New European Ensemble - Herdenkingsconcert Konrad Boehmer

Rarely Heard Compositions by a Controversial Music Critic

Konrad Boehmer (1941 - 2014) left for the Netherlands in 1966. Here he was embraced by the Dutch avant-garde. He taught at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and was head of the Institute for Sonology from 1994 to 2006. In his legendary radio program Muziekspiegel, Boehmer attacked many of his colleagues at home and abroad as a music critic - often rightly, sometimes wrongly. Due to the conflicts that arose, his role as a composer has faded into the background. The Konrad Boehmer Foundation commemorates Boehmer's tenth anniversary of death with this memorial concert with pieces by Boehmer that have hardly ever been performed in the Netherlands before.