Kate Moore is an internationally acclaimed composer. Her works are performed by Asko|Schönberg, Amsterdam Cello Octet, Bang on a Can, Icebreker, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble Offspring, the Australian String Quartet, The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor, among others. In 2017, Kate won the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for her composition The Dam. In 2018, she was festival composer during November Music and in the 2018/19 season, together with the Herz Ensemble she founded, she was composer in residence at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in the series ‘Zielsverwanten’. In 2022, she won the Gieskes-Strijbis Podiumsprijs.
Kate received her PhD from the Sydney University Conservatorium of Music, her Master’s degree from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and her Bachelor’s degree in composition and electroacoustic composition from the Australian National University in Canberra, where she also received the University Medal. Kate is a past recipient of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, the Tanglewood Composition Fellowship, and the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.
Mees Vervuurt (2000) is a composer and director based in Amsterdam. He graduated with a BA in ‘Music & Performance Art’ and ‘Composition’ from Utrecht Conservatory in 2022, and from the Alternative Conservatoire in London in 2024.
Mees’ works have been performed at stages and festivals such as O. Festival, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Tête-à-Tête Festival, Philharmonie de Luxembourg, Frascati Theatre, November Music, and Gaudeamus Festival. Currently, Mees works in the music, performance, and theatre fields in the Netherlands and abroad, creating site-specific music performances that move among genres, roles, and disciplines. His most recent works, A Myth for Piano (2024), VACUÜM (2023), STABAT MATER (2022), and Sometimes I Visualize Myself Back in the Belly of My Mother (2021), are characteristic for their interdisciplinary, ambiguous nature.
Mees creates poetic worlds in which the audience slowly disappears. These worlds are where sound, music, painting-like images, and movement serve almost sacred experiences. Music and movement flow into each other, revealing how inseparably connected they are. The space breathes, and the voice and body become part of the architecture.
Jurjen Alkema is an audiovisual and lighting designer, specialized in video projection. His work is characterized by the use of video mapping and light to create a visual world in the theater or on location. He has worked as a designer and as an independent artist for a large number of different theater productions, festivals, concerts and museums. He has recently done projects with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, harpist Remy van Kesteren, light festival The Hague Highlights, Metropole Orchestra, ASKO Ensemble, comedian Tim Fransen and Oranjewoud Festival.
Until 2021, Jurjen Alkema was part of the collective Blauwe Uur, with which he was active for Amsterdam Light Festival, Van Gogh Museum, Light night Leeds, Luminale Frankfurt and a large number of theater, pop and dance festivals. The collaboration with Helena Basilova has previously led to programs for De Hermitage, Oranjewoud Festival and the program Crystalline, a visual concert based on spectral music.
