Café ZILT PopQuiz
For over 20 years, Café ZILT has organised a quiz for pop music fans. Every third Thursday of the month at 20:30, you are welcome to test your knowledge, in game form. Participation, for teams of up to 4 people is completely free and yet there are some delicious prizes to [...]
Sunday Afternoon Jazz Session
Monthly on the second Sunday, composer, teacher, mentor and saxophonist Jasper Blom helms a pack of young, often international talent at Café ZILT. Immerse yourself in a warm jazz bath and indulge in the finest assortment of beers and whisky in Amsterdam and perhaps the whole of the Netherlands. Entrance is free.
Silence #67: Allan Gilbert Balon
Together with Sonic Acts, the festival for innovative art and science, we present a special edition of the music series Silence with the young talented artist and composer Allan Gilbert Balon. Especially for this concert, Balon is developing a soundscape in which live music, recorded sounds merge and different musical traditions resonate.
GenZ Voice Recitals
”GenZ Voice recitals” offers a fresh perspective on classical music through the lens of the younger generation of GenZ (pronounced Dzjen Zie). After a successful pilot series in 2025, a second edition will follow in 2026. This series of 11 recitals invites audiences on a musical world tour. Each recital features a unique song or aria [...]
Saskia Breakfast
Sun breakfast around Saskia's grave this time with Rijksmuseum curator Friso Lammertse as guest speaker. Lammertse will talk about Saskia and her son Titus, Rembrandt and Saskia's only child to survive infancy. As every year, there will be a breakfast including Frisian sugar bread, music and at 08:39 the sunbeam on Saskia's grave. Music by violinist Lisa [...]
Silence #68: Anuschka Chchkeidze
In this Silence edition, composer and producer Anushka Chkheidze presents her composition Intricate Pipes: a project in which she plays pipe organs as a programmable instrument using digital means. The eighteenth-century Vater-Müller Organ sounds in an entirely new and contemporary way through the electronic setup. About Anushka Chkheidze Anushka Chkheidze is a composer and producer of electronic music from Tbilisi, Georgia, [...]
Stabat Mater - G.B. Pergolesi
Weeping, Mary stands at the cross and sees the pain of her dying son. This best-known and most beautiful Stabat Mater also has a strong moving power in this version for voices and saxophones. The music touches on deep, universal feelings, namely intense sadness on the one hand, but also survival and optimism on the other. Pergolesi wrote this work shortly before [...]
The Magic Flute - W.A. Mozart
For adults and children (from 8 years of age) Mozart's famous opera in a Dutch adaptation, especially for puppet theatre. Puppets take you on an exotic adventure, a classic tale of the battle between good and evil, a ‘magic opera’. Performed with its own audio recording, conducted by Vaughan Schlepp. Six puppeteers play the large marionettes, carved from basswood. [...]
GenZ Voice Recitals
”GenZ Voice recitals” offers a fresh perspective on classical music through the lens of the younger generation of GenZ (pronounced Dzjen Zie). After a successful pilot series in 2025, a second edition will follow in 2026. This series of 11 recitals invites audiences on a musical world tour. Each recital features a unique song or aria [...]
The Magic Flute - W.A. Mozart
For adults and children (from 8 years of age) Mozart's famous opera in a Dutch adaptation, especially for puppet theatre. Puppets take you on an exotic adventure, a classic tale of the battle between good and evil, a ‘magic opera’. Performed with its own audio recording, conducted by Vaughan Schlepp. Six puppeteers play the large marionettes, carved from basswood. [...]