our take on classical music
The act of listening is a sacred act which takes us outside of ourselves and points us to another world.
Interlude concerts are like imaginary landscapes painted with the use of literature, visual and educational elements that help us to hear more in music.
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Flow
Music of Philip Glass
How did the invention of repetitive music forever change the understanding and meaning of music and its performance capabilities?
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symmetry
Music of J. Haydn // J.S. Bach // W.A. Mozart and Arvo Pärt
Symmetry captivates us by its universal appeal and profound impact on our perception. The question is: how does symmetry transcend through music?
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Sorrow
Music of W.A. Mozart // L. van Beethoven // F. Schubert
What messages does Schubert’s music hide and how different listening to Schuber’s music is knowing his life’s sorrows?
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admiration
Music of A. Webern // Florence Price //Carter Pann // B. Smetana
Music, before it becomes music, always exists as something else - it can embody an idea, thought or human experience. Through an overlay of context, we give you an option to explore the composer’s world where the feeling of admiration transpired.
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the inner world
Music by Charles Ives // Ralph Vaughan Williams // Henryk Mikołaj Górecki // Toru Takemitsu
The learned terms are of little use when we attempt to seize the naked experience. With the music and written word we are on a quest to communicate with one another - against the obsession with reasoning.
sound studies
Interlude concerts are part of a multiflorous movement exploring the ways we participate in art.
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F. Chopin ballade in f minor
Creative reactions on the streets of Amsterdam
coming soon
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S.Rachmaninov: Symphony no. 2 mvt 3 |
imaginative listening at our home studio
coming soon
our artists
Sara Kalinowska
VIOLIN
What is my relationship with Interlude and music?
I am constantly creating, re-shaping and strengthening my relationship with music. It continuously wants to unfold in different ways. Interlude is my path to meet music on a very unique level, somewhere where I feel more like myself.
When I imagine my dream performance…
I’m out of my head and bodily experience and I’m being my ears and my heart.
My first music memory
My first music memory comes from the house where I grew up - in the evening I often danced and sang with my father who was playing popular songs on the piano. Our living room’s floor was covered with a gray carpet and I remember feeling the textile under my feet while dancing and tapping to the music. I remember these moments as feeling very safe and playful but also silly and careless - just letting the music carry me through my movements.
When I imagine my dream performance…
I’m on stage, where light and sound meet, and the audience feels what I mean to say through my music.
My first music memory
Singing The Cucumber Song at preschool and wondering why everyone was so amazed.
What is my relationship with Interlude and music?
I look for the joy of synesthesia, new visions, and ways to share them with the audience.
Aleksandra Gorgol
VIOLA
Simon Velthuis
CELLO
When I imagine my dream performance…
When I imagine my dream performance I see myself on stage at the kleine zaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam surrounded by musical friends. We would play Schubert’s quintet with 2 cellos.
What is my relationship with Interlude and music?
Since my early youth music has been an important factor in life - to me it’s about expressing feelings I couldn’t possibly put into words. Every different musical piece and genre creates a different emotion in me.
My first music memory
my parents took me to see shows of the musical theater for kids quite often. At one of them I remember we could be on stage and climb the stage set. This combination between the music and fooling around made quite an impression on my 4-year old self.
When I imagine my dream performance…
I imagine a stage alive with musicianship, where every voice finds space to speak and listen in harmony.
What is my relationship with Interlude and music?
I look for flexibility and continuity in music—lines that breathe together, seamlessly intertwined.
My first music memory
My first music memory is of performing at eight years old in eastern Turkey, feeling the quiet triumph of my first applause.