Baroque Summer

Each year, Simon Murphy and members of the NDA coach and lead a project with amateur musicians as part of the "Baroque Summer" initiative. Established in 2002, this highly successful "Community Art" initiative was recently expanded to include a "Baroque Winter" project.

Each project involves personal preparation on the part of the amateur musicians involved, followed by an intense, two week exploration and rehearsal period with the whole orchestra (around 40 amateur musicians) which results in a number of public performances in Amsterdam and The Hague.

Caroline Kang Cello Baroque Summer 2009          Caroline Kang Baroque Summer 2009 1

The initiative is one way in which the musical knowledge and new repertoire developed/discovered by the NDA's Research Lab is shared with one part of the broader musical community. Repertoire explored and performed in the Baroque Summer and Winter projects to date has included newly re-discovered works by Graaf, Zappa, Stamitz and Wranitzky as well as more well known, classic repertoire by Mozart, Haydn, Cimarosa and Mendelssohn. In the projects, particular attention is paid to exploring the musical language and aesthetic of a particular style, composer or group of composers.

The programmes often feature a NDA soloist performing a concerto work with the Baroque Summer/Winter orchestra. In the Baroque Summer of 2009, NDA cellist Caroline Kang (pictured) performed Haydn's Cello Concerto in C and Zappa's Adagio for Cello and Orchestra.

2010

In the Baroque Summer of 2010, NDA flautist Georgia Browne will perform Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G with the 2010 Baroque Summer orchestra. Also on the programme are Boccherini's Symphony in D, the WF Bach Adagio and Fugue in d and Reichardt's Symphony in G.

The 2010 programme will receive two public performances. Firstly in an informal, family concert event at Den Haag's Zuiderstrand - Strandtent De Fuut - at 1pm on Saturday the 7th of August 2010 and secondly at the Engelse Kerk (Bagijnhof) in Amsterdam on Sunday the 8th of August 2010, commencing at 3:15pm.