Cassandra Miller Festival
9 Dec - 12 Dec
The Cassandra Miller Festival is a multi-day music festival focused on contemporary composition, taking place at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. The festival marks the conclusion of a residency period during which Cassandra Miller was composer-in-residence at the Composition department.
Cassandra Miller graduated from the Royal Conservatoire in 2008, studying under Yannis Kyriakides and Richard Ayres. For her residency, she returned for three weeks of open masterclasses, rehearsals, lectures and listening sessions. The festival, running from 9 to 12 December, is the public culmination of that stay and builds on a series of historical composer portraits previously organised by the Composition department.
Programme of the Cassandra Miller Festival in The Hague
The festival opens on Wednesday 9 December with Dry Bones, an evening created in collaboration with various departments of the Royal Conservatoire. Thursday focuses on O Zomer!, a concert with the Contemporary Ensemble Academy. The programme includes Miller's own works O Zomer! and Traveller Song, alongside The Musicians of Dourgouti by Yannis Kyriakides and new compositions by Clara Montolio Canete, Antek Cholewinski and Delara Navaey. Leslie Pérez-Canto Azaf conducts.
Bozzini Quartet and closing concert with Modelo62
On Friday 11 December, the Bozzini Quartet performs Miller's work, including Warblework (in four movements), Three Songs and Leaving, together with new string quartet works by Jim van der Steege and Hesce Mourits, performed by Panorama Q. The festival closes on Saturday 12 December with a concert by Modelo62.
