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‘The best youth band in the world’ is what the English brass band Youth Brass 2000 aspired to be 27 years ago. They seem to have succeeded! Youth Brass 2000 is ruling English champion and ruling [...]

Ingeborg Walinga | Director North Netherlands Orchestra: “Classical music is for everyone, but people sometimes experience hurdles. CityProms and the North Netherlands Orchestra want to try to [...]

The Friesian Youth Orchestra has been performing at the festival ever since CityProms started in 2011. Ybertha Elzinga and Nynke Dijkstra are two young talents who moved up to the big orchestra [...]

The Friesian trumpetist Saleem Khan will receive the second Friesian Emmy award on the first of July. The ceremony award in the Harmonie will go together with performance from Khan himself, [...]

Saturday the 23rd of June will be the start of the tenth edition of the Allan Withington’s Conductors Summer School. Ten national and international student-conductors will come together in [...]

The wind orchestras have always played an important part during CityProms. This year the sector will have an important podium during Grutsk: over 2018 amateur musicians, dancers and singers will [...]

The now 27-year-old Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov internationally broke through at a young age. During the opening concert of CityProms, he will replace the French cellist Gautier Capuçon who [...]

Alice Sara Ott comes from a Japanese-German background and she is one of the most wanted soloists. She often works together with worlds most famous conductors and orchestras. On Sunday the 1st of [...]

Music gives us a good feeling, stimulates our empathy and connects us to ourselves and others. Making music is something that is part of the Friesian DNA. This is becomes very clear when you look [...]