Festival Oude Muziek

Festival Oude Muziek

A regiment of trumpeters on horseback perform in Domplein, the square in the ruins of St. Martin's Cathedral.
Genre Early music
Dates Late August – early September
Location(s) Utrecht, Netherlands
Years active 1982–present
Attendance approx. 63,500 (2014)[1]
Website
oudemuziek.nl

The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht ("Utrecht Early Music Festival") is an annual music festival that showcases and celebrates early European art music. The ten-day festival takes place in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and begins in August. The programme comprises concerts, activities, lectures, exhibitions, and a symposium.

The primary venue is TivoliVredenburg, which opened in 2014. TivoliVredenburg is on the former site of an earlier music venue, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg. The Muziekcentrum was the festival's primary venue until it was demolished in 2008, to allow for new construction. The main concert hall of the Muziekcentrum was subsumed into the TivoliVredenburg.[2]

Each year, the festival's organiser's adopt a theme, which focuses attention on a particular place, time, and style in early music. The theme shapes not only the style and musical repertoire of the performances, but the period instruments used.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Festival 2014". oudemuziek.nl. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Staff writer (1 October 2013). "TivoliVredenburg in juni 2014 open". Architectenweb (in Dutch). Architectenweb BV. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
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