Duo Gross & Schouten in Trondheim (May 2025)
The duo consisting of bass clarinetist Fie Schouten and cellist Katharina Gross is dedicated to a contemporary, international repertoire that treats the instruments in a gestural and primal way and celebrates low frequencies and near-speech sounds with a particular delight in creaking, buzzing and clattering in order to cast them in experimental forms. Katharina Gross and the Dutch composer Jan van de Putte have been working together for many years. The duo begins their first concert season together with new works written for the duo by Jan van de Putte and Seung-Won Oh. The Gift is the title of
Van de Putte’s work. It is about a theatrical dialogue between the two instruments, representing the often difficult and multidimensional process of composing.
Since 2022, the duo performs on tour in Austria, followed by concerts in the Netherlands (nieuwe noten amsterdam, Moderne Muziek Nijmegen a.o.) and concerts and master classes/ workshops in Turkey and Portugal, presenting new works, written for the duo, by Rozalie Hirs and Tolga Tüzün a.o.
“It was a recital-performance* that brought us positive tension, curiosity, smiles, admiration and a lot of emotion, rewarded with many applauses and many callbacks from the performers, a musical afternoon that proved, once again, that sound lives inside matter and is brought to life by the passion of those who propagate it in the Universe.” (part of the review from the concert of Duo Gross & Schouten at the Meridian Festival, written by Sabina Ulubeanu for the ACTUALITATEA MUZICALA [Musical News] Magazine, nr. 12/2024)
Flyer25-26 A5 Schouten & Gross
CONCERTS
17 Oct 2025 (20:15) Korzo, Den Haag
Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten + Kerwin Rolland (electronics)
works by Janco Verduin, Peter Jakober, Rolland-Schouten-Gross
12 Oct 2025 (16:00) Cultbee, Beetsterzwaag
Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten + Chris Watt, Femke van den Bergh
compositions by Jérôme Combier (FR), Janco Verduin, Philip Przybylo (CA/NL), Bianca Diana Popa (RO)
13 Sept 2025 Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht
Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten + Chris Watt
works by Jérôme Combier (FR), Peter Jakober (AT), Philip Przybylo (CA/NL), Bianca Diana Popa (RO)
12 Sept 2025 (21:00) Vondelkerk Amsterdam (festival Muze van Zuid)
Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten + Chris Watt (basklarinet)
works by Jérôme Combier (FR), Janco Verduin, Peter Jakober (AT), Philip Przybylo (CA/NL)
12 Sept 2025 (17:00) Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht
Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten + Pascal Meyer (piano)
24 May 2025 two concerts at Rotvoll Kunstnerkollektiv Trondheim (works by Jakober, Verduin a.o.)
21 May 2025 concert & artist talk at Rotvoll Kunstnerkollektiv Trondheim (in collaboration with nyMusikk Trondheim)
May 2025 artist residency at Lademoen Kunstnerversteder and Rotvoll Kunstnerkollektiv Trondheim/ Norway
13 April 2025 nieuwe noten amsterdam
15 April 2025 De Link Tilburg
25 April 2025 Aubette 1928 Strasbourg
May 2025 Artist Residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim
10–14 Sep 2025 Muze van Zuid Amsterdam & Gaudeamus Festival
11 & 12 Oct 2025 Basklarinet Festijn (NL)
30 April 2024 unerhörte musik berlin
26 May 2024 neue musik st. ruprecht, Wien
1 Nov 2024 CD “bee sage” out
8–10 Nov 2024 Meridian Festival Bukarest
17 Nov 2024 Moderne Muziek Nijmegen (CD presentation “bee sage”)
30 Jan 2023 De Pletterij Haarlem
17 Sep 202
3 Amsterdam Muze van Zuid tickets
premiere Bee sage – Rozalie Hirs
8 Oct 2023 Utrecht KuuB, Gaudeamus tickets
premiere Dyssynchrony – Tolga Tüzün + works by jong composers from Turky, Portugal and South-Korea
16–22 Nov 2023 tour Turkey
Istanbul:
17 nov Bilgi New Music Festival masterclass+concert, location: Energy Museum
18 nov Kadiköy concertseries, Yeldegirmeni Art Center
Izmir:
19 nov Yasar University- masterclass
20 nov New Music Days Izmir-IV concert
kindly supported by Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
6-9 Dec 2023 Tilburg European Clarinet Festival
13–20 Dec 2023 tour Portugal: Dias de Música Electroacústica
14 Dec Lisbon (Incomum) concert
16 Dec Porto (ESMAE) concert
17 Dec Porto CD recording cellomondo
19 Dec Seia (Casa Municipal da Cultura) concert
+ masterclasses/workshops with compositionstudents
kindly supported by Goethe Institute Culture moves Europe
12 Oct 2022 19:00 Karner Hartberg (AT)
13 Oct 2022 20:00 Alte Schmiede Vienna (AT) info
14 Oct 2022 19:00 KunstGarten Graz (AT) info
supported by FPK
The Gift (2022) Jan van de Putte | M
odular 3 (2022) Seung-Won Oh
Aulos (1972) Theo Loevendie | Echo de Cleves A (2020 cello solo), Echo de Cleves B (2020 bass clarinet solo) – Frederik Neyrinck
20 Nov 2022, 15:00 Plein Theater Amsterdam tickets
concertseries Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam, with guest Keren Motseri
Boudewijn Tarenskeen, Dutch premieres: Van de Putte, Seung-Won Oh