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Mon. 12 December 2022 – 20:15
Joris van Rijn
presents MEMBER CONCERT at Uilenburgersjoel:
12/12

Ruysdael Kwartet celebrates 25!

Part II: 12 anniversary compositions on 12/1

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: This concert will take place in de Uilenburgersjoel - Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91

This year marks the Ruysdael Quartet's 25th anniversary! This landmark will be celebrated with little treats for the group's fans and listeners. The prize-winning string quartet – which is specialised in classical as well as contemporary music – has received support from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds to help realise the anniversary plan of commissioning 25 Dutch composers to write a short work for string quartet. These are miniatures, a kind of little treat, which could be played for the next 25 (!) years as an encore, an overture or an amuse-bouche in Ruysdael's future concert programmes.

Last September 13th we already played the first 13 miniatures of this project in Splendor. On December 12th we will play the other 12 compositions, in the Uilenburgersjoel.

Tonight's compositions are written by among others: Thomas Beijer, Willem Jeths, Edward Top, Carlos Michans, Martijn Padding, Bianca Bongers, Mayke Nas, Jan van de Putte, Oene van Geel and Maarten Ornstein.

After the break you'll hear Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, string quartet in D major, Op. 44 No. 1

The Ruysdael Quartet:
Emi Ohi Resnick & Joris van Rijn - violin
Gijs Kramers - viola
Michael Müller - cello

Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to about 80 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?

The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!

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PLEASE TAKE NOTE: This concert will take place in de Uilenburgersjoel - Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91

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