Dear friends and music lovers,
You haven't heard from us for a while as, sadly, since the middle of December all our concerts were cancelled. We had so hoped to be able to play another try-out concert in preparation for our upcoming CD recording Celebrating Women! which we wrote about in our last newsletter, but unfortunately that wasn't to be. We've been keeping busy though, making good use of the extra time with intense rehearsal preparation for the coming recording sessions which will take place from Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 April in the Westvest90 Church in Schiedam. We're excited to work with the wonderful sound engineer Tom Peeters of Cobra Records again who recorded our last, successful CD After the Darkness.
At the end of March we had the unexpected opportunity to move our rehearsals to the beautiful Diligentia Theatre in The Hague. The technical staff were looking for an ensemble to help them try out their new cameras and microphones for streaming future concerts and we were happy to help out!
We now have a few nice recordings and the experience of playing in such a special place brought us a little closer to the feeling of performing concerts again. We hope you enjoy our film of the Scherzo from Emmy Frensel Wegener's Suite; a sneak peek of the repertoire we will be performing in our Celebrating Women! concerts and on our CD.
In addition, we applied for the special Corona Balkonscènes fund set up by the Performing Arts Fund NL; a fund to make 'small scale live productions within the current restrictions' possible. Our application was successful which means we have been able to organise a small series of concerts in three different locations, each with two one hour concerts in which we will showcase three female composers; Miriam Hyde, Emmy Frensel Wegener and Ethel Smyth. The dates and locations are as follows; Sunday 9 May in De Duif in Amsterdam, Saturday 26 June in the Sint Aegtenkapel in Amersfoort and Sunday 4 July in the MuziekHaven in Zaandam.
Of course we can never be completely sure if all our concerts, especially the ones coming up soon, will be able to go ahead. We'd still like to bring them to your attention, just in case!
* On Sunday, 2 May at 3.00 pm we will perform an After the Darkness concert in the Zeeuwse Concertzaal in Middelburg.
www.zeeuwseconcertzaal.nl
* On Wednesday, 5 May at 4.00 pm we will again perform a concert of After the Darkness repertoire for the May 5th, Liberation Day Concert for Cultuur Beetsterzwaag in the Dorpskerk in Beetsterzwaag.
https://sites.google.com/site/cultbee/
* Then comes the first set of two Balkonscènes concerts on Sunday, 9 May at 2.00 and 4.00 pm in De Duif in Amsterdam.
stadsherstel.nl/cultuuragenda/celebrating-women-the-hague-string-trio/
* The next concert that was planned for Sunday, 16 May in the Engelmunduskerk in Oud Velsen has been cancelled and moved to the coming season.
* We close the month of May with a performance of our Beethoven programme, Serenade for 250 years Beethoven, as part of the Beethoven Festival - BTHVN 2020 postponed from last year in Het Jagthuis in Nederhorst den Berg. This will now take place on Sunday, 23 May at 3.30 pm and we will be playing his String Trio, Op. 3 and the Serenade, Op. 8.
www.jagthuis.nl/23-5-2021-the-hague-stringtrio-bthvn-2020
* Now for our June concerts: on Saturday, 26 June, we will give two more Balkonscènes concerts, at 2.00 & 4.00 pm in the St Aegtenkapel in Amersfoort.
www.staeg.nl/agenda
* On Sunday, 27 June we will play in the Goede Rede concert series in Almere at 2.00 en 4.00 pm. On the programme is our Viennese Whirl concert with music by Beethoven, Kreisler en Johann Strauss.
www.goederedeconcerten.nl/evenementen/the-hague-string-trio-weense-klanken/
* And finally, our last set of Balkonscènes concerts will take place on Sunday, 4 July at 10.00 am & 12.00 pm in the Muziekhaven in Zaandam.
https://www.muziekhaven.com
We wish you all the best and are excited to hopefully be able to see each other again at live concerts in the near future!
The Hague String Trio
Justyna Briefjes, Julia Dinerstein en Miriam Kirby
www.thehaguestringtrio.com
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