Production houses and workshops

Workshops and production houses support young, beginning musicians and composers and help them to build a professional practice. They offer young artists the opportunity to experiment and develop their own signature.

Some interesting examples

Production houses and workshops often organize projects that boost the development of new repertoire, new forms and so-called cross-over collaborations with other music and theatre disciplines. Some interesting production houses and workshops are:

Stichting DoeK
A collaboration between various musicians who deal with improvised music. They organize the annual DoeK festival where spontaneous combinations of musicians are created.

Oorkaan
Makes music shows for children up to twelve years. Musicians play classical music, new music, jazz, improvised music and world music. The musicians work with theatre artists, choreographers, filmmakers and puppeteers.

Paradiso Melkweg Production house (PMP)
Link between the two most prominent pop podiums of Amsterdam. PMP produces multimedia projects for pop venues: from short acts in dance to grand projects and (modern) music theatre.

Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie (Dutch String Quartet Academy, NSKA) 
Training programme for young string quartets to improve their performance. Receives a structural subsidy from the Ministry of Education.

De Nieuwe Oost
Production house of the East Netherlands in all performing arts with an interdisciplinary character.

Kasko (Chamber Opera House)
Production house for small-scale musical theatre and opera in Zwolle. Kasko provides (inter)national career opportunities to young talented opera and music theater professionals. It focuses not only on artistic development, but also and especially on the development of cultural entrepreneurship.

Intro in situ
Stage for new music and a workshop for sound art. Intro in situ yearly organizes a –thematic- series of chamber music concerts at the Vrijthof Theatre in Maastricht. In the workshop of intro in situ, artists –in residence- are given the opportunity to develop and perform projects in the area of sound art.

The International Holland Music Sessions
What started as a summer course has grown into a full institution. Young talents are given the opportunity to be in the spotlight. The Summer Academy is the heart of the organisation. In addition, concert series are provided and an agency guarantees the interests of the musicians at various performances.

Orkater is a group of makers, with the successful talent development program Orkater / De Nieuwkomers. They constantly innovate and rejuvenate themselves in an organic way.

Veenfabriek
Since its foundation, the Veenfabriek has played an important role in the development of young musical theater talent. Together with makers, they submit a subsidy application to the Performing Arts Fund NL for the new makers' trajectory.

Het Atelier is the place to be for young talent in the field of location theater. Within this process there is space for research and experiment in the public space under the supervision of Oerol and Over het IJ festival.

Over het IJ
Is a location theatre festival at the NDSM-werf. Offers Makers Meetings, the Makersloket and a trajectory for young talented theatre makers with the Zeecontainerprogramma.

Wonderfeel
Young creative makers are given the opportunity to realize their artistic ideas and ambitions with the Keep an Eye Production Award. Do you win? Then you will have the opportunity to use the €10,000 cash prize to develop a new, complete stage production that will premiere during the Wonderfeel festival.