During this tapas concert, piano duo Scholtes & Janssens will take you on a journey with only highlights from the piano duo repertoire! Audience favourites such as Schubert's Fantasy in f and Ravel's Ma mère l'oye are interspersed with the duo's own favourites, including the rousing music from Stravinsky's Five easy pieces (which are not that easy, by the way), Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and beautiful chorales by Bach. Enjoy delicious tapas during this concert!

A whole new concert for the youngest music lovers! During ‘Swinging with the Animals!’, dancer and dance educator Monica Antezana (Movelab), together with piano duo Scholtes & Janssens, will take you into the animal kingdom of Camille Saint-Saëns. Not only will you listen to the festive music of his Carnival of the Animals, but you may also dance to it, jump like kangaroos, stomp like elephants and sway like the most beautiful birds. Monica shows that you can move delightfully to classical music. Language: Dutch

The Piano Duo Festival Competition is for amateur duos of all ages. During this preliminary round, up to 15 selected duos show their best side on one and/or two grand pianos. The choice of repertoire in the preliminary round is free. An expert jury consisting of piano (duo) specialists Vera Kooper, Gwylim Janssens and Camiel Boomsma will decide which up to five duos will advance to the exciting finals in October. The preliminary round is free admissionable to the public.

Duo Pleyel, consisting of Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr, started a unique project two years ago: recording and performing all of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies in the arrangement for piano four hands by his pupil Carl Czerny. Beethoven entrusted the arrangements to his pupil, and because Czerny knew his teacher inside out, he knew how to masterfully translate the symphonies from orchestra to four hands. Duo Pleyel specialised in the performance practice of Beethoven's time, among others. On this evening, the duo will perform Beethoven's magnificent 6th and 5th symphonies.