Minimal music, maximum impact

Powerful and intoxicating

Let the hypnotising pulses and shifting patterns of minimalism entrance you. Emerging in the sixties in America with pioneers like Philip Glass, this compositional style soon sent shockwaves throughout the world of contemporary art music. Dutch musicians like Simeon ten Holt were among those swayed to its cause, finding a personal musical language in the effect created by repeating formulas. Julia Wolfe, one generation their junior, discovered ways to employ the techniques of minimalism to give her compositions maximum expressive power.

  • Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terribles

    Katia and Marielle Labèque
    Sun 18 Jan / 14:15
    Concertzaal
    Sun 18 Jan ’26
    14:15
    Tickets
  • Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields

    Vlaams Radiokoor
    Sun 10 May / 16:00
    Concertzaal
    Sun 10 May ’26
    16:00
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  • Canto Ostinato

    Four women at the piano
    Tue 30 Jun / 20:15
    Concertzaal
    Tue 30 Jun ’26
    20:15
    Tickets