About
The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, led by master violinist Gordan Nikolić, is a small and intimate orchestra with 25 to 45 musicians and knows how to keep dragging the audience along with sizzling interplay. The orchestra can be heard on the most beautiful classical concert stage in the world: The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. But the orchestra also always enjoys playing in other concert halls. As a regular orchestra partner of De Nationale Opera, the orchestra is, together with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, internationally regarded as the best opera orchestras.
The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra has been an exceptional orchestra since 1955, with a rich history full of highlights. Since the merger with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in 1985, the orchestra has not lost its own identity. Especially the dynamics between the orchestra members of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra is very special. The orchestra usually plays without a conductor. The musicians trust each other blindly, and you can feel the chemistry during a concert.
The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra gives dozens of concerts a year in Amsterdam, especially in The Concertgebouw, but also in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and on other major venues in the Netherlands and abroad. In addition, the chamber orchestra does not shy away from less obvious halls. For example, the orchestra regularly plays in a sold-out Paradiso with concerts centering on 20th-century composers such as Mahler and Stravinsky.
Just like the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra also plays a number of productions per season at Dutch National Opera. The chamber orchestra recently played the operas Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Zauberflöte, The Rake's Progress, Trouble in Tahiti and Clemency. In the review of the opera Il viaggio a Reims, the Trouw newspaper summarizes the performance of the chamber orchestra in an excellent way: The musical jokes are all successful. Even in the fastest parts, everything remains pointed and splash-proof. "