who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet. - The Times
More about Calefax
In April 2018 ‘Hidden Gems’ will be released. Our newest album with a colourful collection of gems, with music from several corners of the world and various periods of music history.
From September we we'll tour with cellist Matthew Barley. Matthew Barley is a master cellist who feels equally at home performing Renaissance or Romantic repertoire or contemporary electronic music.
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.
| Sun 2 Sep | 15.00 | Hidden Gems | Uitgast Festival | Lelystad / NL | Info | |
| Sun 2 Sep | 12.00 | Hidden Gems | Uitgast Festival | Lelystad / NL | Info | |
| Sun 9 Sep | 14.15 | Seven Locks (4+) with Kiki Jaski | Muziekgebouw Eindhoven | Eindhoven / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Sun 16 Sep | 15.00 | Hidden Gems | Oude Jeroenskerk | Noordwijk / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Thu 20 Sep | 20.15 | Hidden Gems Prize Concert | Michaelskapel (private concert) | Utrecht / NL | ||
| Sat 22 Sep | 20.15 | Calefax & Matthew Barley | Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ | Amsterdam / NL | Info | Tickets |
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!
The musical pearls from our new album Hidden Gems are imbued with remarkable facts and background stories. You can read them here. The first piece that we highlight is the Prélude, fugue et variation by César Franck (1822-1890).