Milestones

  • John Cage Anarchic Harmony Festival (Frankfurt, Sept. 1992)
  • For Philip Guston by Morton Feldman (Febr. 1993) a one-movement piece for flute, percussion and piano lasting 4 1/2 hours
  • Festival Pontino di Musica (Sermoneta, Italy, June 1995) concerts celebrating Aldo Clementi's seventieth birthday
  • the music theatre production Cahier du Soir by Luc Ferrari (Oct. 1995)
  • Morton Feldman retrospective by the Ives Ensemble (Jan./Febr. 1997) with the first Dutch spoken performance of Words and Music by Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldman
  • music theatre production Quelli che restano by Jan van de Putte (Febr. 1999)
  • first integral performance of the cycle Block Beuys by Richard Rijnvos (May 2000)
  • fmsbwtözäu - twelve Dada-acts (October 2000)
  • Morton Feldman's 5 hour String Quartet (II) (Oct./Nov. 2001)
  • ‘Infinite Things’, Music theatre by Gerald Barry and Salvatore Sciarrino (March 2002)
  • ‘John Cage: PURE CHANCE ’, a festival in ten thunderclaps (14 t/m 16 February 2003)
  • Cornelius Cardew - The Great Learning, first Dutch complete performance of this seven hour piece for choir, organ and ensemble, visualized by Wim T. Schippers (April 2006)
  • Untrodden Paths - Ives Ensemble 20 years, with new works by Christopher Fox & Fabio Nieder, work by
    Luc Ferrari and a festive speech with (April 2007)
  • The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit - first Dutch performance of the opera by Gerald Barry in the
    Zaterdagmatinee, Concertgebouw Amsterdam (2 June 2007)
  • Morton Feldman Festival - a four day festival around the work of American composer Morton Feldman in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam (February 2008)
  • Die Kammersängerin - music theatre by Richard Rijnvos on texts by Ernst Jandl, director Jos van Kan (May 2010)