On 9 September, Matrix [Centre for New Music], in collaboration with Kunstenpunt, launched de toonbank. The counter brings together concerts of new music in one well-organised calendar. It also publishes weekly articles offering additional insights.

De Toonbank relies on intense cooperation with a wide range of cultural players in Flanders and Brussels, including Bozar. MATRIX [Centre for New Music] is responsible for the development, management and maintenance and also contributes its own content. Kunstenpunt supports the project in word and deed. The concert calendar is compiled on the basis of the UiT database and currently contains more than 150 concerts.

First Bozar publication now online

The first Bozar article to appear in de toonbank is an extended essay on Caroline Shaw. Bozar is devoting a portrait to the American composer-musician this season, highlighting her string quartets, vocal work, percussion work and love of early music. Today, Caroline Shaw is one of the most influential composers in contemporary classical music, forging baroque, pop and modernist music into an idiosyncratic whole.  Three times she will come to Brussels herself and play with Kamus Quartet, So Percussion and Gabriel Kahane. A total of six concerts will feature her music. 

Read the essay (dutch only) here.