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Judith Mok in New York: a performance in the Symphony Space on Broadway, New York

 

 

Judith Mok, photo: courtesy of the artist

Judith Mok, photo: courtesy of the artist

 

Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 7 pm
Symphony space – New York , NY

The 31st annual Bloomsday on Broadway celebration of life, love, and language, in James Joyce’s Ulysses will be a very special selection, “Music in Bloom”.  The show begins at 7pm and ends after midnight, featuring actress Fionulla Flanagan, soprano Judith Mok and many others.

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May 16th, 2012 by

Christianne Stotijn & Reindert de Leeuw perform at the 66th Ojai Music Festival in California

 

Ojai Music Festival, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

June 7-10, 2012
Various locations – Ojai, CA

Dutch mezzo-Soprano Christianne Stotijn and Dutch conductor, composer and pianist Reindert de Leeuw perform at the 66th Ojai Music Festival in California.

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May 15th, 2012 by

Go! Dutch Closing Party, Distinctively Dutch Festival, Pittsburgh

 

Saturday, May 19
Bally’s Downtown – Pittsburgh, PA

Dynamos from Holland’s underground club scene and emerging talent in the world of digital art join forces for this all-nite pop up party downtown.

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Plastic Dreams Returns To The Bunker With DJ’s Serge And Dexter

 

photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Friday, May 18, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Public Assembly – Brooklyn, NY

Clone Records of The Netherlands has become a legendary organization in the electronic dance music world over the past 15 years. Clone was founded in Rotterdam as a record store in the mid-90s after Hotmix closed, and today is on the caliber of Hard Wax and Rub-A-Dub, but infused with it’s own unique musical view that allows for thicker and sometimes warmer soulful sounds to come to the fore. Shortly before it was a record store, Clone was also a record label with the simple goal of entertaining themselves with the music they released. Clone began releasing freaky new music from then unknown Dutch artists, and eventually released Adult.’s iconic “Hand to Phone” picture disc and Drexciya’s final album, amongst many other highlights.
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May 9th, 2012 by

20 New Shows In The US For Nobody Beats The Drum

 

photo: Courtesy by the Artist

May 12, 2012
Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA

May 17, 2012
The Hangout Festival – Gulf Shores, AL

May 22, 2012
Cinespace – Los Angeles, CA

May 23, 2012
Vessel – San Francisco, CA

May 25, 2012
Celebrities – Vancouver, BC

May 26, 2012
Sasquatch! Music Festival – The Gorge, WA

May 29, 2012
Belly Up – Aspen, CO

June 1-2, 2012
Wakarusa – Ozark, AR

June 15, 2012
Majestic Theatre – Madison, WI

June 16, 2012
Spring Awakening Festival – Chicago, IL

June 21, 2012
U Street Music Hall – Washington, DC

June 23, 2012
The Govenors Ball Music Festival – New York, NY

June 23, 2012
The Brooklyn Bowl – Brooklyn, NY

June 30 – July 1, 2012
Electric Forest Fest – Rothbury, MI

July 4, 2012
Wrong Bar – Toronto, ON

July 5, 2012
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal – Montreal, QB

July 13, 2012
Camp Bisco, Albany, NY

NOBODY BEATS THE DRUM produces unpolished electronic raw breakbeats. The band consists of Sjam (turntables), Jori (keys) and Rogier (visuals). Sjam and Jori gained experience playing in bands as Zuco 103 and C-mon and Kypski. Nobody Beats the Drum’s third gig resulted in winning the ‘Grote Prijs van Nederland’ in 2003.

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May 9th, 2012 by

Cellist Amber Docters van Leeuwen performs at WMP Concert Hall in NYC

 
Amber Docters van Leeuwen. Photo courtesy of the artist

Amber Docters van Leeuwen. Photo courtesy of the artist

 
Thursday, May 31, 2012
WMP Concert Hall, New York, NY

Cellist Amber Docters Van Leeuwen will be joined by Pianist Taisiya Pushkar in a program presented by the van Lier Foundation. On the program compositions by Eef van Breen; Debussy’s Sonata in D Minor; Alfred Schnittke’s Sonata No. 1; and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2

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May 8th, 2012 by

Apes Container performs in the USA

 
 
Apes Container, Photo: courtesy of the artist
Apes Container, Photo: courtesy of the artist

Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Arthur Miller Theatre – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Power Center – Ann Arbor, Michigan

Inspired, Supported and Developed
MADE IN NL is an event featuring Apes Container, a group of young international practitioners who all finished their studies in The Netherlands before 2009. The body of work they present is inspired, supported and developed by the constant dialogue between each artist’s background and the hosting culture.

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Ernst Reijseger performs in the Roulette, Brooklyn

 

Ernst Reijseger, photo: courtesy of the artist

 

Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 8:00pm
Roulette – Brooklyn New York

Dutch cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger is performing in an evening of dynamic new music from live electroacoustic pioneer Earl Howard and FLUX Quartet violinists Tom Chiu and Conrad Harris. 

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May 8th, 2012 by

Hans Wesseling en Helenus de Rijke (Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam) perform at Southwest Chamber Music’s LA International New Music Festival

 

Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

May 9, May 12, May 21, May 26, 2012 at 8:00PM
The Colburn School – Los Angeles, CA

Hans Wesseling and Helenus de Rijke, founding members of the Nieuw Ensemble from Amsterdam, join the Southwest Chamber Music musicians for the LA International New Music Festival. The mandolin and guitar player perform Unsuk Chin’s ‘Akrostichon Wortspiel’, Vu Nhat Tan’s ‘Rain Flower’ and Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘Serenade’.

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May 7th, 2012 by

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet performs “Simply Marvel” by Regina van Berkel

 

photo: Julieta Cervantes

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:30pm 
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 7:30pm 
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 8pm 
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 8pm 
Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 8pm 
Sunday, May 27, 2012 at 2pm
The Joyce Theater – New York, NY

Created for Cedar Lake by the Netherlands based choreographer, “Simply Marvel” is set to Paganini variations (with additional music by Theo Verbey) and contrasts sections of great chaos with cautious transformations using poetic duets and trios. The ex-Forsythe Ballett Frankfurt dancer’s new work is a collaboration with her frequent lighting and stage design partner Dietmar Janeck and is shaped by interwoven visual elements.

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