Monica Germino. Courtesy: Elisabeth Melchior.

Thursday June 13, 2013 at 7:30PM
Austria Cultural Forum – New York, NY (with a workshop Friday June 14, 2013 at 2:00PM)

Sunday June 16, 2013 at 1:00-9:00PM
Bang on a Can Marathon, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts – New York, NY

As part of the New York River to River Festival, violinist Monica Germino, based in Amsterdam, is coming to New York to perform as part of the Bang on a Can Marathon, in the US premiere of Julia Wolfe’s piece, With a blue dress on. The Bang on a Can Marathon is a new music extravaganza, which has become an annual, not-to-be-missed event in New York and beyond since it was first held in 1987.

Bang on a Can returns to lower Manhattan’s River to River Festival with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the globe.The 2013 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature 9 hours of rare performances by some of the most innovative pioneering musicians of our time side-by-side with some of today’s newest exciting young artists.

Together with Dutch sound artist / engineer Frank van der Weij she will also perform and present a workshop at the Austria Cultural Forum New York.

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Ruben Naeff, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Saturday May 11, 2013 at 8:00PM
LaSalle Pianos – San Francisco, CA

Dutch Composer Ruben Naeff Wins New Music Competition. Wild Rumpus New Music Collective performs his Euphoria in San Francisco’s LaSalle Pianos.

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Jacob TV, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Thursday May 9, 2013 at 8:00PM
TriBeCa New Music – New York, NY

Friday May 10, 2013 at 8:00PM
TriBeCa New Music – New York, NY

Popular Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis, a.k.a. Jacob TV presents new works at the TriBeCa New Music 2013 Festival.

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Jobina Tinnemans, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Friday April 19, 2013 at 7:30PM
Roulette – Brooklyn, NY

Dutch-Welsh composer Jobina Tinnemans is one of the 2013 commissionees for the MATA Festival. Her new work will be presented at Roulette in Brooklyn. On the same night Netherlands based American composer Henry Vega will also perform as part of the “Mechanical Turks: Composers/Performers” evening.

The MATA Festival celebrates its fifteenth year, April 17, 18-20; 2013, showcasing the wild freedom of today’s compositional climate with a sweeping range of original compositions by fifteen up-and-coming composers from nine countries around the globe. MATA has an outstanding track record for spotting new talent: the first three installments alone (1997-99) brought composers such as Jennifer Higdon, Randall Wolff, Lukas Ligeti, and Derek Bermel to greater notice, while later festivals have spotlighted Julia Wolfe, Annie Gosfield, and Nico Muhly, among many others. Festival Directors Todd Tarantino and Yotam Haber received international submissions from a record-breaking number of composers in 2013, confirming MATA’s status as the premier international presenter of emerging talent.

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Frances-Marie Uitti, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Friday April 12, 2013 at 7:00PM
Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes – Washington, DC

Saturday April 13, 2013 at 7:00PM
St James’ Episcopal Church – Richmond, VA

Dutch-American composer and performer Frances-Marie Uitti pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multivoiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato/articulated playing, that her previous work with a curved bow couldn’t attain.

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Tomoko Mukaiyama, Photo:Courtesy of the artist

Monday March 11, 2013 at 7:30PM
Japan Society – New York, NY

Amsterdam based pianist and visual artist Tomoko Mukaiyama presents Nocturne: Reemergence Through Music in collaboration with violinist Eriko Mitsui as part of the Japan Society’s Performing Arts Season.

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Caro Emerald, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 8:00PM
El Rey Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 8:00PM
Le Poisson Rouge – New York, NY

Dutch singer Caro Emerald makes her US debut with a sold out performances in Los Angeles and New York.

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Cantori ensemble. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Saturday November 3, 2012 at 8:00PM
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, New York, NY

The US premiere of Felix und Clara by Dutch composer Jacques Bank, performed by Cantori, about the troubled relationship of Clara Schumann and her son Felix. The chorus sings the voice of Felix; noted actor Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America; Wit) takes the role of Clara.

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NYFA Composers Exchange, Photo: Courtesy from NYFA

Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 8:00PM
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral – Brooklyn, NY
Presented by ISSUE Project Room

This concert concludes the New York side of the New York Foundation for the Arts‘ first International Composers Exchange, which brought five artists from the Netherlands to New York City to work in residency with some of the city’s most dynamic young ensembles and artistic institutions. Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, Jeremiah Runnels, Thanasis Deligiannis, and Yedo Gibson were the selected Netherlands based artists to come to New York. ISSUE Project Room presents the result of this international collaborative work, with a great variety of styles and media, ranging from jazz to chamber music to video installation. Completing this diversity is the world premiere of a new work by Michael Edward Edgerton, the leading specialist of extended vocal techniques, as well as a piece by composer and NYFA Fellow, Eve Beglarian, who will be going to the Netherlands as part of the second round of the International Composers Exchange

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Strijbos & VanRijswijk, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 7:00PM
Space on White – New York, NY

Get a sneak peek into ETHEL’s upcoming premiere of “Cross Avenue” – an atmospheric and electronic sound fields coupled with acoustic music by Netherland-based composers Jeroen Strijbos & Rob van Rijswijk.  In “Cross Avenue”  (to be performed throughout the Netherlands 11/6 – 11/9) the composers Strijbos & Van Rijswijk explore the extremes of the dynamic possibilities of ETHEL and reveal how the different instruments can relate to each other.

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