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Composition students together with art students from the Royal Academy present new works that defy the imagination. The audience will be treated to genre-bending performances that bring together the different disciplines and ideas of students from both schools. Immaterial elements such as sound, image and music are connected to material objects. New musical instruments will be created especially for this collaboration in the metal, textile, wood, ceramics and 3D printing workspaces of the KABK. Whenever possible, humor can be added to the mix at any time.

Vocalists and composers join forces with instrumentalists to embark on new creative adventures together. 'Rimirando Lei', a new composition written by former composition teacher Diderik Wagenaar for KC's Ensemble Royaal, will be premiered alongside eight new pieces in various vocal and instrumental settings. The students challenge and influence each other, exploring a myriad of melodic, harmonic, linguistic, visual and theatrical elements.

Composers: Tanishq Bhat, Gabriel Fábregas Engels, Nathan Knegt, Ilija Maršićević, Nirita Yakthumba, Stijn Vergeer, Julian de Looff, Annija Zarina, Floris van Ballegooijen, Diderik Wagenaar

Singers: Lou-Anne Massard, René Wynants, Lexie Henkel, Adam Harata, Marco Pedreira Marques Ferreira, Nuria KouwenhovenEve Rhodes, Gunda Leine

Ensemble Royaal: Andrea Hallgass, Zoë Loxley Slump, Mariëtte Koens, Juan Luna, Aitor Gomez Cebolla, Alex Designori, José Luis Martinez Vicente, João Pedro Pereira Borralho, Anna Plamenova Atanasova, Sergio Sánchez Perera, Katia Milano, Javier Hombría Hernández

Anything Can Happen. Really? Yes! Really!

Composition students are given the opportunity to shape an evening entirely according to their own wishes. This evening provides composers with an opportunity to present anything they want for any instrumentation, medium or format.

Composers: Virág Anna Virág, Jeyana Morozenko & Alam Hernández, Axel Ek, Akiko Mik, Firtina Kıral, Alberto Tombolan

The New European Ensemble is one of the leading ensembles of the Netherlands and a longtime close collaborator with the composition department. In this program they present several new works following an earlier 'speeddate' with composition students. The program will also feature a work by composer Alvin Curran.

The audience will have the unique opportunity to explore Alvin Curran’s music in different settings, including a performance at The Hofvijver, as part of the Rewire Festival.

Program:

• 19:30-20:00 New works by Thijmen Krijgsman and Cory Latkovich – Conservatoriumzaal
• 20:15-21:00 Alvin Curran: Maritime Rites - Rewire Festival, The Hofvijver
• 21:15-22:15 New work by Hesce Mourits and Way out back by Alvin Curran - Conservatoriumzaal

Practical information: after the first part of the concert in the Conservatoriumzaal, we invite the audience to join us as we walk together to The Hofvijver for Maritime Rites van Alvin Curran. We will then return to the Conservatoriumzaal to close the evening with a third premiere by a composition student and Alvin Curran’s Way out back, presented by the New European Ensemble.

New European Ensemble: Felicia van den End, James Meldrum, Anne Veinberg, José ‘Pepe’ Garcia, Rada Ovcharova, Willem Stam

Parliament of Angels is one of the musical research labs that the Belgian Bl!ndman collective has initiated with an ongoing working process full of skill, flexibility and rebellion. The dialogue between various disciplines and musical worlds is central. Together with four composition students, Bl!ndman [strings] gears up for a total experience that questions the ears, caresses the eyes and stimulates the audience to be open to challenging and never-before-visited sound worlds in which dance, light, film, theater and text projection are an integral part.

Arefeh Hekmatpanah – composer, Katarina Kadijević - dance
Elsa Šušnjara Alonso-Lasheras – composer, Grzegorz Gebski – text and performance
Jim van der Steege – composer, Lucas Rinzema, filmmaker
Katherine Teng – composer, light designer

Bl!ndman [strings]: Stefanie Van Backlé, Femke Verstappen, Ondine Simon, Suzanne Vermeyen