18 October 2026

Looking back on September Me 2026

We look back with great fondness on the tenth edition of the September Me festival, with its ‘she/her’ theme. There were many highlights, including the Opening Concert, the fantastic performances by Artist in Focus Ayanna Witter Johnson, a packed auditorium where Zainab Afailal and the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra brought the house down in Arabische Divas, and LUDWIG and Boys Won’t Be Boys with their moving performance A Celebration of Queerness in Classical Music at De Lieve Vrouw. But we also enjoyed the Flint foyer, filled with art centred on the theme of ‘she/her’; the premiere of Happily Ever After by Remy Alexander, created in response to Anne-Maartje Lemereis’s This is (not) a Fairy Tale; beautifully played and sung by the ADAM Quartet, with Anne-Maartje Lemereis on piano and Sterre Konijn; the moving LIJF by Kaya van Gangelen; and so much more!

We’ve shared the stage with some fantastic artists on a number of occasions! Here’s a list of our concerts:

The Opening Concert with Ayanna Witter-Johnson
They Have Waited Long Enough with Katharine Dain, Raphaela Danksagmüller, Agata Kruszewska, Maria Martpay and Koen Keevel
They Have Waited Long Enough with Katharine Dain, Elif Canfezâ Gündüz, Gośka Isphording and Raphaela Danksagmüller
Dinner Concert ‘Zij aan Zij’ with Rodante van der Waal
They Have Waited Long Enough with Katharine Dain, Raphaela Danksagmüller, Anna voor de Wind and Osama Abdulrasol

Would you like to relive the experience with us? Take a look at the photos from our performance below, or have another listen to the Opening Concert, broadcast live on NTR Avondconcert on 24 september 2026. Want to stay up to date with September Me? We’d love to have you on board – sign up for the September Me newsletter.