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The definition of love: Mäkelä conducts Mahler 3 at the Concertgebouw

21 September 2023Music

Klaus Mäkelä and Jennifer Johnston forge a meeting of minds with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam Just over a year ago, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra gave their first concert with Klaus…

De Leckernij serves up a feast of cheese

7 September 2023Food

What lies behind the doors of a shop in the centre of the city, with a life-sized black and white cow outside the front door? Earlier this month, I met…

Deliciously Evil Hadestown is a Triumph

14 August 2023Culture, Music

Hadestown, the winner of 8 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theatre Album, is a triumph. Such is the strength of the cast, that…

A performance of contradictions: Belgian National Orchestra at the Concertgebouw

30 July 2023Music

Performances at the Concertgebouw hold a certain cachet especially amongst conductors; a fact not lost on the conductor Antony Hermus, who took just that extra moment to bask in the glory…

Youth Music the Dutch way with Razvan Stoica

26 July 2023Culture, Music

Both my daughters play in the local youth orchestra, Symfonia Jong Twente which celebrated its 50th anniversary last weekend by inviting back past members to join in a celebratory concert at the…

Schotsheuvel: A great little French bistro in Amsterdam

19 July 2023Food

On the night in question, we were looking for a pre-concert dinner near the Concertgebouw and came across this gem of a place quite by accident. Packed to the rafters,…

Searching For Greatness: The Mahler Competition, 2023

15 July 2023Music

The Finals: Konzerthalle Bamberg, Thursday 13th July The Joseph-Keilberth-Saal concert hall in the medieval world cultural heritage city of Bamberg, Germany has been the setting this week for the latest edition…

SHOT and Shaffy | A wonderful showcase for the cultural life of the University of Twente

1 July 2023Culture, Music

Last night’s concert in the Muziekcentrum, Enschede was just that – a wonderful insight into the cultural life of our local university with a performance by the Student Harmonie Orkest…

Oliemans and Phion bring Bannink’s music home to Enschede

20 June 2023Culture, Music

Oliemans, Bert van den Brink, Maartje van de Wetering

Taking time to understand people when you move to a new country is possibly one of the greatest privileges you can have and it has been my pleasure to learn…

At the Concertgebouw, it’s all about Lang Lang

9 June 2023Music

Thursday night’s concert in Amsterdam, on a rather grey and chilly June evening was all about Lang Lang. Tickets were like gold dust, devoted fans came prepared with their copies…