Visibility, networking and exchange, sustainability: that‘s what this collaborative project of IEMA and Gaudeamus Festival is about. For the first concert, emerging artists — members of IEMA-Ensemble, conductors and composers — work intensively on a diverse programme that includes two world premieres. The interactive process kicks off with try-outs in May 2025 in Frankfurt. Young composer Yuheng Chen as well as commissioned composer Geijs van der Heijden bring initial ideas and sketches.

The context of Gaudeamus Festival in particular offers highly professional conditions and an international audience that allows the IEMA-Ensemble to perform in very different formats. For the second concert, the musicians curate a programme where the audience follows defined routes through the halls of Tivoli Vredenburg in order to explore open or hidden spots, listening to contemporary chamber music.

Broadening the horizon and professionalizing extra-musical skills: that’s what the network activities of Gaudeamus Festival provide on September 13 through various workshops. A meeting session with professional programmers and curators from international festivals and concert venues rounds off the experience.

Programme

Concert 1:

Yuheng Chen: New Piece (world premiere, 2025) 15′

Robin Haigh: Hell Hot (version for violin, piano) (2022/25) 6‘

Golnaz Shariatzadeh: MOM (2023) (dutch premiere) 12′

Geijs van der Heijden: New Piece (world premiere, 2025) 10′ (commissioned by IEMA and Gaudeamus Festival in the context of Ulysses Platform)

Concert 2:

3 short „route concerts“ in the open Foyers at Tivoli Vredenburg (Programme t.b.c.; Solo and Duo repertoire)

 

Key dates

16.5.2025, try-outs in Frankfurt

12.9.2025, concert 1 (lunch break concert)

13.9.2025, workshops, meetings, networking

14.9.2025, concert 2

18.9.2025, rerun concert 1 in Frankfurt

 

Venues

Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht

HfMDK Frankfurt, Frankfurt

 

IEMA-Ensemble 2024/25:

Gabriele Mastrototaro, flute

Patricia Pinheiro, oboe

Tomás-Jesús Ocaña-González, clarinet

Jakob Yago Mut-Steinsiek, bassoon

Ling Zhang, percussion

Jiyoon Hyun, piano, keyboard

Sarah Beth Overcash, violin

Leonard Melcher, violin

Anna Jurriaanse, viola (guest, Ulysses journey)

Albert Kuchinski, cello

Begüm Aslan, double bass

 

Leh-Qiao Liao, conductor

Yannick Mayaud, conductor

 

Yuheng Chen, composer

Golnaz Shariatzadeh, composer

Geijs van der Heijden, composer

Robin Haigh, composer

More info here