Rembrandt Frerichs and Staalmeesters
Music
Experience pianist Rembrandt Frerichs' improvisational art in classical music, as Mozart and Beethoven did. In the Nieuwe Kerk, he will perform his first two piano concertos with the Staalmeester, an exciting dialogue full of musical surprises.
Rembrandt uses a ‘black page’ of prescribed notes for the ensemble and draws inspiration from a ‘white page’ for the moment. The musical imagination takes shape during the concert and this creative starting point makes each performance different. All Rembrandt's work is an ode to the multiformity of the world, a celebration of polyphony. It was sometimes said of Gershwin that his best improvisations sounded as if they were composed. In Rembrandt's music, you often hear the opposite: composed music that sounds as if it were improvised, but for the classical musicians on stage all the notes are on paper.