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New: CELLOFEST
This festival introduces the all new CELLOFEST: Eight evenings in Bimhuis, each featuring interesting performances from the international non-classical cello world. All around the world, people are experimenting with the cello. Cello players are creating their own music, far removed from the classical repertoire and sometimes even the classical way of playing the cello. Think cello-playing singer-songwriters, world music, jazz and pop musicians, improvisers, and video and performance artists from the USA, Canada, South Afrika, Iran, Germany, Austria, Sweden, France, England, Spain, and the Netherlands.
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Cello Biënnale 2018
What will the Cello Biennale 2018 look like? What will the theme be, what’s new, and which cellists, orchestras, and ensembles will appear? Much became clear during the Sneak Preview on Friday, November 10, in the Muziekgebouw. Artist in residence for the Biennale in 2018, Giovanni Sollima, the winner of the National Cello Competition, Alexander […]
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Program NCC 2018
The program for the National Cello Competition 2018 has been announced! Click here to view the programme.
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Alexander Warenberg plays in Oosterbeek
Alexander Warenberg, First Prize winner and winner of the Audience Prize in the National Cello Competition 2016, will play a completely Russian programme with pianist Yang Yang Cai, featuring cello sonatas by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov.
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Christmas 2017: Hallelujah!
The Cello Biennale would like to wish you happy holidays and a great new year filled with lots of beautiful music!
Giovanni Sollima, artist in residence at the next Cello Biennale, performs Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah with Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Jordi Savall will appear no less than four times during the next Cello Biennale.
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Cello Biennale already presented a public masterclass!
In collaboration with the Muziekgebouw and the Conservatory of Amsterdam, the Cello Biennale is organizing a number of masterclasses outside the festival period. These masterclasses are connected to cello recitals in the Muziekgebouw by internationally acclaimed cellists. Three master students of Dutch conservatoires will perform in these masterclasses.
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Start in Splendor: Ainsi la nuit
The Cello Biennale and Splendor Amsterdam gave a young cellist carte blanche for one evening in Splendor: Kalle de Bie won the Start in Splendor Prize during the National Cello Competition 2016. Ainsi la Nuit was the result. Featuring Kalle de Bie (cello), Cordelia Paw and Tim Brackman (violin), Martin Moriarty (viola), Nadav Katan and Seán Morgan-Rooney […]
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Impression Sneak Preview Cello Biennale 2018
Watch the impression video of the Sneak Preview, in which Giovanni Sollima, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Alexander Warenberg, Mela Marie Spaemann, Chesaba, Adam Laloum, Candida Thompson and Amsterdam Sinfonietta reveal what is going to happen during the Cello Biennale 2018!
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Theo Loevendie writes commissioned work for National Cello Competition
The father of Dutch composition, Theo Loevendie (87), is composing the commissioned work for cello solo, which will be performed by each participant of the National Cello Competition 2018. The National Cello Competition is taking place for the seventh time, and is part of the Cello Biennale. The international jury is formed by Reinhard Latzko […]
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In 2018, another Cello Biennale will take place!
Next year, from October 18 to 27, 2018, Amsterdam will yet again be the centre of the international cello world: the Muziekgebouw and Bimhuis will be bursting at the seams for ten days during the 7th Cello Biennale Amsterdam! How special is this Biennale going to be? What will the festival theme be, and which […]
