who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet. - The Times
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Participate in the annual Calefax Composers Competition for reed quintet! The theme this year is to write an overture. The winning composer will be awarded a prize of 2.500 EUR and their piece will be performed or recorded by Calefax.
Throughout the year 2025, Calefax performs The Music Factory several times. It is a humorous production without words, but with lots and lots of music. The five Calefax men work in a pipe factory. Every day they do the same and that suits them fine. So there is great panic when one day the orders stop coming in. The men decide to experiment with the pipes and inadvertently invent a musical instrument, which happens to sound really good as well! This turns out to be the start of a wild musical adventure with reed instruments.
In February, Calefax travels to the USA for a series of concerts. The programme includes music by Bach, Gershwin and the Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans.
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 9 Feb | 15.00 | USA tour 2025 | National Gallery of Art - West Building | Washington D.C. / USA | Info | Tickets |
| Sat 15 Feb | 14.30 | USA tour 2025 | Margaret Lesher Theatre | Walnut Creek (CA) / USA | Info | Tickets |
| Sun 16 Feb | 15.00 | USA tour 2025 | Herbst Theatre | San Francisco (CA) / USA | Info | Tickets |
| Mon 17 Feb | 19.30 | USA tour 2025 | Oshman Family JCC | Palo Alto (CA) / USA | Info | Tickets |
| Fri 28 Feb | 15.00 | The Music Factory (6+) | Veerensmederij | Amersfoort / NL | Info | Tickets |
| Sun 16 Mar | 11.30 | Debussy: pioneer, esthete, troublemaker | Stadsgehoorzaal | Leiden / NL | Info | Tickets |
Participate in the annual Calefax Composers Competition for reed quintet! The theme this year is to write an overture. The winning composer will be awarded a prize of 2.500 EUR and their piece will be performed or recorded by Calefax.
The winner of the sixteenth edition of the Calefax' Composers Competition for reed quintet is the Swedish composer Erik Valdemar Sköld (1991)! He won the first prize for his composition Óðinn.
Calefax invites composers of all ages and nationalities to participate in the 16th annual Composers Competition for Reed Quintet. The winner will be awarded a prize of € 2,500 and their piece is performed by many reed quintets.