Opposite to what one might expect, it is not at all self-evident that musicians and composers engage in a dialogue about the piece they write and perform. On the contrary, it has a...

Stefan Metz, the well-known cello player of the Orlando Quartet and founder of the Dutch String Quartet Academy, gives a masterclass to the promising Matangi Quartet at the Walter ...

Bert Mulder, information expert and adviser to the Dutch government, speaks about the fundamental transition our society is currently going through; as the ‘society of meanin...

“We simply begin by improvising,” says Helena Gaunt.  Whenever they meet, in any setting, Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen simply start by playing.  You can...

How does one exercise improvisation?  Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen have developed a way of beginning they call the Stravinsky exercise: start playing using only a few no...

On September 5, 2007 Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen collaborated with painter Liselot Schut in an improvisation in image and sound.  This post shows excerpts from the film...

Bart van Rosmalen talks about how the collaboration with Helena Gaunt has changed his perspective on improvisation.  He has a lot of experience improvising: “I used to t...

Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen, the initiators of the project Art in conversation, explain where the initial idea for the project came from.  At a conference on music educ...