who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet. - The Times
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From 6 December 2018 we will be touring with our new program 'Inside the Mind of a Composer'. In this concert Calefax shows how music is being born, is developing itself and finally is showing itself in full glory to the world. With music by a.o. Bach, Debussy, Schumann.
On Friday, December 28, we present the fifteenth edition of the PAN Festival, our annual party concert between Christmas and New Year's Eve in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. We perform ourselves and host a wide variety of top musicians, ensembles and artists from other disciplines!
To celebrate our new album, we created a special app, the HIDDEN GEMS Treasure Hunt, that takes you on an exciting musical quest through different cities (in the Netherlands) with music from our new album.
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.
| Fri 14 Dec | 20.00 | Inside the mind of a composer | ECI Cultuurfabriek | Roermond / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Sun 16 Dec | 11.30 | Inside the mind of a composer | Stadsgehoorzaal | Leiden / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Fri 28 Dec | 19.30 | PAN Festival 2018 | Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ | Amsterdam / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Sun 6 Jan | 14.00 | Hidden Gems | Hotel Sparrenhorst | Nunspeet / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Fri 11 Jan | 19.30 | Calefax in Switzerland | Gemeindesaal Obstgarten Stäfa | Stäfa / CHE | Tickets | |
| Sat 12 Jan | 20.00 | Calefax in Switzerland | Kantonsschule Glarus | Glarus / CH | Tickets |
The musical pearls from our new album Hidden Gems are imbued with remarkable facts and background stories. You can read them here. Thesecond piece that we highlight is Introduzione Teatrale by Pietro Locatelli.
Calefax invites composers of all ages and nationalities to participate in the 11th annual Composers Competition for Reed Quintet.
On Thursday 10 May (Ascension Day), our first HIDDEN GEMS Treasure Hunt Tour takes place in Amsterdam!