Thursday May 22 - Plan Kruutntoone - 8:30 PM-------------------------------------------------------Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
“Niet alles wat afwijkt is weerloos” is like the Bad Seeds meeting wit Ornette Coleman’s double quartets under the strict eye of Galina Ustvolskaja, before a grey and red Marc Rothko sky. Tilted. Passing the age of 33, (when Jesus died…)
Plan Kruutntoone decided to use our extra time to collaborate with AhuraMazda 3000 on a (anti -)gospel record: to stop handing over fear through generations and make some noise: Soviet bass and double bass, guitars and baritone, three (3!) drummers, three vocalists, three winds, piano, organ, accordion and bekreepi, plus Krabbetjeh, Most and Hleb inspired Hansko s lyrics on Marinus van der Lubbe and Ingrid Jonker On Fear, Young Grebes and Outboard Motors. Fish, and Mental Institutions. Lost parts, that, after all, appeared not to to be so indispensable.
All material was recorded in three weeks at Vache a Louer, Hautroche, by our Deacon Dolf Koeienverhuur, and mastered by Zlaya at Loud. It will be out at Escrec. And In the free day, we recorded Trio for Galina at the Chateaux and at the end we added two “covers” to the existing circus: God (Lennon /Ono, co composed and in Lithuanian) and Walking in the opposite direction (Adrian Borland), that we turned into a duet without words.
Austeja Zvirblyte; vocals, lyrics, trumpet- Gabija Bartulyte; vocals and reeds – Eduardo Doreste; bass clarinet – Ruggero di Luisi; drums, hleb, piano, soviet bass, – Reinier van Houdt; piano –Rick Potma; original drummer – Chris Muller; actual drummer and percussion – Dolf Planteydt recording, editing and mixing additional guitar – Bas Alblas; fretless and double bass – Hansko Visser; guitars, most, accordeon, bekreepi, lyrics, vocals.
Friday 23 May - lunch concert!! - Storioni Festival - 12.30 pm
tickets: https://storionifestival.nl/voorstelling/paviljoen-ongehoorde-muziek-lunchpauzeconcert/
The Paddington Trio, winner of the StorioniConcours 2024, and the Storioni Trio take the audience on a journey of discovery to the music of today. This concert offers a refreshing look at new compositions, in which the boundaries of classical music are pushed. The program opens with Freak Show (2016) by Sam Perkins, a work that finds its origins in the unconventional structures and theatrical elements of modern music. The Paddington Trio brings this piece to life with a dynamic that is both playful and penetrating. https://storionifestival.nl/musicus/paddington-trio
The Storioni Trio will then play Misericorda (2024) by Karmit Fadael. This work, composed especially for the Storioni Trio, is an intense meditation on compassion and human emotions, in which Fadael fully develops her personal voice as a composer. The work plays with contrasts of silence and sound, harmony and chaos, and reflects the richness of the contemporary musical landscape. https://storionifestival.nl/musicus/storioni-trio/
Thursday May 29 - The Big Kiss - 8:30 PM...............................................................................Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The Big Kiss: Hypnotic, Bouncy, Energetic - https://youtu.be/cv6akP-I1wQ?feature=shared
Thomas Jaspers drums
Dodó Kis recorder, EWI synth, vocals
Bart van Dongen Wurlitzer piano, Moog Prodigy, Synthon Syrinx, vocals
The world is on fire. War, genocide, populists, Big Tech, climate crisis: it's enough to make you desperate. But through all the misery, an unexpected sound can be heard. Sounds that make the suffocating smoke clear for a moment. Music that, even if it's just for one fleeting moment, lifts your distraught soul from the ashes.
'The Big Kiss' stands for ecstatic dancing, enchanted listening, silence and falling into a trance. Wild improvisations and deep grooves come together in this trio. Together we dream, for a moment the world better.
Saturday May 31 - Bridge Around Town - free guitar festival - https://mge.nl/agenda/bridge-around-town-saturday/
7:30 - 8:00 PM: Arto van Roey
Arto is an adventurous guitarist and composer who constantly explores the boundaries of sound and form. From jazz and contemporary classical to theatre and audiovisual art: his work is a mix of styles and disciplines. Solo or in collaboration, always driven by experiment and a fascination for layered, hypnotic guitar structures.
https://artov-an-roey.bandcamp.com/album/bower
8:45 - 9:30 PM: Vitja Pauwels
Guitarist Vitja Pauwels is one of Belgium's most versatile and tirelessly curious musicians. Characteristic is his versatile guitar playing in which jazz, pop and experimental sounds merge. With live electronics, cinematic atmospheres and influences from Ry Cooder to Ennio Morricone he creates a dreamy but exciting sound. https://youtu.be/WIWhjtj8nb4
Thursday June 5 - Ruben Drenth: Bonsaika Suite - 8:30 PM-------------------------------------------entrance (minium) € 8/4 student
'Bonsaika Suite': a suite written and played for the bonsaist, also known as bonsaika. These are the people who cut, shape, bend, prune and care for the same tree for years. In short: people who know from the start that it will take a long time, and who start anyway. With this project, Ruben Drenth wants to introduce his audience to the beauty of bonsai and the attention it requires, but can also bring about. On the other hand, he also wants to show that you can mindfully fly off the handle and seek out the sharp edges. It's not just peace and quiet that counts! Together with double bassist Daniël Muskitta, he plays this suite in its entirety and takes you into the sound world of bonsaiists, full of improvisation, Philicorda organ, synthesizer and ambient soundscapes.
Tip: for fans of Mort Garson's Plantasia
About Ruben: Trumpeter Ruben Drenth (1997) maneuvers his way through catchy, sing-along melodies and abrasive, brutal solos. In his playing he is always looking for an honest, sincere sound with a good dose of risk. With the Ruben Drenth Trio he graduated from the HKU in 2018 with a program full of raw energy and improvisation. In 2023 he released an album under the name "How To Gather Moss" on which he transformed the music of The Rolling Stones into compelling and tearing improvisations.
He also toured with Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Thomas Oliemans, in a duo with Bert van den Brink, with Dion Nijland's quintet DEON, with Egon Kracht & The Troupe, in the band of folk singer Robin Borneman, The Tambles and with The Jerry Hormone Ego Trip. With this last band he played at Oerol, Into The Great Wide Open and Eurosonic Noorderslag, among others.
Friday June 6 - Vagalumes - Poetic Latin Jazz - 8:30 PM---------------------------------------entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Sylvie Klijn – vocals & compositions
Tiago Lageira – guitar
Floris van Elderen – drums & percussion
Link live teaser: https://youtu.be/fBcZqXoF6Os
VAGALUMES, fireflies in Portuguese, brings light and warmth with her music. Singer Sylvie Klijn takes you to South America with her intimate compositions and moving voice. Her lyrics in Spanish and Portuguese are based on inspiring creations by poets such as Fernando Pessoa, Alfonsina Storni and Pablo Neruda. Together with the sparkling and idiosyncratic guitar playing of Tiago Lageira and the energetic drums and percussion of Floris van Elderen, the trio brings the world of poetic Latin jazz to life. In 2024 their first CD was released, also entitled VAGALUMES.
More information: www.sylvieklijn.nl
Trailer CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl03hgMNOlo
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/vagalumes-poetic-latin-jazz-tickets-1357348920159?aff=oddtdtcreator
Wednesday June 11 - Druk Luyang - 8:30 PM-------------------------------------------------Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Bram Stadhouders - guitar
Joos Lijbaart - drums
Sonam Dorji, one of the better-known Bhutanese singers. A Buddhist Kingdom north of Nepal.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5aJzBn6u6mLSSOkCCgdurW?si=kHrr9IPwSX22FTC1cnMIkA
Druk Luyang is a new project by guitarist and composer Bram Stadhouders, percussionist Joost Lijbaart and the Bhutanese singer and musical heritage bearer Sonam Dorji. A meeting of three worlds, in which age-old Buddhist traditions merge with ambient soundscapes, improvisation and Western lyricism. During a tour in 2023, Stadhouders and Lijbaart were the first Dutch jazz musicians to perform in Bhutan, at the invitation of the Hidden Kingdom Music Festival. There they met Sonam Dorji, a key figure in the preservation and dissemination of Bhutanese traditional music. In the days that followed, recordings were made in which Dorji's devotional singing and compositions were given a new perspective by the timbres of guitar, electronics and percussion.
Druk Luyang – literally “the music of the dragon” – is an ode to the mystical atmosphere of the Himalayas. The result is a meditative but layered sound universe in which East and West meet in a natural way.
Bram Stadhouders (Tilburg, 1987) is one of the most adventurous guitarists of his generation. With performances in more than 60 countries, projects with the Netherlands Chamber Choir and countless groundbreaking albums, he moves at the intersection of jazz, contemporary classical and electronic music.
Joost Lijbaart gained international fame with Yuri Honing Trio and is known for his versatile, melodic approach to drums and percussion. He has worked with musicians such as Ibrahim Maalouf, Wolfert Brederode and Rima Khcheich.
Sonam Dorji is an advocate of Bhutanese folk music and director of the Bhutan Music Institute in Thimphu. He masters several traditional instruments such as the dranyen (Bhutanese lute), and contributes worldwide to keeping his musical heritage alive.
Friday June 13 - Petra Cini & Sean Bell 'Meandering With the Wind' - 8:30 PM....................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
In a time of growing polarisation and social distress, this project aims to create and present a music that explores a dialogue between the old and the new by exploring the intersection of contemporary musical practices with early music, and that indirectly addresses the question of musical identity as European makers.
The project consists of the writing of a new work by
Italian composer/pianist Petra Cini for piano, synths, voice, baroque guitar and electronics, that will take inspiration from the Intavolatura de Cimbalo (1576) by Italian composer Antonio Valente, and the creation of new arrangements by
Norwegian countertenor/performance artist Sean Bell of songs by English composer John Coprario from the collection Funeral tears (1606) for the same instrumentation. The new piece and arrangements will then be weaved together with
different pieces to curate programmes that we plan on presenting in 2025-2026 in a series of concerts in Europe.
https://youtu.be/U-VEYNXmZg4
Petra Cini is an Italian composer and pianist. She has worked with, among others, Gerard Bouwhuis, Ensemble Klang, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, and the Residentie Orkest, and her music has been presented at venues like the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ (Amsterdam, NL), Nationale Opera & Ballet (Amsterdam, NL), TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht, NL), and the Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (IT).
Petra holds a Master’s in Composition from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, supported by an Excellence Scholarship, and a Master’s in Piano from the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” (10/10). She also studied piano with Gloria D’Atri and at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola with Jin Ju. As a soloist, she has performed at Muziekgebouw aan't IJ (Amsterdam, NL), Splendor Amsterdam (NL), Korzo Theater (The Hague, NL), and the Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (IT).
She was awarded the Henk van der Meulen prize for the best composition exam (2024, Royal Conservatoire The Hague) and funding by Stichting De Zaaier for the research project “The Musical Metaphor and Representation Theory” (2023).
She has collaborated with mathematicians Raf Bocklandt and Eric Opdam (University of Amsterdam) for the development of SO(3) ETUDES and has given seminars at IRCAM, Paris (FR) for the MaMuPhi seminar series (2024) and at the Municipality of The Hague for the week of Innovation organized by the ministry of Culture, Education and Science (2023).
Petra Cini is a composer and pianist focusing on the creation of musical representations (metaphors) of mathematical groups analyzed through the lenses of violence and purity. Her works address questions of musical rendering of abstract meaning. Alongside her main artistic objective, she engages with an exploration of the intersection of early and contemporary music and of irrational imagery and ideas. She is also concerned with the development of a rhythmic and contrapuntal sensitivity as reflected in her repertoire choices as a pianist. Her artistic output ranges from large ensemble compositions to solo performances, working both acoustically and with electronics.
Sean Bell is a countertenor and performance artist from Oslo, Norway. He holds a Master’s degree in Early Music Voice from the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (NL), where he studied with Catrin Wyn-Davies, Pascal Bertin, Robin Blaze, Peter Kooij and Tineke
Steenbrink. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performance and Music Pedagogics from the Norwegian Academy of Music, studying with Mona Julsrud. Sean performs operatic, chamber, and sacred works from the classical and early music canon. He also investigates new methods of interpreting this repertoire. Through contemporary sonic imaginations he has made new arrangements of old works, including a synth-pop album of songs by John Dowland. His investigation into refiguring early repertoire has led to a series of collaborations and solo performances on the border line between classical music and performance art. Sean also works extensively with contemporary music and has premiered and commissioned several pieces for countertenor. Sean has worked with a variety of ensembles including Ny Norse Messingkvintett (New Norwegian Brass quintet), Oslo 14, Early Voices and The Norwegian Soloist’s Choir. Bell plays baroque guitar, is an active improviser, and engages in instrument building and music electronics. In 2021 he made his debut at Høstutstillingen (the Norwegian state’s annual exhibition) with his performance work ’Stille Amare'. In November 2023 he made his solo debut at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet in the role Johan in the opera ‘Ingenting (Nothing)’ by David Bruce. In spring 2024 he did a European tour of his album ‘Dowland Downloaded’.
Sean Bell
– Short Artist Statement
At the core of my artistic practice is how I relate to the repertoire I perform. My interpretation and artistic choices are informed by my relationship to the material. This is often experimental, investigative and questioning. Different materials and ideas are often woven
together by my own poetic approach. I am an active improviser, play baroque guitar and build instruments and music electronics. I consider all of my work to be a form of research, investigating how these multiple strands of my artistic identity as a performer can coincide and reinforce each other.
Sunday June 15 - Macie Stewart, Lia Kohl & Whitney Johnson.............................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Multi-instrumentalists Macie Stewart (piano, violin, voice), Lia Kohl (cello, electronics), and Whitney Johnson (viola, electronics) will halt at POM in this newest collaboration with Sound in Motion/Oorstof. Stewart, Kohl and Johnson are part of a new wave of musicians from Chicago’s fertile alternative music scene who are rapidly emerging from obscurity.
Stewart is doing so with When the Distance Is Blue, a stunning solo piano record – featuring guest appearances by Kohl and Johnson – and her debut for the ubiquitous International Anthem. The duo of Kohl and Johnson is doing so with For Translucence, a debut release on the iconic Drag City label, where they fuse string instruments, synthesizers, ambient sound, and radio interference into what they describe as a challenging neophonic orchestral expression.
Macie Stewart is a prominent, highly sought-after collaborator with an impressive track record. She has previously worked with Makaya McCraven, Ben LaMar Gay and Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), written arrangements for Alabaster DePlume, Resavoir, Mannequin Pussy, and SZA, was part of Ken Vandermark’s Marker, and immerses herself in the art of songwriting with Finom, her duo with songwriter Sima Cunningham. For her debut, When the Distance Is Blue, she returns to her first musical love, the piano, and takes the listener to all the forgotten and lost moments that inevitably occur during intensive touring.
https://youtu.be/yX5ghiX8Rj0?si=L_ZqYo8fgMjMvkZs
The debut album of Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl has evolved over several years from their initial practice of free improvisation on viola and cello into (for the moment), this: a neophonic orchestral expression. For Translucence is a captivating and simultaneously calming experience, a vivid meditation in which layers of acoustic strings, synthesizers, field recordings, radio and sine waves enhance and blend into each other.
Cellist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist Lia Kohl is part of the new generation of experimental and improvisational musicians from Chicago. With cello, synthesizers, field recordings, and live radio, she explores the everyday and all-encompassing possibilities of sound, blurring the lines between performance, concert, and installation work. Collaborations with artists such as Circuit des Yeux, Steve Gunn, claire rousay, Steve Hauschildt, and Makaya McCraven have provided Kohl with a strong foundation in the international music world.
Violist and academic Whitney Johnson lives a double life. There is the musical entity named Matchess, and there is the sociologist of sound who goes by the name Whitney Johnson. In September 2024, Drag City simultaneously released Hav (Johnson) and Stena (Matchess), in which her two personalities musically challenged each other to create new hypnotic parallels…
https://youtu.be/FH7Q_yNG1KU?si=JQvnmukDRtQgwBkg
Saturday 21 June - Composer's Day - afternoon programme at various locations - free admission everywhere
12:30 - 13:30: Central Station - arrival New Music Now Train.
In addition, there will be CoMA Eindhoven, wind instruments Philips Harmonie, Steven Henry & Guido Lap. Compositions by Mark Hendriks, Tineke Lemmens, Wilbert Bulsink, Anne La Berge and Steven Henry & Guido Lap
St. Catherine's Church - Catharinaplein 1
14:00-14:45: 'Missa Mundo' by Hanneke van den Boomen (1958-2022)
Stichting Gehannes
15:00-16:00: Compositions by Paul Chatrou, Vincent Robert, Arjan van Baest, Fred Vonk, Ad de Jong Collegium Vocale Eindhoven Rianne Wilbers, soprano
Jack Evers, piano and organ
Ad de Jong, bayan
Ruud Huijbregts, conductor
Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek - Vestdijk 25
16:30: Compositions by young children, students of Guido Lap
'La Canzone Della Farfalla' - Isabelle Lammers (10 years old) - Performed by Isabelle and Wiljan Lammers
'The Colosseum' - Joshua Ong (12 years old old)
'Villa Allatini 1909' - Umut Yilmaz - Performed by Umut Yilmaz and Guido Lap
'Luminous Prelude' - Prisha Kalia and Guido Lap
5:00 PM: 'Mählich durchbrechende Sonne' by Arjan van Baest by Rianne Wilbers (soprano) and Bart van Dongen (piano)
Mark Hendriks: Trombone kwartet No. 1
Steven Henry: SAuMu_VIc (work in progress)
Saturday 21 June - Composer's Day - evening programme in POM - Starts at 8:00 PM. Free entrance (voluntary contribution).
On Saturday 21 June, the Eindhoven Chamber Choir (EKK) and instrumental ensemble CoMA Eindhoven will give a concert in Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek. This performance is part of Composer's Day. Conductors are Arjan Veen and Lucas Vis.
As a commentary on the current zeitgeist, Eindhoven composer Mark Hendriks wrote the piece 'Greed is good, sharing is better'.
It depicts the hectic world of the financial markets and the empty promises of the consumer society. This composition was created with financial support from the Cultuurfonds and the Constant van Renessefonds.
In addition, CoMA and the EKK will perform the work 'I am swimming' by English composer Nigel Osborne. This piece is about political refugees. In addition to composing music, Osborne has always been committed to war refugees. He was one of the founders of the organisation War Child.
CoMA Eindhoven is an amateur ensemble for contemporary music and is affiliated with the English organization Contemporary Music for All. The conductor is Lucas Vis.
The Eindhoven Chamber Choir has 20 members and sings a varied repertoire at a high level. It is led by Arjan Veen.
Tuesday June 24 - Eloi Pascual Amarea - 8:30 PM...................................................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The trio was founded by drummer and composer Eloi Pascual in 2021, during his senior year at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. The three musicians had been collaborating in various projects since moving to Amsterdam in 2017, building a deep sense of affinity and trust.
During the pandemic, he began meeting regularly with pianist Chaerin Im and electric bassist Matteo Mazzù to explore Eloi’s compositions, which were later premiered at his final recital. The goal of these compositions, characterized by carefully crafted melodies and delicate musical landscapes, was to create frameworks that were both strong and open, allowing each musician the freedom to develop their individual voice and interplay skills within the structure of the song.
Another reason for the urge to make this music is that before venturing into jazz, Eloi spent many years playing Death Metal almost exclusively. This experience prompted him to seek out the opposite end of the musical spectrum, emphasizing space and subtlety, where sound nuances of acoustic playing could be carefully addressed.
Since then, the trio has been active in the Dutch music scene under the name Amarea, which also became the title of their debut album, released in August 2024 under ZenneZ/Berthold Records.
https://youtu.be/1A4XTfEdFXg?si=kLKlosKknY7shoey
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/eloi-pascual-amarea-tickets-1367806970469?aff=oddtdtcreator
Saturday 28 June - Modulab - with an afternoon and an evening program!
Afternoon (free) 2 pm: a workshop by Allard Krijger. He presents his self-developed instrument Melancholytron.
1) FRAKnoise - 2) FRAKnoise - Gesprächskonzert at SUPERBOOTH25
Evening (entrance - minimum - €8/4 student) 8:30 pm
Steven Henri - bass clarinet and electronics
FRAKnoise - Melancholytron
Vincent Martial (Fr) - Inside is an extremely amplified flute solo. Sliding from one universe to another in the blink of an eye, or with a hypnotic persistence, the text opens up and weaves together playing modes that function as a framework for a free performance. Between scores and improvisation, Inside develops an energetic music, with at the same time a microscopic feeling that plunges into rarely perceptible worlds. https://youtu.be/hBFqdI6p5VQ
Sunday June 29 - European Music Collective - 8:30 PM....................................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
European Music Collective - Debut Release Concert: Sidrabiņi No. 1 (Klankhaven Records)
Between Contemporary Music, Avant-Garde, and Free Jazz. With a Young Spirit and a Collective Approach
“Imagine being lost in the woods. Suddenly there's a house where you meet all of your friends and start to play music together. Timeless, collectivistic, uniquely avant-garde.”
The European Music Collective is celebrating the release of their debut album Sidrabiņi No.1 (Klankhaven Records) with a concert night of improvised music for a 13-piece ensemble. Initiator Christoph Götzen has invited NYC based musician Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson to co-direct and conduct the ensemble. Improvisation, open scores, spontaneous and interactive interplay – freedom and discourse, democracy and boundaries – all of this will be explored artistically beyond the evening concert itself.
The European Music Collective is a group of musicians from around the world who have made Europe the center of their lives and artistic work. Their main goal is to create a platform and a community for improvised music that unites national identities within a collective, cross-border spirit.
Christoph Götzen - electric guitar, director
Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson - conducting
Ghazal Faghihi - clarinet
Francesca Fantini - alto saxophone
Ondrej Zintaer - tenor saxophone
Arto Van Roez - electric guitar
Mario Calzada - drums
Milana Sarukhanyan - vocals
Ben Finlay - electronics
Anton Lambert - double bass
Darja Goldberg - accordion
Ethan Blackburn - piano
Ipek Eginli - piano