Agenda Nicolaiconcerten

Archived programs 2025

Thursday 30 January 2025

Open Performance Site / e-Live

Saturday 22 March 2025

La voix du bien-aimé

Saturday 2 August 2025

Organ concerto Karel Demoet

Saturday 9 August 2025

Organ concerto Matthias Havinga

Saturday 16 August 2025

Organ concerto Francesca Ajossa

Saturday 23 August 2025

Organ concerto Ko Zwanenburg

Saturday 30 August 2025

Organ concerto Berry van Berkum

Saturday 6 September 2025

Organ concerto Jetty Podt

Saturday 13 September 2025

Organ concerto National Organ

The Nicolaïkerk (St. Nicholas church) is a medieval church in the southern part of the old city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. This building is the home of two very interesting instruments, the organ built by Marcussen and the carillon built by the famous Hemony brothers (17th century). These instruments are the backbone for a series of concerts, which are organised each year by the Stichting Culturele Evenementen Nicolaïkerk (Foundation for Cultural Events in the Nicolaïkerk ).

Duration of the concerts is approx. 45 minutes.
Tickets are sold at the entrance of the church, doors open half an hour before concert start time. No reservation is needed.

For the current program you can browse our program agenda.

The Nicolaikerk is located at the Nicolaaskerkhof in the inner city of Utrecht (See city map Utrecht).

Open Performance Site / e-Live

On Thursday 30 January at 20:15 hrs another exciting concert will take place by students of the Utrecht Conservatory and students of the HKU. A Nicolaïkerk full of light and sound. The compositions are new and experiments are not avoided. An evening full of surprises for over 25 years. Come and watch and listen and be surprised.

Performers:
Students of the Conservatory and Music & Technology of the University of the Arts, Utrecht
NEON - Choir for Newest Music conducted by Fokko Oldenhuis

You can order tickets via Podiumplein or at the entrance (PIN only)

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La voix du bien-aimé

Chamber choir NEXT

Dorien Schouten	-	organ
Ko Zwanenburg	-	organ
Fokko Oldenhuis	-	conductor

Program

Maurice Duruflé	-	Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens
Daniel-Lesur	-	Delen uit Cantique des cantiques
Thierry Escaich	-	In memoriam pour Duruflé
David Briggs	-	Delen uit Messe pour Notre-Dame, Ubi caritas et amor, Prière á Notre-Dame
Naji Hakim	-	Delen uit Messe Solenelle
Thierry Escaich	-	Évocation II
Olivier Messiaen	-	Uit 'Les Corps glorieux': VI Joie et clarté des corps glorieux en VII Le mystère de la sainte Trinité

Chamber choir NEXT
Chamber choir NEXT was founded in 2015 by former members of the Utrecht Student Cantorij. Together with conductor Fokko Oldenhuis, they started a chamber choir for singers who have outgrown the student choirs.
The choir consists of approximately 32 young, ambitious singers between the ages of 25 and 45. Every week, they rehearse challenging programs with a variety of classical choir music. They like to work with professional musicians and contemporary composers, but also other artists, such as dancers and writers. In this way, they try to surprise the audience with every concert and let them listen to the music in a new way.

With La voix du bien-aimé (The voice of the beloved) you imagine yourself in the great French cathedrals in the time of influential 20th-century composers such as Maurice Duruflé and Daniel-Lesur. While the light streams through the stained glass windows and creates a play of colour and light on the walls, the choir and organ resound against the high vaults, ringing in a new musical era. Chamber choir NEXT, together with Dorien Schouten, brings a cross-section of the French music tradition from the previous century for choir and organ in this programme, with music from Duruflé and Daniel-Lesur to Escaich, Briggs and Hakim.
Special guest during the concert in the Nicolaïkerk is Ko Zwanenburg, organist of the Nicolaïkerk. He will play works by Thierry Escaich and Olivier Messiaen.

Tickets

Website: https://www.kamerkoornext.nl/

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