DUTCH CLASSICAL TALENT
Every year, Dutch Classical Talent selects four young musicians to tour all major concert venues in The Netherlands. For the 2023/2024 season, they picked Mattias Spee. For his tour program, he wrote several new compositions, which were accompanied by poetry he had written for the occasion.
Poster DCT tour
Photo Credits: Marco Borggreve (2022)
To complement his own music, Spee played compositions by Frederic Chopin, Alexander Scriabin, Francis Poulenc and two newly commissioned pieces from the young composers Gijs Idema and Lisa Weyrauther. Both Idema and Weyrauther are musicians who bridge the gap between jazz and classical music, something they have in common with Spee, which led to a fruitful collaboration. The last concert of the tour took place in TivoliVredenburg and was broadcast by the Concertzender.
Final concert of the tour at TivoliVredenburg
The jury of Dutch Classical Talent described Spee as follows:
“An idiosyncratic and versatile musician, who also improvises and composes. In his playing, his air and his choice of repertoire, you can see his activist and rebellious nature. He doesn’t let anyone tell him what to do and completely sets his own course.”
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