Pianist Polo de Haas plays a rich concert programme for those who love minimal music, with music by Philips Glass and Erik Satie and Canto ostinato by Simeon Ten Holt.
Canto Ostinato on piano & marimba's
Mallet Collective varies from quartet until octet formations with: Ivo Janssen, Maikel Claessens, Vincent Houdijk, Arjan Jongsma, Ramon Lormans, Georgi Tsenov, Dominique Vleeshouwers, Laurent Warnier and Xi Rachel Zhang.
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Mallet Collective is a collective focussing on mallet percussion with players from all over the world. The collective creates and presents new collaborative works to adventurous and curious audiences and educational initiatives by the Percussion Friends Foundation to engaged students, while providing meaningful service to its communities, in order to exemplify the power of music to unite people and forge deep social bonds. As a group of interpreters they make various programs from small chamber settings to the big mallet repertoire. A milestone recording is Canto Ostinato, as the debut cd of the Mallet Collective, with Ivo Janssen on piano, recorded in a sold-out Main hall of the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Due to the corona crisis the concerts of April 14 and April 15 have been prosponded to November 24 and November 25. Tickets with the old dates remain valid. Please contact Stadsherstel Amsterdam for additional information: 020-5200060
During a performance the grand pianos are positioned in a cross shape formation. The pianists use specific signs to communicate and therefore it’s necessary their faces are turned towards each other. Owing to the substantial liberty of action every performance will be a musical adventure for both the pianists as the audience.
Lemniscaat was completed in 1983 and is the first composition for four keyboard instruments that Simeon ten Holt wrote after Canto Ostinato. The composer calls the refrain an invocation which is characterized by very long sounding chords contrasting with the restless movement of the sixteenth notes in the intervening episodes. Now and again impressive melodies develop from the minimalist structures. Simeon ten Holt once compared Lemniscaat to a toccata because of its capricious nature and virtuosity.
Canto Ostinato Strings Attached
Performers: Matangi Quartet: Maria-Paula Majoor (viool) Karsten Kleijer (altviool) Daniel Torrico (viool) Arno van der Vuurst (cello)
Tomoko Mukaiyama plays Canto Ostinato
Canto Ostinato Strings Attached
Performers: Matangi Quartet: Maria-Paula Majoor (viool) Karsten Kleijer (altviool) Daniel Torrico (viool) Arno van der Vuurst (cello)
Polo de Haas plays Canto Ostinato
The Huygens Festival is proud to present Simeon ten Holt´s Lemniscaat performed on four grand pianos by Rondane Kwartet. Lemniscaat was completed in 1983 and is the first composition for four keyboard instruments that Simeon ten Holt wrote after Canto Ostinato. The composer defines the refrain as an invocation which is characterized by very long sounding chords contrasting with the restless movement of the sixteenth notes in the intervening episodes. Now and again impressive melodies develop from the minimalist structures. Simeon ten Holt once compared Lemniscaat to a toccata because of its capricious nature and virtuosity.
Canto Ostinato in de Beurs van Berlage - Performers: Simeonkwartet