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OUD [OLD] 5+

Pepijn Meeuws, Emile Visser
Family concert
Sat 2 Nov
Sat 2 Nov

A musical journey: emotional and humorous with light-fingered magic tricks

Credits

Cello Cello: Pepijn Meeuws & Emile Visser cello
Martin Hofstra director
Guido Hagen technician
Jochem Stavenuiter artistic advice
Hester Jolink decor
Pepijn Meeuws concept

Music by George Gershwin, Johan Sebastian Bach, Matthias Bartolomey, Modest Mussorgsky,
Snarky Puppy, Edvard Grieg and Christoph Willibald Gluck

Is old junk worthless, or fun and exciting? Is there music in it? What does loneliness sound like?
OLD is an absurdist musical theatre performance full of old junk, mime, old and new classical
music, jazz(rock) and illusionism. In OLD Emile and Pepijn play on, in, between and with old junk that suddenly
turns out to be much more valuable and fun than expected. They investigate age and loneliness. A
bizarre voyage of discovery with here and there a stray magic trick, for the future from the past.

Two ancient cellos, the tenth edition of the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, and the age of the two
players, form the starting point for the theme of this brand new musical performance.

Biënnale in pictures: day 3

Biënnale in Beeld: Dag 3 Fotografen: Simon van Boxtel, Veerle Bastiaanssen, Jelle Verhoeks Programma
In pictures

Hello Cello | Cello Biënnale Amsterdam

The Cello Biennale 2022 educational programme

Emile Visser

Emile Visser (1973) studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Godfried Hoogeveen and Dmitry Ferschtman. Even before completing his classical study, he already became a member of Zapp4, a string quartet specialised in improvised music, jazz, pop, rock and ethnic music, which has achieved a reputation as one of the most unconventional and groovy string quartets in The Netherlands. Since 2002, Emile has been a regular member of the Metropole Orchestra as well as Metrocelli. He is also a member of Nikitov, an ensemble specialised in Yiddish music. For the Cello Biënnale in 2014, he collaborated with cellist Pepijn Meeuws to create the children’s show Cello! Cello! Ma non Troppo. He was also the soloist of the Hello Cello Orchestra that year and shared the stage with singer Nora Fischer and cellist Annie Tångberg in one of the Late Cello Nights. In 2022, he and Annie Tångberg performed as soloists with the Metropole Orchestra in Bill Laurance’s new double concerto.
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Pepijn Meeuws

Pepijn Meeuws (Roermond, 1974) studied with Jean Decroos and Dmitry Ferschtman at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He has received masterclasses from Steven Isserlis and Frans Helmerson, among others. In 2001, he co-founded Trio Suleika, with which he went on to win various prizes and distinctions, such as the ‘Vriendenkrans’ prize of the Royal Concertgebouw (2002) and the prestigious Kersjesprijs (2007).  In addition to his career as a cellist, Pepijn performs as an actor, magician, and musical saw player. With his colleagues, pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren and violinist Emmy Storms, Pepijn premiered the musical theatre show De Suleika’s en het Mysterie van de Gevoelige Snaar (‘The Suleikas and the Mystery of the Sensitive String’) in November 2011, directed by Jochem Stavenuiter. In 2014, Pepijn produced and performed his own family show Cello! Cello! Ma non troppo, which was commissioned by the Cello Biënnale and in which he collaborated with cellist Emile Visser and director Jochem Stavenuiter. He even built part of the decor for the show himself. Pepijn Meeuws has been a member of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra since 2005. 
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