Basklarinetfestijn & Orgel

The Bass Clarinet Festival is a recurring event that showcases the bass clarinet with contemporary music. The instrument can perform solos and accompaniments, and like a chameleon, it can blend with other instruments, vocals, or electronics—it's like a jukebox full of unusual sounds. The artistic directors and founders are bass clarinetists Fie Schouten and Tobias Klein. This afternoon, you'll hear bass clarinet(s) combined with organ. A particularly welcome guest is Silvia Castillo, organist and widow of Harry Sparnaay, the bass clarinetist who played a pioneering role in promoting "his" instrument.

 

Executives

Silvia Castillo and Bart van Dongen, organ

Femke van den Berg, Germaine Sijstermans and Fie Schouten, bass clarinet

 

Programm

Matthias Kadar (1977)

- Levent (2002) 

Roderik de Man (1941)

 - Con todo el alma (2001, voor orgel en basklarinet)

Sergio Fidemraizer (1958)

 - Atlantída (2024, voor orgel & elektronica)

Philip Przybylo (2000)

- Bloodshot mangroves. starved reeds (2025, voor acht basklarinetten (drie live)

Justé Janulyté (1982)

- Psalms (2008/2025, voor drie basklarinetten en orgel)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foto: Nienke Maat, Geert Vandepoele, Isa Schouten, Oliver Kern, Fobo