She will follow up Wim Boerman who will step back after 40 years.
The orchestra found a visionary composer/musician in Aspasia Nasopoulou with a strong musical heart. She wants to accelerate the efforts in talent development and go fast forward with new repertoire. The orchestra is impressed by her enthusiasm and ideas for the future!
Young Composers Meeting is an intiative by orkest de ereprijs to give young professional composers a chance to compose for an ensemble and develop their talents, knowledge and professional network.
In 1939 hundreds of Jews fled Europe by boat. In the opera St. Louis Blues we see how their flight to freedom ended in a deception. A penetrating story that is suddenly painfully up to date 80 years later. St. Louis Blues: from 10 to 15 September in Musis Arnhem!
The orkest de ereprijs collaborates with composition students of ArtEZ! Young, promising composers of the bachelor and master programmes Composition for Film, Composition for Jazz/Pop and Composition for Classical Music will create brand new music, performed by de ereprijs.
Each of them will be awarded a commission:
- orkest de ereprijs commission: Martin Mayo
- St. Frank van der Wal Fonds commission: Thanakarn Schofield
- International Masterclass Apeldoorn commission: Polina Korobkova
The anniversary year of orkest de ereprijs is concluded with a number of works dedicated to members of the orchestra.
No plans for next Sunday? Come to CODA! They celebrate the opening of their new entrance, shop and café throughout the weekend. And of course no party without orkest de ereprijs!
In honor of Louis Andriessen, the Gelders Orkest, orkest de ereprijs, ArtEZ and Musis Arnhem are joining forces again. On Saturday 22 February the Andriessen Festival will take place in the Arnhem City Hall, with music from the greatest living Dutch composer and more.
For our anniversary we present a concert series full of current music, the core business of the orkest de ereprijs.
For forty years the orkest de ereprijs has been the ensemble for new music in the east of the Netherlands, making it a unique, demonstrable and recognized place in the world of 'young, composed music'. The orchestra focuses on new work by living composers. Especially for our 40th birthday, a commission composition will be completed by Jan van de Putte, Wilbert Bulsink, Martijn Padding and Kate Moore, who will premiere during this series.
Maaiveld? Yes, Maaiveld! Five Apeldoorn cultural parties are joining forces for the development of a new and controversial city festival in 2020.
