Friday October 31 - Marcela Bovio – Harmonies Unveiled - Please note that different entrance fees apply to this concert!
Regular tickets €15/ student €10 - An evening full of intensity, beauty and the power of the human voice.
Known for her powerful performances with Ayreon, Stream of Passion, and MaYaN, singer-songwriter Marcela Bovio returns to Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek stage with her latest project Harmonies Unveiled — an acoustic, harmony-rich live show that reimagines her solo work for piano and four voices. Joined by Erik van Ittersum (Kingfisher Sky) on piano, and the voices of Nina Grimm (After Taste), Micky Huijsmans (Sowulo) and Marjan Welman (Ayreon, Autumn, Vetrar Draugurinn), Marcela promises a truly magical evening, where complex, haunting vocal harmonies take center stage.
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/marcela-bovio-harmonies-unveiled-tickets-1706396892039?aff=oddtdtcreator
Saturday, November 1 - Sijstermans (bass clarinet) & Kaiser (cello) - starts at 8:30 PM...........entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The duo Germaine Sijstermans (bass clarinet) and Marcus Kaiser (cello) perform Sijstermans's works Juglans (bass clarinet and cello) and Pilosella (solo clarinet). Hummed and played melodies in Pilosella (2024) flow in and out of each other, simultaneously fleeting and tangible. Their abstract character contrasts with the highly concentrated, human embodiment required to make them sound, blend, and transform. In Juglans (2022), the musicians move in a dialogue between two materials: melodies that emerge in various ways across the full registers of the bass clarinet and cello, and long chordal sounds. Visitors have the option to
participate in the piece through a simple action.
Sijstermans and Kaiser have been working together as a duo since 2020, approaching their music from their backgrounds as musicians, composers, and visual artists. They compose open scores in which timbre and texture are central. These are musical Erscheinungsräume, spaces of appearance, where they are free to act and perceive as individuals in interaction with each other,
their surroundings, sounds, and melodies. Each performance is unique, with the music unfolding a new each time like a living ecosystem, leaving space for the beauty of chance and subtle nuances.
Their instrumentation offers the duo a broad and flexible palette of timbres, dynamics, expression, and extended techniques. At the same time, the instruments each have their unique character, leading to a fascinating interplay of equal, complementary, and contrasting playing.
The duo has already performed at various stages and festivals, including Default The Hague, Opening Festival Trier, Heim.art Lagerhaussommer, Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival, Gr’Ambacht, and Musica Sacra Festival.
www.germainesijstermans.com - www.marcus-kaiser.net - www.opernfraktal.de
Monday November 3 - Emmeluth’s Amoeba - 8:30 PM...................................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Emmeluth’s Amoeba is a great Danish/Norwegian quartet. The music is playful and riveting. It moves elastically between composition and improvisation. At times it is fragile, at other times it is cathartic energy explosions. After many years of touring the quartet has developed an almost telepathic interplay and has as the name indicates become one - one cell, one organism, one amoeba.
Signe Emmeluth - sax, composition
Karl Bjorå - guitar
Ole Mofjell - drums
Christian Balvig - piano
"Stands out in the crowd - 5 1/2 of 6 stars" - Klassekampen, Chris Monsen
★★★★ - Downbeat, Peter Margasak
Music and video available here:
Live clip from Portalegre Jazz, Portalegre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwDsbvtIpA&ab_channel=OleMofjell
Live clip from Coastal Jazz, Vancouver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9cN3wA9FEA
Live clip from Ha Concerts, Gent: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpUrvFpDZBL/
The music is daring, and yet incredibly inclusive and the joy of playing with each other is contagious. This music dares to start debate and dialogue, which is one of arts most important rolles in society.
The group has existed since 2018 and played at festivals like Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Artacts and Oslo Jazz. Emmeluth’s Amoeba is now ready with their 4th album.
Pianist Christian Balvig has made a mark both as a musician leading his own group and playing with the colossal danish supergroup Efterklang as well as composing music for large orchestras such as Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Guitarist Karl Bjorå is a strong voice on the scene of improvised music and has recorded and toured extensively with his own groups Megalodon Collective, Yes Deer and Aperture for years all around Europe, USA and Asia.
Drummer Ole Mofjell is a force of nature playing with ECM recording legends Jon Balke and Norwegian Powerhouse guitarist Hedvig Mollestad.
Last but not least, leader and main composer for Emmeluth's Amoeba, Signe Emmeluth has made a strong imprint on the scene during the last 5 years, playing with Paal Nilssen-Love as well as being a part of Trondheim Jazzorkester.
The concert is organised in collaboration with Sound in Motion (Antwerp)
Thursday November 6 - Claire Dickson solo - 8:30 PM...........................................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Claire Dickson is an experimental vocalist, composer, improviser, and producer based in Berlin practicing emergent embodied songwriting. She considers song to be an artistically flexible modality that can encompass poetry, melody, harmony, rhythm, theater, philosophy, and any other idiom catalyzed by voice. Her work utilizes microphones, pedals, synthesizers, field recordings, acoustic instruments, and draws from lineages of improvisation, extended vocal technique, sampling, and deep listening. She creates interdependently with the Berlin and New York experimental music communities as an improviser, and in her ongoing collaborative project Myrtle, with Camila Ortiz (Otracami) and Lex Korten’s Canopy. She has released two albums, Starland (2022) and The Beholder (New Amsterdam Records, 2024).
"Dickson's voice pierces the sensorial aura, creating an idiosyncratic brand of ambient art pop." - Mojo
“Enticingly atmospheric on first listen, Dickson's work retains its glow, while seeming to grow in depth and substance on return visits.” - The Wire
Thursday November 13 - INNEC - 8:30 PM...............................................................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
INNEC is an Amsterdam-based quartet exploring new paths in music. With their name based on Wassilly Kandinsky's concept of "Inner Necessity" they state their intention of striving for purity in music while questioning previous conventions and managing to be rooted in the time we are living.
The band lays in the frontiers between contemporary music and experimental jazz and is formed by four young musicians coming from Spain, Slovenia, Sweeden and Denmark. Their approach blends rhythmic and melodically complex compositional frameworks with free improvisation, allowing the strong individual voices of each musician to melt in unity.
Marcus Wärnhaim - Alto Saxophone
Aleksander Sever - Vibraphone
Ignacio Pintó - Contrabass
Ludvig Søndergaard - Drums
Monday, November 17 - IT PART IV; Is it classical? Is it experimental? - 8:30 PM..............minimum admission €8/4 student
How do you translate the degradation of the Frisian land where Oranjewoud is located into a positive story? The Kleefstra brothers, one a poet, the other a guitarist, make an inspiring attempt in four parts.
Based on a deeply felt mission, the creators want to raise awareness of the universal connection between humanity and nature and use the means at their disposal: poetry and music.
The Kleefstra Brothers are poet Jan Kleefstra and guitarist Romke Kleefstra, both members of Piiptsjilling, The Alvaret Ensemble, CMKK, Tsjinlûd, and Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra, among others.
In IT PART IV (2024), they collaborate with Portuguese Joana Guerra and Maria do Mar de Brito Lopes.
IT PART III (2023) featured a collaboration with drummer and multi-instrumentalist Karen Willems.
IT PART II (2022) featured collaborations with Norwegians Espen Reinertsen and Eivind Lønning.
IT PART I (2021) featured collaborations with Polish composer, producer, and sound artist Michał Jacaszek at the Thomaskerk in Katlijk. - https://popfabryk.nl/productie/it-deel/ -
IT PART IV (2024) The 2024 edition featured collaborations with Portuguese Joana Guerra and Maria do Mar de Brito Lopes.
Joana Guerra was born and raised in the poetic concrete suburbs of Lisbon, in Rinchoa. As a musician, she moved into musical landscapes that reflected her desire for acoustic experimentation and the use of bolder sonic references and extended cello techniques, becoming part of the free improvisation movement in Lisbon. https://joanaguerra.com
Maria do Mar de Brito Lopes is a violinist, composer, teacher, and activist from Lisbon. She explores alternative teaching methods and participates in experimental, improvised music and performance projects, programming, and political activism.
https://database.shareimpro.eu/en/person/maria-do-mar-lopes
Thursday, November 20 - ZEA Quartet & DUFFHUES - 8:30 PM ........................................-----minimum admission €8/4 student
A unique double bill featuring two distinctive artists who both have new albums out. This time, ZEA performs with a band, and DUFFHUES, as always, plays solo.
ZEA quartet
ZEA's new Frisian album 'In lichem fol beloften' is released in November, with the ZEA Quartet: Arnold de Boer - guitar, voice,
Xavier Charles – clarinette, Harald Austbø – cello, Ineke Duivenvoorde – drums
Zea seizes time, stretches it out, pushes rhythms into pulsing circles, pulls tones from the earth and conjures lyrics from the
tips of his toes. The new album “In lichem fol beloften” (A body filled with promises) becomes a dance to enchant bodies, to
drive away pain, and to put death in checkmate. A cadence of drums and strings, a minimal trance of guitar, cello, clarinet,
and drums. Hardly an arsenal, yet enough to spark poetic battles. Zea draws from his mother tongue—the language of the
android—guttural poems about the promises of the body, about the time it takes to reach others despite the rain, about
life's urgency that makes us forget its limits.
DUFFHUES
The dark rocking troubadour from the low lands has released a new album, about a future without a face. It has no Face is the new album by DUFFHUES. With songs including warmongers, faithful snake charmers, a catnapper, despots and apocalyptic imagery. DUFFHUES tells us the world has become a darker place, with a future without a face.
DUFFHUES' previous album Warlock Enemy (2024) ended with the distorted and apocalyptic song Burn. The distorted sound
continues on It has no Face, with electric guitars, irish bouzouki, rusty brown and crunchy vocals, and a low pitched stomp
box mercilessly driving the urgence. It has no Face counts 11 dark, atypical, story telling songs, with a reflective, existential
view and melancholy feelings towards the world and its habitants. Tags: grungy blues, avant-gardistische roots, anti folk noir.
BandCamp –
https://nielsduffhues.bandcamp.com
Video Warlock –
https://youtu.be/NJToKBE2aWc
Video Burn - https://youtu.be/A6PctFXWlUI
Video Theatre Off Grid - https://youtu.be/f_BnepXb-4I
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/zea-quartet-duffhues-tickets-1864920430209?aff=oddtdtcreator
November 22, 11 AM - 5 PM - Bass Clarinet Festival - workshop!!
The 5th Bass Clarinet Festival is once again featuring a collaborative day/workshop!
This time in Eindhoven. Instructors: Fie Schouten, Tobias Klein, Lothar Ohlmeier
Especially for adventurous players. All levels welcome, all clarinetists welcome.
We will be working on improvisation under the guidance of Tobias and Lothar.
Fie will bring sheet music (which can be sent in advance if needed).
It's all about the learning process and the enjoyment of playing.
Register via: https://www.bassclarinet.nl/editie-2025/22-nov-2025-samenspeeldag-workshop/
Saturday, November 22 - Tobias Klein & Lothar Ohlmeier bass clarinets & sax - 8:30 PM ---- admission (minimum) €8/4 student
Bass Clarinet Festival: the unifying force of the bass clarinet
The Bass Clarinet Festival is a recurring event that gives the bass clarinet a platform for contemporary music. The instrument can perform solos and accompaniments, and like a chameleon, it can blend with other instruments, vocals, or electronics; it's like a jukebox full of unusual sounds.
Duo Tobias Klein & Lothar Ohlmeier bass clarinets & saxophones: https://youtu.be/3eiJADmEqbM
Tobias Klein is a bass clarinetist, saxophonist, bandleader of bands including Spinifex, and has composed acclaimed works for his own groups and chamber music ensembles over the past 30 years.
Lothar Ohlmeier is praised for his exceptional tonal control, virtuoso phrasing, and mastery of musical settings, from contemporary classical music to jazz and free improvisation. They have been working together since their student days in Amsterdam. Their first duo CD, Left Side Right, was recently released on the TryTone label.
"an outstanding duo disc of fascinating musical conversation." (Jan Granlie, salt-peanuts.eu)
"... with the intimacy of chamber music and the radical imagination of free spirits. Every breath contains beauty."
(Rinus van der Heijden, jazznu.com)
"From the very first notes ... the listener is drawn into the enchanting soundscape created by the harmonics of the two bass clarinets." (Herman te Loo, Jazzflits.nl
www.tobiasklein.nl - www.lotharohlmeier.com - www.basklarinetfestijn.nl
Saturday November 29 - Claire Lecoq & Paul Pankert - 8:30 PM -----
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admission
(minimum) €8/4 student
program „connected“ for violin, harpsichord & live-electronics
– Improvisation on Bach's Adagio BWV 1001 for distorted violin (violin & live-electronics) 9'
- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 – 1643): Il secondo libro di Toccate: Toccata Prima (Cembalo) 5
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704): Rosenkranzsonate I (violin & live-electronics) 6
– Paul Pankert: Toccata (Cembalo & live-electronics) 9
- Paul Pankert: "Im Viervierteltakt" (voice & vocoder) 3
– Paul Pankert: Partita Ritardata (violin & live-electronics) 13
For a long time, in addition to contemporary music, I have also been intensively involved with Baroque music, especially the Italian and German violin music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It is therefore not surprising that the formal structures of this epoch are also reflected in my compositions.
This concert program combines on the one hand new compositions with baroque influence and on the other hand baroque works played with modern technology.
Harpsichord: Claire Lecoq
Violin &
live electronics: Paul Pankert
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/claire-lecoq-paul-pankert-violin-harpsichord-live-electronics-tickets-1870332046499?aff=oddtdtcreator