Established in 1985, Calefax this year celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary as the world's first reed quintet. The time to look back and relive highlights from Calefax' history together.
Discover our anniversary activities
Calefax invites composers of all ages and nationalities to participate in the 13th annual Composers Competition for Reed Quintet. The winning composer will be awarded a prize of 2.000 EUR. Entries for the Calefax Composers Competition 2020 must be received at the latest on December 1, 2020.
Calefax streamed several concerts both live and as web premieres. Watch concerts like Dido & Aeneazz, The Roaring Twenties and our anniversary concert 35 Years of Plenty from home.
Calefax gives all its wind playing fans the opportunity to play along with the Ricercar of the new album Bach's Musical Offerings. Calefax made six seperate recordings in which one of the instruments is missing. Wind players can download the sheet music of their part with an audio file in which this part is missing.
Calefax tours six to eight concertprogrammes per season in the Netherlands and tours abroad to a.o. the USA, China, Japan, UK, Eastern-Europe and Germany.
| Sun 7 Mar | 16.00 | Bach’s Musical Offerings | Cancelled - Stadsgehoorzaal | Leiden / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Fri 12 Mar | 20.15 | Europe: a century ago | Cancelled - Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ | Amsterdam / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Sat 13 Mar | 20.15 | Europe: a century ago | Jisper Kerk | Jisp / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Tue 13 Apr | 20.15 | Song of the Reed | Phlharmonie (try-out) | Haarlem / NL | Info | |
| Fri 16 Apr | 20.15 | Song of the Reed | De Doelen (première) | Rotterdam / NL | Info | |
| Sat 17 Apr | 20.30 | Song of the Reed | Theaters Tilburg | Tilburg / NL | Info |
Calefax is looking for a new clarinettist (m/f/non-binary).
Clarinettist Ivar Berix will be leaving Calefax. During corona we for once had plenty of time to look back and reflect. Together the five of us have lived through almost 35 incredibly inspiring and successful years.
Bach's Musical Offerings is our newest album, with which we celebrate our 35th anniversary.