Presentation Concert Workshop - Contemporary Music for All

Contemporary Music for All

Meet Contemporary Music for All. Discover how fun and challenging it is to play contemporary music as an amateur musician. Conductor Lucas Vis will lead a workshop ensemble in Splendor on Saturday, March 23, in which CoMA Maastricht and CoMA Eindhoven also participate. The workshop starts at 12:00 and concludes with a joint concert at 19:00.

Are you an amateur musician, and would you like to play contemporary music? Then register for the Contemporary Music for All workshop on Saturday, 23 March in the Splendor music building in Amsterdam. This workshop is organized by the ensembles CoMA Maastricht and CoMA Eindhoven in collaboration with Splendor.

Both ensembles are affiliated with the British organization Contemporary Music for All. CoMA was founded in London in 1993 by amateur musicians who noticed modern classical music was usually too technically tricky for amateurs. They asked composers to write pieces that are playable for them and suitable for flexible ensembles. There are now 20 CoMA ensembles active in England, Germany, and the Netherlands, and their library contains more than 600 compositions.

CoMA Maastricht was founded in 2011, and CoMA Eindhoven was founded in 2018. Both ensembles consist of approximately 20 musicians. They repeatedly experience how exciting and challenging it is to play contemporary music. The CoMA compositions are varied in style and appeal to different playing methods. Both ensembles also often play pieces by friendly Dutch composers.

The workshop is led by Lucas Vis, conductor of CoMA Eindhoven. Vis is a specialist in contemporary music and has conducted premieres of, among others, Andriessen, Stockhausen and Berio at ASKO|Schönberg, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and other orchestras at home and abroad.