Composer, violinist and music theater maker Saskia Venegas Aernouts will start a two-year development program with festival organizer Music Meeting on February 1. For the next two years she will work intensively on her artistic and business development, under the wings of the festival. Besides the necessary lessons, study, coaching and work visits, she will also make two new productions during this period. This and other new work she will present at Music Meeting. The development program, called Nieuwe Makers, is made possible by Fonds Podiumkunsten.
Saskia Venegas Aernouts is an artist of Flemish and Spanish background who lives and works in the Netherlands. She started her career as a violinist of contemporary and classical music. A few years ago, she chose a new path: as a composer. Her name is therefore relatively new in this field. The Nieuwe Makerstraject allows her to take the next steps to grow further as a maker and to shape and develop her career professionally.
Some of the coaches who will accompany her on this journey are renowned violinist and founder of the legendary American Kronos Quartet David Harrington, lauded vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer, Guggenheim Fellow and Paul Simon Music Fellows Guest Jen Shyu, and renowned composer and artistic director of music organization National Sawdust in New York, Paola Prestini.
The upcoming edition of Music Meeting Festival (May 18-20) already features a new work by Saskia: The Rainbow Serpent, a composition in keeping with the Australian program line presented at this year's festival. The piece will be performed May 20 at Lindenberg. Early Bird day tickets and passe-partouts are on sale at musicmeeting.nl. This composition was made possible by the Fonds Podiumkunsten composition commission scheme.
