The academic year of 2016-2017, I took place in the board of Eindhoven’s student music association Quadrivium. As the commissioner of Ensuite, I was responsible for the symphony orchestra that is part of the association. Together with my orchestra committee, I organized 3 concerts. A selection of activities and tasks were to collaborate with the conductor, concert locations and external partners (as Studium Generale Eindhoven, Philharmonie Zuid Nederland, Het Nieuwe Theater, Muziek op de Dommel, ESTV Doppio), raise funding for concerts, choose repertoire and be the contact person of the orchestra. Next to that organizing a lot of social activities for the members was part of the fun.

One of the concerts I organized was ‘The Unfinished Concert’ and was completely in line with the vision I created for the orchestra: to distinguish ourselves from the other symphony orchestras in Brabant by doing diverse projects, outside the traditional identity of symphony orchestras. My view for this concert was to create an evening experience where everything was taken care of (dinner in collaboration with Sectie Claire, concert and drinks), but in an ‘unfinished’ atmosphere: the empty industrial manufacturing hall of Club C, at Sectie C, Eindhoven. For this project I also designed all promotion materials myself. During the evening itself both the dinner and concert location were sold out.

Photo by Sjoerd van Bavel