Program: E6D7: Edoardo Caleffi (16’) Grasshopper: Weronika Ast (9’) Issues with my other half: Panagiotis Tsamouras (6’) La noirceur souterraine des racines: Javier Rodriguez Garcia (10’) Lotus eyed girl: Celeste Wright (6’) Flower rain: Agamemnon Maziotis-Vasileiou (8’) Ingresso Animali: All 6 students (15’) Length: 120 min
On 29 September, the annual Buma Awards took place. Three alumni of the Pop Songwriting programme were honoured with a Buma Award this year. The prestigious prize is presented annually to the creators of the most successful music in the Netherlands. Nienke van der Velden and Julian Vahle received the award for their contribution to Spijt is voor later , performed by Martin Morero. Jesper Hoekstra was recognised for the song Echte liefde is te koop , performed by Samuel Welten. The Buma Awards acknowledge composers, lyricists and music publishers whose work reaches a wide audience and makes an important contribution to the Dutch music industry.
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"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.
Biography: Jamie was born in London. After reading Music at Clare College, Cambridge he continued his studies in Vienna, London and Madrid. He divides his time evenly between his work as Principal 2nd Violin of Aurora Orchestra, as a guest leader and principal of other orchestras, and as a chamber musician. In 2004 he founded the Solstice Quartet, in which he was 1st violin, and who played together until 2013. The quartet won the Royal Overseas League Ensemble Prize in 2009 and gave their debut at the Wigmore Hall debut in the same year. He is now regularly invited to perform at chamber music festivals including Cervo- Italy, Whittington, ‘New Paths’- Beverley, Highgate and Aberystwyth. Jamie has appeared as leader with the London Sinfonietta, City of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra, The Dmitri Ensemble, Nevil Holt Opera and St Endellion Festival Orchestra. Highlights of 2016 included BBC Proms performances with Aurora, with Cercle de l’Harmonie and with Multi-Story Orchestra, tours to Switzerland, France, Spain, and Germany and a return to Southwell Music Festival where he is Associate Artistic Director. In July he premiered a new concerto ‘The Fallen Elm’ written for him by Graham Ross. He has also premiered works by composers including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sebastian Currier, Giles Swayne, Joseph Philbbs, Richard Blackford, Kim Ashton and John Metcalf. Jamie also performs on period instruments and this year toured with ‘Arcangelo’, ‘Solomon’s Knot’ and the French-based orchestra ‘Cercle de l’Harmonie’. Jamie plays a violin made by Stefan-Peter Greiner. Program: Orawa by M. Kilar (1986) Serenade for Strings by P. I. Tchaikovsky (1880) Length: 45 min approx.
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