The Rotterdam Ensemble - The ensemble

“The concert of The Rotterdam Ensemble was such an uplifting experience. The communication between conductor, orchestra and audience simply rocked!”

The Sunday times, April 2010

“It is so wonderful to see these young people attain such exacting degrees of excellence!”

The Malta Independent, April 2010

The Rotterdam Ensemble is a group of young musicians convinced of their responsibility to create the best music possible together with a serious reflection on the alternatives to engage with modern society. On every season our main goal is to create and develop programs, concerts and multidisciplinary projects with daring and fresh ideas to popularize classical music.

Unfortunately, orchestral audiences have dropped alarmingly in the last thirty years; it would be ridiculous to blame the music itself for such circumstance!. We are convinced that the problem resides on the archaism of concept in which “classical music” has fallen. The traditional format of a concert is important and meaningful only on institutions established to preserve tradition. New orchestral institutions such as the RE have the responsibility to develop new concepts and find the links between music and its contemporary social environments.

Background

Founded in 2006 by Roberto Beltrán-Zavala and a group of students from the Rotterdams Conservatoire, The Rotterdam Ensemble has developed into a high professional level chamber orchestra, formed by young musicians from nine different nationalities. In the last three years, the RE has performed over twelve concerts per year with music from the baroque period to our days, featuring dozens of young soloists and premiering eight pieces of young composers. Besides that, the RE has performed a number of times outside The Netherlands thanks to an ongoing relation with the International Spring Orchestra Festival in Malta. In this festival, the concerts of the Ensemble have been highly praised by specialized media from all over Europe and have given the RE the opportunity to appear in specialized publications such as the MUSO magazine and The Strad magazine.

Since its origin, the RE has followed a clear ideology and artistic concept that has lead to changes in the performance and programming (chamber-orchestral programs, choice of venues all concerts playing standing, etc), and ongoing collaborations with dancers, video-artists, actors, jazz and pop musicians, etc.

The Rotterdams Dans Academie, Hermes House Band, Lucie Burton, Mark Wigglesworth, Hans Leenders, Florian Maier, Emile Zile and Anne Huser are some of the institutions and artists that have collaborated with the RE in the last three years.


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