Upcoming events
Private concert Waterworks preview
Mallet Collective Quartet performs Waterworks preview @Theater de Flint Amersfoort
Mallet Collective Duo with CiS orchester Saarbrücken
Mallet Collective Duo with Collegium Instrumentale Saarbrücken @Schlosskirche Blieskastel
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 A-Dur BWV 1055 (Bearbeitung für Marimbaphon)
Antal Sporck (*1981) Keep Going
Johann Sebastian Bach 3. Brandenburgisches Konzert G-Dur BWV 1048
Jacob Ter Veldhuis (*1951) Views From Dutch Trains
Johann Sebastian BachKlavierkonzert Nr. 1 d-moll BWV 1052 (Bearbeitung für Marimbaphon)
Solisten: Ramon Lormans und Georgi Tsenov (Mallet Collective), Marimbaphon
Leitung: Christian von Blohn
https://www.ticket-regional.de/events_info.php?eventID=233020&lang=
PreViews from Dutch trains @Dudok Muziekdagen
Preview concert
"Views from Dutch Trains" is an inspiring musical project that highlights the social and environmental impact of train travel in the Netherlands. Organized by Mallet Collective, this project combines the power of music with the message of sustainable mobility. By recording a CD of new Dutch compositions, the project translates the experience of train travel into a musical journey that calls for a more environmentally conscious lifestyle.
With works by Anastas Paev, Misha Sporck, Jannum Kruidhof, Antal Sporck, Anthony Fiumara, Jo Sporck
https://dudokmuziekdagen.nl/programma/views-from-dutch-trains/
Yoga concerts @Dudok Muziekdagen Kampen
Marimba meditation with Mallet Collective Duo
Yoga concert
11:00-11:45h Lemkerzaal, Broederkerk
https://dudokmuziekdagen.nl/programma/marimba-meditatie/
12:00-12:45h Lemkerzaal, Broederkerk
https://dudokmuziekdagen.nl/programma/marimba-meditatie-2/
Ramon @Dudok Muziekdagen
Ramon is artist in residence @Dudok Muziekdagen 2025 in Kampen.
You will find him performing every concert in the evening with the Dudok Stringquartet.
Check out the program here: https://dudokmuziekdagen.nl
Suspirium @Dag van de Oudemuziek Almere
Suspirium Ensemble performs at ‘Dag van de Oudemuziek’ @Almere
Program: Amor che fai?!
Goede Rede kerkzaal
https://www.goederedeconcerten.nl/programma-dag-van-de-oude-muziek-2025/
Suspirium - Amor che fai?! in Cothen
Suspirium at Protestantse or Agneskerk in Cothen
https://www.podiumplein.nl/artiesten/concert-in-cothen/voorstellingen/suspirium-ensemble
Ramon solo @Museum Vlaardingen
Ramon performs Marimba solo works written for him by Aart Strootman & Anthony Fiumara at Museum Vlaardingen for the opening of exposition ‘Tussenruimte’.
www.museumvlaardingen.nl
Ramon solo with Orveo orchestra
‘Magic sounds’
Orchestra OrVeO in Grote Kerk Loenen aan de Vecht
o.l.v. Kees Kramer
www.orveo.nl
Suspirium @Studio 150
Livestream concert Suspirium Ensemble
Studio 150 - Betlehemkerk Amsterdam
Mallet Collective Duo performs Bach’s Harpsichord concertos with orchestra
Mallet Collective Duo & Collegium Instrumentale Saarbrücken
Georgi Tsenov & Ramon Lormans - marimba soloist
Collegium Instrumentale Saar
Christian von Blohn - Conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord concerto no. 4 BWV. 1055*
Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord concerto no. 1 BWV. 1052*
Suspirium Ensemble - Amore et dolore
In our Italian baroque programme, we alternate swinging love songs with cantatas by for example Scarlatti or Porpora. Songs for only voice and lute by Caccini are mixed with grooving songs by Frescobaldi and Sances – all about love and its struggles, of course. They are built around a longer cantata (15’00) by Scarlatti or Porpora, in which affects of love, love sickness or jealousy are central. All Italian temperament!
Iris Bouman - mezzosoprano
Jeremy Bass - baroque guitar
Punto Bawono - theorbo
Meng-han Wu - baroque violin
Gala Lozynska - baroque cello
Ramon Lormans - percussion
17 November 2024 - 12:15h - Noten op de Noen Helvoirt
24 November 2024 - Kasteel Hackford Vorden
19 December 2024 - 19:00h - Studio 150, Betlehemkerk Amsterdam
Mallet Collective Duo @Delft
SONOS SILVAE
a program for marimba duo
Keiko Abe - Wind sketch
Johann Sebastian Bach - Fantasy in c-moll BWV 906 *.
Misha Sporck - DeSoLaTion (2015)**
Antal Sporck - Keep going (2023)**
Tomasz Golinsky - Flow (2020)
Nicolai Kapustin - Prelude no. 1 (from 8 concert etudes) *
Jörn Boysen - Overture and Suite in G (2023)**.
Keiko Abe - The Breath of the tree
Jo Sporck - Doubles (2015/2021)**
Adi Morag - Octabones
* arrangements were made by Mallet Collective
** compositions written for Mallet collective
Mallet Collective @Bachfestival Antwerp
Marimba Sextet Program
Anne-Maartje Lemereis - Lumen* (2020/2021)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Double concerto for two harpsichords in c minor BWV. 1060
(bew. Ramon Lormans)Greg Saunier - 53 years and no religion and no telescope (2022)*
Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for harpsichord in d minor BWV. 1052
(bew. Ramon Lormans)
* written for and commissioned by Mallet Collective
Info & Tickets: https://bachindestad.be/evenementen/backtobach/
Song of the Earth S t a r g a z e + Dirty Projectors
Unconventional song cycle unites classical and indie rock
What connects Mahler and The Beach Boys? Contemporary ensemble Stargaze and American band Dirty Projectors answer that question with Song of the Earth. This kaleidoscopic song cycle reflects on the cyclical nature of life and death. Composer and Dirty Projectors leader David Longstreth drew inspiration from Mahler’s classic Das Lied von der Erde and Brian Wilson’s ingenious Beach Boys songs.
Dirty Projectors’ unique blend of dazzling, unconventional guitar work and layered vocal harmonies has kept the band on the indie rock map for the past twenty years. They have collaborated with stars such as Solange, Björk, and David Byrne. Dirty Projectors is now teaming up with Stargaze, an ensemble that has previously wowed the Muziekgebouw with ground-breaking collaborations with musicians like Terry Riley, Mica Levi, and Lee Ranaldo.
Tickets & Info: www.muziekgebouw.nl/en/agenda/14632/stargaze-dirty-projectors/song-of-the-earth
Ramon with Pynarello - Tour de Pynarelli
Pynarello is on the move met de derde editie van de Tour de Pynarelli! Ga samen op pad, dit keer niet met de fiets maar met je meest stevige wandelschoenen. Deze Tour staat garant voor veel vrolijkheid waarbij een idyllische wandeltocht je langs drie intieme concerten in kleine bezettingen voert in Utrecht, Groningen en Amersfoort.
Luciano Berio - Folksongs
Bela Bartok - Roemeense dansen
31 august 2024 at 19:00h - De Nijverheid Utrecht
7 september 2024 at 17:00h - SPOT Groningen
8 september 2024 at 15:30h - St. Aegtenkapel Amersfoort
Info: https://pynarello.com/projects/tour-de-pynarelli/
Mallet Collective @Oranjewoud festival - Waterworks
MALLET COLLECTIVE PERFORMS WATERWORKS (premiere) by Aart Strootman
As a visitor to this concert, you choose a "wet" or "dry" seat, take your place in or around the water, and for just under fifteen minutes you are literally and figuratively immersed in a bath of sound.
Composer Aart Strootman has been conducting unique research into sound material and the development of new instruments for many years. He sees these as an important link between composer and performer. Strootman is therefore the person of choice for a commission exploring the properties of (under) water music. Waterworks is a follow-up to the pilot Floating that Strootman performed at the 2018 festival in the hotel swimming pool of Parkhotel Tjaarda. In the latest project, he uses tubular bells. Rein tuned, tone-fixed sound bars stand next to or hang partially in the pool, or float or slide in the water. This creates different kinds of sounds.
In the composition, the pipes enter into a dialogue with the water and become part of it. Their pitches are tuned with extreme precision, creating a rich range of overtones. Acoustic phenomena such as beatings can also be heard. These are interferences of two very closely spaced tones creating rhythmic patterns. These beatings and their solutions as the tones merge back together, create tension and relaxation in this work, just as dissonants and consonants do in traditional music.
Waterworks can be heard 24 times in the Swimming Pool of Parkhhotel Tjaarda on Friday, May 31, Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2 at:
10:00h, 10:45h, 11:30h, 13:30h, 14:15h, 15:00h, 15:45h and 16:30h.
Pynarello @Liedfestival Zeist - Folksongs
Een wereldreis met bonte bestemmingen kriskras door elkaar, waar de vonken vanaf vliegen en bezinning om de hoek komt kijken. Pynarello speelt samen met sopraan Olivia Vermeulen onstuimige volksdansen, lyrische volksliederen en temperamentvolle muzikale folklore. Via de Balkan naar Spanje, van Amerika terug naar Nederland met muziek van Berio, Bartok, Cassadó en Loevendie.
De Pynarelli
Olivia Vermeulen – sopraan // Hans Eijsackers – piano // Rieneke Brink – fluit // Jesse Faber – klarinet // Laura Oomens – viool & altviool // Henk-Jan Neven – cello // Ramon Lormans & Gonçalo Martins – slagwerk // Astrid Haring – harp
Dudok Muziekdagen Kampen
Ramon will perform the European premier of Joey Roukens quartet ‘Lost in a surreal trip’ with Hannes Minnar - piano, Pieter Wislpelwey - cello and Marleen Wester - violin.
www.dudokmuziekdagen.nl
Mallet Collective with Ella van Poucke - cello
‘Laatste woorden’, a program Mallet Collective will perform with Ella van Poucke - cello, Stephen Waarts - violin & Nikola Meeuwsen - piano
Exciting news for Amsterdam's classical music scene! Leading cellist of her generation, Ella van Poucke, and internationally acclaimed violinist Stephen Waarts present the concert series De Klassieke Duif, a "classical hub" in their hometown. Together with friends worldwide, they'll share diverse concert programs. Expect a mix of well-known and hidden gems.
Erwin Schulhoff - Duo for violin and cello
Joseph Haydn - piano trio
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 15 in A major, op. 141 (arr. Viktor Derevianko)
Stephen Waarts - violin
Ella van Poucke - cello
Nikola Meeuwsen - piano
Ramon Lormans - percussion
Georgi Tsenov - timpani / percussion
Thomas Waller - percussion
Marimba solo @Strijp-R
Living room concert - Double bill with Maya Fridman
Ramon performs marimba solo at Strijp-R in a living room concert together with Maya Fridman.
Anthony Fiumara - An index of wood
Nik Bärtsch / Ramon Lormans - Modul 11
Aart Strootman - Shattered canon #1 (for marimba solo and pre-recorded marimba quartet)
Anja Plaschg - Turn (for marimba & tape)
The Shell Trial
Dutch National Opera
The Shell Trial
Ellen Reid (1983)
A crisis of responsibility
In 2021, a Dutch court ruled that Shell was legally responsible for its contribution to climate change. In The Shell Trial, the various voices in the climate debate are heard and it becomes increasingly clear that we will not make any progress by endlessly pointing the finger at one another. The message of this topical opera is that the climate crisis is above all a crisis of responsibility.
Music Ellen Reid
Libretto Roxie Perkins; based on the play De zaak Shell by Anoek Nuyens, Rebekka de Wit, Frascati Producties and De Nwe Tijd
Musical direction and co-creation Manoj Kamps
Stage direction, concept and co-adaptation Gable Roelofsen and Romy Roelofsen (Het Geluid)
Set design Davy van Gerven
Costume design Greta Goiris and Flora Kruppa
Lighting design Jean Kalman
Video design Wies Hermans
Choreography Winston Ricardo Arnon
Movement director ‘Elders’ Nita Liem
Dramaturgy Willem Bruls, Saar Vandenberghe, Jasmijn van Wijnen
Academists and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Performances on:
14/3 - De Nationale Opera Amsterdam 20:00h
15/3 - De Nationale Opera Amsterdam 20:00h
18/3 - De Nationale Opera Amsterdam 20:00h
19/3 - De Nationale Opera Amsterdam 20:00h
21/3 - De Nationale Opera Amsterdam 20:00h
www.operaballet.nl/en/online-programme/the-shell-trial
Sonos Silvae - Mallet Collective Duo
Sonos Silvae - Mallet Collective Duo @Theehuisconcerten Venray
In this duo program, Mallet Collective takes you through all corners of the marimba. Specially written new works stand alongside arrangements by composers such as Johanne Sebastian Bach and Nicolai Kapustin; marimba classics by Keiko Abe alongside new compositions by Jo Sporck, Misha Sporck, Antal Sporck and Tomasz Golinsky.
Click HERE for tickets
Suspirium ensemble - Musica Antica
Ensemble Suspirium
Programma
WERKEN UIT
de Codex Trujillo en uit Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay en Argentinië
MEZZOSOPRAAN - Iris Bouman
BAROKVIOOL - MengHan Wu
BAROKCELLO - Gala Lozynska
THEORBE - Punto Bawono
BAROKGITAAR - Jeremy Bass
PERCUSSIE - Ramon Lormans
Hier om de hoek tour
Hier om de Hoek Tour 2024
’Here around the corner’, a braid of beautiful, cinematic songs about one (village) community. About a street full of newcomers, a church without a congregation, the first day of school, the last bridge keeper, the buzzing Christmas market, the silent river, the agree, the disagree, the sudden standstill, the inevitable progress. It became a surprising and moving portrait of the present time, told in adventurously arranged Dutch-language compositions.
24/1 Schouwburg Gouda - 20:30h
27/1 Grote Kerk Loenen aan de vecht - 20:15h
3/2 Hobbe van Baerdtkerk Joure - 20:00h
10/2 Theater de Kom Nieuwegein - 20:00h
17/2 Theater Concordia Enschede - 15:00h
18/2 de Kleine Komedie Amsterdam - 20:30h
9/3 Verkadefabriek ‘s Hertogenbosch - 20:30h
27/3 Theater Amphion Doetinchem - 20:30h
20/4 Cultuurkoepel Heiloo - 20:30h
www.hieromdehoek.live
Amarte x Melly - Music for my OMA
Art Institute Melly is once again joining forces with the Amarte Fund for a new series of live musical performances on Dec. 8 and 9, 2023. The concerts will be performed in the various spaces of Art Institute Melly and will be centered on the international exhibition My 'Grandma.
Music for My Grandmother includes live performances from 15 to 30 minutes over two evenings during the opening festivities of Art Institute Melly's exhibition My Grandmother: an international group exhibition of contemporary art that focuses on the figure of the grandmother to explore interpersonal relationships, oral histories and ancestral knowledge, as well as different conceptions of feminism and heritage.
Mallet Collective duo:
Ramon Lormans & Georgi Tsenov - marimba
Click HERE for more info
Tracking Tilburg x De Link
As in 2019 and 2022, De Link will again organize a diverse and free mini-festival around the City Composer in 2023. On Saturday, November 18, the LocHal will feature new music and the vibrant Tilburg scene.
Mallet Collective will perform three duo works by Jo, Misha and Antal Sporck
Between noon and 4 p.m., there will be short performances to visit throughout the building, but there is much more to discover; there will also be several video works on display, and the classic Tilburg humming stone will take a prominent role during an interactive workshop and large collaborative performance. Of course, Jacq Palinckx, who since this year is entitled to call himself City Composer, will also give an acte de presence himself.
PROGRAM - INFO
There will be performances by:
CoMA Eindhoven
Franssen/Palinckx play the Jacq P songbook
Inan Inan
Aura Bouw & Theo Decloedt
Tribolumina
[UAN] duo
MESS
Sjors van der Mark
Miriam Overlach
Mallet Collective Duo
Muze van Zuid festival with Mallet Collective Duo
Mallet Collective Duo @ Muze van Zuid festival Amsterdam
J.S. Bach, Fantasie in c-klein BWV906
Misha Sporck, DeSoLaTion (2015)
Antal Sporck, Toccata in e (2023) première
Jo Sporck, Dubbelspel (2015/21)
Jörn Boysen, Overture en suite in G (2023) première 'in barokke stijl'
Georgi Tsenov & Ramon Lormans - marimba
www.muzevanzuid.nl/festival/edition/2023/17-sep-2023-sparkling-sporck-collection/pJwxb5otq2n5EfGKH
Suspirium Ensemble @ Galerie Jakubska Prague
Als we de term “barokmuziek” horen, denken de meesten van ons meteen aan de verschillende hoven van Europa in de 17e en vroeg 18e eeuw, waar de muziek van Vivaldi of Bach voor koningen en edelen werd gespeeld.
Hoewel dit inderdaad een belangrijk facet van barokmuziek was, is het niet het enige: er was ook barokmuziek op een ander continent. Vanwege het kolonialisme had Europese muziek zich namelijk ook in Centraal- en Zuid-Amerika gevestigd, hoewel dit meestal niet aan bod komt in de muziekgeschiedenisboeken. De oude koloniale steden van Latijns-Amerika, zoals Mexico Stad, Bogotá, Lima, Santiago de Chile en Córdoba in het zuiden, waren bakens van de Latijns-Amerikaanse barokmuziek.
In dit concert laat Ensemble Suspirium u kennis maken met een selectie van Latijns-Amerikaanse muziek uit de tijd van de barok. Een deel hiervan is opgetekend in de Codex Trujillo. Zowel de Spaanse taal, als verschillende inheemse talen, komen voorbij en kerkmuziek wordt afgewisseld met een wereldlijk repertoire.
Ensemble Suspirium bestaat uit Iris Bouman (zang), MengHan Wu (barokviool), Gala Lozynska (barokcello), Punto Bawono (barokgitaar), Francesco Elgorni (klavecimbel) en Ramon Lormans (percussie).
www.suspirium.nl
with NBE @Festival Wonderful
Nederlands Blazers Ensemble & Aynur Doğan
zo. 23 juli 2023 20:00 - 21:00, Het Veld - WonderFEEL Energized
Brug over de Bosporus
Wonderfeel afsluiten doe je met een feest, en geen fijnere feestbeesten dan de muzikanten van het Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. Ze staan steevast garant voor prikkelende programma’s en hun spannende samenwerkingen. Dit slotconcert raakt nog een keer de Turkse programmalijn aan met niemand minder dan de Koerdische superster Aynur Doğan, die enkele van haar hits zal zingen. Enkele Turkse musici die je eerder op Wonderfeel kon horen, spelen mee met de Blazers onder wie kemenche-speler Elif Canfezâ Gündüz en percussionist Emil Kuyumcuyan. Laat je verrassen en dans mee!
Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
Aynur Doğan – zang
Elif Canfezâ Gündüz – kemenche
Sinan Arat – ney
Alper Kekeç – percussie
Emrah Oğuztürk – kaval, duduk, zurna