Diversity and frivolity from Amsterdam, whether as duo, ensemble or orchestra. Instrumental chamber music and baroque cantatas to early classical string quintets.

Musicians: Onno Verschoor, baroque oboe / recorder; Henriëtte Bakker, baroque bassoon / recorder; Jan Pieter van Coolwijk and Evert Jan Schuur, baroque violin; Rachael Yates and Niek Idema, viola; Wilma van der Wardt, baroque cello; Hendrik-Jan Wolfert, violone; Susanne Braumann, viola da gamba; Harjo Neutkens, lute; Stefano Intrieri, continuo.

Accademia Amsterdam is inspired by an Italian institution flourishing in the 17th and 18th centuries - the accademia - where people gathered to make music and discuss wide-ranging subjects. Accademia Amsterdam follows this tradition in as much as the musicians work together to reach a clear interpretation of the music. The main aim of playing concerts is to give pleasure to the audience. This is achieved through the “Speaking Style”, which has its roots in Rhetoric. Use of Rhetoric opens up the colourful world of Affect, these days described as the world of feeling.

What links together Haendel, Froberger, Muffat, Kircher, Kapsberger up to the Salzburg-born Mozart? An enchanting attraction towards the ‘prodigious baroque workshop’ of the eternal city, Rome!

Musicians: Claudia Farneti - soprano, Giordano Antonelli - violoncino, Giovanni La Marca - viola da gamba, Cecilia Montanaro - organ, Simone Vallerotonda - theorbo

Welcome into the world of Musica Antiqua Latina. Giordano Antonelli director and baroque cellist has founded the ensemble, based in Rome, specifically devoted to the renaissance of early Italian baroque repertoire, performing on original instruments at period pitch. The cellist L.Quandt, Konzertmeister of the Berliner Philharmoniker, wrote about him: “…Giordano Antonelli is one of the rare musicians, who are able to create links between active musicians and music scientists as well as to build up and to lead ensembles which perform ‘directly from the archieves’.

Podiumbeesten! (Stage animals!) will take you to a wondrous world full of music and animals which will stimulate the imagination of any child or grown-up person.

Dispostion: Dimitri Ivanov, Elvira of Groningen - violin, Dana Zemtsov - viola Mark of Munckhof - cello, Nienke Kosters - bass, Ilonka Kolthof - flute, Jesse Faber - clarinet, Lennarc Nijs, percussion
The Scholtes-Janssens Piano Duo, Lestari Scholtes & Gwylim Janssens
Narrator: Vera Gouka

The concert spectacle Stage animals! is a dazzling concert with animals as its theme. The main act is the charming Carnival of the Animals, composed by Saint-Saens.