The Hague Toonkunstkoor - since 1829 The Hague Toonkunstkoor exist 184 years. The choir was founded with the Toonkunst Choirs of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem and Dordrecht in 1829 "under the watchful eye" of King William I. The king wished to encourage the practice of the...
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Les Goûts-Authentiques want to present different music styles from the Baroque and early Classical period to the public. The musicians play on copies of historic instruments and aim to revive the ancient flavours as authentically as possible. Besides trying to be historically correct (if that’s even...
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Jeppe Moulijn (1972) studied orchestral conducting with Ed Spanjaard and Jac van Steen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He completed his study as a guest director at the Radio Symphony Orchestra. Following that performance, he was awarded the Anton Kersjes grant. Moulijn was...
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TRIGON ensemble is specialised in studying and performing medieval spiritual music. How medieval music sounded at the time no one can really know. What we can do is study the contemporary treatises that were written on the subject. And we can get as close as...
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Korneel Bernolet (b. 1989) is active as both a harpsichordist and a conductor.At the age of 19, he made his début with La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken). From then onwards, he is regularly invited as a soloist or ensemble player with a.o. Scherzi Musicali (Nicolas Achten), B’Rock,...
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Bob van der Ent (1982) began his violin studies with Lauri Vreeken-Bos at the age of five and subsequently studied with Jan Repko, Davina van Wely and Herman Krebbers. In 1993 he was one of the first students admitted to the special Young Talent Department at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where he graduated in...
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Ensemble Rossignol (nightingale) owes its name to its first series of performances in 1998 built around De virtuoze zang van het Engels Nachtegaeltje (The virtuoso song of the English Nightingale) by Jr. Jacob van Eyck (Amsterdam, 1648). The virtuosity and the refined, musical, playful and inspiring...
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Margot Kalse studied Dutch, and specialized in Renaissance Literature at Leiden University. She then studied solo singing at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague; and she specialized in the performance practices and techniques of early vocal music at the Fontys Conservatory Tilburg, the Netherlands, where she received...
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Grand Désir’s artistic directors Anita Orme Della-Marta (Recorder, Harp) and Anne-Marieke Evers (Mezzo-Soprano) met at the beginning of their musical studies at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam in September 1997, where they specialised both in contemporary music as well as medieval and renaissance music. Later in their...
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The international ensemble Barocco Locco was founded in 1985 by Fritz Heller to perform music of the 16th and 17th centuries with the instruments and performance practice of the period. Each programme is preceded by extensive research, and the musicians play as far as possible...
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