history
history
Information about the history of De Doelen in Rotterdam, which goes back centuries.
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North Sea Jazz
The Newport Jazz Festival is the predecessor of the current North Sea Jazz Festival. It took place annually from 1966 to 1975 in De Doelen. Great American jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie and Cannonball Adderley came to Rotterdam for this.
Gergiev Festival
When he took office as chief conductor in 1995, Valery Gergiev and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra took the initiative for a multi-day musical event with great ambitions. A year later they present the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival in de Doelen
chamber music society
The series 'Famous String Quartets' has become an integral part of De Doelen. Something that seemed unthinkable in Rotterdam in the early twentieth century. The Chamber Music Society Rotterdam (KMV) started the engine of chamber music in 1907. But the real advance of chamber music took place after the opening of the Doelen in 1966.
The DoelenEnsemble was founded in 1990 as a resident ensemble of the Doelen and has grown into much more than that in thirty years: a leading player in the field of contemporary classical music, both in Rotterdam and beyond. Surprise, innovation and connection are central to the mission of the DoelenEnsemble.
It was cheap, alternative and in the Doelen: the knack concerts. For 2 guilders and 50 cents you could listen to classical music in the hall of the concert hall.
Shortly after the opening in 1966, free coffee concerts were regularly given in the Hal Grote Zaal. The concerts attracted a large audience. Now this has been further developed into lunch concerts. De Doelen still regularly presents free lunch concerts. This way you can enjoy the most beautiful concerts during the lunch break.