Haagse muziekdriedaagse - jong talent, grote meesters

Welcome at The Hague Three-Day Music Festival

5,6,7 March 2010!

If you’d like a foretaste of the festival there’s a free Upbeat Concert at Theater aan het Spui on 24 February, with Gwilym Simcock! Experience your greatest musical weekend of the year in The Hague...
 

A fresh wind is blowing through The Hague Three-Day Music Festival. The theme you’ve come to expect from us up to now is Young Talent & Great Masters, with exciting master classes, presentations and concerts in which proven masters took to the stage with the new generation of musicians. That will not change. However, from this edition onward, the underlying idea behind the festival will be innovations in the world of music performances, and then each time in relation to a specific theme. Musicians everywhere, whatever their age, are looking for new ways of being creative and presenting their music, fresh forms of working together with other disciplines, alternative locations as venues and more and better contact with the public at large. The Hague Three-Day Music Festival wants to play a pivotal role in these developments. Close track will be kept of up-and-coming ensembles and, once they are ready, they will be part of the festival. They will be using the entire complex and not just the traditional stages.

The concert hall of the 21st century is one of the subjects that will be discussed during the new talk shows during which the public, that’s you yourself, will be explicitly asked to pass an opinion. We have chosen “Connections” as the first theme of the new Three-Day Music Festival. Composers or movements that ostensibly seem to have little in common are organically interrelated: Mahler with Ives, Ives with jazz and gospel, and again, in turn, symphonic music with jazz. But the music will also connect people with each other, for instance the gospel choir from the Ghanaian community in The Hague, specially formed for the festival, or the amateur singers of Dario Fo with the trio of the festival star, Gwilym Simcock, a young, British pianist who it’s difficult to pin a label on. He demonstrates that music continues to be a universal language that can connect people and cultures. In his own words: “ It’s marvellous to make a story that, at a certain moment, without anything being fixed beforehand, is told in that one way, and which then evaporates”
I wish you all an inspiring festival.

Wim Vos, artistic leader of The Hague Three-Day Music Festival