It’s a pleasure to give upcoming talent with original ideas and a promising artistic background a helping hand. And that’s exactly what IYAP is for: to boost young ensembles, helping them grow into the stars of tomorrow. With intensive coaching from international early music specialists, the selected ensembles draw a variety of fresh new insights and tonnes of energy from their stay in Antwerp. But first comes this concert day, with short showcases where the dawning stars of tomorrow demonstrate the best of what they can do. Cheer for your favourites after a brilliant performance and discover the festival bills of the future before anyone else.
Café 1830
?Café 1830, founded in 2023, is a clarinet and guitar duo dedicated to exploring the repertoire and artistic world of 1830s salon culture, performed on historical instruments. Making music in domestic settings or inviting musicians to perform in the context of a bourgeois salon for an audience was a very common way of experiencing music, with arrangements of popular pieces for smaller ensembles being entirely natural.
Program
Sonata Concertata by Niccolò Paganini | Waltzes, Op. 69 by Frédéric Chopin | Schwanenlied, Op. 1 No. 1 by Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn | Sérénade by Iwan Müller
Performers
Marguerite Neves, 19th-century clarinet | Elodie Bruzstowski, 19th-century guitar