Pianoduo Festival Amsterdam Voorjaarsweekend: Minimal Extravaganza!

During Spring Weekend, Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens will premiere the work "Dark Lights," a work written especially for the festival by young Dutch composer Thomas van Dun, brand new winner of the Keep an Eye Production Prize 2024. This world premiere can be heard during the concert "Minimal Extravaganza" on Saturday, May 25, an exciting concert in which Scholtes & Janssens explore the extremes of minimal music: from the layered, meditative music of Arvo Pärt to the "virtuoso minimalism" of Kate Moore.

Extra festive on this evening is the long-awaited release of the newest album by Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens: a live recording of Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt. The first copy will be presented to NPO Klassiek presenter Ab Nieuwdorp, and of course a live preview of the album cannot be missed.

On Sunday, May 26, there will be room in the afternoon for young talent. Twin brothers Ibrahim and Hassan Ignatov are only 20 years young, but have already won more than 40 prizes, both as soloists and as a duo. In addition, both brothers have been composing from a young age and were recently seen and heard on Podium Klassiek on NPO2. On this afternoon, the duo will play a varied program including Schubert's beloved Fantasy in f and Rachmaninoff's dazzling First Suite for two pianos, interspersed with their own compositions. Both concerts will take place in the Amstelkerk, the former festival heart of the Pianoduo Festival Amsterdam.

Piano Duo Festival Amsterdam Spring Weekend.

May 25 and 26, 2024

Location: Amstelkerk, Amstelveld 10, 1017 JD Amsterdam

More information and tickets: www.pianoduofestival.nl

PFA Spring Weekend is the summer preview to the big Pianoduo Festival Amsterdam, which takes place from October 18-20, 2024.