Event Calendar

Back by popular demand. Last year’s concert by Dutch Bossa Nova queen Tamara Maria, accompanied by Jean Louis van Dam on keyboards and Eric Timmermans on double bass, was a great success! Reason enough to invite them back. The sultry Bossa Nova comes from Brazil and evokes warm summer evenings. The trio will perform The Girl from Ipanema, Desafinado and One Note Samba among others. Tamara Maria attended the Sweelink Conservatory and then took master classes in Rio de Janeiro with Bossa Nova masters such as Antonio Adolfo and Chris Delanno. She appears on stage all over the country – including at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Van Dam and Timmermans are popular and adaptable musicians.

“Hortus Festival Sneak Preview”

The Hortus Ensemble – made up of Maarten van Veen (Erard piano), Eva Stegeman (violin), Örzse Adam (viola) and Job ter Haar (cello) –  perform romantic, melodious piano quartets. The composers are Camille Saint-Saëns and Friedrich Kuhlau from the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

The WTC performance is a sneak preview of the ensemble’s repertoire for the Hortus Festival in August. This involves botanical gardens in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden and Haren in which the gardens form an exotic backdrop for summer music. More info and further concert dates: www.hortusfestival.nl

“Sonnerie & Other Portraits”  – Musical paintings from the French Baroque

Unique to the French Baroque, eighteenth century composers populated their publications with musical portraits, commemorative pieces and pièces de hommage which flattered and celebrated their subjects, leaving deeper meanings to the imagination and discretion of the listener.
In this programme from their critically-acclaimed second album, Fantasticus present a palette of musical portraits from the French Baroque: the hypnotic bell-like fantasy, “Sonnerie” by Marais; intensely emotional musical tombstones; respect, humour and tenderness in the dedications from one composer to another.
Works by Marais, Rameau, Leclair, Duphly, Francoeur and Dornel.

Szféra Passion will play a festive potpourri of Argentinian tangos, Brazilian bossa nova and cha cha cha and well-known Dutch tunes. The trio’s members Ernö Olah (violin and musical saw), Gert Wantenaar (accordion) and Danny Malando (double bass) also form part of the 75-year-old Malando Tango orchestra. Olah was Concert Master at the Metropole Orchestra for 33 years and, like Gert Wantenaar, accompanied many famous artists. Danny Malando, member of the musical Malando family, played in the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra for a number of years before he succeeded his father as leader of the Malando Orchestra in 1999.

BLACK INTENTION plays ‘The Circle of C.P.E. Bach’

Recorder virtuosi Yvonne Rietbergen, Sascha Mommertz and Lydia Nagel will introduce the audience to the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, ‘the Bach of Berlin’. C.P.E. Bach, who was employed by Frederick the Great in Berlin, was born exactly 300 years ago and the event is being commemorated all over the world.
The concert combines his sensitive, expressive and unconventional compositions with a number of works of his famous father Johann Sebastian Bach, his brother and other well-known contemporaries, like Telemann and Quantz.