HearAndNow
HearAndNow
Past Projects
2024:
HearAndNow Chamber Music
Festival: Schönberg
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HearAndNow
Summer Concert
The theme- composer for the 2024 chamber music festival was Arnold Schönberg. A composer who wrote challenging-sounding music for his time and even now many works sound very modern and are therefore comparable to today's music. Schönberg's music provided a wonderful palette of opportunities to program many different contemporary pieces. Our mission was to have the contemporary works appeal to everyone in the audience, and we succeeded. We combined accessible pieces with more challenging compositions.
You can find a lot of contrasts in Schönberg's music. For example, between his very romantic 'Verklärte Nacht' and his atonal-sounding 'Fantasie' for violin and piano. This variation also occurs among contemporary compositions. And we showcased this adventurous newly written music by Joey Roukens and Martijn Padding, the absurdist and challenging music of Jon Rose, the versatility of Mathilde Wantenaar and poetic music by Karmit Fadael.
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The HearAndNow Summer Concert was organized for our sponsors and to launch the program for the HearAndNow Chamber Music Festival 2025!
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2023:
HearAndNow:
The Bartók Salon
The first project of HearAndNow came from a fascination for composer Béla Bartók, one of the greatest musical innovators of the 20th century. We emphasized on Bartók's personal story, because he is not always well understood by a large part of the concert audience and deserves more attention. The contemporary pieces we programmed for these concerts often sounded musically more romantic or structurally lighter than Bartók's pieces and were therefore more accessible to the public. As a result, the term 'contemporary music' suddenly took on a much lighter meaning and this had a surprising effect on the audience. When you combine pieces of music in this way, you give people the opportunity to see certain genres such as contemporary music in a different light. It turns out: new music is not always more complicated than music from the mid-20th century, in some cases it can even provide relief in a program. This discovery formed the base of the HearAndNow organization and plans for future festival editions.
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