Concertgebouw Orchestra to collaborate with Bijlmer Park Theatre in Bijlmer Klassiek concert series

The Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bijlmer Parktheatre are now collaborating on a series of groundbreaking concerts seamlessly blending different musical styles and the performing arts. This season, the Bijlmer Klassiek series consists of five concerts on which members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra will be working together with musicians including pianist Anna Fedorova, composer–guitarist Breno Virícimo, spoken word artist Zaïre Krieger, dancer Rutkay Özpinar and clarinettist Martin Fröst, who is serving as the orchestra’s artist in residence this season. Among the music featured on the series are works by Johannes Brahms, André Caplet, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Nina Simone. 

  

With this new collaboration, the Concertgebouw Orchestra is taking over from its violist Michael Gieler, who organised the successful chamber music series with the Bijlmer Parktheatre in Amsterdam Zuidoost for ten years. 

  

More information about the five programmes and ticket sales is available at concertgebouworkest.nl and bijlmerparktheater.nl/bijlmerklassiek. 

  

Bijlmer Klassiek: The Extra Mile on 22 October 

The new Bijlmer Klassiek series kicks off on 22 October with The Extra Mile, a concert about how music and language can strengthen and enhance each other. Bassist Nicky Schwartz and clarinettist Olivier Patey of the Concertgebouw Orchestra are teaming up with spoken word artist Zaïre Krieger, pianist Anna Fedorova and violinist Diet Tilanus in poetic and compelling music by Johannes Brahms and Dmitry Shostakovich. 

  

The concert dates 

Saturday, 22 October, 8 p.m.: The Extra Mile 

Sunday, 11 December, 11 p.m.: Carnaval! 

Saturday, 28 January, 8 p.m.: Bossanova 

Sunday, 12 March, 11 p.m.: Classical and jazz  

Sunday, 14 May, 11 p.m.: South-East at home in South-East 

 

About the Bijlmer Parktheatre 

The Bijlmer Parktheatre is where new stories come to life, new creators can develop artistically and audiences feel at home. This lively, intimate and welcoming theatre boasts unique programming with scope for a whole range of identities, traditions, cultures and cultural expression where people find meaning in all their diversity.