Calefax — Dutch Reed Quintet

Happy New Year!
Here is a short clip showing moments of our glorious four-day Reed Festival in November. Still glowing! @akropolis5tet.bsky.social @vanderaa.bsky.social #ReedQuintet

New video: Sweelinck!
While recording the new album ‘Organisms’ in Haarlem in April this year Calefax also shot three concert videos. This is the third: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s majestic Fantasia Chromatica (1612). Check the complete video here youtu.be/Rf6KTxe2-bE

YouTube video by Calefax Reed Quintet Bruhns - Preludium in E minor "Big" - Calefax Reed Quintet

✨Video Release! ✨
Here is the beginning of the Preludium in e minor by Nicolaus Bruhns. It is said that we thank this score to Bruhns’s contemporary J.S. Bach. To be heard on our new album ORGANISMS released next month @pentatonemusic.bsky.social
✨🎥✨ Watch the full video here youtu.be/Gb9AV6XOyvE

Basklarinettisten! Vacature bij één van de leukste kamermuziek-groepen van Europa. Tweede en laatste oproep: Calefax is op zoek naar een nieuwe basklarinettist. Deadline 27 oktober.
Lees de details hier:
calefax.nl/.../02/calef...
Alle anderen: dank voor het delen.

New video! We are releasing a couple of videos in the coming weeks on our youtube channel. Here is a glimpse of the first one; the ending of an amazing Fugue (BWV 542) by J.S. Bach. Want to see and hear the build-up to this climax? Check youtu.be/CyOrFrLI3m0 and thanks for subscribing!

Starting the season with recording the winning piece of last year's Calefax Composers Competition, Michael Phillips michaelphillipsmusic.co.uk
Here a brief excerpt, the complete recording will be released later. Please note the deadline for the 2025 competition: tinyurl.com/2j4v8bu5

And so the wonderful season draws to an end! Doing a few open air concerts to come in relaxing vibes. Returning outdoors by the end of August for oudehavenconcert.nl. After that to Singapore for a week, and... bracing for our big Festival in November. calefax.nl/agenda/ . Have a great summer!

Overjoyed with the growth of the Reed Quintet Network. Have a look at our new online platform REEDQUINTET.NET reedquintet.net ! 🙏🏼🥂✨
On this picture Akropolis, Calefax, Dianto, Splinter, Oreka, Sonus, Kalliope, Blattwerk and Tokyo Reed Quintes.

On the platform many more!
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Strandbeest zong prachtig bij Hargen aan Zee, 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Festival Karavaan for having us! Volgende gelegenheid om met ons en de strandbeesten op expeditie te gaan: 26 en 27 september in Amersfoort op 'September me'.
september-me.nl/uitgelicht/s...

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#nedmcgowan

Strandbeest Zingt weer!
Tien shows deze week @ #karavaan , wel al allemaal uitverkocht…🙈😁

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#strandbeest

Inside each of the many Wind Bands worldwide you’ll find a Reed Quintet. 😍 Johan de Meij ‘s ‘Un Momento Dado’ is the perfect showcase to demonstrate this. Come and see this master piece on June 1st in Malden! We’ll perform it with the magnificent Harmonie KW Wamel. ✨🔥😻
calefax.nl/projects/un-...

Carré — Unforgettable! The sing-along of #KinanAzmeh 's 'Airports' has been the sound track of our project with #RoxaneVanIperen. 🙏
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Tegen de wind in blazen Tegen de wind in blazen Welke rol speelt muziek in tijden van verzet? Rietkwintet Calefax verkent dat thema samen met schrijfster Roxane van Iperen in de nieuwe editie van de jaarlijkse concertserie W...

Mooi verhaal op 24 classics over 'Roxane van Iperen in Calefaxland'
"[...] zetten op een verrassend luchtige, reflecterende en bij vlagen ontroerende manier uiteen wat muziek betekent als tegengeluid in tijden van conflict en tegenslag."
24classics.com/lees/tegen-d...
9/5 Dordrecht, 11/5 Carré!

Vanavond in Arnhem, maandag Den Bosch met “Roxane van Iperen in Calefaxland”. 🎵Price, Sjostakovitsj, Messiaen, Henriette Bosmans en Kinan Azmeh

calefax.nl/projects/rox...

Na een zinderende try-out in Amersfoort weten we zeker: 𝐑𝐨𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐱𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 — daar moet je bij zijn!
Over de rol van muziek in tijden van conflict en onderdrukking. Info en tickets: calefax.nl/projects/rox...

May 11th: Carré Amsterdam Debut!

Dit wordt een feest voor hart & hoofd: geweldige muziek met inspirerende bespiegelingen. calefax.nl/projects/rox...
#calefax #RoxaneVanIperen #oboe #clarinet #saxophone #BassClarinet
#bassoon #reedquintet

📸 Maarten Mooijman

Calefax en Roxane van Iperen delen het podium — live muziek en actuele bespiegelingen over muziek in tijden van verzet. Tien concerten door het het land, van Heerlen tot Carré Amsterdam! Details: calefax.nl/projects/rox...
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#RoxaneVanIperen
#CarréAmsterdam

Composers born after 20 November 1985!
Please consider spending your talent on the Reed Quintet. This competition is for you. 🙏 calefax.nl/en/2025/03/1...

Haha, perfect!

USA Tour is over! An intense two weeks ended in three great concerts in the Bay Area. Grateful to all who made this possible — and our audiences that cheered so loudly to our wish that USA and European people will stick together in music.
#Dispeker #ChamberMusicSF #ChamberMusic #Calefax #ReedQuintet

Today marks 40 days before our 40th birthday! Save the date for a 4 day, international Reed Festival in Amsterdam: 20 thru 23 Nov.'25! Today we release the wonderful pics Amsterdam photographer Jouk Oosterhof joukoosterhof.nl made for the occasion. Dressed by Aarden responsible wear. aarden.space 🙏

Washington concert was a treat — and both interesting and frightening to be in DC for a couple of days. Next stop Wesleyan CT! @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social

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Finished recording our new album! Here is a snippet from the day we had a film crew in the house. Do you know the piece we’re playing here?!
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#pentatone
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This was fun, performing in the train, June ‘23. #reedquintet

Hear hear!

🔥The results of the Calefax Composers Competition 2024🔥! Hooray for winner Michael Phillips (UK) & special mentions Varis Sirisook (UK/Thai), Sean Penzo (It) and Akin Kilis (Tur)! Details tinyurl.com/3tnbtazt
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#VoyagerReedQuintet
#KalamosReedQuintet
#MichelvanderAa
@vanderaa.bsky.social