Saturday 22.11.25, 9:30-11:00, Harpsichord Competition Final
Prix 2025 Harpsichord Competition Final
Finalists of the 2025 competition for young harpsichordists, specialising in performance of new music, perform a selection from their chosen program, competing for the festival’s prize.
Download finalists' programs here
Saturday 22.11.25, 20:15, Jury and former prize winners’ concert
Many happy returns
Prizewinners from past editions of the competition, composers and performers alike, return and bring exciting new musical works with them - some brand new, some taking us on return trips throughout history.
Download program notes here
Download extended program note for Karel van Steenhoven's piece Future Cries from the Past here
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Elena Khurgina
Yuri Akbalkan (*1986), Prooemium praeter rem for Bohlen-Pierce harpsichord and electronics (2025/26, premiere presentation of the work-in-progress)
Yuri Akbalkan’s Prooemium praeter rem (2025) explores the sonic world of the Bohlen–Pierce harpsichord. Drawing on the unique 13-step non-octave scale discovered in the 1970s, this piece blends Renaissance and Baroque harpsichord traditions with sensors, effects pedals, and live electronics.
Busy Drone
Roderik de Man: Bella La Vita
Liubov Titarenko & Yu Oda
Yu Oda: Velarium (2025) for haprischord, electronics and real time visuals - world premiere
Velarium is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL
Menno van Delft
Roderik de Man: Bella La Vita
Menno van Delft & Matthijs van der Moolen
Giovanni Martino Cesare (c1590-1667): La Hieronyma
from “Musicali Melodie” (1621)
Giovanni Maria Radino (second half 16th century): Gagliarda Quarta
from “Il primo libro d’intavolatura di balli d’arpicordo”, Venice, 1592
Matthijs van der Moolen (*1994): Diminuties naar Ganassi over het Doulce Memoire van Pierre Sandrin (c1490-c1561)
Martijn Padding (*1956): Fourth Piece for Sackbut Solo (2024)
(fragment)
Rocco Rodio (c1530/40 – after 1615?): Salve Regina
from “Libro di Ricercate” (1575)
Diego Ortiz (c1510–c1576): Recercada sobre tenores Italianos
from “Trattado de Glosas” (1553)
Black Pencil & Ere Lievonen
Andys Skordis: "Uz...u" (2020) for Black Pencil and harpsichord
Elena Khurgina, Kristian Nyquist and Liubov Titarenko
Roderik de Man: Bella La Vita for 2 harpsichords and organ
Kristian Nyquist
Karel van Steenhoven: Future Cries from the Past (2024-25), for harpsichord and tape, world premiere