On six Sundays during the season 14|15 AMUZ serves a lush brunch at its unique foyer. The marvelous 19th-century winter chapel, decorated with wall paintings in neo-Byzantine style, offers a perfect environment for a copious buffet. The brunches at AMUZ start at 11:30 a.m. If you feel like it, you can take in the matinee concert afterwards.

• When? Preceding the matinee concerts on Sunday 12 October, 26 October, 9 November, 21 December (Christmas brunch), 18 January, 22 February and 1 March, from 11:30 a.m. on.
• Where? AMUZ foyer, Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen.
• A brunch consists of: welcome cava, fruit juice, coffee and tea| oven-fresh assortment of bread | selection of fine cheeses and cold cuts | sweet and salty sandwich filling | hot and cold seasonal dishes | choice of desserts.
• Price: a brunch costs € 29 for those who attend the concert and € 36 if you don’t have or buy a ticket. Groups of minimally 8 persons pay only € 32 each. Children from 3 to 13 can eat their fill for half the price. Concert tickets are not included in the price.
• Advance booking is imperative.

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12 October, 2014 09:30 -- AMUZ

“Podger’s Bach has always been something special: this is indispensable”, as BBC Music Magazine put it in June 2013 concerning one of Podger’s Bach recordings. Due to her clarifying passion as a teacher and her experience in the coaching of young performers her expertise was requested to lead the new selection of promising musicians of the European Union Baroque Orchestra while touring in the fall of 2014.

Allow yourself to be transported by an ageless music selection performed by enthusiastic and inspired young musicians. The internationally acclaimed baroque violinist Rachel Podger plays with a stunning combination of intensity and elegance. Together with the best young baroque talents from the European Union she brings concertos by Bach, Mossi, Telemann and Vivaldi. Don’t miss their passage in Antwerp!

12 October, 2014 13:00 -- AMUZ

“Podger’s Bach has always been something special: this is indispensable”, as BBC Music Magazine put it in June 2013 concerning one of Podger’s Bach recordings. Due to her clarifying passion as a teacher and her experience in the coaching of young performers her expertise was requested to lead the new selection of promising musicians of the European Union Baroque Orchestra while touring in the fall of 2014. 

Allow yourself to be transported by an ageless music selection performed by enthusiastic and inspired young musicians. The internationally acclaimed baroque violinist Rachel Podger plays with a stunning combination of intensity and elegance. Together with the best young baroque talents from the European Union she brings concertos by Bach, Mossi, Telemann and Vivaldi. Don’t miss their passage in Antwerp!

12 October, 2014 15:00 -- AMUZ

AMUZ presents two young Belgian musicians who became finalists of the international Musica Antiqua competition in Bruges, and who have been building up an impressive career ever since. Stefanie Troffaes proved her mettle with ensembles such as Les Muffatti, Collegium Vocale Gent, Freiburger Barockorchester and Les Talens Lyriques. Julien Wolfs, the son of a harpsichord builder, grew up with a passion for the clavier. They treat you to flute sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

In the early 18th century the transverse flute had almost become even more popular than the recorder. Bach, too, wrote several wonderful solo parts for the flute. Among the sonatas there are works for flute and obbligato harpsichord – genuine duos with a harpsichord part that has been completely written out – and the sonatas for flute and continuo where the harpsichordist has to develop out his part himself on the basis of a figured bass.

Performers
Stefanie Troffaes, tranverse flute | Julien Wolfs, harpsichord

Programme
J.S. Bach: Sonate in e voor traverso en basso continuo, BWV 1034 | Sonate in A voor traverso en obligaat klavecimbel, BWV 1032 | Toccata in e uit Partita 6, BWV 830 | Sonate in b voor traverso en obligaat klavecimbel, BWV 1030

19 October, 2014 13:00 -- AMUZ

AMUZ presents two young Belgian musicians who became finalists of the international Musica Antiqua competition in Bruges, and who have been building up an impressive career ever since. Stefanie Troffaes proved her mettle with ensembles such as Les Muffatti, Collegium Vocale Gent, Freiburger Barockorchester and Les Talens Lyriques. Julien Wolfs, the son of a harpsichord builder, grew up with a passion for the clavier. They treat you to flute sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. 

In the early 18th century the transverse flute had almost become even more popular than the recorder. Bach, too, wrote several wonderful solo parts for the flute. Among the sonatas there are works for flute and obbligato harpsichord – genuine duos with a harpsichord part that has been completely written out – and the sonatas for flute and continuo where the harpsichordist has to develop out his part himself on the basis of a figured bass. 

19 October, 2014 15:00 -- AMUZ

In the august sacral concert hall of AMUZ six speakers are invited to deliver a lecture on their personal pilgrimage and their individual quest in life.

The lectures are distinctively different, yet at the same time truly universal. They deal with the personal reflection on contemporary society and the search for a genuine spirituality, from the vantage point of a specific cultural and societal environment, which is firmly rooted in Islam, Judaism and Christianity, respectively.

Marek Halter – born in Warsaw – is a writer, journalist, activist and media figure. His fame derives mainly from his many historical novels on the history of the Jewish people. His books have been globally translated and read in millions of copies. 

Music:
Zahava Seewald – chant
Michaël Grébil – ud, cister & percussion

23 October, 2014 18:00 -- AMUZ