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Summer Concert 2025

On Friday June 12, the annual Summer Concert took place in the beautiful Paleiskerk The Hague - a festive evening organized by the Friends of the Residentie Orkest Association to thank our Golden and Platinum Friends for their invaluable support.

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Retrospective Amateur Arts Festival & Volunteer Fair

On Saturday afternoon, May 10, the Residentie Orkest together with PEP The Hague, Cultuurschakel and Open Amare organized a large citywide volunteer market combined with an amateur arts festival.

Zuiderpark Summer Concert

On Saturday Aug. 23, local residents and music lovers will gather at the beautiful Zuiderpark Theater for the annual Zuiderpark Summer Concert by the Residentie Orkest.

Review of Hef × RO

On June 7, Hef and the Residentie Orkest performed a unique show at PAARD, preceded by the talent program Notes, Beats & Bars featuring young hip-hop talents.

Annelie Bulsing new deputy director public & market

Effective Aug. 1, Annelie Bulsing will begin work at the Residentie Orkest as deputy director of audience & market.

Review of Classics in the Nieuwe Kerk

Atmospheric, subdued, intimate. A concert in the Nieuwe Kerk always stays with you. And that was certainly the concert with top violinist Shunske Sato. He played and conducted, among other things, Beethoven's Second Symphony and the overwhelmingly beautiful Arianna a Naxos by Haydn, sung by Barbara Kozelj. A retrospective!

Review of Mahler 4

Last weekend we closed the season at Amare quirky with Bartók's Viola Concerto in arrangement for cello and Mahler's heavenly Fourth Symphony. A retrospective!

Retrospective Residentie Orkest on tour

From May 13 to 17, the Residentie Orkest was on tour. One orchestra, two cities, three programs and four beautiful concerts in five days away from home. Some of our musicians talk about their impressions and how important a tour can be.

Retrospective Amateur Arts Festival

In recent weeks, the Residentie Orkest has been involved in a number of projects into the city around folk music, together with various community and cultural partners.

Shunske Sato: violinist and conductor!

On Saturday May 31, top violinist Shunske Sato returns to the Residentie Orkest with Viennese classics by Haydn and Beethoven. Surprisingly: he is also a conductor! "I'm actually concertmaster and conductor in one. It's my best way of communicating, to make the music myself."

One Minute Symphony

One Minute Symphony - Thomas Wenas

Composition student Thomas Wenas wrote the Last One Minute Symphony of season 2024/2025. As a subject he chose the bombing of the Bezuidenhout district of The Hague, now eighty years ago. On Friday May 23, the premiere will be heard in Amare.

Agnes Houtsmuller to retire

This week, first violinist Agnes Houtsmuller plays her Last Concerts with the Residentie Orkest. For nearly forty years, a third of the orchestra's age, she played with them. "You know the moment will come one day, but still I will miss the orchestra, the colleagues, making music together and especially the music very much."

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