Through thick and thin
Friends of the Residentie Orkest
Does your heart beat faster with classical music and the Residentie Orkest The Hague? Then become a Friend! Together with more than 1500 other enthusiasts, you make the orchestra's artistic ambitions and educational projects possible. You can become a Friend from €50 per season.
From flowing violins and bombastic pauses, the Residentie Orkest plays the waves in the sea and beats the Hague tongue into the halls. Music can do anything. Touch people to their core, connect neighborhoods and spark conversation. For The Hague, in The Hague and with all inhabitants of the city. We cannot do that alone. Our Friends are very important to us. Thanks to your support, the orchestra can realize various artistic, educational and social projects.
Benefits for our Friends
- Priority on ticket sales
- Bi-monthly Friends newsletter
- Special activity program
- Summer concert, exclusive to Gold and Platinum Friends
- Attendance at New Year's Concert for Platinum Friends
"I have known the friends of the orchestra longer than the orchestra itself: my parents have been friends for years, since well before I myself first played with the orchestra. Very special that so many enthusiastic fans are so involved with the orchestra, a beautiful mutual friendship."
- Jasper Grijpink, clarinet
Experience the most fun Friends activities!
Discover what Friendship can do
Composition assignment young talent
Discover the Orchestra: conducting project
Music at your doorstep
Friends make impact
Each year the Friends support various projects of the Residentie Orkest. We are proud to make so many multi-faceted projects possible. Read more about past projects supported here.
Thanks in part to support from the Friends, the Residentie Orkest has been able to perform several Apple Pie Concerts in 2018 and 2019. An initiative of Stichting Appeltaartconcerten, in which ensembles perform concerts in an elderly home, nursing home or institution.
A horn is not a violin: whereas a violin only gets more beautiful as it ages, the exact opposite happens with a horn. To do justice to the quality of our horn group, the Residentie Orkest therefore wanted to invest in new horns. Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, the Society of Friends was able to contribute €35,238.58 to the purchase of five brand new horns. An investment enjoyed by both musicians and concertgoers!
The Society of Friends has made it possible to invest in the series "Chamber Music in the Nieuwe Kerk'. Musicians from the Residentie Orkest put together their own program and talked about their choices during the concert. Regularly unknown and Dutch works were on the lectern. The Society has structurally supported this series for more than 10 years.
The Residentie Orkest has a wonderful partnership with Broadcasting West. Every last Sunday morning of the month (excluding the summer months) a concert of the Residentie Orkest is broadcast on TV. This proves to be a huge success: on average between 15,000 and 20,000 people watch this broadcast. Thanks to the support of the Friends, these broadcasts are made possible.
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Get in touch
Teun van Roosmalen
Do you have questions about the Friends of the Residentie Orkest Association ? Please contact Teun van Roosmalen. He will be happy to help you further.
M: Teun.vanroosmalen@residentieorkest.nl
T: (070) 88 00 226
General information
Association of Friends of the Residentie Orkest
Postal address
Turfhaven 11
2511 DK The Hague
Visiting address
Amare
Spuiplein 150
2511 DG The Hague
E-mail:
vrienden@residentieorkest.nl
Phone number
070 8800 222
Contact Residentie Orkest: Teun van Roosmalen (absent on Monday)
The Friends of the Residentie Orkest Association supports the Residentie Orkest to excel as an orchestra of, in, for and from The Hague. The Residentie Orkest assumes an important role in reaching and connecting all residents and visitors to The Hague. In this way, the Residentie Orkest creates a perfect match with The Hague; the international, diplomatic, political and royal city by the sea.
Objectives
The Friends Association aims to promote the flourishing of the Residentie Orkest and establish a good relationship between the orchestra and the public. Support from the Association of Friends enables the Residentie Orkest to realize projects with artistic, educational and social objectives. The contribution of the Association of Friends is also essential for refurbishing and/or purchasing instruments for orchestra members.
The Friends of the Residentie Orkest Association is a cultural ANBI (General Purpose Institution). This means that the Association pays no inheritance or gift tax.
Name of institution
Association Friends of the Residentie Orkest
Fiscal Number (RSIN)
816170034
Chamber of Commerce number
40409857
Mr. H. Moraal (chairman)
Ms. C. Lagerwaard (treasurer)
Ms. L. Koopman (secretary)
Mr. W. Koopmans
Ms. L. Kröner - van Selms
Mr. B. Lammers
Remuneration
Expense reimbursement board: No
Does (part of) the board receive vacation pay: No
Explanation of board compensation:
The board works entirely on a volunteer basis for the Friends of the Residentie Orkest Association .
Employee compensation policy:
The Friends of the Residentie Orkest Association has no employees.
The Friends Association supports the Residentie Orkest financially in the management of the Association.