News, thoughts and activities 2025, spring

Dear all,

Hereby some looking forward and looking back and on the bottom of this post one book which I just bought.

I hope to see you in somewhere at one of the occasions.

Fie Schouten

LOOKING FORWARD

2-4 april 2025 Split Croatia info
Guest professor at Split University, Music Department

13 april 2025 15:00 Amsterdam Plein Theater tickets
Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam
Duo Katharina Gross – Fie Schouten
Premiere duo Janco Verduin
From dusk till dawn: the hidden world of Pipistrellus Pipistrellus
Premiere solo bass clarinet by Aspasia Nasopoulou & light design Ernst Dullemond
256 - inspired by a story in Europa, great expectations by Geert Mak

15 april 2025 20:00 Tilburg De Link tickets
Duo Katharina Gross – Fie Schouten & Ruud Roelofsen
Premiere duo Peter Jakober
kindly supported by Ernst von Siemens Stiftung

17 april 2025 Den Bosch, Noordbrabants Museum info
Opening exhibition Magdalena Abakanowicz
Kristina Benjocki & Stijn Verhoeff made a film about her and her work.
The music is by Sjoerd Leijten & Fie Schouten

25 april ’25 18:30 Strasbourg (F) Aubette info
Duo Katharina Gross – Fie Schouten

may 2025 Norway, Trondheim
residency Fie Schouten & Katharina Gross
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder

july/augustus 2025
Residentie in Van Doesburghuis Meudon (FR)

sept-nov 2025 Basklarinet Festijn -> all dates & info www.bassclarinet.nl
And if you can’t wait listening to bass clarinet, I started a playlist on Spotify:

LOOKING BACK

I had in november a great experience with Veerle van Overloop (actrice) and 8 students of the Prince Claus Conservatoire. We worked on Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski and performed it twice during the very last edition of the soundsofmusic festival for contemporary music in Groningen. Hereby a compilation:

Together with the Estonian Tarmo Johannes I discovered a beautiful piece and an interesting composer whose work I never performed before: the French Betsy Jolas.

In January 2025 I was together with Tobias Klein in Arizona and Utah, Low Clarinet Festival and the BYU (university). To play to share our music and knowlegde.
And interview/review can be read here:
https://www.newmusicconference.nl/blog/magazine/fie-schouten-carving-a-path-at-arizonas-low-clarinet-festival/

Inspired by this occasion the bass clarinet 4tet written for Basklarinet Festijn edition 2016 by the Dutch-American Vanessa Lann was published by the American publisher for bass clarinet music Alea Publishing, let by Kim Davenport, daughter of a (late) bass clarinetst.
https://bassclarinet.ecwid.com/Lann-Lather-Rinse-Repeat-PDF-p716035545

BOOK

I do like to read in different languages, that gives different flavours..

I just bought Marseille 1940, Die große Flucht der Literatur by Uwe Wittstock.
It is 1940 and many European artists try to escape from the Gestapo. The American Varian Fry tries to bring as many as possibly of them in savety.

One corner of our history, which seems to repeat itself.