Program Booklet

Top talent in Amare

friday, september 15
20:15 hour until approximately 10:00 p.m.

Passion splashes from tonight's three young musicians: conductor Chloe Rooke, pianist Nikola Meeuwsen and violinist Coraline Groen are the stars of tomorrow. Award-winning talents who, young as they are, passionately carry you along in a romantic adventure with works by Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Sibelius and Beethoven.

Programme

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Biographies

Residentie Orkest The Hague
Orchestra
Annual reach of over 40,000 schoolchildren, adults and amateur musicians in educational projects. Part of this is The Residents, through which the orchestra brings hundreds of children from districts in The Hague into contact with classical music.
Chloe Rooke
Conductor
Won the Audience Award of the distinguished Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in 2021 with her boundless energy and infectious fun and was a prize winner of the International Conducting Competiton Rotterdam.
Nikola Meeuwsen
Piano
The pianist from The Hague is one of the Netherlands' greatest piano talents. He won the prestigious Concertgebouw Young Talent Award in 2019 and the Grachtenfestival Prize in 2022.
Coraline Green
Violin
Coraline Groen, winner of the Oskar Back Prize and audience award of the 2020 Dutch Violin Competition, is considered one of the top violinists of her generation. Is second violinist with the Royal Concert Band Orchestra.
Tonight, the Residentie Orkest presents the conductor/soloist with a linocut by The Hague artist Mariska Mallee

Fun fact

In 1853, Robert and Clara Schumann made a concert tour of the Netherlands and also came to The Hague. An excellent concert in Diligentia was followed by a performance at the court of Prince Frederik, the brother of King William II. While Clara was performing, the Dutch prince inquired of Schumann whether he too was musically gifted. Schumann, somewhat embarrassed, then seemed to have nodded politely, upon which Prince Frederick ridiculed himself with a second question: 'What instrument do you play?'

RO QUIZ

Where in Vienna did Beethoven's First Symphony premiere?
  • Musikverein

    The Burgtheater

    In Beethoven's time, if a composer organized a concert on his own account, he had to arrange everything himself: hall rental, musicians and even ticket sales, as the poster for Beethoven's concert on April 2, 1800 stated: 'tickets available at Mr. van Beethoven's address, Tiefen Graben 241, third floor, and from the ticket vendor of the Burgtheater.' This theater stood until 1888 on Michaelerplatz, against the imperial Hofburg. The Theater an der Wien included the premieres of Beethoven's Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth symphonies.

  • Theater an der Wien

    The Burgtheater

    In Beethoven's time, if a composer organized a concert on his own account, he had to arrange everything himself: hall rental, musicians and even ticket sales, as the poster for Beethoven's concert on April 2, 1800 stated: 'tickets available at Mr. van Beethoven's address, Tiefen Graben 241, third floor, and from the ticket vendor of the Burgtheater.' This theater stood until 1888 on Michaelerplatz, against the imperial Hofburg. The Theater an der Wien included the premieres of Beethoven's Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth symphonies.

  • Burgtheater

    The Burgtheater

    In Beethoven's time, if a composer organized a concert on his own account, he had to arrange everything himself: hall rental, musicians and even ticket sales, as the poster for Beethoven's concert on April 2, 1800 stated: 'tickets available at Mr. van Beethoven's address, Tiefen Graben 241, third floor, and from the ticket vendor of the Burgtheater.' This theater stood until 1888 on Michaelerplatz, against the imperial Hofburg. The Theater an der Wien included the premieres of Beethoven's Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth symphonies.

The Burgtheater

In Beethoven's time, if a composer organized a concert on his own account, he had to arrange everything himself: hall rental, musicians and even ticket sales, as the poster for Beethoven's concert on April 2, 1800 stated: 'tickets available at Mr. van Beethoven's address, Tiefen Graben 241, third floor, and from the ticket vendor of the Burgtheater.' This theater stood until 1888 on Michaelerplatz, against the imperial Hofburg. The Theater an der Wien included the premieres of Beethoven's Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth symphonies.

Today in the orchestra

Momoko Noguchi

1st Violin
When I was over five years old, my mother wanted me to play an instrument.

Diederik van Wassenaer

2nd Violin
As a violinist, I can spend endless hours playing one insidiously simple phrase.

Chris Leenders

Timpani
I was taken by my father to rehearsals of his local drum band from the time I could walk.
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