No fewer than three different cello ensembles will take the stage, with and without cello soloists. Asko|Schönberg, Ensemble CelloWercken, and the Cello Biennale Band will perform new compositions developed in collaboration with the Amsterdam Cello Biennale. A special highlight is the revival of long-lost scores by the renowned cello octet Conjunto Ibérico, which continued as Cello8tet Amsterdam in 2008. Jeroen den Herder, a former member of the octet, discovered the scores by chance in Spain and brought them back to Zutphen. Metrocelli, the four outstanding cellists of the Metropole Orkest, will give a preview of their later Late Night show. And to conclude: a fiery finale featuring phenomenal cellists Denis Shapovalov and Joël Siepman, performing Shapovalov’s own composition Paganini Rocks, written for two cello soloists and cello octet.

A sizzling evening of cello music, placing the metropolitan cello of the 21st century firmly in the spotlight!