DCV 262 – Martijn Padding: First Harmonium Concerto

The new Cello Concerto composed by Martijn Padding for Matt Haimovitz was due to premiere in 2020, but, like many great projects, had to be cancelled at the last minute. Residentie Orkest and soloist look forward to the postponed premiere on 22 October next during the Cello Biennale.

Star trombonist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Jörgen van Rijen opens the longest train journey with new music ever with On the Road by Wim Henderickx: for solo trombone and electronics. An appropriate start. He also plays solo pieces by Martijn Padding.

Jeugd Orkest Nederland will tour Germany and the Netherlands from Friday 28 July to Thursday 3 August 2023 for a series of concerts led by permanent conductor Jurjen Hempel. After concerts in Koblenz and Lengerich, the orchestra then gives a series of concerts on stages in the Netherlands, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

This piece shall be play by finalists from the Prix Annelie de Man-match 2023 in the klavecimbelcategory.

The Orgelpark could easily devote three days to the work of the Dutch composer Martijn Padding. Padding has been active as a composer, teacher and administrator for decades. As a student of Louis Andriessen, he belongs to the so-called Hague School.

On Thursday, March 7, the Dutch Music Prize will be awarded to Laurens de Man in Het Orgelpark. Reason enough for a party. This evening Laurens de Man will perform together with musicians from the New European Ensemble in Martijn Padding’s brand new organ concerto: ‘Organ Concerto (Reve Concert)’.

Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony is a musical cathedral. Of a beauty that touches deeply. Chief conductor Anja Bihlmaier takes you from heartbreaking pain to exuberant joy, from ominous danger to triumphant fanfare. Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto is also delicate and moving.

Martijn Padding about ‘It comes from afar’: Harmonie St Michaël’s request was to create a work with a certain monumentality in which all orchestral groups are properly represented. After visiting one of their concerts I realized the size of the enormous orchestra, a colossal machine suddenly reveals itself to you.

ATT 2024169 Martijn Padding Greatest Hits (So Far!) Various Artists  

The Attacca label has released a CD with the greatest hits (so far) of Martijn Padding. The CD received some very positive reviews: ‘Multiple award-winning composer Martijn Padding (1956) enjoys composing concerts. He loves their rhetorical character and the appropriate interaction between soloist and ensemble.

"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

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.

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.