"The Kāna Percussion Trio has devised an admirable social programme with a wonderful build-up, where the message is subtly but clearly packaged. In their playing there is drive and precision, the energy splashes from the percussion instruments."

During the finale, this season's candidates, mezzo-soprano Isabel Pronk, saxophone quartet the Osimun Quartet, and percussion ensemble the Kāna Trio showed the jury and audience why they deserve the Dutch Classical Award.

Dutch Classical Talent Tour & Award is an 18-month programme that helps young musicians develop. It is intended for talents up to the age of 28 (for singers up to the age of 30) who are studying or have graduated from a Dutch conservatoire.

This competition offers young chamber musicians a special opportunity to showcase themselves. A professional jury selects three talents through auditions. Under professional guidance, they put together a stimulating and contemporary programme. They will perform in fourteen concert halls in the Netherlands.

The tour will conclude with a festive finale, the Dutch Classical Talent Award and Audience Award will be presented.

The tour

Cécile Gouder de Beauregard "For more than twenty years, the level of the finalists of Dutch Classical Talent has been impressively high. This year again it was great to be able to follow and accompany three talents for a year and a half. Isabel Pronk, the Osimun Saxophone Quartet, and the Kāna Trio are absolutely not inferior to their predecessors. With an open and curious attitude, they went through the process, working with lyricists, arrangers, lighting technicians and directors to create their own unique program. This has also resulted in impressive new compositions by Sarah Neutkens, Arjan Linker and Nuno Lobo."

Dutch Classical Talent is an initiative of the Dutch concert halls and the JCP Foundation. The final is made possible in part by the Angela E. Fund administered by Het Cultuurfonds.