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CALEFAX Reed Quintet

About Me


CALEFAX Reed Quintet / CALEFAX Rietkwintet
Having played over 600 concerts in 20 countries, reed quintet CALEFAX are in great demand all over the world.
The quintet performs standing up, plays some pieces from memory, and always introduces itself and the programme to the audience. Mostimportantly, the five musicians arrange, recompose and interpret music from eight centuries to suit their unique constellation: from earlymusic to classical and jazz to world premières; in the hands of CALEFAX it all sounds fresh and new.
CALEFAX has won a number of prizes, and in recent years has collaborated with artists such as the Zapp String Quartet (NL), pianist Ivo Janssen , mezzo-soprano CoraBurggraaf and jazz singer Denise Jannah . Their discs, published by MDG , have met withconsistently enthusiastic reactions: "A sublime sense of timing [...]. In short: here are five souls playing as one. These are … masters!"
CALEFAX has recently explored many new territories outside their native Netherlands: Sweden, Norway,Estonia, Italy, Russia, many festivals in the UK, and even has travelled as far as China and the USA.
In addition to concerts, CALEFAX offer master classes and workshops for (young) amateur musicians andconservatory students. In cooperation with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw , CALEFAXdeveloped two new shows: a musical gameshow for three or four classes of school children (presentation by JeannieCharlene ) and a family concert staged by Jetse Batelaan .
In 2004 CALEFAX started publishing its best arrangements in the CALEFAXEDITION. Scores and parts can beordered here
INDIA tour, March 2009
Far East Revisited with the Tony Overwater Trio

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/6/2008
Band Website: www.calefax.com
Band Members:

Conlon Nancarrow:
Studies for player piano

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Bach: Goldberg Variaties
Highlights

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Rameau: Nouvelles Suites

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Ellington Suites

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CALEFAX plays Shostakovich

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600 Years CALEFAX

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Bach: The Art of Fugue

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William Byrd, Arvo Pärt

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Debussy, Couperin, Ravel

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Sounds Like: STUDIES ON NANCARROW ( 1/3 ) 2
Clip by Alban Wesly

STUDIES ON NANCARROW ( 2/3 ) 18
Clip by Alban Wesly

STUDIES ON NANCARROW ( 3/3 ) 3C
Clip by Alban Wesly

Portrait of CALEFAX (in HQ)

Villa Goldberg - trailer [LONG VERSION]

Neo-hip-hot cool-kiddies communities
(Duke Ellington)

Concert in Hangzhou, China

Avontuurlijke muziek

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CALEFAX on LAST.fm

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CALEFAX on the WEB

Record Label: MDG
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

LAME OF LISTENING (15 may 2009)

Lame of Listening school quiz (Luister Je Rot) with Calefax at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.May 15 2009
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 03:40:00 GMT

PICTURES OF CALEFAX & KEEPVOGEL (19 april)

Pictures of the 'May I?' concert of Calefax & Keepvogel. More Keepvogel here!
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:09:00 GMT

PICTURES OF OUR INDIA TOUR (3 april)

Watch the picture gallery our tour in India with Oliver Boekhoorn, Ivar Berix, Raaf Hekkema, Jelte Althuis, Alban Wesly, Tony Overwater, Wim Kegel and Erwin Vann at the FAR EAST REVISITED website.  
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:55:00 GMT

CALEFAX AFTER 10 YEARS BACK IN IRELAND (by JELTE)

Although this tour includes just only one concert, it will turn out that the three workshops make the tour very satisfying. The first one we give is to teenagers and the others to younger children. Ho...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:37:00 GMT

ABOUT CONTACT WITH THE POOR (by RAAF)

So we like looking at people. Thats what I wrote earlier on. But what I prefer is talking to them. Unfortunately, the economical difference between poor people and me causes troubles in contact. This...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:34:00 GMT

CHENNAI (by IVAR)

During the 6 hour drive from Chennai to Bangalore, I find some time to look back at the past few days. Its not easy to type&our car bounces up and down and from right to left in the crazy Indian traf...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:25:00 GMT

INDIAN MEN (by RAAF)

Travelling with a group of male musicians means - besides a few other things of lesser importance - looking at and commenting on people, more particularly women. Currently, we are a group of eight, th...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:50:00 GMT

AGRA (by JELTE)

The city called Agra has a special meaning to me, because a big bass clarinet solo in one of the movements of the Far East Suite is called after Agra. In that city there is the Taj Mahal, a world famo...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:40:00 GMT

PREPERATION FOR DELHI DEBUT CONCERT (video by Alban)

On March 6th, the day of thefirst India concert (described below by Tony), I used my video camerato give an impression of our preparations for that night Took me a while (for example todays flight to ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:14:00 GMT

SMOOTH INTRODUCTION (by JELTE)

During the first days of tour in India we stay in a hotel which is situated on the side of a beautiful park in Delhi. It is a perfect way to get a smooth introduction to the Indian way of life.In the ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:31:00 GMT