23 nov 2024
2:00 PM
Third Samsoniade
Splendor Amsterdam (order via www.splendoramsterdam.com/agenda/111461720/3e-samsoniade)
Programme
Crossing Lines (2013)
Profiles (2010)
Songs of Love and Merriment (2005)
Tzigane Maurice Ravel (1924)
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques Maurice Ravel (1904)
Performers: Michaela Riener (mezzo-soprano), Sandrine Chatron (harp), Joris van Rijn (violin), Jeroen Sarphati (piano)
29 sept 2024
3:00 PM
Schuilkerk de Hoop, Diemen
Program including
the hours rise up (2010) for mezzo-soprano and cello
Performers: Fanny Alofs and Katharina Gross
10 sept 2023
2:00 PM
Second Samsoniade
Uilenburger Synagoge, Amsterdam
Program
BG & CO (2000) for clarinet, piano, and cello
Zeven zielige zweetmeeuwen (2012) for cello and piano
Tegen de tijd (1997) for baritone and piano
Sonate voor cello en piano (1998/1999)
Four Whitman Songs (2011) for baritone and piano
Performers: Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer (clarinet), Doris Hochscheid (cello), Frans van Ruth (piano), Mattijs van de Woerd (baritone), Shuann Chai (piano)
14 nov 2021
2:00 PM
First Samsoniade
Uilenburger Synagoge, Amsterdam
Program
Regardant… écoutant… (2004) for soprano and piano trio.
Butternut Squash Za’atar (2015) for flute and piano (Dutch premiere)
Oaks (2017) voor mezzosopraan en klavecimbel (première).
Walking into Clarity (2012) voor bariton en piano.
Uitvoerenden: Mijke Sekhuis (sopraan), Jacobien Rozemond (viool), Doris Hochscheid (cello), Frans van Ruth (piano), Marieke Franssen (fluit), Shuann Chai (piano), Fanny Alofs (alt/mezzosopraan), Goska Isphording (klavecimbel), Mattijs van de Woerd (bariton).
15 feb 2019
20:30 uur
We’ll never let you down (third act ) (2019) pre-study for a chamber opera about the tragic life of cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
Splendor, Amsterdam
Performers: Mattijs van de Woerd (baritone), Doris Hochscheid (cello), Frans van Ruth (piano).
Script and direction: Mirjam Koen en Gerrit Timmers
René started by composing the third act of We’ll never let you down. After his sudden passing the second and third act of the chamber opera were written by Mathilde Wagenaar and Max Knigge
We’ll never let you down was performed until December 12, 2021, in Rotterdam, Middelburg, Beek, Hoorn, The Hague, Oegstgeest, Tilburg, Zutphen, Hengelo, Maastricht, Assen, and Utrecht.
13 jan 2019
12:00 uur