calendar of events



Every week we teach music at home to children.



14, 19, 28 March, 4, 10, 18, 25 April, 1, 9, 16, 22, 28 May, 5, 13, 19 and 27 June 2012 music lessons for babies at day nursery Banka Regenboog just around the corner



4 May 2012
Memorial Day at Uitvaartverzorging (funeral arrangements) Barbara in Utrecht



project for elderly people Muziek maken doe je samen (Make music together), musical encounters with subsidy from RCOAK and Fonds Sluyterman van Loo

7 March 2012 verzorgingshuis Transwijk in Utrecht
20 March 2012 verzorgingshuis Ewoud in IJsselstein



photo, 4 viola da gamba's (viols), stringed instruments from the renaissance, in a temporary park at Kop van Lombok in Utrecht
project voor seniors Muziek in verzorgingshuizen (Music in elderly people's homes), with subsidiy from Rabo DichtbijFonds

27 March and 24 April 2012 verpleeghuis Vijverhof in Harmelen, where
small-scale living came instead of traditional nursing home care



project for elderly people Je bent nooit te oud om te leren (You are never too old to learn), musical encounters with subsidy from Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie and K.F. Hein Fonds

2 and 16 March 2012 music and encounter for independent living seniors in Dienstencentrum West in our district Lombok
5, 17 March, 2 april, 7 May and 4 June 2012 verzorgingshuis Tolsteeg in Utrecht
26 March, 23 April, 11 June and 9 July 2012 verzorgingshuis Bartholomeus Gasthuis in Utrecht







where we played



9 February 2012
beginning of 'Samen beter in Transwijk' in verpleeghuis Albert van Koningsbruggen in Utrecht, with the goal a better contact between elderly people and young people in Transwijk. We played 'Ik wil met de nacht op reis' and 'Ik zeg ja ja ja' with 3 residents of verzorgingshuis Transwijk on the one tone bamboo flutes and we sang.


7, 15, 22 en 28 February 2012
music lessons for babies at day nursery Banka Regenboog just around the corner


20 January 2012
10th anniversary of chess club Hot-Spirit in community centre Spirit in our district Lombok


20 January 2012 up to and including June 2013
project for elderly people Je bent nooit te oud om te leren (You are never too old to learn), musical encounters with met subsidy from Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie and K.F. Hein Fonds

20 January, 3 and 17 February 2012 music and encounter for independent living seniors in Dienstencentrum West in our district Lombok
23 January 2012 verzorgingshuis Bartholomeus Gasthuis in Utrecht
6 February 2012 verzorgingshuis Tolsteeg in Utrecht


18, 25 January, 1, 8, 15 en 29 February 2012
music lessons for children at Taalschool het Mozaïek in Utrecht,
made possible by Jeugdcultuurfonds (Youth culture foundation)


19 December 2011 till May 2013
project for seniors Muziek in verzorgingshuizen (Music in elderly people's homes), with subsidiy from Rabo DichtbijFonds

19 December 2011 Christmas celebration at De Meerstroom in Vleuten, a small-scale living facilities in a residential area for people from 60 years and older, who need support and care, but who want to live as independent as possible
17 January and 21 February 2012 Vijverhof in Harmelen, where
small-scale living came instead of traditional nursing home care


26 November 2011
open doors Barbara Uitvaartverzorging in Utrecht


20 November 2011
Members of Rabobank Utrecht voted. We got the second prize, € 7500 subsidy, from
Rabo DichtbijFonds for our project muziek in verzorgingshuizen(music in elderly people's homes), see also contact & muziek. Wendy van Lombox, a website with news from our district, wrote a message about it.


4, 11, 26 October and 2 november 2011
music lessons for kinderen from 8 and 9 years old at Taalschool het Mozaïek in Utrecht


27 September 2011
We organised a musical encounter in the afternoon at Muntplein in our district Lombok, on the waterfront. We wanted to do something nice because of our taking in a competition from Rabobank Utrecht, to get subsidy from RaboDichtbijFonds, see contact & muziek.
We played viola da gamba quartet, lute solo, lute quartet, bamboo flutes quartet.
Adults and children from our neighbourhood, played on the viola da gamba and the lute. The youngest, Yma, was nearly three years old and comes for music lessons in the meantime.
People from our neighbourhood, adults and children also played a melody together on bamboo flutes of one tone.


4 September 2011
musical intermezzo on the one tone bamboo flutes 'Christ ist erstanden' (Christ the Lord has risen) during a debate about culture participation at the Utrecht Uitfeest
photo, bamboo flute quartet on 4 September 2011


18 August 2011
We played music in Amersfoort for residents of Geinsche Hof from Nieuwegein, who got evacuated because of a fire on the 27th of June.


24 June 2011
churchnight. We played in the Antoniuskerk at the Kanaalstraat in Utrecht.


29 May 2011
day of the Muntpark
workshops with music at the Muntsluizen in Utrecht, see photos day of the Muntpark.


15 May 2011
music in the garden of a former Carthusian monastery in Utrecht Hof van Chartreuse


2 May 2011 till June 2012
project for elderly people Muziek maken doe je samen (Make music together), 48 musical encounters in 5 elderly people's homes with subsidy from RCOAK and Fonds Sluyterman van Loo

2, 23 May, 4, 11 and 16 August 2011 verzorgingshuis Schutsmantel in Bilthoven
4 May, 6 June, 6 July, 3, 30 August, 3, 31 October, 28 November 2011, 4 January and 14 February 2012 verzorgingshuis Ewoud in IJsselstein
6 May, 4, 7, 18, 26, 27 July, 5 August and 14 September 2011 verzorgingshuis Zuylenstede in Utrecht
31 May, 13 July, 17 August, 13 September, 10 October, 21 November, 29 December 2011, 30 January and 7 February 2012 verzorgingshuis Transwijk in Utrecht
1, 11, 20, 29 July, 8 and 15 August 2011 verzorgingshuis Heerewegen in Zeist


11 February 2011
We played for the second time in the classroom from Nelly, a friend of us, for the children from group 1 and 2 from the Jan Nieuwenhuyzenschool in our district Lombok in Utrecht.


10 January, 14 February, 14 March, 11 April, 9 May and 14 June 2011
musical encounter in living room from De Lichtkring, a residential home for the elderly (in Dutch: verzorgingshuis) in Utrecht from Aveant


4 January up to and including 15 March 2011 extended schoolday
On 10 Tuesday afternoons between 15:15 and 16:15 we teached music to a group of children of 4 and 5 years old
at the Jan Nieuwenhuyzenschool in Lombok, Utrecht. This school is located in our district, at 5 minutes walking from our house.



26 December 2010
silent walk (in Dutch: stiltewandeling)
The local authority is working together with Milieucentrum Utrecht, Stichting Klank and
Platform van Utrechtse natuur- en milieuorganisaties to indicate and protect silent areas in the city
to make people conscious of the importance of silence and rest.

Because of that Riek Westerhof from Stichting Klank organised a stiltewandeling in the city together with
Trudie Jongkind from Milieucentrum Utrecht on Christmas Sunday.
We played music in the beginning and at the end of the walk.


21 December 2010
We played bamboo flutes, during the longest night of the year, on the Lombok lightday.
At this gathering of inhabitants and organisations from Lombok, organised by Slinger voor Lombok,
we also sang Silent night four-part.


23 November and 14 December 2010
2 musical encounters in living rooms from De Lichtkring, a residential home for the elderly in Utrecht from Aveant.


14 November 2010
festive opening Buurtsport Leidsche Rijn in Utrecht,
een neighbourhood sportschool which wants to use sport to bring people together.
They asked us, because they wanted to give people a different and new.


29 October 2010
We played for the second time with our lute quartet and on our one tone bamboo flutes in Marieke's classroom, for the children from group 7 and 8 from the Jan Nieuwenhuyzenschool in our district Lombok in Utrecht.


8 October 2010
We played in the classroom from Nelly, a friend of us, for the children from group 1 and 2 from the Jan Nieuwenhuyzenschool in our district Lombok in Utrecht. Wonderful how beautiful children of 4 and 5 years old plucked on the small lute, which was just built.


3, 6 and 10 October 2010

Music workshop during a medieval drawing project in Amsterdam


2 October 2010
Bamboo flute workshop at the organic bamboo nursery Randijk in Leusden


24 September 2010
We played with our viola da gamba (viol) quartet in Marieke's classroom, for the children from group 7 and 8 from the Jan Nieuwenhuyzenschool in our district Lombok in Utrecht. Very special how beautiful the children played on the small viola da gamba and with attention.


12 September 2010
Cultural and car-free Sunday in collaboration with Riek Westerhof of Stichting Klank.


13 June 2010
Open doors day at the Randijk organic bamboo nursery in Leusden, see photos.


12 June 2010
Music and Flower festival in the Anglican church in Utrecht. Fenna (7), Janne (8) and Sanne (8)
who have lessons with us, played music on our home-made single-tone bamboo flutes. See photos.


16 March up to and including 16 November 2010
59 musical encounters in living rooms of 12 nursing homes and residential homes for the elderly from AxionContinu for the project Muziek dichtbij (Music close to you):

- Albert van Koningsbruggen (18x)
- De Bijnkershoek (8x)
- De Componist (2x)
- De Drie Ringen (3x)
- 't Huis aan de Vecht (3x)
- De Ingelanden (4x)
- Isselwaerde (4x)
- Mariënstein (1x) in IJsselstein
- De Schutse (2x) in Lopik
- Tolsteeg (4x)
- Voorhoeve (8x)
- De Wartburg (2x)

You can watch some photos from a few homes.


30 January 2010
De Keizershof in Utrecht
De Keizershof is an apartment complex where people who need care can live independently,
no matter their age or the level of care required.


13 December 2009
musical meeting at the Frieswijk School, near Deventer


9 December 2009
We played an impromptu session at the playground Speeltuin Bankaplein, across from our house, with our viola da gamba quartet. The children joined us on small and large bamboo flutes.


12 November 2009
music for babies at day nursery Banka Regenboog just around the corner


7 November 2009
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Bureaubewust, a shop in Utrecht with green products, with an accent on sustainable stationery, Leonoor and Marthe played the lute in the shop.


18 October 2009
wood exhibit Designers in wood at Fort bij Vechten in Bunnik, near Utrecht


13 September 2009
Pandhof Sinte Marie during a Cultural Sunday in Utrecht with Stichting Klank


7 September up to and including 16 November 2009
During 10 weeks we taught music to children on Monday and Thursday afternoons at buitenschoolse opvang (after-school care centres)
de Jutter and de Boog, in Utrecht.


24 August 2009
name day of the Bartholomeus Gasthuis convalescent home in Utrecht, where care has been given to the elderly of Utrecht since 1407


18 July up to and including 24 July 2009
musical pre-school during Europa Cantat international festival for amateur singers


20 June 2009
open doors day at De Wilgenhof, an organic neighbourhood garden in Utrecht


13 June 2009
Music and Flower festival in the Anglican church in Utrecht


31 May 2009
Day of the Park, in a temporary park in the Lombok district of Utrecht


16 May 2009
fluitekruid-dag in Rhenoy in the Betuwe Area


29 April 2009
The Pandhof herb garden of the Utrecht Dom Church in the context of Noise Awareness Day
(day to get conscious of sounds from the surroundings) with Stichting Klank


March 2009 up to and including November 2009
Every week we played a few times for a group of about 10 children from 0-4 years old at day nurseries and playgroups and for children from 4-8 years old at after-school child care centres. Totally we played 105 times, via the MEMO Foundation.


8 March and 22 March 2009
Ita from the bamboo flute society, who teached us, together with Bea, to build bamboo flutes, asked us whether we wanted to play in the Woudkapel in Bilthoven on international women's day, Erik was allowed to go with us. Two weeks later Leonoor and Marthe playedd during a divine service in the Woudkapel.


22 February 2009
Kraaybeek, anthroposophic senior citizen's complex in Driebergen


4, 10 and 18 February 2009
Activiteitencentrum Zuidwester for handicapped care in Voorschoten


21 January 2009
Minkema College, comprehensive school for secondary education in Woerden,
during the final philosophy class for children in the fifth form


11 January 2009
New Year's gathering at De Heijgraeff, institution for people with a mental or physical handicap in Woudenberg


17 December 2008
Christmas Day Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis in Utrecht


13 December 2008
Christmas Fete Dordrecht, Centrum Beeldende Kunst


30 November 2008
opening exhibition in De Boterhal in Hoorn


17 November 2008
a musical afternoon in the anthroposophical elderly people's home Huize Valckenbosch in Zeist


17 October 2008
gathering for entrepreneurs in the graphic sector of Key Equipment Finance in De Havixhorst near Meppel


23 May 2008
In residential home for the elderly de Lichtkring in Utrecht we played on a locked unit. Somebody from the activity coordination heard from us, because we played in Huize Valckenbosch (18 juli 2007). Here also people liked to hear the soft sounding music from the renaissance.


11 February 2008
The aunt of Leonoor and Jeannette, Greet lived in Vita Nova, a elderly people's home in Oss. Leo, the husband of cousin Jacky, asked whether we wanted to play one time for the residents. The people were very happy with our soft music. In the meantime Greet passed away.


18 December 2007
Christmas celebration in residential home for the elderly Nieuw Bleyenburg in Utrecht. We played a canzone from Girolamo Frescobaldi as a intermezzo at the appearance of the choir Animato from Harrie Wagemakers. We played on 2 bass viola da gambas (viols), a soprano (diskant) viola da gamba (viol) and a fiddle (in loan from our neighbour).


28 September 2007
Music with the viola da gamba (viol) quartet and with two lutes on the boerenmarkt (weekly biological market) in Utrecht, because of de week van de smaak (the week of the taste). We played sitting comfortably warm at bundles of straw. It became a very cosy day. People also played on instruments and people happened to like it very much. That was the beginning of a new development of not only playing for people, but also letting people play on our instruments themselves. mogen spelen.


18 July 2007
Huize Valckenbosch our first performance in a anthroposophical elderly people's home. Marthe, Jeannette, Erik and the residents were very happy, Leonoor apparently was less happy. That was a difference in experience and hearing whether it sounds pure or not. That difference fortunately would become smaller and smaller.