Project Pitches
Classical:NEXT Project Pitches are targeted, fast-moving opportunities for creators and those on the lookout for new creations, a ‘seek and find’ for collaboration and inspiration. This format allows representatives from ensembles, music theatre productions and music projects to offer rapid insight into their current offerings.
2025 Project Pitches
Project Pitch
A cutting-edge experience for VR
What if anyone could play music in the concert hall? Concerts of the Future invites you to sit on stage in a cutting-edge VR experience, performing alongside musicians – no experience required.
Presenter: Dr. Ciaran Frame
May 12, 2025, 16:30
- 17:45
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Why do we long for connections? With “Let’s Play: Connection Loading”, Godot Komplex, Ella Estrella Tischa, and Christina Mäckelburg created a hybrid concert project exploring connections with oneself, the environment, and others.
Presenter: Johannes Worms
May 12, 2025, 16:30
- 17:45
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Habūb (Writings of Sand and Water) is an immersive experience combining sound, live music, video mapping, and performance.
Presenter: Prof. Carmen Gil Vrolijk
May 12, 2025, 16:30
- 17:45
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Led by internationally acclaimed artist Rachel Jones, Hey, Maudie radically redefines creative models in opera by combining literature, poetry, music and fashion.
Presenter: Rachel Jones
May 12, 2025, 16:30
- 17:45
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Mobilephoneorchestra.com (MPO) is an inclusive concept for contemporary classical music, engaging youth with smartphones in expressive performances with professional orchestras/ensembles/soloists.
Presenter: Anders Lind
May 12, 2025, 16:30
- 17:45
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
The Game is an innovative operatic stage work by British-Turkish composer Elif Nur Karlıdağ, blending opera with a narrative-driven video game to push the boundaries of both art forms.
Presenter: Elif Nur Karlıdağ
May 12, 2025, 16:30
- 17:45
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Experience the Future of Creativity
OK AI is a mobile AI-powered concert venue where artificial intelligence collaborates with musicians and visual artists to create an immersive, interactive experience, redefining the boundaries of live performance and creative partnership.
Presenter: Dominique Vleeshouwers
May 12, 2025, 16:30
- 17:45
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
With “KULT”, the Orchester im Treppenhaus questions concert habits and establishes new rituals: Twenty-three musicians and a conductor unleash the concert hall – and the audience.
Presenter: Thomas Posth
May 13, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Inner Life is both a composition and an alchemical formula—a game and an artistic experiment. Wim Henderickx (1962-2022) crafted a seven-chapter score, each lasting seven minutes, for a core ensemble of seven musicians.
Presenter: Maja Lozic
May 13, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Hyperreal Immersive Sound
Imagine the space transformed into a whimsical, musical forest through sound; melodies dance around the audience like birds, strings envelop the audience as forest mist, the air shakes as a bassline thunders across the ground… This is ‘Ravel in the Forest’.
Presenter: Burke Turner
May 13, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Presenting fantastical, experimental, collaborative and placed-based events that extend your ears in unexpected ways through warped grooves, evocative soundscapes, augmented instruments, and found objects.
Presenter: Prof. Vanessa Tomlinson
May 13, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Let’s follow the Dutch example and create an international Composers’ Day to honour and celebrate living composers.
Presenter: Esther Gottschalk
May 13, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Immersive music celebrating neurodiversity
Double-ARIA nominated pianist/composer Nat Bartsch presents Forever Changed: a suite of ambient lullabies exploring her autistic/ADHD identity.
Presenter: Nat Bartsch
May 13, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Marceline merges contemporary dance and baroque music (with a string quartet, a dancer and a soprano) in a poetic and immersive scenography with lots of technology and participation for all kinds of audience, including babies and toddlers.
Presenter: Albert Vilà
May 13, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
One-hour space opera in motion manga.
“Beethoven Wars, a fight for peace” is a high-tech immersive scenic project in motion manga, built on Beethoven’s stage music “König Stephan op.117” and “Die Ruinen von Athen op.113”, performed live by the Insula orchestra and choir accentus.
Presenter: David Lehodey
May 14, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
A cross-disciplinary performance in the museum
Nestled in museums and galleries, a versatile cast creates a dialogue between the transience of the performing arts and the enduring nature of the visual arts, where the gaze of the spectator adds the final brushstroke.
Presenter: Maja Lozic
May 14, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
A sonic and visual feast for the senses
A Book of Hours is a meditation on the mystery of time and the ways we spend our days, combining a world of projected movement and a quirky live musical score.
Presenter: Tamara Kohler
May 14, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
A programme of music by and about trailblazing Japanese women, featuring Francesca Le Lohé’s song cycle for satsuma biwa performer Akiko Kubota.
Presenter: Francesca Le Lohé
May 14, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
Garden of Vanished Pleasures is a multimedia, staged song-cycle devised and directed by Tim Albery, with music by composers Cecilia Livingston and Donna McKevitt.
Presenter: Lawrence Cherney
May 14, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
An enchanting reflection on a child’s emotions in this sensitive yet powerful project by one of Poland’s leading wind quintets.
Presenter: Alicja Kieruzalska
May 14, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
Project Pitch
A Road to Wesleyville is a project that brings together traditional Western Classical Music and Indigenous fiddling culture.
Presenter: Elissa Lee
May 14, 2025, 14:00
- 15:15
Colosseum
, Kino 7
