en muzikale visie in zijn tijd een ongekende revolutie teweegbrachten.

In late 2011, six musicians took it upon themselves to defy prevailing trends and initiate a new musical collective. A collective that would distinguish itself through flexibility, not only with respect to its artistic content, but also from a practical point of view: the size of the collective can vary from soloists to a symphonic orchestra. A collective that would not only deliver quality performances driven by an intrinsic need to perform the finest music with the greatest musicians in the best way possible, but also add an enterprising mind and a broad social outlook. The group was born, and goes by the name of LUDWIG, after Beethoven, cultural entrepreneur avant la letter.