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THEATER NIEUWE VESTE

BLACK PENCIL opens the season 2020 in Breda, The Netherlands. The concert pogramme includes a fine selection of their own arrangements of Renaissance and Baroque music as well as the World premiere of a new composition by the great Belgian composer Wim Henderickx "SACRED PLACES IV", specially written for the ensemble.

BLACK PENCIL'S BEST

DATE: 3 January 2020  /  20.15 hrs
ADDRESS: Thetaer Nieuwe Veste, Molenstraat 6 / 4811 GS Breda
 - The Netherlands
PROGRAMME:  BLACK PENCIL'S BEST
Johann Sebastian Bach, John Dowland, Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Antonio Vivaldi, John Baldwine, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Wim Henderickx *
*World premiere
INFO & TICKETS: Theater Nieuwe Veste


 

FINALISTS of BLACK PENCIL PRIZE 2020


The Black Pencil Prize 2020 will be hosted during the 4th edition of the PRIX Annelie de Man in Orgelpark Amsterdam, between 01-05 April 2020.

For the edition 2020, we received over 30 compositions! The level was very high, composers from many different countries, using different sounds, textures, colours for our instrumentation and adding harpsichord and electronics as well. Thank you very much to all participants who sent their music to us!

We are happy to announce our finalists for the Black Pencil Prize 2020 (in alphabetical order):

* Anthony Leigh Dunstan: "quantum foam" for recorder, panflute, viola, accordion, percussion and reverb system

* Florence Anna Maunders: "Bursting Out" for harpsichord, recorder, panflute, viola, accordion and percussion

* Germán Medina Calle: "Apocryphal" for harpsichord, recorder, panflute, viola, accordion and percussion

* Fintan O’Hare: "So Sa Si" for harpsichord, recorder, panflute, viola, accordion and percussion

* Andys Skordis: “Uz...u” - ...lament for harpsichord, recorder, panflute, viola, accordion and percussion

* Arda Yurdusev: "Seyyah Trilogy" for harpsichord, recorder, panflute, viola, accordion and percussion


 
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BLACK PENCIL’s performances are characterized by being original, virtuosic and new, historically informed, together with a unique instrumentation of blockflute (Jorge Isaac), panflute (Matthijs Koene), viola (Esra Pehlivanli), accordion (Marko Kassl) and percussion (Enric Monfort). 


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