The Dutch Brewhouse and percussionist SeongYeon Kong, second prize winner of the TROMP Percussion 2024 competition, perform music by neo-classical musician and composer Nils Frahm, under the direction of violinist Lonneke van Straalen. Frahm is one of the most adventurous and unconventional composers in this genre. His balanced music will be performed tonight in an ensemble featuring a string quartet and percussion. Minimalism and clarity remain present in this arrangement as well. Especially for this concert, Dutch film composer Matthijs Kieboom has composed new work. Kieboom is, among other accolades, a winner of the NaturVision Film Festival. His compositions ignite the imagination, allowing listeners to let their fantasy run free.
Lonneke van Straalen is a chamber musician and guest conductor/guest concertmaster in various ensembles and orchestras in the Netherlands and abroad. She loves traditions but also seeks to push against the conventional and strives to explore an infinity of flavors. In 2017, she founded the collective Pynarello to make the performance and experience of classical music more direct, accessible, and adventurous. With her musical brewery, The Dutch Brewhouse, she forms unexpected liaisons with different artists, scientists, writers, and musicians. Lonneke approaches classical works in her own unique way, breathing new life into them with a sense of contemporary relevance.
