Mathilde Wantenaar

As part of SNAAR, a festival about science and music, the Netherlands Chamber will premiere The Song of Koios, an evening-spanning, monumental new work. Fascinating figures such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein take us on a journey through time. Central is humanity’s unstoppable scientific curiosity, with all its magnificent and terrible consequences. Because science brings about progress, but also destruction. Koios from the title of Wantenaar’s work is a figure from...

Mathilde Wantenaar’s Suite V for solo cello is performed at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) on 14 April as part of Alisa Weilerstein's multi-year performance series FRAGMENTS. The project brings together new commissions by some of today's most compelling composers with the timeless beauty of J. S. Bach's six suites for solo cello. During Carnegie Hall's 2025–2026 season, Weilerstein presents FRAGMENTS 5, in which new works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Gabriella Smith, Gerard McBurney, Mathilde...

On 30 January, Mathilde Wantenaar’s String Quartet no. 1 was premiered by the Belinfante Quartet at the Bimhuis. The concert was part of the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam and also featured works by Hildebard von Bingen, Rhiannon Randle, and Benjamin Britten.