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String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam - The world’s largest string quartet festival
Tour highlights
- 15 concerts, world-class ensembles – the greatest string quartet gathering in the world.
- All performances are at the excellent modern Muziekgebouw, which overlooks the River IJ.
- The hotel is immediately adjacent– time spent travelling to the concerts is eliminated.
- Talks by musicologist Leo Samama, writer, lecturer, composer and co-founder of the Netherlands String Quartet Academy.
- Walks and visits within Amsterdam with a local art historian.
The Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam is the première festival of its kind, a gathering of world-class quartets and enthusiastic listeners in one of the loveliest cities in Europe. Immersive, intensive and inspiring, the festival embraces both tradition and innovation, and presents the familiar and the unknown. Mainly, however, it is a sublime sequence of some of the finest music ever composed.
From the week-long festival we have selected 15 concerts of varying formats and durations, some starting at 9.30am and some at 10.30pm. If this sounds a formidably busy schedule, be comforted by the proximity of the hotel: you could be in your room within four or five minutes of the players leaving the stage.
The concerts take place in the three halls of the Muziekgebouw and BIMhuis, an adventurous building by Danish architects 3XN which opened in 2005, and is located in the docks just beyond the main railway station. A huge glass wall affords views across the River IJ, Europe’s busiest port in the 17th century.
An Amsterdam-based art historian leads guided visits to art galleries and historic buildings of the city.
Practicalities
Tickets for 15 concerts; travel within Amsterdam by coach or taxi; hotel accommodation as described below; breakfasts and four dinners with wine, water, coffee; all admissions; all tips; all taxes; the services of the lecturer, tour manager and local guide.
Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre: a modern, comfortable hotel located directly next door to the Muziekgebouw.
Participation in the walks and visits requires the fitness to be expected of everyday walking and stair climbing, and to be able to walk at least a couple of miles unaided.
Between 10 and 22 participants.
Before booking, please refer to Smartraveller to ensure you are happy with the travel advice for the destination(s) you are visiting. As a British company we follow the advice of the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.
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