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November Music 2024

Next month it’s time again for November Music, the festival that neither goes with the flow nor against it, but showcases new, own flows.

With a large number of composition assignments and around 100 concerts, November Music shows in the 32nd edition how diverse and vital the latest music is. November Music 2024 will take place from November 8 to 17 at various locations in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

November Music is the festival for all adventurous music lovers. Every year it brings together the most idiosyncratic and progressive makers and musicians from around the world, including great Donemus composers, such as Gerard Beljon, Aftab Darvishi, Jan-Peter de Graaff, Bram Kortekaas, Daan Manneke, Wilma Pistorius, Joey Roukens, Maxim Shalygin, Bart Spaan, Boudewijn Tarenskeen, Jacob ter Veldhuis and Saskia Venegas.

Experience modern composed music, jazz, world music, musical theater, pop, installations and genres that you never thought possible. November Music creates encounters and challenges makers to take the plunge.

What else is there to experience during this 32nd edition? A selection from the programme: Ensemble Modern & Alva Noto, De Staat by Louis Andriessen by Asko|Schönberg & Klang Ensemble, Arooj Aftab, Mayke Nas, Georg Friedrich Haas, Crosscurrent Trio ft. Dave Holland / Chris Potter / Zakir Hussein, Ralph van Raat, Nadar Ensemble, Driss El Maloumi, FAQ festival for electronic music, an extensive children’s and education program and much more.

More info at Novembermusic.net…

Donemus Publishing Concert Selection

Sunday, 10 November

Wilma Pistorius: Sakura, Secret Compartment, A.D.A. 
Den Bosch, Theater Artemis

Joey Roukens: What Remains
Den Bosch, Theater aan de Parade

Celia Swart / Roderik de Man
Den Bosch, Grote Kerk

Aftab Darvishi: new work
Rosmalen, Perron-3

Tuesday, 12 November

Saskia Venegas: The White Lotus
Den Bosch, Theater aan de Parade

Friday, 15 November

Gerard Beljon / Bart Spaan / Jacob ter Veldhuis
Den Bosch, Willem Twee Toonzaal

Bram Kortekaas: Allarme Enigmatico
Den Bosch, Willem Twee Toonzaal

Saturday, 16 November

Boudewijn Tarenskeen: Hell
Den Bosch, Willem Twee Toonzaal

Maxim Shalygin: Angel
Den Bosch, Grote Kerk

Jan-Peter de Graaff & Daan Manneke
Den Bosch, Grote Kerk

Sunday, 17 November

Aftab Darvishi: Goriz & Gozar
Den Bosch, Grote Kerk

 


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Aftab Darvishi

Aftab Darvishi (Tehran, 1987) started taking violin lessons when she was five. Later on the kamancheh (an Iranian bowed string instrument) and the piano followed.
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Boudewijn Tarenskeen was born on 15 December 1952 in Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea (present-day Indonesia).
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Wilma Pistorius

Wilma Pistorius was born in South Africa and started playing the cello when she was four years old. From an early age, she has been fascinated by the expressive possibilities of music and has been playing with music in her imagination for as long as she can remember.
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Joey Roukens

His output includes orchestral works, ensemble works, chamber music, solo instrumental works and an opera. In his music Roukens strives to move away from modernist ways of thinking in search for a more eclectic and more direct idiom, without reverting to some naive neo-style. In doing so, the composer doesn’t shy away from the use of triads, tonal or diatonic harmonies, a regular rhythmic pulse, directness of expression, simplicity, references to popular music and vernacular culture, ‘stealing’ from the musical heritage of the past and the odd trivial turn.

Joey Roukens was born in Schiedam, the Netherlands, in 1982. He studied composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatory and psychology at Leiden University. Roukens also studied piano privately with Ton Hartsuiker.
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Maxim Shalygin

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

His compositions include chamber, vocal, symphonic, electro-acoustic music, as well as music for theater, ballet and film. Shalygin has participated in many competitions internationally. He received a honorable mention at the Gaudeamus competition 2012 for his work “Letters to Anna” symphony for violin solo. The same year his music was selected for Gesamt project of Lars von Trier. Shalygin was a composer-in-residence in IZOLYATSIA – Platform for Cultural Initiatives (Donetsk, Ukraine) and Storioni Festival (Brabant, Netherlands). Shalygin’s works have been performed in festivals such as: Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), Sound Ways (Russia), Musical Youth Tribune (Ukraine), GOGOLFEST (Ukraine), Spring Festival (Netherlands), International Forum of Young Music (Ukraine), Music Premieres of the Season (Ukraine), UNEVEN – mini-festival by Lonneke van Leth (Netherlands).
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"De Graaff is een alleskunner en een echte en helder opflitsende komeet aan het muzikale firmament die aan niemand ongemerkt voorbij kan gaan." - Maarten Brandt, Opus Klassiek
"De Graaff is een tovenaar met orkestkleuren in een taal die weliswaar van nu is, maar harmonisch ook vaak vertrouwd klinkt." - Paul Herruer, Dagblad van het Noorden
"De Graaffs grootste kracht schuilt in een paradox: stilstand die zindert van spanning." - Guido van Oorschot, De Volkskrant 
 
"Zijn muziek is in essentie atonaal, maar doordat ze niet is doodgesystematiseerd en De Graaff in de contouren en het verloop van zijn melodieën nog steeds romantisch durft te zijn, wordt de luisteraar met zachte, maar dwingende hand meegevoerd in het abstracte verhaal dat hij wil vertellen. Een grote troef is hierbij zijn orkestratiekunst. De muziek is kleurrijk, blijft altijd helder en verrassend." - Erik Voermans, Het Parool
 
"Had iemand mij van te voren voorspeld dat in een programma van Bach, Bartók en Jan-Peter de Graaff het stuk van de laatste mij het meest zou boeien, dan had ik dat niet geloofd. - Dingeman van Wijnen, Friesch Dagblad
Jan-Peter de Graaff (*1992), born in Papendrecht and raised on the isle of Terschelling, started composing at the age of 15.
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Composers in the crosshairs of our attention
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Maxim Shalygin

January 30, 1985

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

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Celia Swart

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.
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Jan-Peter de Graaff

Netherlands, 1992,
"De Graaff is een alleskunner en een echte en helder opflitsende komeet aan het muzikale firmament die aan niemand ongemerkt voorbij kan gaan." - Maarten Brandt, Opus Klassiek
"De Graaff is een tovenaar met orkestkleuren in een taal die weliswaar van nu is, maar harmonisch ook vaak vertrouwd klinkt." - Paul Herruer, Dagblad van het Noorden
"De Graaffs grootste kracht schuilt in een paradox: stilstand die zindert van spanning." - Guido van Oorschot, De Volkskrant 
 
"Zijn muziek is in essentie atonaal, maar doordat ze niet is doodgesystematiseerd en De Graaff in de contouren en het verloop van zijn melodieën nog steeds romantisch durft te zijn, wordt de luisteraar met zachte, maar dwingende hand meegevoerd in het abstracte verhaal dat hij wil vertellen. Een grote troef is hierbij zijn orkestratiekunst. De muziek is kleurrijk, blijft altijd helder en verrassend." - Erik Voermans, Het Parool
 
"Had iemand mij van te voren voorspeld dat in een programma van Bach, Bartók en Jan-Peter de Graaff het stuk van de laatste mij het meest zou boeien, dan had ik dat niet geloofd. - Dingeman van Wijnen, Friesch Dagblad
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Michael Fine

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.
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