Trotse Winnaars Willem Breuker Prijs 2022
Dit jaar ontvangen duo Mike Fentross en Maarten Ornstein samen de Willem Breuker Prijs. Deze prijs wordt tweejaarlijks uitgereikt aan iemand die verwantschap toont met de grenzen verleggende en
inventieve manier van werken van Willem Breuker.
Uit het juryrapport:
“Het duo Maarten Ornstein-Mike Fentross weet het traditionele in de eigen tijd te plaatsen door oude en nieuwe
muziekculturen uit verschillende delen van de wereld subtiel te mengen. Zij stapelen verrassing op verrassing en verkennen de
grenzen tussen West-Europese klassieke muziek, Baltische folklore en improvisatie.”
About
Conductor/lutenist Mike Fentross has largely earned his credits as an early music specialist. He is working all over Europe as a conductor, soloist and basso continuo player and he is professor of lute and basso continuo at the Royal Conservatory The Hague. In 2006 he founded the baroque orchestra La Sfera Armoniosa. About the opening concert of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge the press wrote:
“He is a true conductor, not only in his movements, but also and especially in his musical thought, developed and original, which distinguishes him from many of his colleagues who are considered to be ‘primus inter pares’. Besides a technically perfect performance of his orchestra, his lecture is tempting for its intensity and its theatricality: Fentross increases the contrasts, uses rubati rarely heard in this repertoire and builds powerful nuances which brings to the music a supplementary dimension of sound.” – La Libre Belgique
Mike Fentross 