Pianist Anne Ku writes about her piano guitar duo with Dutch guitarist Robert Bekkers as they travel throughout the Netherlands and abroad to share their music with the world.
From mid-October 2010, the duo embarked on a tour of selective cities in the USA: Boston and New England in the Autumn, Duke University, Phoenix, Houston, and San Francisco before so-journing in Maui for the winter season.
One of the reasons for this blog is to show that concerts are a means to bring people together. Concerts can happen anywhere as long as there is a will. This blogs shows the way.
To introduce live “art” music to new audiences, they produce house concerts from their home in central Utrecht. Since 2006, many international musicians have performed in the Monument House Concert Series. In Autumn 2009, they began using their experience to help others produce concerts from their home, office, schools, and other locations not normally used for music performance.
Here is a collection of behind-the-scenes stories and reflections on the value chain of concert productions, from individual practice to final performance, from audience development to sponsorship and fund-raising for future concerts, and other topics in cultural economics and creative entrepreneurship that are necessary to sustain independent music professionals today.
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photo credit: Serge van Empelen at Bethanienklooster, Amsterdam
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