Calendar
2016
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Tue12Jan2016
Concert and workshop
20:30Theater de Regentes, Weimarstraat 63, The Hague, The Netherlands
Early improvisation is all about reusing old material and most meaningful with those songs we have loved throughout our lives.
The Scroll Ensemble will open the session with some of their own favourites.
After that everyone is welcome to join in.
We will improvise with some favourites, like the lamento della ninfa and la monica, but we also invite everyone to bring in one of their songs from their past and play or sing it for us: maybe we can all join in!Finally, we hope to drink to a happy and creative new year with you on the 12th of january in the “tea room” of De Nieuwe Regentes, which has been so kind to lend us their wonderful space!!!
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Thu14Jan2016
Lunch Concert
12:15-12:45Chapel of the VU medical centre, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nostalgia: A Song from the Past
Singing has been with us for ages. We passed on our songs through time, teaching them to our children. Each time we found inspiration for new songs in the old, from beloved times.
On this timeless path between tradition and innovation The Scroll Ensemble will take inspiration from Bach, Fado, Scarlatti, jazz composer Nuno Torres Marques, Vivaldi and Gerswhin to bring you a bit of the past in to the now.
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Thu14Apr2016
Abraham Kuyper Lezing
20:00westerkerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Niña Weijers presents a lecture and we envelop it with music around Bach, Vivaldi, Gershwin and our very own James Hewitt.
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Sun17Apr2016
Concert at Het Muzieklokaal
BEMUURDE WEERD OZ 13, Utrecht, The Netherlands
In this fantastic cafe devoted entirely to classical music we will feel right at home!
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Mon29Aug2016Wed31Aug2016
FOMU Dance workshops with Rachel Farr
9:00-12:00Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht workshop to learn the dances and its relationship to music from the past. With Rachel Farr.
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Sun04Sep2016
Inventions - A journey into creativity
15:30Pieterskerk, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Part of Fabulous Fringe Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht and UITFEEST Utrecht
Inventions – A journey into creativity
Bach’s Inventions are some of the most played pieces until this day. This music was intended didactically, not only to learn to play the instrument, but also to learn to compose, to learn to use “inventions” and work them out.
In Bach’s time an invention is a musical idea from which you create the rest of the work. It works along the lines of the ‘paper clip exercise’ for developing creativity, where one is asked to imagine as many uses for a paperclip as possible. The item remains a paperclip, but changes in different contexts entirely. In music the great thing is that those ideas, those different uses for the paperclip can then be combined simultaneously (counterpoint) or follow each other in time in different combinations: they are the characters in a story, a story which changes them for better or worse.
The audience experiences this directly through its involvement in creating, singing and a look straight into the heart of the kitchen of baroque improvisation.
James Hewitt – Violin & Viola
Robert de Bree – Recorder & Oboe -
Sun11Sep2016
Teaser course improvisation Huismuziek
15:30-16:15Akoesticum, Ede, The Netherlands
A teaser for Robert’s introduction to baroque improvisation course “All’Improvviso” as part of Stichting Huismuziek.
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Sun09Oct2016
Inventions at Music in Transition
19:00Music in Transition, Witte de withstraat 119, 2562 Den Haag
19:00 Food
20:00 MusicFree entrance, Donations are asked
Bach’s Inventions are some of the most played pieces until this day. This music was intended didactically, not only to learn to play the instrument, but also to learn to compose, to learn to use “inventions” and work them out.
In Bach’s time an invention is a musical idea from which you create the rest of the work. It works along the lines of the ‘paper clip exercise’ for developing creativity, where one is asked to imagine as many uses for a paperclip as possible. The item remains a paperclip, but changes in different contexts entirely. In music the great thing is that those ideas, those different uses for the paperclip can then be combined simultaneously (counterpoint) or follow each other in time in different combinations: they are the characters in a story, a story which changes them for better or worse.
The audience experiences this directly through its involvement in creating, singing and a look straight into the heart of the kitchen of baroque improvisation.
James Hewitt – Violin & Viola
Robert de Bree – Recorder & Oboe -
Wed26Oct2016
Inventions at Bachtober fest
20:00Anglican Church of The Hague,
Ary van der Spuyweg 1, 2585 JA, The Hague, The Netherlands
http://www.stjohn-stphilip.org/events/bachtober-fest-bach-friends-chamber-music-concert/
Bach’s Inventions are some of the most played pieces until this day. This music was intended didactically, not only to learn to play the instrument, but also to learn to compose, to learn to use “inventions” and work them out.
In Bach’s time an invention is a musical idea from which you create the rest of the work. It works along the lines of the ‘paper clip exercise’ for developing creativity, where one is asked to imagine as many uses for a paperclip as possible. The item remains a paperclip, but changes in different contexts entirely. In music the great thing is that those ideas, those different uses for the paperclip can then be combined simultaneously (counterpoint) or follow each other in time in different combinations: they are the characters in a story, a story which changes them for better or worse.
The audience experiences this directly through its involvement in creating, singing and a look straight into the heart of the kitchen of baroque improvisation.
James Hewitt – Violin & Viola
Robert de Bree – Recorder & Oboe -
Sat12Nov2016
Course All'Improvviso
10-17Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Everyone can learn the principles of baroque improvisation. Learn to look at music differently, what creativity is, and how you can feel more free in your music making!
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Tue20Dec2016
Kerstviering De Zinnen
Christus Triumfatorkerk, Den Haag
The Scroll Ensemble omlijst de viering met improvisaties.