Young talent pays tribute to classical masters on the first Monday morning of the month; that is the concept of Voorlinden Classic. The successful concert series returns on 1 September 2025 for a new season, running until 1 June 2026. The concerts will be held in the museum’s auditorium and afterwards you can visit the exhibitions. The programme of Voorlinden Classic is made together with Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument.
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Monday 2 September 2024
Colourful, dramatic music on the peak of Romanticism: the Brackman Trio performs on violin, cello and piano two works by 20th-century giants Dmitri Shostakovich and Arnold Schönberg, and the lesser-known composer Nikolay Roslavets.
Brackman Trio (photo: Sarah Wijzenbeek)
Monday 7 October 2024
The Butter Quartet has played at many international festivals and will release their debut album Scintilla in July 2024. At Voorlinden, they will play Joseph Haydn’s string quartet opus 50 No 5, also known as ‘the dream’.
Butter Quartet (photo: Lukasz Rajchert)
Monday 4 November 2024
Clarinetist Jelmer De Moed and pianist Rik Kuppen have been a well-matched duo for years and will play music by Olivier Messiaen, Vanessa Lann, Sergei Prokofiev and Francis Poulenc. In 2019, they released their EP Dwaallicht and made their debut at Janine Jansen’s International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht.
Jelmer De Moed and Rik Kuppen (photo: Dorien Franken)
Monday 2 December 2024
Saxophonist Ileana Termini and the Otilka String Quartet perform a new composition of a quintet by Ian Wilson, alongside works by Perry Goldstein and Guillermo Lago (alter ego of Willem van Merwijk).
Ileana Termini and Otilka String Quartet (photo left: Parcifal Werkman | photo right: Ewald Geerdink)
Monday 6 January 2025
Saxophonist Deborah Witteveen and pianist Maxime Snaterse take you on a musical adventure with two legendary heroes, Castor and Pollux, with heroic music by Takacs, Chopin and Debussy, among others.
Deborah Witteveen and Maxime Snaterse (photo left: Foppe Schut| photo right: Bas Weetink)
Monday 3 February 2025
The award-winning Dokwerk Saxophone Quartet is a young and energetic chamber music ensemble, with members coming from four different corners of the world. At Voorlinden, they play Winter Scenario, in which they reflect on musical imprint of the cycle of life and death. In it, they incorporate Henderickx’s excerpts from The Seven Chakras, a Danse Macabre, F. Schmitt’s Saxophone Quartet and Jacob TV’s Postnuclear Winter Scenario. Together, these pieces form a complex tapestry of life, death and the ultimate unknown.
Dokwerk Saxophone Quartet (photo: Foppe Schut)
Monday 3 March 2025
Emma Roijackers won the famous Oscar Back Violin Competition and plays with her HearAndNow Collective, which aims to make contemporary music accessible to a wide audience by combining it with masterpieces from the past.
HearAndNow Collective (photo: Leatitia Roijackers)
Monday 7 April 2025
After a wonderful performance last year, pianist Alexandra Kaptein returns to Voorlinden for a very special concert: the young pianist will play romantic compositions dedicated to each other by lovers Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Robert Schumann’s widow became the concert pianist of the 19th century, while Brahms proved to be a leading composer. Alexandra graduated cum laude from ArtEZ Conservatoire and recently released her debut CD of Liszt transcriptions. She gives concerts across Europe and with leading orchestras and also works as a vocal coach.
Alexandra Kaptein (photo: Alex Schroder)
Monday 5 May 2025
Double bassist Sasha Witteveen and pianist Jorian van Nee will provide a wonderful start to Dutch Liberation Day. Together, they will let you enjoy the sounds of Maurice Ravel, Andrès Martín and Sergei Rachmaninov. They close with two works by the composer, conductor and double bass virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini.
Sasha completed her undergraduate studies with a 10+ at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Olivier Thiery, and the young double bass player is currently studying with Rick Stotijn in Düsseldorf. She was a Dutch Classical Talent finalist and academician with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, among others. Jorian has been playing the piano since he was nine and previously won the Princess Christina Competition and the Princess Christina Composition Competition. He is currently studying at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. The two previously recorded an album together.
Jorian van Nee and Sasha Witteveen (photo: Tatiana Abashkina)
Monday 2 June 2025
Passionate cellist Pieter de Koe, known from the award-winning Animato Quartet, plays with pianist Rik Kuppen, this 1st-prize winner of the Prinses Christina Concours is described as a colour virtuoso.
Rik Kuppen & Pieter de Koe (photo left: Marco Borggreve, photo right: Clara Evens)
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