AMUZ, HERMESensemble and De Veerman undertake a joint venture concerning the question: how does the future sound? Composers Bram Van Camp and Hanne Deneire serveagain as coaches for this initiative, inviting youngsters between 12 and 20 to submit their compositions for ensemble. The most interesting works from each age category will be performed during this concert by the professional musicians of the HERMESensemble. Such an exercise can result in splendid achievements, witness the previous editions of The TimesThey Are a Changin’.Be a witness yourself this year!

I.s.m. HERMESensemble, De Veerman & Concertgebouw Brugge

Performers
HERMESensemble | Hanne Deneire, coach | Bram Van Camp, coach

27 January, 2013 14:00 -- AMUZ

On four Fridays throughout the season you are welcome to join us for dinner in the AMUZ foyer before the evening concert. Four Fridays, four concerts, four national cuisines which can be connected to the artists or the music of that evening … Dinner will be served on the following days at 6.00 p.m. Afterwards you can attend the evening concert.

Georg Nigl was solist with Die Wiener Sängerknaben. This evening he performs with Andreas Staier among others songs by the Austrian composer Schubert. Gardeville offers you an Austrian menu.

First course: Frittata Suppe (soup with small pancakes)
Main course: Potato Strudel with bell peppers, mushrooms and chicken OR veal cutlet with parsley potatoes.

Here you find an overview of all brunch and dinner concerts.

 

01 February, 2013 17:00 -- AMUZ

Artist in residence Andreas Staier, together with the versatile baritone Georg Nigl, will treat you to an evening of Lieder in the romantic tradition. The programme features Schumann’s well-known cycle Dichterliebe and a selection from Schubert’s rich Lied oeuvre. Awakening love, aching desire, but also bitter disappointment and its sarcastic working through, all set to music in a masterly fashion.

As a soprano soloist with the Wiener Sängerknaben Georg Nigl was already intensively involved in music at an early age. Today he is mainly famous as a performer of twentieth century, classical music in the leading European opera houses. Staier, who can already boast a series of excellent Schubert and Schumann recordings, accompanies Nigl on a historical keyboard.

Performers
Georg Nigl, baritone | Andreas Staier, fortepiano

As artist in residence, Andreas Staier brings 3 concerts in AMUZ this season:
– 19/10/12 | Bach & France
– 22/03/13 | Pour passer la Mélancholie

01 February, 2013 20:00 -- AMUZ

Quatuor Rincontro came into being on the basis of a long-standing friendship between musicians of different nationalities, performing with well-known European ensembles such asJordi Savall’s Le Concert des Nations. In this concert programme the ensemble presents two revolutionary string quartets by Haydn and Beethoven that made music history move into a new direction.

With his famous Opus 20 (1772) Haydn left the gallant court music of the rococo period behind and enriched the genre with a number of new elements, which in turn heralded the’Sturm und Drang’ of romanticism. About Beethoven’s Opus 131 (1826) Schubert allegedly said: “What can we still write after this?” Schumann, too, cherished this music exceedingly and deemed it “on the extreme boundary of all that has hitherto been attained by humanart and imagination.”

Performers
Pablo Valetti, violin | Mauro Lopes Ferreira, violin | Patricia Gagnon, viola | Petr Skalka, violoncello

Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven: String quartet, opus 131 in cis | Joseph Haydn: String quartet in f

10 February, 2013 14:00 -- AMUZ

Violinist Anaïs Chen and harpsichordist Johannes Keller met at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and have been performing as a duo since 2008. In 2010 they were the revelation at the International Young Artist’s Presentation during the Laus Polyphoniae festival. The Swiss duo bring a selection of virtuoso works from the 17th century, including music by Georg Muffat and Arcangelo Corelli.

L’Istante specializes in 17th- and 18th-century music, approaching the repertoire in two ways: on the one hand by painstakingly researching the sources and treatises, and on the other by confronting early music with the contemporary world in which it resounds today. The duo strive for historically informed performance, paying equal attention to both familiarand unfamiliar elements of early music.

Performers
Anaïs Chen, violin | Johannes Keller, harpsichord

Programme
Work by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Arcangelo Corelli, Georg Muffat, Johan Ulrich Steigleder e.a.

17 February, 2013 14:00 -- AMUZ

With its original, inspired and unique productions graindelavoix has become a fixture at AMUZ. This season, in partnership with Moussem, we offer the brand-new programme Confréries: the last part from a grandly conceived trilogy around the 13th-century Carnet of Villard de Honnecourt, which will be given a voice in the songs of five ladies of grandelavoix and five female Moroccan singers.

Villard’s Carnet is a sketchbook that he used while traveling through Europe as a consultant of the diocese of Cambrai, possibly also as a cathedral builder. His network is the point of departure for an exploration of the concept of ‘confraternity’ in an urban context. And of course this becomes first and foremost a musical voyage of discovery! Graindelavoix samples from the music of confraternities in Northern France, but will also explore wider horizons in search of adventure. From this confrontation a contemporary interpretation of age-old traditions will geminate.

I.c.w. Moussem Nomadisch Kunstencentrum

Performer
Björn Schmelzer, artistieke leiding artistic direction

19 February, 2013 20:00 -- AMUZ