Ledenconcert Daria van Bercken

Exclusive for members: a behind-the-scenes look at a new music performance

This evening, pianist Daria van den Bercken takes you into the creative heart of De Wereld van Ali en Nino (The World of Ali and Nino), a new performance she is developing with writer Abdelkader Benali. The two became friends after their joint podcast about the magic of the concert hall and discovered a shared fascination for Kurban Said's novel Ali and Nino—an epic, timeless love story set in early 20th-century Baku.

This source of inspiration formed the starting point for a quest:
How do you translate a powerful novel into a theatrical musical experience? And what role does music play in telling this story?

During this members' evening, Daria will talk about the world of Ali and Nino and her collaboration with Benali, share the first musical sketches and ideas, let you listen to fragments that are still in development, and invite you to literally sit around the grand piano and be part of this process.

An intimate, one-time opportunity to see and hear up close how a new performance comes to life from the perspective of the musician, before it premieres in March at De Kleine Komedie!

Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to over 50 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?

The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!