Young Artist Platform

The programmes of the participating duos will be published in May.

Annett Andriesen / chairman of the jury
Annett Andriesen studied singing with Jos Burcksen, Meinard Kraak and Ré Koster, among others. In 1975, she was one of the prize winners of the International Vocal Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch, where she would be director from 2007 to 2018. After her studies, she performed opera roles in productions at home and abroad and sang in premieres of operas by Dutch composers.
Andriesen taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, served on various juries at international competitions, including Dutch Classical Talent and the IVC, and is a regular panellist for the NPO Radio 4 programme Diskotabel. She is also a board member of several cultural foundations, active as a producer, advisor to the Council for Culture and advisor to the Arts Committee of the Province of Fryslân.

Tamar Brüggemann / co-director Wonderfeel
Tamar Brüggemann was brought up with a love of (early) music and played flugelhorn in the village brass band. She studied Dutch and Musicology in Utrecht and Berlin. Already during her studies, she worked for the Festival of Early Music Utrecht, where she held a wide range of positions over the years. From 2013 to 2016, she was business director of Holland Baroque. During that period, the idea for a multi-day open-air festival featuring classical music but with the atmosphere of a pop festival like Lowlands was born. That festival became Wonderfeel, which had its first edition in 2015 and of which she has been co-director since its inception.

Hans Eijsackers / piano
Hans Eijsackers studied at the conservatories of Amsterdam and The Hague, and at the European Mozart Academy in Kraków. His teachers were Gérard van Blerk, Jan Wijn and György Sebök. He won prizes at the European Piano Competition and received the Silver Vriendenkrans of the Concertgebouw. He is currently a professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, where in recent years he developed the curriculum for the new master's specialisation Lied.
Eijsackers performs frequently as a soloist, chamber musician and song pianist, and forms an inspired song duo with Henk Neven. As a jury member and master class teacher, he is a regular guest at home and abroad and regularly visits Lithuania as 'ambassador for the art song'. In addition, Eijsackers is artistic director of the International Student Song Duo Competition in Groningen, which took place for the seventh time in November 2024. Since 2022, he has been the artistic director of the festival together with Henk Neven.

Henk Neven / bass-baritone
Henk Neven is one of the most inspired song interpreters of his generation. He received the Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship, participated in the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme and was awarded the Dutch Music Prize, the highest award given to a musician working in classical music by the Ministry of OCW.
Neven works with renowned orchestras and ensembles, has performed several major opera roles and performs song recitals with leading pianists such as James Baillieu, Malcolm Martineau and his regular pianist Hans Eijsackers. Neven and Eijsackers have since released four CDs that received rave reviews. Besides his busy schedule of performances and master classes at home and abroad, Neven also regularly sits on the jury of international vocal competitions and is principal study teacher at Codarts Conservatoire Rotterdam. Since 2022, he and pianist Hans Eijsackers have formed the artistic director of the festival.

Olga Pashchenko / fortepiano
Olga Pashchenko studied fortepiano, modern piano and harpsichord at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow, after which she continued her studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Meanwhile, Pashchenko is one of today's most versatile musicians who can be heard during performances worldwide as (forte) pianist, harpsichordist and organist. Her passionate personality infuses her playing with virtuosity and a wealth of colour, with a keen eye for the broad repertoire written for these instruments. Outside her full concert schedule, Pashchenko teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory of Ghent.

Kenne Peters / programmer
Kenne Peters graduated from the Music Theatre programme at ArtEZ in Arnhem. Since 2016, he has worked as classical music programmer at Musis & Stadstheater Arnhem and combines this position with the same appointment at Stadsschouwburg and De Vereeniging Nijmegen. Peters also participates in various juries, such as Dutch Classical Talent, De Ovatie (the classical music prize of the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors) and the Keep an Eye Production Prize. In 2022, he was guest programmer at festival Wonderfeel.

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