Ragged Music Festival 2026
In this second edition of the Ragged Music Festival, the passionate pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy celebrate the great themes of life in five rites: freedom, joy, time, memory, and the exuberant spring of Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps. Spanning past and present, and together with their friends, including legends like violinist Gidon Kremer, pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja and choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.
The Ragged Music Festival is the brainchild of Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, two young Russian pianists from London who are praised for their innovative way of connecting classical and modern music. The Ragged School Museum in London provided the perfect setting for their festival of uncompromising chamber music. In 2023, they created an Amsterdam version for the Muziekgebouw, which left everyone eager for more.
Video-installation / Kleine Zaal (free walk-in)
Throughout the weekend in the Kleine Zaal during the Ragged Music Festival, a video featuring and by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will be shown, in which she performs Sola, a solo based on the original dress from Violin Phase (1982) and a core vocabulary of steps, turns, and jumps, set to Franz Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor, D.940, performed by Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy.
Sat 21 March: 15:00 – 22:15
Sun 22 March: 10:30 – 18:00
