We hope you have had a wonderful beginning of the year packed with good energy, health and music. We would like to share with you our future plans and as always, tell you what we have been up to recently.
We continue to be absorbed in our creative process towards the recording of our first album. A process that started early 2022 with our first artistic residency since George joined the quartet, and which bore fruit at our concert on the island of La Palma. We plan to do the recording at the end of this year and are very happy to do so with 7 Mountain Records, a label with a wonderfully selected unique catalog. The album will be presented in a Dutch tour in May-June 2024.
To finance the album, we will launch a crowdfunding campaign in september. The following newsletters will tell you more about this.
We invite you to our concerts at Klooster Klassiek (Woerden) on 19 March (tomorrow!) and Plus Etage (Baarle-Nassau) on 2 April, where you can get a taste of what the album will be like.
We are delighted to be performing alongside Trio Da Kali at the North Sea Jazz Festival on 7 July and at the Brosella Festival in Brussels the day after. It’s always a great joy to share the stage with these great musicians and people!
Following the collaborative spirit of our quartet we are happy to announce a new collaboration with Bulgarian pianist-composer Dimitar Bodurov, whose musical identity combines a solid background in jazz improvisation and classical composition with his love for folklore and electronics. You can listen to his music here.
Following our concert at InJazz, we were invited to perform at the FiraB! showcases in Mallorca and afterwards at the Dutch So What’s Next showcase in Eindhoven. During those days we were able to network with professionals in the music industry and show the creative side of the strings.
Stichting North Sea Strings has been up and running for a few months now. This foundation, built around the quartet, was created as a fundamental pillar to facilitate projects related to the promotion of creative strings from the Netherlands, both in concert halls and in the educational field. A new chapter!
Last October we had the pleasure of performing with our friend Javier Infante in the auditorium of Los Jameos del Agua, one of the wildest stages on earth (in a volcanic cave!), as part of the Lanzarote Visual Music Festival. Here we played music of our latest album, Electric Amazigh. We continued our journey to the island of Tenerife where we gave a fun masterclass at the Conservatory of Tenerife and two concerts on the island of La Palma.
We’ve started to feel normal concert life again after these two years of little live music. At Mezrab Amsterdam, Heerenhuys Rotterdam and the Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht, among others, we have been able to share a preview of the music we are going to record this year.
We hope to see you again at one of our upcoming concerts!
The North Sea String Quartet,
Yanna, George, Pablo & Thomas
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