Fokker-organ concert series

Season 2009-2010

Sunday October 11, 2009 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
ERE LIEVONEN
31-tone music at 't IJ
Ere Lievonen - Fokker organ


In this concert, organist Ere Lievonen (the new player of the Fokker organ, alongside Joop van
Goozen) is presenting fascinating 31-tone music. New works will be played on the Fokker organ, especially written for the instrument. There are also works by old masters of meantone tuning, including a piece by the renowned Amsterdammer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. The afternoon will also include pieces from the instrument’s historical repertoire, by Henk Badings and Ivan Wyschnegradsky, among others.

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Sunday November 22, 2009 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
LA BARCA LEYDEN
The fifth tone of Christiaan Huygens
La Barca Leyden:

Valeria Mignaco - soprano
Raymond Honing - transverse flute
Elske Tinbergen - Baroque cello
Cees van der Poel - Fokker organ


This programme uses ornaments and Baroque improvisations in an investigation into the effect the existence of an instrument like the Fokker organ would have had on the music of the times of Christiaan Huygens. Research has shown that the use of extra tones/keys (for tuning) led to a bizarre use of chromatic microtones by a few composers from the seventeenth century. Baroque ensemble La Barca Leyden has taken on the task of rewriting musical history.

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Sunday December 13, 2009 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
JOS ZWAANENBURG+DANNY DE GRAAN
Pimp My Organ!
Jos Zwaanenburg - laptop
Danny de Graan - laptop

Hubert-Jan Hubeek - EWI/saxophone


In this concert, the Fokker organ will be operated by laptops. Several composers will work with live electronics in their pieces. All of them (Marc Sabat, Danny de Graan, Rozalie Hirs and Jos Zwaanenburg) composed a work for the Fokker organ operated via MIDI. A composition by Conlon Nancarrow will also be performed, with electronics and in a more just tuning. Using extra digital stops and other new electronic possibilities of this renovated acoustic 31-tone instrument, the Fokker organ will be expanded and pimped with many new sounds.

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Sunday February 21, 2010 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
GUUS JANSSEN + GUEST
Guus Janssen touches the Fokker organ
Guus Janssen - Fokker organ


Guus Janssen will be playing a variety of microtonal instruments, including the Fokker organ (on both 12-tone and 31-tone keyboards) and the archiphone. A well-known guest will provide him with musical accompaniment during several improvisations. He will also compose some short pieces and jazz themes especially for the Fokker organ and investigate the possibilities of improvising with microtonality. If you would like to find out where all this leads, you should definitely come and listen to this exciting and unpredictable concert!

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Sunday March 21, 2010 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
JOOP VAN GOOZEN
New harvest/Old masters
Joop van Goozen - Fokker organ


In this concert, organist Joop van Goozen, who has specialised in playing the Fokker organ since the nineties, is presenting a wonderful collection of old and new 31-tone music. Special guest Jos Zwaanenburg will provide Joop van Goozen with musical accompaniment during this concert. Especially for this concert he composed a new work for flute, Fokker organ and live electronics. Besides old masters like Froberger and Rossi, the programme includes familiar works from the regular repertoire, by Peter Schat and Henk Badings, among others.

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Sunday May 30, 2010 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
TIEMO WANG, JOE PUGLIA, CLARA KIM, HANNAH SHAW, ÖRS KÖSZEGHY, ERE LIEVONEN
Hans Kox 80 years

Tiemo Wang - baritone

Joseph Puglia - violin

Clara Kim - violin

Hannah Shaw - viola

Örs Köszeghy - cello

Ere Lievonen - Fokker organ & piano


To mark the eightieth birthday of composer Hans Kox the Huygens-Fokker Foundation organizes in cooperation with the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ an unique concert about Kox' complete 31-tone works. Because of his special musical relationship with professor Adriaan Fokker these works were composed by Hans Kox between the late fifties an early sixties. Besides other microtonal pieces organ player Ere Lievonen will play all the works of Hans Kox composed for the Fokker organ, namely the Larghetto, 3 epigrammen voor 31-toonsorgel and Passacaglia en Koraal.

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Season 2010-2011

Sunday October 10, 2010 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
ERE LIEVONEN
Organic Movements

Ere Lievonen - Fokker organ

During this concert organ player Ere Lievonen, since the summer of 2009 one of our two regular players on the Fokker organ, will perform a number of new 31-tone compositions. The Flemish composer Bert Van Herck and Dutch composer Christina Oorebeek are one of the composers who were asked to compose new work for the unique Fokker organ. Besides compositions composed for a performer, new work completely controlled by laptops will be played. A combination of these two performance practices is also on the programme, next to some classic masterpieces.

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Sunday May 30, 2010 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
HUYGENS-FOKKER ENSEMBLE
Microtonalities


In this concert, the Fokker organ will make up part of an ensemble of seven musicians. Existing
compositions and amazing arrangements will be performed alongside new works, in which composed music is often combined with improvisation. The ensemble comprises the Fokker organ, archiphone, master keyboards, 31-tone guitar, viola, saxophone and flute. The ensemble revolves around the Fokker organ, with specialists in the field of microtonal music, which searches out the borders of colourful 31-tone music.

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Sunday December 19 , 2010 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
HUGO VAN NECK
The untempered cinema

Hugo van Neck - Fokker organ

This concert brings film and live muziek together in a cinema of untempered tones. Het Fokker organ functions as a organ accompaniment for a few silent movies, where in the BAM Hall only the film images and the de organ pipes can be seen. Exciting, dramatic and scary scenes during this morning will be reinforced by 12 or more untempered tones of the 31-tone Fokker organ.

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Sunday February 27, 2011 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
SEVERAL COMPOSERS
Pimp My Organ 2

Because success in 2009, now the sequel to Pimp My Organ! During this concert the computerized Fokker organ will again be driven by laptops. Several composers will compose new works especially for the instrument, or in combination with live electronics. Besides that, the controlling using computers will be combined with the live playing of the 31-tone organ by an performer. Using the latest electronic possibilities, the Fokker organ will once again be expanded and pimped with many new sounds!

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Sunday March 21, 2010 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
SINTA WULLUR, ERE LIEVONEN
Boem Boe Bali!

a.o. Sinta Wullur - gamalan

Ere Lievonen - Fokker organ

Gamelan is characteristic of the Indonesian folk music. 31-tone music is a typical Dutch invention that has been developed here in The Netherlands. The 31-tone tuning of the Fokker-organ has possibilities to play exotic melodies and harmonies, as can be heard in different types of gamelan. It's possible to devide the fifth in three, like in the Balinese scale with 6/5 seconds. These sounds fit well with the pelog and sllendro tunings of the metallophones, gongs and drums which are present in the Balinese and Javanese gamelan. A melting pot of exotic sounds during this remarkable concert will be the result.

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Sunday April 17, 2011 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
ERE LIEVONEN
31-tone music above the IJ

Ere Lievonen - Fokker organ

Organ player Ere Lievonen will perform exciting and delusional 31-tone music high above the IJ. Besides the fact that brand new work will sound on the Fokker organ (including a composition by Wim de Ruiter), pieces by great masters of early music will be performed. These works are composed in the meantone temperament, a tuning which the Fokker organ is based on and in which the notes are not equidistant from each other. In contrast to instruments based on our current tempered 12-tone system, this tuning makes it possible to play perfect thirds, intervals that one must have heard.

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Sunday May 15 , 2011 | BAM Zaal 11:00 | € 13.00 / € 10.50 reduction
JUNE TELLETXEA, ANDREAS AREND, ERE LIEVONEN
The Ariadne-project

a.o. June Telletxea - soprano

Andreas Arend - lute

Ere Lievonen - Fokker organ


A special crossover concert with music by Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries, as well as a work of the young Berlin composer and lutenist Andreas Arend, based on Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna solo aria, the only remaining part of his opera L'Arianna which is unfortunately lost. The program includes compositions by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Hermann Schein, Claudio Monteverdi and others. They kept themselves busy with some specific theories of music such as chromaticism, thematic coherence and musical tunings, which then led to new and appealing music.

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