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4 bells of Freedoms - Cantica libertatis - World premiere

HERE We got a nice article out about Marion van Tilzer’s world premiere of Cantica Libertatis! From Paul Janssen! It was indeed a very nice project! I am so grateful for all those young singers that gave their best to perform contemporary music !

Grote ster

Met een trefzeker Adam Quartet, Marion von Tilzer zelf achter de vleugel, klarinettist Michael Hesselink en naast Soheil Shayesteh op kamancheh ook Sandip Bhattacharya op tabla voor de internationale vibes stond er een even eenvoudig als kleurrijk instrumentaal ensemble dat vooral begeleidde en soms op de voorgrond trad met de schitterende kamancheh-solo aan het begin, de tabla ter inleiding op de Four Freedoms en het klaaglijk melancholische en geheel instrumentale The Day the Light Came voorafgaand aan het Anne Frank Lied. Maar de grote ster van de avond was zonder twijfel Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam. Of het nu ging om kinderen van zes, zeven jaar, of jongeren die al richting twintig gaan en alles daar tussenin, iedereen leverde geconcentreerd en vol overtuiging zijn bijdrage. Als collectief, maar hier en daar ook solistisch. Wat dat betreft past een groot compliment voor de uitstekende dirigente van de avond Anaïs de la Morandais en Pia Pleijsier die zorgden voor de instudering van het koor.

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Frau ohne Schatten with March Albrecht!

What a busy month! Before going to the international youth choir festival in Basel, we rounded up this amazing production of die Frau ohne Schatten with the Dutch National Opera. I had the pleasure to work with a wonderful cast of talented young singers again and under the wonderful musical direction of Marc Albrecht! What a bliss! It was beautiful and the audience likes it too !

“De musici van het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest kunnen niet genoeg geprezen worden om hun vele ingeleefde soli en de overdonderende geluidsuitbarstingen waartoe dirigent Marc Albrecht hen opzweepte. Ook het Koor van de Nationale Opera en het kinderkoor zongen prachtig.” Thea Derks
24 april 2025 from Theaterkrant!

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Videos of the International chorale competition CANTEMUS 2024 are out ! Enjoy !

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Videos of the International chorale competition CANTEMUS 2024 are out ! Enjoy !

HAN composed by the contemporary talented composer Frieda Gustavs! That piece was re-arranged from her first HAN version 1.0 for us to fit it in the competition program. What a treat to be able to play contemporary music, stage it and do a premiere abroad!

Poulenc one of my favorite composer!

The Kodaly piece, Isten Kovácsa. This one I am particularly grateful for ! We won best interpretation of Kodaly piece with ! It is about God's blacksmith hammering a shoe horse! Enjoy! Thanks Bálint Kasza for your help with the pronunciation !

We spend a good year mastering this difficult arrangement of Las Amarillas with our younger singers but it was worth it ! If you are 12 years old and you can sing las amarillas with such confidence, what a great success!

János Köszöntö. I love that piece where you can feel the Hungarian’s generosity!

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Trow back 2022

After Covid in 2022, we went to Neerpeld for an international choir festival and won Gold cum laude with our children choir! It was so much fun ! Souvenirs souvenirs! how time flies!

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Music Makes You a Better Reader, says Neuroscience

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Music Makes You a Better Reader, says Neuroscience

Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University and research collaborator on the Harmony Project has spent her life surrounded by music. And, today, she is studying how musical training can harness the brain’s natural plasticity, or adaptiveness, to help students become better overall students and readers, even when they grow up in impoverished environments.
“Music and language skills rely upon auditory processing. Although reading may not be thought of as a primarily auditory activity, its foundation rests on a child making sense of incoming auditory input in order to map speech sounds correctly on to orthographic representations,” says Kraus. “Many of the same aspects of sound processing that are deficient in children with language and learning impairments have been found to be strengthened in those who receive music training, and music-based interventions have demonstrated some success in the remediation of reading problems, too.”

Excerpt from article by Kayt Skukel. Read more at http://magazine.good.is/articles/music-literacy-brain

 

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The children chorus sang with great energy in Carmen

Het Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor in de productie van Carmen bij de Nationale Opera. Foto:© De Nationale Opera,Bart Grietens

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Heerlijk kinderkoor

In de koorscènes van soldaten, fabrieksmeisjes, smokkelaars en overige groepen speelt het Operakoor (ingestudeerd door  Lionel Sow) een belangrijke rol en zingt met geweldig élan. Heerlijk spontaan zingen de jongens en meisjes van het Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor (ingestudeerd door Anaïs de la Morandais) met schetterende stemmen het retteketet-koor om de marcherende soldaten te begeleiden, en demonstreren allerlei gevechtsgebaren.

Recording from 14 september for radio NPO4

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Faust (working-Title)

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Faust (working-Title)

sneek-peek

I am very excited to participate in this project under Manoj Kamp and Lisenka Heijboer Castañon’s direction as this is not only the first one after months of no-performances but also because I will be on stage in a golden costume conducting Moon Bridge from Florence Price in a beautiful arrangement made by Meriç Artaç for children choir, piano, celesta and toy piano!

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Summer Project with NVA

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Summer Project with NVA

The Covid 19 crisis took away a lot of our planed project with the Dutch National Opera like Carmen, Frau ohne Schatten and Mefistofele. Faust (working-title) is a stage concert will take part in and this is one of the song we will sing on stage in september 2020.

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