Highlights
November 2025
A month full of musical highlights! We have selected special concerts in different genres.
Agenda
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Les Égarés
Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Ségal, Emile Parisien , Vincent PeiraniFour virtuosos intertwine sounds and styles
Wed 26 Nov 2025Les Égarés, ‘the wanderers’, met at a French music festival and have since created a unique ensemble, blending chamber music, folk and acoustic jazz. Their wonderfully rich blend of sounds can occasionally lead you to forget that this is a collaboration of four exceptional soloists: the renowned kora player Ballaké Sissoko, cellist Vincent Ségal, accordionist Vincent Peirani, and soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien.
The debut album Les Égarés shows the wide range of the musicians, all four of whom contributed compositions. For instance, Sissoko’s tracks Ta Nyé and Banja draw from Senegalese traditions. The album also incorporates influences from chansons, Anatolian music, Colombian dance rhythms, blues, Coltrane-like trance, and the kaleidoscopic jazz of Joe Zawinul. This concert is a continuation of the album, which was lauded by the international press. ‘Give yourself up to the pleasure of being lost,’ wrote Mojo Magazine.
Program
Music from the album Les Égarés
Credits
Ballaké Sissoko kora
Vincent Ségal cello
Emile Parisien soprano saxophone
Vincent Peirani accordion, accordina -
Echoing Travelogues: The Beyond and Us
Emine Bostancı + Dareyn EnsembleA journey through time and space past places of worship, squares and palaces
Sun 16 Nov 2025Echoing Travelogues: The Beyond and Us is a concert project led by Amsterdam-based composer and performer Emine Bostancı, exploring how the intertwined histories of travel and migration have shaped cultural and musical identities. Inspired by centuries of encounters across Ottoman, Persian, and European worlds, the project reimagines historical music as a path toward self-understanding. As the performers trace the footsteps of past travelers and diplomats, they pose a resonant question: "Though we travel to explore the other, what we find often reflects our own story."
Blending traditional Eastern and Western Baroque instruments with immersive historical soundscape technology, the performance invites the audience to experience music not just as sound, but as a spatial and temporal journey. The concert’s multisensory design—melding music, stagecraft, and research—creates a vivid echo of lost worlds. By looking back at these layered histories, the project offers a contemporary reflection on identity, belonging, and the cultural imagination of the traveler. Bostancı makes this journey together with the Turkish, Iranian and Dutch musicians of the Dareyn Ensemble. They use historical texts, a unique Ottoman kemenche and cutting-edge 4D sound. This way, you experience how the music sounded in the 15th century at six ancient locations in Vienna, Istanbul and Isfahan.
In collaboration with
Programma bookletProgram
Foyerdeck 1 / 19:15
Introduction by researcher/qanûn player Zeynep Yıldız Abbasoğlu and sound designer Hasan Baran Fırat.Grote Zaal / 20:15
Works by Dimitrie Cantemir and Wojciech Bobowski (Ali Ufki), Zakiri Hasan Efendi, Nayi Osman Dede, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and Claude GoudimelCredits
Dareyn Ensemble:
Emine Bostancı kemenche of Istanbul
Bekir Ünlüataer vocals
Nizar Rohana oud
Khorshid Dadbeh tanbour, tar
Zeynep Yıldız Abbasoğlu qanun
Tony Overwater violone
Vinsent Planjer percussionHolland Baroque:
Judith Steenbrink baroque violin
Tineke Steenbrink positive organNora Fischer Storyteller
Ivana Djukic Art installation
4Dsound & Joris Takken & Hasan Baran Fırat Sound design
Ardashes Agoshian Arranger -
Tribute to Zakir Hussain
Kala Ramnath, Jayanti Kumaresh, Fazal Qureshi + Anantha R. KrishnanA tribute in the spirit of an Indian legend
Sat 15 Nov 2025Zakir Hussain, legendary innovator of Indian music, gained worldwide fame with his dizzying percussion. He collaborated with major stars from classical music, jazz and pop, such as George Harrison and Earth, Wind & Fire. Up to his passing in late 2024, he performed regularly with violinist Kala Ramnath and with Jayanti Kumaresh, who plays the vina (Indian lute). These musicians now pay tribute to Zakir Hussain together with Hussain’s brother, the equally virtuosic Fazal Qureshi.
Violinist Kala Ramnath has composed for the Kronos Quartet and shared the stage with classical violinist Hilary Hahn. She bridges the gaps between diverse musical worlds, much like Zakir Hussain did. Kumaresh is regarded a torchbearer for the vina, India’s national instrument. In a career spanning more than 35 years, she has become one of India’s most legendary vina masters. Mridangam master Anantha R. Krishnan, grandson of Vidwan Shri Palghat R. Raghu, and tabla virtuoso Fazal Qureshi, known for his fusion of jazz and classical music, join the ensemble. Together, they bring Zakir Hussain's musical legacy to life.
In collaboration with Stichting Naad.
Credits
Kala Ramnath violin
Jayanti Kumaresh saraswati veena
Fazal Qureshi tabla
Anantha R. Krishnan mridangam -
Orchestra Baobab
Senegalese dance music with a Cuban twist
Wed 12 Nov 2025For 55 years, Orchestra Baobab has filled venues and festivals across the globe with dancing crowds. Their success story began in Dakar, Senegal, where the group picked up Cuban styles like son and pachanga. Starting at Club Baobab, built around the iconic tree, the group travelled extensively through West Africa. All kinds of influences were integrated into the ‘Baobab sound’, and the band continues to make their sound more thrilling than ever with lively twists and energetic additions.
Through the years, Orchestra Baobab’s infectious sound has evolved, in part by collaborating with griots, traditional local storytellers. The result is a unique blend of age-old traditions and the electric guitars of African pop music. A collaboration with Senegalese star singer Youssou N’Dour at the beginning of this millennium gave the orchestra a boost, and they have been touring the world ever since.
Please note: tickets for this concert are standing-room only.
Program
19:30 / Entrance hall
Abiba Sokoto (dj)20:30 / Grote Zaal / Support
Dady Thioune21:00 / Grote Zaal / Main program
Orchestra Baobab22:00 - 23:30 / Entrance hall
Abiba Sokoto (dj)Credits
Orchestra Baobab
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Songs of heaven and earth
Barbara Hannigan + Bertrand ChamayouEnchanting evocations of Finnish goddessesMessiaen, Skrjabin, Zorn
Fri 7 Nov 2025Due to an injury to Bertrand Chamayou, the concert will unfortunately not take place. Ticket holders have been personally informed. We are currently reviewing a possible new date.
Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan has increasingly made her mark as a conductor in recent years, but her deepest passion remains the art song. And particularly, lieder that are rarely performed by others. In this rare song recital with master pianist Bertrand Chamayou, she will perform John Zorn’s cycle, Jumalattaret. Hannigan completely masters this cycle, that was long considered unsingable and is filled with references to Finnish goddesses. An enchanting experience.
‘Hannigan is one of those rare performers whose presence fuses so completely with the music that, while she’s onstage, hers seems the only possible interpretation’, wrote New York Magazine. And that’s spot on. Whether she sings Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel, or Zorn’s masterpiece, Barbara Hannigan delivers the story as it is supposed to sound.
“An intensely moving recital” (The New York Times)
“Sumptuous feast of a recital” (Musical America)
★★★★★ “I guarantee it is the [concert program] that will remain in my mind the longest“ (Cameron Kelsall, Bachtrack)In memory of Pierre Audi (1957–2025)
Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou would like to dedicate this evening's recital to the memory of the visionary artistic director Pierre Audi, who passed away in May 2025. Audi had had brought both of tonight's performers (including this specific repertoire) to the Aix en Provence Festival as well as to the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Hannigan worked with Audi on various performances and productions for over 25 years, and is especially grateful to him for engaging her for her debut at the Netherlands Opera in 1999, at the moment that she had just finished her studies in the Netherlands.
Program
Grote Zaal / 19.30 uur
Support actGrote Zaal / 20.15 uur
Olivier Messiaen Chants de terre et de ciel
Aleksandr Skrjabin Poème-Nocturne
Aleksandr Skrjabin Vers la flamme
John Zorn JumalattaretCredits
Barbara Hannigan soprano
Bertrand Chamayou piano -
Venus
B'Rock Orchestra + Jeanine De BiqueOde to love in famous and lesser-known opera ariasLully, Rameau, Blow, Purcell, Händel, Legrenzi e.a.
Wed 5 Nov 2025Praised for her ‘endless wealth of colour and nuance’ (Opernwelt), Trinidad-born Jeanine De Bique has swiftly established herself as ‘one of the most exciting sopranos to catch onstage these days’ (Operawire). In April 2024, she electrified the Muziekgebouw.
Now, she’s coming back with B’Rock to celebrate the goddess of love. Continuing her exploration of female figures, opera heroines in her Edison-winning CD Mirrors, she now paints Venus with a palette of sounds through compositions by Handel, Legrenzi, Zelenka and Pepusch.With her clear, agile voice and enormous charisma, Jeanine De Bique has grown into a must-hear soprano. Last season, she delivered a stunning performance with Pygmalion in the acclaimed Dutch National Opera production Le lacrime di Eros, about the dark side of love.
Porgramme booklet (Dutch)Program
Arias and instrumental music from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully, André Campra, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Henry Desmarest, John Blow, Henry Purcell, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Georg Friedrich Händel, Daniel Purcell, Giovanni Legrenzi, Domenico Sarro, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Giuseppe Porsile and Andrea Adolfati
Credits
B'Rock Orchestra
Jeanine De Bique soprano
Evgeny Sviridov violin & artistic director
