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Our chief conductor on Schubert's Unfinished Symphony

Why is Schubert's Unfinished Symphony so beautiful? Our chief conductor Anja Bihlmaier talks about it in this video.

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Sven Arne Tepl on 2024/2025 season

"Especially versatile. This is how general and artistic director Sven Arne Tepl sums up season 2024/2025. 'The Residentie Orkest has really landed at Amare, that wonderful hall where we can share all those beautiful and exciting moments with the audience.'

Jan Willem de Vriend tells!

Is Mozart's "Sinfonia concertante" actually from this planet? Renowned Dutch conductor Jan Willem de Vriend tells you more about one of the most beautiful slow movements ever written as well as Beethoven and Haydn!

One Minute Symphony

One Minute Symphony - Anat Spiegel

Composition student Anat Spiegel engages in spirituality in her spare time. For her One Minute Symphony, Anat sought inspiration in The Hague. She met Soraya Jamila, alternative healer. How that meeting turned into notes can be heard on Friday April 26, at Amare.

Review of Stravinsky & Wantenaar

A premiere for The Hague! Mathilde Wantenaar wrote for the Residentie Orkest and Dutch accordionist Vincent van Amsterdam her Concert for accordion and orchestra that sounded at Amare on Friday March 15. A retrospective!

Dutch premiere at the Residentie Orkest

Wouter Vossen has been concertmaster with the Residentie Orkest since 2018. In addition, he is a violinist in the Storioni Trio, which is creating a furor far beyond the country's borders. On April 26, the Storioni Trio will collaborate with the Residentie Orkest kest in the Dutch premiere of Fagerlund's Triple Concerto.

One Minute Symphony

One Minute Symphony - Lydia Gardiner

On April 5, we will play Lydia Gardiner's One Minute Symphony. She will tell more about her work herself.

Review of Stravinsky's Firebird

On Sunday afternoon, March 3, in an almost sold-out Amare , the concert sounded, among other things, Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto and Stravinsky's Firebird. An experience!

Simon Vandenbroecke on Stravinsky's Poetrushka

Immerse yourself in the classics during RO NOW. With an evening full of surprises on March 15. Bassoonist Simon Vandenbroecke tells you why you should come and listen to Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, based on a folk fairytale about love and jealousy. Powerful, colorful music that stands like a house even without the ballet!

What is Discover the Orchestra?

This season, the Friends Association is supporting the Discover the Orchestra curriculum. But what exactly is that? Marieke Meliesie of our education department explains more.

Review of Shostakovich 5

On Friday Feb. 2, Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony sounded in a sold-out Amare . An experience!

Residentie Orkest At Dutch Violin Competition

On Saturday Jan. 27, the Residentie Orkest accompanied the three finalists of the Oskar Back Prize 2024.

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