Justyna Briefjes, violin; Julia Dinerstein, viola and Miriam Kirby, cello

The Hague String Trio, founded in 2006, share their love for chamber music and have formed a strong bond over their many years as an ensemble. The trio enjoys exploring the extensive string trio repertoire, from treasured masterpieces to lesser known compositions which they feel deserve more recognition.

The Hague String Trio performs throughout The Netherlands, and gives concerts every year in England and Germany, where it has built up devoted followings.

In February 2019 their CD After the Darkness was released, featuring music by Jewish composers whose lives were destroyed in the Second World War through persecution, murder or exile.

Justyna and Miriam are both members of the Residentie Orkest, The Hague and Julia is a sought after viola pedagogue in many conservatoires in The Netherlands.

Programmes
Justyna Briefjes, violin; Julia Dinerstein, viola and Miriam Kirby, cello

Helena Basilova- piano; Maya Fridman- cello; Konstantyn Napolov- percussion

Pianist Helena Basilova, cellist Maya Fridman and percussionist Konstantyn Napolov are being drawn together by a mutual passion for new music and by the endless search for new colours and new sounds in music.
Since 2018 they form this exciting and unique ensemble, working closely together with composers of today, creating new compositions and broadening the boundaries of existing repertoire.

Marion von Tilzer, composition/piano

Lulu Wang, text

Maya Fridman, cello/vocals

The performance Ten Songs of Change is a Concert Poem. It is based on the Yi Jing, the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, possibly the oldest book on the planet. Like other monuments of human culture, it was a cooperative effort spanning many centuries. The oldest ideas in the book were probably handed down by the elders of nomadic tribes. These early authors observed the stars and tides, plants and animals, various cycles of natural events, as well as patterns of relationship in families and societies, the practice of business, craft of government and the grim art of warfare and the eternal human dramas

of love, ambition, conflict and honour. And instead of creating a fixed chart of the cosmos, they put together a guide to the way things change: a fluid interconnected system of relations: the 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams. My inspiration for the music came from the emotional aspects attributed to the eight trigrams, which form the basic elements in nature. During the process of writing the music, something special happened: the energy of each trigram I was composing the music for, appeared in various areas of my life. Having such tangible experience of the trigrams enabled me to transform the experience in a very direct way into music. The order of the trigrams presented in our performance forms an entire cycle of day and night, as each trigram also represents a specific time of day. We begin and end at nighttime. (Marion von Tilzer)

The Movements:

Introduction & Prologue; Water; Mountain; Thunder; Wind;  Fire; Earth; Lake; Heaven; Epilogue/Night Song

This project was premiered at the Grachtenfestival Amsterdam on August 14^th 2019.