Oranjewoud: Bruckner Casco
Jun 13
At Oranjewoud Festival, Asko|Schönberg will present two works by award-winning composer Richard Ayres. A unique tribute to Anton Bruckner and the work Entry Island, a part of Islands which was first performed in 2022. The English composer Richard Ayres, who has been working in the Netherlands for decades, previously won the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulenprijs.
Ayres wrote a new work based on Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, which premiered in the Muziekgebouw in September 2024. This work will be reprised at Oranjewoud. Richard Ayres creates an intimate sound biography with sound recordings of ‘things that Bruckner touched’.
Islands is a typical Ayres composition: imaginative, humorous, eclectic, and colourful. At Oranjewoud, Asko|Schönberg will present Entry Island from this idiosyncratic performance. Ayres created these non-existent islands as part of his thought experiment prompted by the COVID pandemic and climate crisis.
Oranjewoud Festival is an accessible, versatile and stimulating musicfestival in the Oranjewoud Park near Heerenveen (Friesland).
Richard Ayres
Richard Ayres