85 years of Andriessen I SOLISTI

Crackling rhythms and postmodern humour: Andriessen's powerful musical statements

Andriessen's activist Workers Union (1975) has lost none of its power: the pounding rhythms seem to hammer home the poor working conditions in factories. Freer, but no less urgent, sounds M is for Man, Mozart, Music (1991), written as a tribute to Mozart on the bicentenary of his death. Crackling saxes and brass instruments propel Andriessen's music. The accompanying film by Peter Greenaway, with whom Andriessen also made the operas Rosa and Writing to Vermeer, is a hilarious postmodern collage.

Martijn Padding

There is music by Andriessen himself, but also by Martijn Padding – student, colleague and, above all, best friend of Andriessen. Padding composed a work for the same line-up as De Volharding, the ensemble with which both Andriessen and Padding were familiar. This creates a layered image of the man who would have turned 85 this year.

Echoes of Nothing

Inspired by the quote 'Everything is an echo of nothing' by composer John Cage, three students from the Amsterdam Conservatory (Dániel Bolba, Lisa Schreiber and Sean Haid) are curating their concert series. The mini-concerts reflect on concerts from the programming in the Main Hall and offer a new perspective on the concert experience.

Monthly side program in collaboration with Conservatorium van Amsterdam