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Last chance!
Tomorrow, Friday the 13th, in de Doelen in Rotterdam, the sixth Flamenco Biënnale 2017 will open with Fantasia para Violonchelo y Flamenco. Did you miss this performance during the Cello Biënnale? There will still be three performances during the Flamenco Biënnale (January 13-29). Don’t miss out, there are still tickets left! Friday, January 13, Rotterdam […]
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2017 will be beautiful!
The Cello Biënnale wishes you a happy New Year with many wonderful musical experiences. Whatever happens in the world, music always makes us happier. Even though the Cello Biënnale will not take place this year, the laureates of the National Cello Competition are performing at many occasions. In november, there will already be a sneak […]
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Complete performance of The Master and Margarita now online
You can now watch the entire video of the new theatre production The Master and Margarita, which premiered during the most recent Cello Biënnale. Students of the Creative Performance Lab (a master’s course at the Conservatory of Amsterdam) and cellists Maya Fridman and Kian Soltani created this successful music theatre performance (inspired by the identically […]
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Warm up the cold Christmas days with Spanish Passion
Although the winter solstice has come and gone and the days are slowly becoming longer again, the sun isn’t at its brightest quite yet. Wouldn’t some hot-blooded, temperamental Spanish excitement do you good? Watch a fragment of the Cello Biënnale performance Fantasía para Violonchelo y Flamenco: the third movement of the solo cello suite by […]
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Maya Fridman: jack of all trades in music
Russian cellist Maya Fridman will take Kian Soltani's place on January 29, in the last performance of Fantasía para Violonchelo y Flamenco. Maya Fridman is a true jack of all trades in music: she plays classical repertoire as well as contemporary music, pop music, folk music, rock and flamenco, and additionally she is an actress […]
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Missed the Flamenco concert? Three more performances coming up!
One of the highlights, and one of the first sold out performances of the 6th Cello Biënnale, was Fantasía para Violonchelo y Flamenco, a coproduction with Flamenco Biënnale Nederland. Rising stars Kian Soltani and Ella van Poucke (cello), kemençe player Derya Türkan and flamenco stars Rocío Márquez (singer), Efrén López (fiddle, guitar, oud, hurdy gurdy), […]
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Record number of visitors!
With an average of 92% hall occupancy, the 6th edition of the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam has attracted a record number of visitors. Between October 20 and October 29, a total of 29.118 people came to visit the Muziekgebouw and the Bimhuis. This is even more than in 2014. In total, 24.228 tickets were sold and […]
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Sunday morning concert Alexander Warenberg & Yang Yang Cai
This sunday Alexander Warenberg, winner of the first prize in the National Cello Competition 2016, and the talented pianist Yang Yang Cai gave the sunday morning concert at Theater de Veste. Their expressive playing let the almost sold out hall forgot about the autumn storm outside.
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Alexander Warenberg plays in Het Koninklijk Concertgebouw
After winning the first price in the National Cello Competition 2016 Alexander Warenberg gave a very succeful recital on wednesday 2 november in Het Koninklijk Concertgebouw in front of a sold out Recital Hall.
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Glad to have welcomed you at the Amsterdam Cello Biennale 2016
Amsterdam’s cello festival has come to an end after ten amazing days. The most beautiful instrument on earth sounded forth from every conceivable corner of the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ. Audience members and national and international press were unanimous in their praise for the distinctive sixth edition of the Biennale. Previews of great things to […]
