Family Day
Whether children, parents or grandchildren - all generations awaits again a colorful day in Grafenegg! To find musical friends, try out musical instruments and even make them yourself, to dance in the park and try out the many interactive stations: creativity knows no limits when it comes to explore the diversity of music. As part of the Family Day the Tonkünstler also present two concerts.
In the first concert The Sound on the Track the search for sounds of the oceans occupies central stage. Wonk. Vuuuuummmmm. The sea is already making threatening sounds for days. But sound researcher Elfi has no fear. She dives into the depths in her multifunction submarine. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Krakkk. Where does this new sound come from? Then an Aquarius caught in a fishing net catches her eye. Elfi sets her new waterfriend free. In gratitude he shows her the sound world that is hidden in the ocean. From singing whales to swinging coral reefs . Will you join them exploring sounds?
In the second concert Packed with sounds all sounds come together into a true water symphony in the watercastle. Wonk. Vuuuuummmmm. The menacing sounds of the ocean are to be heard again. "t's his father, the king of Atlantis", the Aquarius admits, who demands him to return home immediately. The king is angry because the Aquarius swam away from home because he was not allowed to perform his own music. Elfi convinces her new friend that their newfound sounds will certainly soothe the troubled waters of the king. Do you help Elfi and Aquarius to fill the watercastle with the most beautiful oceanmusic?
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At the request of the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NL), Annechien is developing and directing eight videos for the online music program NNOotjes, intended for the lower primary school. Annechien let herself being inspired by the theme 4 seasons and selected based on this eight Dutch children's songs from the digital art education platform Eigenwijsnext.nl. These songs will be brought online into the classroom by singer/presenter Izaline Calister and the Noord Nederlands Orkest. The NNO thus hits two targets with one shot: both the Netherlands' oldest professional symphony orchestra creates a world of symphonic sounds at primary school and every season pupils will be taught eight well-known fresh orchestrated children's songs.
Each song has various play-along exercises (listening, singing, reflection and making music assignments) so that one can really sing along and play with the NNO. Throughout the year - appropriate to the current season - the videos will be published on the You Tube channel of the Noord Nederlands Orkest and the website of Eigen-Wijs Next.
Photo © Mariska de Groot
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Click here for the teaching materials of Hundred thousand Leaves.
NNO Education creates NNOotjes based on a concept by Annechien Koerselman, Johannes Terpstra and Lieuwe Noordam. With the participation of singer Izaline Calister, stage director, light designer, stylist Annechien Koerselman, arranger Gijs Philip van Schaik, education maker Lieuwe Noordam, filmmaker Rens Polman and conductor Rolf Verbeek. In this program NNO has worked together with Meer Muziek in de Klas Groningen local, Eigenwijs Next and the Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen.
Click here for the teaching materials of The little Hedgehog.
NNO Education creates NNOotjes based on a concept by Annechien Koerselman, Johannes Terpstra and Lieuwe Noordam. With the participation of singer Izaline Calister, stage director, light designer, stylist Annechien Koerselman, arranger Gijs Philip van Schaik, education maker Lieuwe Noordam, filmmaker Rens Polman and conductor Rolf Verbeek. In this program NNO has worked together with Meer Muziek in de Klas Groningen local, Eigenwijs Next and the Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen.
Click here for the teaching materials of Twinkle twinkle gigantic Star
NNO Education creates NNOotjes based on a concept by Annechien Koerselman, Johannes Terpstra and Lieuwe Noordam. With the participation of singer Izaline Calister, stage director, light designer, stylist Annechien Koerselman, arranger Gijs Philip van Schaik, education maker Lieuwe Noordam, filmmaker Rens Polman and conductor Rolf Verbeek. In this program NNO has worked together with Meer Muziek in de Klas Groningen local, Eigenwijs Next and the Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen.
NNO Education creates NNOotjes based on a concept by Annechien Koerselman, Johannes Terpstra and Lieuwe Noordam. With the participation of singer Izaline Calister, stage director, light designer, stylist Annechien Koerselman, arranger Gijs Philip van Schaik, education maker Lieuwe Noordam, filmmaker Rens Polman and conductor Rolf Verbeek. In this program NNO has worked together with Meer Muziek in de Klas Groningen local, Eigenwijs Next and the Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen.
Click here for the teaching materials of Hundred thousand Leaves.
NNO Education creates NNOotjes based on a concept by Annechien Koerselman, Johannes Terpstra and Lieuwe Noordam. With the participation of singer Izaline Calister, stage director, light designer, stylist Annechien Koerselman, arranger Gijs Philip van Schaik, education maker Lieuwe Noordam, filmmaker Rens Polman and conductor Rolf Verbeek. In this program NNO has worked together with Meer Muziek in de Klas Groningen local, Eigenwijs Next and the Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen.
Click here for the teaching materials of The little Hedgehog.
NNO Education creates NNOotjes based on a concept by Annechien Koerselman, Johannes Terpstra and Lieuwe Noordam. With the participation of singer Izaline Calister, stage director, light designer, stylist Annechien Koerselman, arranger Gijs Philip van Schaik, education maker Lieuwe Noordam, filmmaker Rens Polman and conductor Rolf Verbeek. In this program NNO has worked together with Meer Muziek in de Klas Groningen local, Eigenwijs Next and the Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen.
Music theater around the music of the Roaring Twenties
Just imagine that you could travel back in time! To Paris, to the exciting time around 1920. When the cinema was invented, aircrafts ascended for the first time and creative ideas floated around like leaves in autumn. When artists from all around the world gathered in this romantic and bustling cosmopolitan city and created their finest works. Just imagine that you could mingle amongst them! The three music-making friends - an inventor, a writer and a painter - can't let go of this wishful dream. Just imagine that thanks to the time machine of the inventor they could get their hands on the long-lost composition of a world-famous Parisian composer... !
PAR!S! PAR!S! is an inspiring musictheatrical journey full of events. With the support of the audience not only the time machine will be musically operated, but also the unforgettable atmosphere that prevailed in Paris at the beginning of the last century will be brought back to life. The fascinating music of Erik Satie, Bela Bartok, Bohuslav Martinů and many others as well as the humorous play immerses the audience in this captivating time. Secretly, one hopes that it will never end!
Photo © Anja Koehler
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Reviews
Kulturzeitschrift, Silvia Thurner, June 24, 2019
Martin Deuring, Stefan Dünser, Martin Schelling and Goran Kovacevic took the listeners in the Seestudio of the Festspielhaus with an imaginative and humorous told journey back in time, in search of on a napkin written melody. At the highest level the Schurken both played dramatic and made music in the clever story told by Annechien Koerselman. The ease of the performances made it quite easy to forget what differentiated and sophisticated music held the work as a whole together.
Annechien Koerselman has written a humorous story, in which the artistic charm in Paris during the 1920s manifest itself perfectly. The musicians yearned back in earlier times. Without further hesitation they launched their time machine, which transports them back to this time and facilitates an encounter with Erik Satie himself. After a stopover in 1938, the musicians returned to the present. In between we are treated to tense conflicts of interest, humorous stories, and even two moments of fainting.
Also dramatically "Paris! Paris!" was well constructed. In between, the musicians invited the audience to participate with sounds and body percussion to time travel. So the ticking of the clock, the targeting of the spot and the noises of the different means of transportation provided a lot of variety.
With „Paris! Paris!“ in the stage direction by Annechien Koerselman and the design by Nina Ball the Schurken achieved fascinating music theatre, home to an extensive content.
Vorarlberger Nachrichten, Christa Dietrich, June 23, 2019
Basel (CH), November 14, 2018
Once again, thank you for this wonderful "Paris! Paris "- performance at the Tinguely Museum in Basel! You have such a freshness, so much joy together on stage, so much beauty in your ensemble sound! And actually, this production is meant for all ages: For children it is funny, heavenly and so very much alive; for professional musicians your music is full of clever moments and inside jokes and great interaction! (I have not the right word ...) My face hurt from smiling ... When I came home on Wednesday night I could only speak of your performance! It was just great. All musicians should see you!
Hopkinson Smith ( International star lutenist)
In June 2021, Wishful Singing started the Sing Strong project. Since then, the ensemble has helped more than 1500 post covid patients with their recovery, helping them with singing and breathing exercises. Now the company brings the catchy music from this program to the concert hall, where everyone who likes to sing is invited to join. Master jazz pianist Bert van den Brink and the singers of Wishful Singing welcome you to sing along with a.o. Avond by Boudewijn de Groot and Zing Vecht Huil… by Ramses Shaffy in a theatrical setting. Each song embodies in its own way the motto of the afternoon: sing strong!
Photo © Anne Claire de Breij
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an interactive quest for an ancient musical treasure (9+)
Imagine: you inherit a map with which you can find a treasure that has been hidden for centuries in a monastery in Transylvania, present-day Romania. Then of course you don't think twice, but you go out together with the musicians of Black Pencil to fathom this mystery. Their instruments from recorders and pan flutes to percussion, viola and harmonica will show you the way. But be warned, the Caioni codex cannot be revealed easily: there are musical riddles to be solved and codes to be cracked.
In The Caioni Codex, the musicians of Black Pencil interactively reveal the most beautiful music collected by the monk Caioni in the 17th century. His playlist contains a colorful collection of famous works by Monteverdi and di Lasso and exciting Romanian dances that will make you swing in your seat, while the next riddle already presents itself. This is how your ears open the way to the holy grail.
Foto © Claudia Hansen
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musictheater for the young and old (6+)
Premiere May 29, 2010, Concertgebouw Amsterdam
The five men of Calefax are working in a pipe factory. Every day they do the same work and it seems just fine. The panic is huge when one day no more orders are coming in anymore. The men decide to experiment with the pipes and create the strangest instruments, which also happen to sound very nice! The orders are pouring in again and the Music Factory is a fact.
In 2012 The Musicfactory won the Junge Ohren Preis. Since then this performance in which music is the only spoken language spoken travels around the world. From China to South America. From North America to Europe.
Photo © Ronald Knapp
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Reviews
NRC Handelsblad, Jochem Valkenburg, December 28, 2010
Playing on PVC pipes as if they were little panflutes. "Hey, beautiful music!", shouts a girl in the hall when the five in overall dresses factoryworkers make a great discovery on stage. It turns out that they can play on the pvc pipes which they work with as panflutes, each one or two notes, but all combined a complete piece of music. It is one of the many enchanting moments in this merry music performance The Musicfactory by Calefax Reed Quintet. In the beginning diligently and in a tight rhythm the five built crazy tubeconstruction. Along the way they discover the music, at first while improvising on tools and materials, later on their real instruments.
The children's performance for children from six is perfectly drawn up. No word is spoken, but the five musicians turn out to be talented mimes, which in gesture and music can tell a humorous and touching story about social relationships. The saxophonist of the group plays a stubborn dandy, the rest try to tame by playing. Meanwhile, music from Bach to contemporary sounds, which is played equally sparkling as virtuoso. The end is a good example of cultural entrepreneurship: the musicians connect the instruments to a device out of which cd's unroll. For 10 euros each, they sell fast.
De Telegraaf, Frederike Berntsen, December 09, 2010
The prestigious German Junge Ohren Preis 2012 (JOP!) Best Practice – Concert for the best youth musical performances, was assigned to The Musicfactory, a coproduction of Oorkaan and Calefax Reed Quintet!
Jury report Junge Ohren Award, Hamburg, November 16, 2012
Best Practice, Concert: Winner is the Project „Musikfabrik“. (Original: De Muziekfabriek), a production by Oorkaan in cooperation with the Calefax Reed Quintet, Amsterdam
Der Preis für das überzeugendste Musikvermittlungsprojekt für junges Publikum im Bereich Konzert geht an das Projekt Die Musikfabrik des Produktionshauses Oorkaan. Musikfabrik gibt en passant einen faszinierenden und spritzig präsentierten Blick in die Geschichte, Bauweise und Spieltechnik der Holzblasinstrumente und in musikalische Kommunikationsformen. Die Strukturen der eingebundenen Kompositionen und Musikstile werden nonverbal in einer spannenden Bühnenhandlung für Kinder erfahrbar gemacht. Das Projekt regt zum Staunen und Experimentieren an und ist darin modellhaft.
The Music Factory as newsitem on the Chinese National Television (May 8, 2013)
from the "WDR@Philharmonie" series - for everyone from 13 years old
WBB meets BuJazzO. Since not only the professionals of the WDR Big Band have jazz in their blood, but also the jazz stars of tomorrow: the members of the Federal Jazz Orchestra and the scholarship holders of the WDR Composer Fellowship program. While some shine on their instrument, others show their talent in composing and arranging - a jazz evening with the professionals of today and the stars of tomorrow!
Illustration © Alfieri
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thirteenth elephantastic children's concert
Drumroll, please! Welcome to our colorful circus arena! Together with Anke Engelke, André Gatzke and the WDR Funkhausorchestra, Elefant (elephant) and Hase (bunny) discover the musical and acrobatic world of the circus. Come in and be enchanted: an interactive hands-on concert for little music fans!
Anke Engelke and André Gatzke have been discovering the world of music together with elephant and rabbit and the WDR Funkhausorchestra since 2011. Each year they focus on a different sound theme, such as the musical animal melodies in the concert Something animalistic (Tierisch was los), classic party hits in Birthdayparty (Geburtstagparty), songs around the universe in Space and oceansounds in Under Water.This season they will play around musicthemes in the circus. Im Zirkus (Circus) is a theatrical concert for the little ones to marvel, listen and to participate.
Images © WDR / Composition © Annechien Koerselman