Het Muziek is the groundbreaking ensemble for new music. What music is remains an open question for us. Always in motion, always searching for something that didn‘t exist before. With high-profile music projects, unexpected partners, crossovers between disciplines, and an open mind, we shape the music of today.

Het Muziek is an ensemble that works with innovative and energetic partners to continuously develop new composed music in various forms and disciplines. Both the top collection of the great 20th-century composers and the very latest 21st-century work are performed.

Het Muziek performs everywhere. From concert halls and open-air festivals to theatres; from its home base in Amsterdam to far beyond national borders. Always with the aim of inspiring a wide audience and inviting them to discover new sounds.

VISION
Het Muziek believes in a world where we transcend borders, and where innovation and pluralism in the arts are a constant and entrenched value.

MISSION
With (inter)national partners and pioneering artists, Het Muziek pushes the boundaries of new music by continuously exploring, reflecting on, and renewing traditions and their contexts. This results in passionate and engaged performances for adventurous audiences who discover music by innovative composers, outstanding musicians, and interdisciplinary artists.

RULES OF THE GAME FROM HET MUZIEK
1. MOVE
Move with the times and today’s creators, without losing sight of history.

2. BE CURIOUS
Be curious: open yourself to new voices and make room for a different sound.

3. QUESTION
Question the conventions of contemporary music practice, do this together with your (co-)creators and your audience.

4. EXPERIMENT
Innovate by experimenting. Together with your creators and partners, create a safe space for risk, research, and experimentation.

5. INSPIRE
Inspire your audience and each other. With new music, new creators, new ideas, new sounds, new processes, new instruments, new technologies, new places.