• 2 – 4 September 2025
• Instituto Cervantes, Domplein 3, Utrecht
Register via the registration form to join us for this exciting event!
Organised by Museum Geelvinck
In cooperation with International Music Council, Utrecht Early Music Festival, REMA-European Early Music Network and Centre Européen de Musique – ViaMusica
The Tune-In seminar brings together cultural professionals working in the fields of Early, Classical, and World music to explore new strategies for inclusion, access, and audience engagement.
Building on a series of three online webinars (available for viewing on the project website), the seminar continues the conversation in person through presentations, collaborative workshops, and reflective dialogue.
While prior participation in the webinars is not required, it is strongly encouraged to watch them in advance to gain insight into the project’s approach and working style, which is rooted in a think tank format.
Featured Presenters
- Leonhard Bartussek – Composer, cellist, initiator of Liquid Music (Germany)
- Daria van den Bercken – Pianist & cultural entrepreneur
- Jurn Buisman – Director, Museum Geelvinck, initiator of Tune-In and Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, several international functions, including Secretary General of ICOMOS
- Jorge Chaminé – Baritone, President & founder of the Centre Européen de Musique
- Koert Debeuf – Professor international politics, Vrije Universiteit Brussels and research fellow, Oxford University
- Rembrandt Frerichs – Pianist, composer, and artistic initiator
- Noa Kleisen – Pianist and Artistic Entrepreneur
- Artur Malke – Artistic Director, All’Improvviso Festival
- Mimi Mitchell – Historical violinist, musicologist and author of Early Music in the 21st Century
- James Oesi – Double bass soloist, Artistic Director and founder of BassFest, Artistic Director of Bachfestival Dordrecht, teacher of classical double bass at HkU Utrecht Conservatorium
- Lucie de Saint Vincent – Fortepianiste, composer and artistic director of Collective Trytone
- Ronald Snijders – Flutist, composer and ethnomusicologist
- Liubov Titarenko – Harpsichordist and fortepianist
- Dunya Verwey – Programme curator of Museum Geelvinck
- Jed Wentz – Flutist, conductor, historical acting and declamation, teacher of Early Music performance at Leiden University and Royal Conservatory The Hague, advisor to Utrecht Early Music Festival
The seminar will be moderated by Davide Grosso – Director of Programmes & Partnerships, International Music Council.
This is an indicative programme and subject to slight changes and adjustments.
Programme Overview
Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 14:00 – 17:00
14:00 – 14:15: Welcome & Programme announcement
Davide Grosso – Moderator, Director of Programmes & Partnerships at International Music Council
14:15 – 15:00: Opening keynote presentation
Jurn Buisman – Director, Museum Geelvinck, initiator of Tune-In and Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, Secretary General of ICOMOS
(incl. In Memoriam: Frans de Ruiter)
15:00 – 15:15: Q&A
15:15 – 15:45: Musical Interlude
Performance by Liubov Titarenko on a square piano by Buntebart & Sievers (London, 1787) from the Sweelinck Collection / Museum Geelvinck
15:45 – 16:00: Break
16:00 – 16:30: Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht – Context Programming and Outreach
Keynote presentation by Jed Wentz – Advisor, Utrecht Early Music Festival
16:30 – 17:00: Music has no colour
Keynote presentation (incl. musical parts) by Ronald Snijders – flutist, composer and musicologist
Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 10:00 – 17:00
10:00 – 10:30: Music Performance, and the Depths of Sharing
Keynote presentation by Daria van den Bercken – Pianist and cultural entrepreneur
10:30 – 10:45: Q&A
10:45 – 12:30: Early Music in the 21st Century: Taking the Movement into the Future
Workshop by Mimi Mitchell – Historical violinist, musicologist and author of Early Music in the 21st Century
Based on her book ‘Early Music in the 21st Century‘, Mimi Mitchell presents five key themes shaping early music today: methodology, pedagogy, technology, instruments, and history; and guides participants in collaborative sessions to imagine new directions for the field.
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch on location
Provided, additional cost € 16 p.p.
13:30 – 14:00: All’improvviso Festival Gliwice – how we build a good relations with the city and our audience
Keynote presentation by Artur Malke – Artists’ agent, festival manager, musician and teacher at Katowice Music Academy (Poland)
14:00 – 14:15: Q&A
14:15 – 16:00: Conscious Marketing as a tool for growth and inclusion
Workshop by Leonhard Bartussek – Composer, cellist & creator of Liquid Music (Germany)
This workshop explores the challenges and opportunities of marketing in the early music field, empowering participants to rethink strategy, overcome barriers, and use conscious marketing to expand and diversify their audience.
16:00 – 16:15: Break
16:15 – 16:45: Keynote presentation by Rembrandt Frerichs – Pianist, composer, and artistic creator
16:45 – 17:00: Q&A
Thursday, 4 September 2025, 10:00 – 12:00
10:00 – 11:15: Panel Discussion: Engage & Inspire: Rethinking Outreach Strategies
with Leonhard Bartussek, Daria van den Bercken, Jurn Buisman, Jorge Chaminé (online), Koert Debeuf, Rembrandt Frerichs, Noa Kleisen, Mimi Mitchell, Artur Malke, James Oesi, Lucie de Saint Vincent, Ronald Snijders, Xavier Vandamme (tbc), and Dunya Verwey
11:15 – 11:30: Q&A
11:30 – 11:45: Towards a Tune-In Statement
Presentation by Jurn Buisman – Director of Museum Geelvinck, Initiator of Tune-In and the Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, Secretary General of ICOMOS
Announcement of the Tune-In Statement and declaration of intent for a new international initiative, in collaboration with CEMusique and with the support of Europa Nostra.
11:45 – 12:00: Wrap-up by Davide Grosso
12:30 – 13:15
Fringe Recital: Viennese Evolution
Performed by Izaac Masters on a fortepiano by Conrad Graf, Vienna, 1836, Kolthoorn Collection / Museum Geelvinck
Auditorium, Museum Catharijneconvent
part of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht
Admission free – voluntary contribution to the musician is appreciated.
Presentations
Davide Grosso – Director of Programmes & Partnerships at International Music Council (IMC)
Five music rights activist with an academic background in ethnomusicology, he has carried out extensive field research in Indonesia about music and society and worked in journalism and media. He joined the International Music Council in 2013 where he is in charge of project management and communication. Among other assignments, he is the Secretary of the International Rostrum of Composers and curates the edition of the Music World News. From 2020 to 2022 he chaired the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, representing a network of more than 400 NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO. Outside the office Davide composes electronic music and writes about music and politics for various magazines and blogs.
Leonhard Bartussek – Composer, Cellist & Inventor of Liquid Music
The Austrian composer Leonhard Bartussek’s roots lie in classical music. He studied in Graz, Cologne and at the Juilliard School in New York, was a member of the tango punk collective “Astillero” in Buenos Aires and has played as a baroque cellist on all continents and major stages around the world, such as the Philharmonie Berlin and Cologne, Carnegie Hall New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Barbican Center London, Théâtre des Champs-Élysée Paris, etc. Radio, CD, TV and DVD recordings for WDR, NDR, France Musique, ORF, Sony, Arte, 3Sat, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Warner Brothers, etc. He has worked mostly as principal cellist with ensembles such as Concerto Köln, the Wiener Akademie, Il Pomo D`Oro, Les Musiciens du Prince Monaco, Festspielorchester Göttingen, Harmonie Universelle and many others.
For some years now, he has devoted himself exclusively to the development of his own music and works at the interface with the visual and performing arts. He develops various immersive formats as interdisciplinary performances or as sound installations, which are broken up in their fixed, temporal sequence and can be experienced individually, embedded in artistic environments. He is developing a new style of music that he calls Liquid Music. This is a kind of meta-genre, rooted in baroque music, that combines elements of different, often heterogeneous musical languages from different eras and cultures into a loose fabric of (yes, the forbidden word!) beauty. Key technique in order to achieve an open and at the same time cohesive and precise musical outcome is the use and implementation of Liquid Timing.
In his artistic work, Leonhard Bartussek attempts to soften the ideologically entrenched pillars of post-modernism and create new spaces for a meta-modern present. Projects conceived by him with new compositions of his Liquid Music have been performed at the Styriarte in Graz, at Lincoln Center in New York, the zamus festival in Cologne and the Bozar in Brussels.
https://www.leonhardbartussek.com/
Daria van den Bercken – Pianist & Cultural Entrepreneur
Dutch pianist Daria van den Bercken makes herself heard on the world piano stage in inimitable ways. Playing with “grand artistry’ (Telegraph) and ‘With musical affection and immaculate virtuosity’ (Gramophone), Daria is succeeding in finding new audiences for unknown keyboard music by composers such as George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, C.P.E. Bach, Mathilde Wantenaar and Lili Boulanger in unique artistic projects.
As a soloist Daria performed with orchestras like Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and other Dutch orchestras, Seoul Philharmonic, Radio France Philharmonique, Bochumer Symphoniker, and British Sinfonia, under the baton of conductors like Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Ton Koopman, JoAnn Falletta, Stefan Asbury, and Shi-Yeon Sung. And as a recitalist recent highlights were recitals in Barbican Centre London (stepping in for Angela Hewitt), Concertgebouw Big hall Series “Piano Nights”, Concertgebouw small hall series, Vienna Konzerthaus and Zipper Hall Los Angeles and more.
In 2016, Daria founded the Keys to Music Foundation through which she aims to reach new audiences for classical music through artistic and educational projects which won many accolades. Her biggest project so far is the Piano Biennale, an international piano and music festival in two cities in the Netherlands. It is the first piano festival worldwide in which different art forms collaborate in unique productions with the piano at its core. The first edition with an audience, themed “FREE THE PIANO” about ground-breaking moments in piano music, was held in April 2023. Audiences and press alike praised it with 5-star reviews. Piano Biennale 2025 saw the first combined concert and running event in which hundreds of runners who never been to a concert hall finished right in the middle of Beethoven 1st piano concerto in the hall.
Daria is also cofounder of the new nature-related series “Luisterplaatsen”, and the EU funded project Songs of Travel.
Daria’s solo Handel, Mozart and Scarlatti albums for SONY CLASSICAL and Doorway Music have millions listeners on streaming devices, she is winner of the Amsterdam Art Prize, and performed a TED Talk which went viral and was picked top of its year.
In 2024 Daria hosted her first podcast about the elements which make a piano recital magical, and she appeared weekly as the piano expert on the Dutch prime time TV show “The Piano”. In her spare time she writes opinion pieces on the state of culture and cultural education in the Netherlands.
www.dariavandenbercken.com
www.keystomusic.nl
www.songsoftravel.eu
www.luisterplaatsen.nl
‘She has a tone you only hear in great pianists and with her playing she knows how to take the audience with her’ (Volkskrant)
‘Bercken’s lightning-fast ribbons of notes flowing like melted butter (…) perky and full of character’ (The Arts Desk)
‘Life is good under the fingers of Daria van den Bercken’ (NRC)
Jurn Buisman – Director of Museum Geelvinck, Initiator of Tune-In
After finalising his studies Business Economy and Management Information Science and having worked as a staff accountant for Peat Marwick & Mitchell (today: KPMG) and later as holding director at the family firm Ten Doesschate (today: Royal Euroma), he developed and materialised a concept to preserve art and antique collections from family backgrounds that were at risk of being dispersed. In the late 1980s, he was the initiator and driving force behind Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis (1991-2015), today Museum Geelvinck. At the time, he also led the restoration and reconstruction of the buildings and gardens of the Geelvinck Hinlopen House (Amsterdam Canal Crescent District), which opened to the public in 1991. Since then – from 1997 onwards together with Dunya Verwey – he has curated at least one major exhibition each year, some of which were shown internationally (Europe and Asia). He also led restoration projects for the United Nations and was involved in a wide range of heritage preservation efforts both in the Netherlands and abroad.
He realised the Geelvinck Music Museum in Zutphen (2016–2019) and initiated projects in Heerde and Wijhe (including “The Pontoon Bridge of the Bashkirs”). During the COVID period, he developed various online projects, including “Beethoven is Black”, online concert series, and a video podcast. From 2020 onwards, he has been developing Kolthoorn House & Gardens (in Heerde, his ancestral home), alongside a new concept for an Early Piano Museum in Amsterdam (Posthoornkerk) and at other locations (the former Tobacco Museum in Kampen and Oud Amelisweerd near Utrecht).
Since 2007, Buisman has been closely involved with the Sweelinck Collection (now stewarded by Museum Geelvinck). Starting in 2010, together with Bert Honig and Dunya Verwey, he developed the Geelvinck Walking Concerts. From 2011 onwards, together with Dunya Verwey and Michael Tsalka (artistic director from 2013–2019), he developed the Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, which included New Frontiers (new compositions) and the Geelvinck Fortepiano Competition (including the Chopin Award). He also co-developed a new plan for Felix Meritis (Amsterdam), which was ultimately not realised.
Since 2016, he has been the initiator and lead manager of the Geelvinck Music Museums network, a partnership with the Pianola Museum, Midwoud House and the Netherlands Harmonium Museum. He developed Geelvinck ‘Music in Museums’, a series of concerts in museums and historic locations throughout the Netherlands. He is the founder and first chair of the Chopin Foundation Netherlands (a member of IFCS).
Since the 1990s, Buisman has been a member of ICOMOS. For many years he served as Expert Member and, more recently, Vice-President for Europe of the ICOMOS-IFLA ISC Cultural Landscapes. After serving as Secretary of the Dutch National Committee of ICOMOS for nine years, he was elected in 2023 as Secretary General (international) of ICOMOS. In addition, he is active in various other international bodies, including the Supervisory Councils of Europa Nostra and Interpret Europe. He is an active member of REMA-European Early Music Network, ICOM Music, ICLCM, DemHist, Bake Society (ethnomusicology), European Network of Houses of Illustrious Personalities, ICOMOS ISC Water Heritage, Global Network of Water Museums, Climate Heritage Network, and other heritage bodies.
https://geelvinck.nl/
Jorge Chaminé – President founder of the Centre Européen de Musique
Jorge Chaminé’s baritone voice has brought him success on the stage from Moscow to New York through Reykjavik and Rio de Janeiro, but he is also an experienced educator who regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, Canada, Brazil and the United States.
He serves as ambassador for NGO Music in Middle East and is also a permanent member of the board of Music for Peace, an organization which recognised him as a Musician for Peace in 2011.
In 2018, he was made an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government; in 2019, he received the “Grand Vermeil Medal” of the City of Paris. That same year, Jorge Chaminé was appointed Ambassador for Peace and Justice for the United Nations’ 17 “2030 NOW Goals”. He is the winner of the 2023 Helena Vaz da Silva European Prize for Promoting Public Awareness of Cultural Heritage, he is the winner of the European Initiative Award in 2024 and he received the City of Porto Medal of Merit in 2025.
Dr. Koert Debeuf – Professor international politics, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Koert Debeuf is a philosopher and historian. He is currently professor international politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), with a specialization in the Middle East and Europe. He is also a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. He lived in Cairo from 2011 until 2016, from where he visited the Middle East extensively. He is the author of 7 books. His most recent book “Wat je moet weten om het Midden-Oosten te begrijpen” was published in 2025 by De Bezig Bij. In 2024 Debeuf was co-curator of het Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. In 2025 he was a lecturer at the Festival Jordi Saval.
Rembrandt Frerichs – Pianist, Composer, and Artistic Initiator
Rembrandt literally grew up in his father music shop, south of Rotterdam. Since a kid, he’s been playing piano (his main instrument) and organ, had trumpet and drum lessons and also picked up some acoustic bass. After highschool in the Netherlands he spent a couple years in the Middle East, aged 17 to 19 years old.
To focus completely on the piano, he went to study at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and was offered a scholarship to study for some time in New York City. He’s been based in The Hague ever since his studies at the conservatory.
His journey into composing began with encouragement from his colleagues, who frequently requested more of his music for their concerts. Grateful for their support, he promised to bring new pieces to their performances—a commitment that drove him to further develop his skills as a composer. (Watch this concert at the Concertgebouw by Liza Ferschtman). This pivotal encouragement inspired him to expand his work for a variety of ensembles. Today, his focus on composing has grown to the point where he also often steps back from the stage, dedicating himself to creating music for others to perform.
Rembrandt’s music is characterised by a strong rhythmic drive. Poetic rhythms give his compositions a sense of accessibility. However, as performers delve deeper into the pieces, they often discover the delicate craftsmanship underlying the music.
https://rembrandt-composer.com/
Noa Kleisen – Pianist and Artistic Entrepreneur
Noa Kleisen is a Dutch concert pianist currently based in Paris. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (2016) and pursued advanced studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where she obtained her Master of Arts (2022) and a Postgraduate Diploma in piano performance with the renowned pianist Lilya Zilberstein. As a performer, she has appeared with distinguished conductors such as Vasily Petrenko and Uri Segal, and has performed extensively across Europe, the United States, and Russia.
In 2021, she founded the international chamber music festival Joie de Vivre in Vienna, a platform dedicated to showcasing the next generation of upcoming musicians. Across its three editions, the festival has brought together over 60 performers and welcomed distinguished ensembles such as the Barbican Quartet and the Chaos Quartet. Thanks to partnerships with leading institutions—including Bösendorfer, the University of Music and Performing Arts, and the Dutch Embassy in Vienna—as well as the support of Stadt Wien Kultur, it has grown significantly and established itself as a prominent platform in the chamber music scene.
Alongside the last two editions of the festival, Noa led the production of a documentary titled The Life of Musicians, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of classical musicians, highlighting the dedication and hard work that often goes unseen by the broader public. Featuring interviews with all participating musicians, it explores their personal relationship with music and reflects on its significance in contemporary society. The documentary provides a unique perspective on the challenges of a musician’s life, and raises awareness of the vital role music plays in our world.
Noa is now working on bringing the Joie de Vivre festival to Paris, continuing her mission to support emerging musicians.
Artur Malke – Artistic Director, All’Improvviso Festival
Artur Malke is a musician, economist, and cultural manager. He graduated from the University of Economics in Katowice, where he specialized in Public Relations, Economics, and Management in Art and Culture. He also studied double bass at the Academy of Music in Katowice. He has been organizing cultural events for nearly 20 years in Poland and abroad. In 2012, he co-founded the {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna and served as its manager from 2012 to 2020, helping the ensemble grow rapidly. Since 2018, he has been the program director of the All’improvviso International Early Music Festival in Gliwice. From 2022 to 2025, he served as vice president of the REMA European Early Music Network. In 2020, he started working as an artistic agent at Malke Music Management, and in 2024, he partnered with the SONORA Music agency, which he now co-founds with Stanisław Suchora and Mikołaj Bylka-Kanecki. At the same time, he develops his educational work in cultural management as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Katowice and as a guest speaker.
https://malkemusic.com/
Mimi Mitchell – Violinist & Author of Early Music in the 21st Century
Mimi Mitchell enjoys a dual international career as a musician and musicologist. She performs music from the 16th throughout the 20th centuries on historical violin, conducts early and modern instrument ensembles, researches and writes about the early music movement, and is a dedicated teacher and lecturer.
Mimi has recently edited Early Music in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2024), which has been praised for its “excellent scholarship and compelling musical examples.”
She has presented her research at numerous international conferences and has contributed to numerous publications, including the celebratory volume from the Kunst Historisches Museum Wien, The Collection of Historic Musical Instruments: The First 100 Years .
Mimi received her B.M and M.M. from Rice University (USA), before continuing her studies on baroque violin with Jaap Schröder in Amsterdam. Through the combination of her two passions, Mimi was awarded her Ph.D with The Revival of the Baroque Violin at the University of Amsterdam in 2019. She was the co-curator for the symposium The Historical Violin (STIMU, Utrecht Early Music Festival, 2019) and organized the conference Early Music in the 21st Century (Conservatory of Amsterdam, 2021).
As a violinist, Mimi has performed throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and North America, working with many leading early music ensembles such as Anima Eterna Brugge, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Apollo’s Fire. A devoted chamber musician, Mimi won first prize a the Erwin Bodky Competition (Boston) and the Early Music Network Young Artists’ Competition (London) with The Locke Consort. For the ensemble In Stil Moderno, Mimi researched and transcribed music from the Kremsier Archive in the Czech Republic. She conducts the Purcell Chamber Orchestra, a modern ensemble, and has been the guest conductor for numerous early music groups in The Netherlands and abroad, such as the Croatian Baroque Ensemble.
Mimi is in demand as a lecturer, teacher and coach and has taught in the USA, France, Germany, Belgium, England, Croatia and The Netherlands. She is a senior lecturer and the Masters Coordinator for the early music and string departments at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
James Oesi – Double Bass Soloist / Artistic Director and founder of BassFest / Artistic Director of Bachfestival Dordrecht / profession of classical double bass at HkU Utrecht Conservatorium
Double bassist James Oesi (London, 1988) has been a familiar face in the classical and contemporary music scene in the Netherlands since his arrival in 2009. As one of the few musicians to focus on the double bass as a solo instrument, he performs his solo programmes—featuring works by composers such as Bach, Rachmaninoff, Berio, and Beethoven—on renowned stages including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Concertgebouw Brugge, TivoliVredenburg Utrecht, and Oosterpoort Groningen, as well as at festivals such as the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, CrossLinx, November Music, Festival Classique, and Wonderfeel. Internationally, he has performed at leading festivals such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and has toured South Africa and France.
He is also a frequent guest on programmes such as Podium Witteman and Vrije Geluiden, and on NPO Radio 4, NPO Radio 1, and Klara. NRC Handelsblad, Trouw, and Luister have published extensive interviews with Oesi; Classic FM UK featured his video of Luciano Berio’s Psy; and the internationally renowned magazine The Strad named him one of five “up and coming bass players.”
James is the founder and artistic director of the Dutch Double Bass Festival. In addition, he performs as a modern music ensemble player for special occasions with ensembles such as Asko|Schönberg, Ives Ensemble, and the prestigious Ensemble Modern. Since 2023, he has been a permanent guest lecturer at the Utrecht Conservatorium.
During and after his studies at the conservatories of Moscow and The Hague—where he graduated in 2012 with a mark above 10, earning the Fock Medal for the best final exam of that year—James has attended masterclasses and coaching sessions with Gary Karr, Anner Bijlsma, Geoffrey Simon (conductor and producer), Leon Bosch (former principal double bass of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields), Klaus Trumpf, and Thomas Martin.
Together with neuroscientist and former top-level speed skater Beorn Nijenhuis, James completed a case study in the summer of 2020 examining the most effective ways for professional musicians to practice. This study was conducted in preparation for his project to record all of Bach’s cello suites on the double bass.
https://jamesoesi.com/
Lucie de Saint Vincent – Fortepianiste, composer and artistic director of Collective Trytone
Fortepianist and composer Lucie de Saint Vincent likes to travel through different musical worlds and blend various genres into each other. After her piano studies in Perpignan, Paris and Budapest, Lucie obtained her Master of Music with jazz piano as a minor at the Utrecht Conservatory with Paolo Giacometti. Her love for the authentic sound of the fortepiano brought her to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she studied with Bart van Oort. In 2012 she obtained her Master of Music fortepiano and in 2013 she received the First Music Prize of the Fondation Royaumont.
At the end of 2024, Lucie released the album “Des Dentelles à l’échafaud”, dedicated to the composers Hélène de Montgeroult and Marie Bigot de Morogues, recorded on fortepianos from the collections of the Geelvinck Museum and the Musée de la Musique in Paris. The release was praised by the European press, including de Volkskrant in the Netherlands. In January 2025, the CD was even awarded the Diapason d’or, the highest award for recordings in France. In honor of this prestigious occasion, Lucie gave a solo performance at the famous Philharmonie de Paris.
Her affinity with female composers in music history stems from the fact that Lucie composes and arranges herself, connecting different genres and influences. She is the initiator and artistic director of Collectief Trytone, whose first album Back to Bach (CD Paraty, 2021) combines baroque and jazz. Their second project, Ascensions, is a musical journey between West and East. Their third creation, Passio, a contemporary oratorio based on stories of female ‘passions’, is scheduled for release in 2026, including at Opera In Series in Washington D.C. and Korzo Theater in The Hague.
Ronald Snijders – Flutist, composer and ethnomusicologist
Ronald Snijders has been one of the best-known Surinam musicians in Suriname, the Netherlands and beyond since the 1970s. He is a musical citizen of the world, a creative jack-of-all-trades and an exceptionally versatile and talented musical artist. He is also a top performer and composer who is mainly known for his flute playing.
Ronald Snijders was born in Paramaribo in 1951, as the son of the well-known composer, conductor and flutist Eddy Snijders.
Ronald has released more than 50 CDs, including a 20 CD box that last year won the Touch of jazz award for best album. He also produced some CDs with old Surinamese children’s songs such as Ala presi and Faya siton, and his own new songs.
A few years ago Snijders played with Denise Jannah and others at the Carifesta in Suriname and at the Suriname jazz festival. In addition to these musical activities with countless compositions, Ronald Snijders is also a writer. In the 1990s he published a lexicon on Sranan Tongo and wrote a biography about his father. His autobiography will be published next year.
Despite his artistic versatility and concerts in various countries, he has kept his Surinamese roots at the centre of his compositions and flute playing. His band, the Ronald Snijders band, has been around since the mid-1970s under various other names and line-ups. With this he gives life form to the described versatility and roots, where improvisation and other creativity are central in the pieces written by him and a lot of contact with the audience is made. Surinamese rhythms such as kawina and kaseko are combined or alternated with funk, jazz, soul, Brazilian and world. Because of all these swinging elements, the audience often cannot sit still. He has played in West Africa and South Africa, Latin America, Suriname, French Guiana, the US and Europe. He has also played Western chamber music since childhood.
https://www.ronaldsnijders.nl/
Liubov Titarenko – Harpsichordist and Fortepianist
Liubov Titarenko was born in Dnipropetrovsk in 1986. In 2010 she graduated as Master of Art from the Piano Department of Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev as a student of Honoured Artist of Ukraine Alexander Lysokon. She studied harpsichord playing between 2010 and 2013 as a postgraduate at the Early Music Department at NMAU with Honoured Art Worker of Ukraine, professor Svitlana Shabaltina.
Liubov participated in courses with Alexei Liubimov, Christopher Stembridge, Andreas Staier, Aline Zylberajch-Gester, Jean Rondeau, Patrick Ayrton and Richard Egarr. She received the “Extraordinary Music Talent Award” from Austria Barock Akademie in Gmunden (Austria) in 2012. In 2015 she won the First Prize in “Harpsichord Solo Playing” and Grand Prix in “Solo with Orchestra” at III Wanda Landowska International Harpsichord Competition (Ruvo di Puglia, Italy). In 2016 Liubov won the First Prize at XVII Torneo Internazionale di Musica in Torino. In 2019 she received the First Prize at I Ukrainian harpsichord competition “The Voice of the Country” (Kiev, Ukraine). In 2020 Liubov won the First Prize at XX International competition-festival “Music without limits” (on-line, Lithuania).
Liubov gives concerts as a soloist all over Ukraine. She also collaborates with Chamber Orchestra of National Philharmony of Ukraine, Chamber Orchestra of National Musical Academy of Ukraine and orchestra “Grand Accordion” (conductor – People’s Artist of Ukraine Eugenia Cherkazova). In 2017 and 2018 Liubov played recitals at Fringe OudeMuziekFestival (Utrecht, Netherlands). In November 2018 together with Svitlana Shabaltina she was invited to play the concert-lecture at Ankara State Conservatory (Ankara, Turkey).
Liubov is interested in English Elizabethan keyboard music and completed her Ph.D. on Fitzwilliam Virginal book and the style of English keyboard music of that period.
Liubov is currently taking fortepiano classes with Olga Pashchenko at the Amsterdam Conservatory / CvA
Liubov has a 20th c harpsichord for her personal use on long term loan from the Geelvinck Coll.
Dunya Verwey – Programme curator of Museum Geelvinck
Dunya Verwey is a cultural anthropologist, curator, and activist with a distinguished career in social justice, intercultural dialogue, and living musical heritage. Since 1997, she has been deeply involved with program development for Museum Geelvinck (Geelvinck Hinlopen House), its festival and other related activities. She currently serves as Vice-Chair of the foundation’s Board, concert series, and international cultural projects. Recent projects, which she co-created, where ‘Beethoven is Black’ (2021) and ‘Bigi Kaaiman – Songs and Tales from Slavery Times’ (2024). Already over twenty years, she is the program curator of the Geelvinck Salon concert series.
Her career spans roles in government, media, and civil society, including policy development at the Dutch Ministry of Interior on minority integration and human rights, as well as producing documentaries on social issues for IKON TV. As a longtime advocate for gender equality, she was one of the four co-initiators of the feminist movement Dolle Mina and continues to engage in feminist activism. Also she stood at the cradle of Cinemien (feminist film effort), of the UN-related NGO CDAC (Comprehensive Dialogue among Civilizations), and of the Dutch Dragon Boat Association.
Beyond her curatorial and advocacy work, she has been actively involved in numerous organizations, including the International Dialogues Foundation, the Middle Eastern Women’s Network, and the Maecenas World Patrimony Foundation (UN). Her expertise extends to migration studies, multicultural societies, and ethno-cinematography, grounded in her academic background from the University of Amsterdam. Today, she serves also as President of MoWIC (Foundation for the Monuments of the Dutch West-India Company), and she is Board Member of the Arnold Bake Society (ethnomusicology).
Jed Wentz – Advisor to Utrecht Early Music Festival
Jed Wentz’s work revolves around the historically informed styles of music-making and declamation. He is interested in the period 1680-1930, from Racine to the advent of sound film. Wentz is professionally active as a performer, teacher and researcher. He is assistant professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University, where he supervises doctorates in the field of practice-based research. He is artistic advisor to the Utrecht Early Music Festival and director of the OverActing Festival, Leiden.
https://jedwentz.com/
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