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Getting started with Discover the Orchestra

Last weeks, all teachers from the schools entering our Discover the Orchestra curriculum this year literally had to "get to work"! They attended a hands-on workshop to experience what their students will be experiencing in the coming years, and each of them conducted a piece of Carmen's Overture and rehearsed various play-along parts.

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Sept. 7 - Spotlight Festival

Free previews and great discounts at the Spotlight Festival on Saturday , Sept. 7!

Review of South Park summer concert

Neighborhood residents and lovers of music gathered Sunday evening, September 1, in a completely sold-out Zuiderpark Theater for the traditional Zuiderpark Summer Concert of the Residentie Orkest. An enthusiastic audience enjoyed the finest music by Dvořák and Tchaikovsky, among others, conducted by young British conductor Kerem Hasan. A retrospective!

Reissue: Mahler 2 by Hans Vonk

Hans Vonk (1942-2004) was one of the most prominent Dutch conductors of the twentieth century and between 1980 and 1991 chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest. Brilliant Classics brings a CD reissue of Mahler's monumental Auferstehungs Symphony performed by the Residentie Orkest under the baton of Hans Vonk: an absolute must-have!

Discover the Orchestra

Playing as a percussionist with the Residentie Orkest, standing in front of the orchestra as a conductor or trying out different orchestral instruments. Is there any better way to bring music to life? Discover the Orchestra in the special trailer!

Album release: orchestral works by Toshio Hosokawa

Toshio Hosokawa is today's most important Japanese composer with fascinating worlds of sound. Naxos releases Volume 4 of Hosokawa's orchestral works, played by the Residentie Orkest conducted by Jun Märkl in collaboration with trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts and violinist Paul Huang.

Review of Summer Concert

On Friday June 14, the annual Summer Concert took place for Gold and Platinum Friends. In the busy Nieuwe Badkapel in Scheveningen, music by Hahn, Caplet and Debussy was performed by musicians from the Residentie Orkest.

Transvaal Concert

In the heart of the Transvaal district of The Hague, Residentie Orkest played the annual Concert for Transvaal. A dazzling concert in Juliana Plaza that was composed partly in response to requests from neighborhood residents.

The Residents Academy Closing Concert

On Tuesday July 3, The Residents Academy gave the final concert of this season at Amare.

Mozart in The Hague

Almost 260 years ago, a young, very talented pianist and composer spent over six months in The Hague. His name? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

'I want to be a family member of the orchestra'

Last winter, Chloe Rooke was a coach on the TV show Maestro. This season, the conductor herself is showing and hearing how it's done. As emerging artist in residence, she is involved in everything that makes Residentie Orkest the Residentie Orkest .

Flashmob Residentie Orkest with Beethoven 9

What a party it was just before Amare. A flashmob with the entire Residentie Orkest, Laurens Symphonic and students from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague featuring Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Alle Menschen werden Brüder.