10.1.2024
Bram van Sambeek is an international bassoonist known for his highly versatile approach to bassoon playing and for his innovative programming. He is the only bassoonist to receive the highest Dutch Cultural Award: The Dutch Music Prize in 2009.
As a soloist, Bram van Sambeek has performed with orchestras such as the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and Camerata RCO. Many composers, for instance Vanessa Lann, Sebastian Fagerlund and Kalevi Aho, have written concertos for him.
For ten years he has worked as the principal bassoonist in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and as a guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
As a chamber musician he has worked regularly with Alexei Ogrintchouk, Reto Bieri, Radovan Vlatkovich, Liza Ferschtman, Pekka Kuusisto, Nicolas Altstaedt and Rick Stotijn.
Since 2009 he has been teaching the bassoon at the Conservatories in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague. In 2017 he started a professorship at the Hochschule für Music und Tanz in Cologne, before deciding to return to the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in 2021.
Contemporary classics meet a timeless hit by Sibelius as the internationally best-known orchestra in Finland dives into the deep end of Finnish music under the baton of Dalia Stasevska.
From Osvaldo Golijov to Béla Bartók’s virtuosic Violin Sonata and Georges Enescu’s dazzling Romanian Rhapsody, the concert is a journey through works inspired by the folk music of different cultures. On top of all this, the multi-talented South African Gareth Lubbe amazes listeners as the overtone singing viola soloist.
Emotive Paganini
8.6.
The Naantali Music Festival’s international ensemble will perform a collection of the best works by Italian composer Niccolò Paganini.
Jackpot
9.6.
The afternoon concert will feature pioneering works by Mozart and Schumann, works that immediately left their mark in the history of their form and never left.
