The New European Ensemble needs funding
While I started to document my notes on Twitter during my research in the British Library, I was discovered by The New European Ensemble which specializes in contemporary music. Today I saw that they Twitted that they have a problem with funding. So I offered to spread the news with my blog (and Twittsss).
They have a facinating repertoire and I think that it is very important to support them. If you care from contemporary music and you think that it is important that such music will be performed live, you may consider supporting them. This could be done, not only by donating them money, but also by forwarding an email with a link to this post to anyone else that might be interested or might have good contacts.
The following is information that I received from Emlyn Stam who is a founding member of the New European Ensemble and the Ysaye Trio:
The New European Ensemble was founded in 2008 with the goal of achieving expressive and exciting performances of a vast range of 20th and 21st century chamber music through a renewal of the concert experience with the aim of bridging the gap between contemporary music and the general public.
Our young ensemble is searching for funding to help make the exciting programs we have scheduled for the 2009-2010 concert season happen. We have a series of 5 programs planned for the Netherlands and a concert tour with 6 performances in Sweden scheduled.
November, 2009 we will bring a program of contemporary Finnish music entitled ‘Scandinavian Imagery’ to the Netherlands with Dutch premieres of works by Magnus Lindberg and Esa-Pekka Salonen for large ensemble in a festival setting combined with works of Scandinavian art and a special presentation by the Finnish Embassy in the Hague.
On December 27th, 2009 the ensemble will play Christian Jost’s chamber opera Death Knocks with a humorous libretto by Woody Allen and a program of works by Henze, Kammermusik 1959 and Sørensen, Ständchen.
In March 2010 the ensemble will perform a collaborative project with Amnesty International combining the thematic material about human rights and oppression found in Henze’s Voices with photographic images celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a special presentation by Amnesty International.
At the end of March the ensemble will tour Sweden with a program of world premieres by upcoming young composers from the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, Bulgaria and Italy with the ensemble setting used for Schönberg’s Serenade op.24 (clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, guitar and mandolin).
The season will conclude with staged performances of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Peter Maxwell Davies Miss Donithorne’s Maggot in 5 performances throughout the Netherlands.
The New European Ensemble is currently facing a funding shortfall of about 20,000 Euro with which to make the current season happen in its present form. We hope we can find some form of support in order to realize our projects to establish a place for our ensemble in musical and cultural life in Western Europe and make good on our goal of reaching a wider audience with the wonderful music we all love.
Please visit our website
www.neweuropeanensemble.com or email
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to contribute or find out more.
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