ICRO 2006

ICRO 2006, Early Music Festival and ERTA-NL study day

Recorder orchestra Praetorius is organising the second International Congress on the Recorder Orchestra, ICRO 2006, in Leiden, from Friday October 13th until Sunday October 15th. ICRO is a special event that, by means of workshops, presentations, lectures, concerts and a fair, offers its participants the opportunity to investigate and experience numerous aspects of the phenomenon of the recorder orchestra. At the same time, for both recorder players and non-recorder players special events are organised in an Early Music Festival: concerts, guided walks in the old town of Leiden spiced up by street musicians and free presentations of recorder ensembles. Finally, on Saturday October 14th, the study day of the Dutch chapter of ERTA is integrated with ICRO. The underlying theme in all activities, that all take place wonderful old buildings in the old town of Leiden, will be music from Rembrandt’s era to coincide with the national celebrations of the painter’s four-hundredth birthday.

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ICRO 2006

ICRO 2006 will focus on exchanges between Recorder Orchestras. There will be ample opportunity to get to know each other and to exchange ideas on questions surrounding instrumentation, repertoire artistic direction and organisation. During ICRO there will also be plenty of opportunity to listen to recorder ensembles, and there will be concerts given by both amateur and professional recorder orchestras and ensembles. The programme will also be interesting for individual recorder players.

Participants will be able to choose from a number of parallel workshops which will be given by teachers from the Netherlands and abroad. The teachers will include amongst others Clea Galhano, Matthias Maute, Saskia Coolen, Peter van Heygen, Adrian Brown, Paul Leenhouts, Bart Spanhove, Miako Klein, Hester Groenleer and Bas Dudok van Heel.

There will also be workshops aimed specifically at children and younger players. Participants will be able to register for a particular part of ICRO or for a complete package which includes participation in all programmed events and meals. Overnight accommodation can also be arranged via Praetorius.

The activities of the Early Music Festival are open to everybody. They will consist of concerts, free presentations and guided walks through the old town of Leiden, where Rembrandt used to live. The concerts that are programmed are:

• Trio Passaggio, Friday October 13, 20h30, Waalse kerk, Breestraat 64, Leiden
• Dutch Recorder Orchestra Praetorius, Saturday October 14, Marekerk, Lange Mare 48, Leiden
• The Royal Wind Music, Sunday October 15, Lutherse kerk, Hooglandse kerkgracht 28, Leiden

• Saturday October 14, 13h00: "Peter and the Wolf" by students of Rosalyn de Groot
• Saturday October 14, 16h30: Coro Monte Zavelli conducted by Hildegard Zavelberg
• Zondag October 15, 14h00: Ensemble of the Leiden music school conducted by Susanne Gersch

This year the annual study day of the Dutch chapter of the European Recorder Teachers Association will be integrated with ICRO 2006. There will be special workshops that could be of special interest for members of ERTA; however it is also possible to select (other) workshops of ICRO 2006.

International Congress on the Recorder Orchestra 2006 Leiden 13 - 15 October 2006