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What a strange year this was! Looking back, we were lucky to have played two concerts in Germany in September. We still have some pictures from this 'mini-tour' to Wennigsen and Stuttgart, reminding us how much we love playing abroad. Let's hope for the better in 2021, and from all of AQ: a merry Christmas for now! . #saxophones #quartet #amstelquartet #germany #facemask #tour #googlemaps #merrychristmas

🇺🇸 Marc Mellits - Tapas Five 🇺🇸 Now that we know that no more live concerts will take place in 2020, we might as well turn to our screens again to see the live music we so dearly miss. Last fall we filmed two tracks of our new album American Dream live at Theater Ludens in Voorburg. Even though some snippets of this performance were already used to promote our album, we’d like to share the first track as a whole with you now. Watch our performance of Tapas Five by Marc Mellits in full on our youtube channel. . #usa #americandream #music #saxophones #saxophonequartet #amstelquartet #amsterdam #tapas #modern #classicalmusic #mellits

Friday 4 December at 20.15h we will play our concert Stories of the Soul with Anass Habib, live at Bimhuis Amsterdam. We'll share a livestream on our Facebook and Youtube channel for everyone who'd like to join us on this evening, but there is also a limited amount of tickets available! Please visit bimhuis.nl for more information and tickets.

On December 4th, Amstel Quartet will play the programme Stories of the Soul together with Anass Habib live at Bimhuis Amsterdam. For more info & tickets: www.amstelquartet.nl • #saxophones #amstelquartet #anasshabib #arabic #music #classicalmusic #chambermusic #fairuz #kolthoum #amsterdam

Win our new album! This week we are the prize cd at NPO Radio 4. Tune in to De Muziekfabriek between 12h and 14h from Monday to Friday and win our CD American Dream by answering their daily question. Also, have a look at our performance at De Ochtend van 4 last Friday. We played Michael Torke's June. #americandream #usa #album #new #nporadio4 #deochtendvan4 #amstelquartet #saxophones #michaeltorke #june #contemporary #classicalmusic #chambermusic

Thank you for having us, @nporadio4 Spiegelzaal! As said, our American Dream album release on 3 November 2020 in @bimhuis can be followed by livestream on Bimhuis TV, Facebook and Youtube. We hope to see you there. . #americandream #new #album #bimhuis #amstel #quartet #amsterdam #electionnight #electionday #usa #contemporary #classicalmusic #chambermusic

Tuesday 3 November at 20.15h we will release our upcoming album American Dream live at @bimhuis in Amsterdam. We'll share a livestream on Bimhuis TV for everyone who'd like to join us on this evening, but there is also a limited amount of tickets available! Please visit the website of Bimhuis for more information and make sure to get those tickets in time. #americandream #album #electionnight #release #saxophones #amsterdam #bimhuis #music #classicalmusic #contemporary #chambermusic

On 3 November, Amstel Quartet presents their new album American Dream. A collection of the most beautiful and diverse American works. We will throw a release party live from Bimhuis on 3 November 2020. The concert can be followed by livestream. We'd like to celebrate the new album with you and provide you some musical distraction during Election Night. For more info, please visit our website! . #americandream #american #music #saxophones #amstel #quartet #chambermusic #classical #classicalmusic #contemporary #cage #mellits #torke #electionnight #election2020 #electionday #usa #amsterdam #bimhuis

Happy release day! The second single of our upcoming album 'American Dream' is out now. Have a listen on Spotify, Deezer or Apple Music! ▪︎ #americandream #music #creston #paul #amstel #quartet #saxophone #saxophonequartet #american #rondo #suite

As the new concert season of 2020-2021 is on its way, we’d like to highlight some of our favourite projects for you. Today: Classical Zen - With Classical Zen, Amstel Quartet brings a selection of iconic minimalist works to the stages. Philip Glass' legendary Mishima soundtrack is combined with the heavenly Harmony of the Spheres by Joep Franssens and the saxophone quartet Four5 by avant-gardist John Cage, but particular attention is also given to the work of spectralist Hugues Dufourt. Amstel Quartet premiered Dufourt's latest saxophone work, Les courants polyphoniques d'après Klee, in 2019 - 25 years after the publication of Dufourt's first saxophone quartet. The Waalse Kerk in Amsterdam proved to be a beautiful stage for the concert, that was attended by the composer himself. Revisit the evening on our Youtube channel!

In September, Amstel Quartet will give four concerts on two different places in Germany - Wennigsen and Stuttgart. We look forward to play some of the all-time classics (Beethoven, Franck, Brahms) as well as pieces from our recent Classical Zen programme full of intense minimalism (Glass, Dufourt, Riley). Find the dates below: 13 Sept 17.00h Kloster Wennigsen, Wennigsen 13 Sept 19.00h Kloster Wennigsen, Wennigsen 24 Sept 18.30h Katholische Kirche St. Fidelis, Stuttgart 24 Sept 20.00h Katholische Kirche St. Fidelis, Stuttgart For more info & tickets, have a look in the agenda on our website!

As the new concert season of 2020-2021 is on its way, we’d like to highlight some of our favourite projects for you. Today: Free Beethoven - 250 years ago, one of the greatest composers in history was born: Ludwig van Beethoven. Amstel Quartet pays tribute to the man who led classicism into romanticism and unmistakably left its mark on Western music history. To celebrate the birth of the 'Father of Romanticism', his works are presented by Amstel Quartet in elegant transcriptions and arrangements, combined with modern interpretations and works by composers from the 20th and 21st century; compositions that resemble Beethoven's structural renewal, sense of drama and revolutionary identity like no other. #ludwigvanbeethoven #500years #beethoven #saxophones #amsterdam #saxophone #quartet