This month at ERC.
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Worship service
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Coffee Morning
Coffee Morning
Come and enjoy coffee together.
If you are interested to come, please contact Sies Plokker.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will follow.
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The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Bible Study
Bible Study
All are very welcome to join our ERC Bible study, this month led by locum minister Andreas Wöhle.
This will be a hybrid meeting; you can join at the Manse or via zoom.
For details please contact Geesje Hofstra to receive the relevant materials and link to participate.
H4H Day Out
H4H Kerkenpad Sept. 10, 2026
This year we are putting the musical history and tradition of the English Church in the Begijnhof in the spotlight, with special attention to our two magnificent organs, both built by the world-famous organ builder Flentrop. We begin the day in Zaandam. There we will split into two groups to visit the two Flentrop workshops: the pipe workshop in Zaandam and the cabinet maker in Koog aan de Zaan. We come together again for a delicious lunch in the heart of Zaandam, followed by the second session with tours of the Flentrop workshops. We will switch the two groups so that everyone experiences everything. We come together again and travel back to Amsterdam by train, where we take a look behind the scenes at the organs in the English Church. There we can see and listen to the beautiful results and everything we earlier saw and learned at Flentrop. After a day full of music, we conclude with a short blessing and communal singing.
N.B. Please allow for walking! (to and from public transport and the locations, and during the tours themselves. Bring your own (sufficiently charged) public transport card.
9:30 – Arrive at Zaandam NS Station (transport on your own)
12:00 – Lunch in Zaandam
Second session in the workshops
Return to Amsterdam – Begijnhof
17:30 Finish
Cost: €30
Registration: kerkenpad2026@erc.amsterdam max. 40 people
You will receive details regarding payment after registration.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Concert - Inês Filipe
Q.Festival-Portuguese Music
A homage to the pianist/composer Amílcar Vasques-Dias.
Inês Filipe - piano
Programma:
Amílcar Vasques-Dias – “Lume de Chão” [Kuilvuur] – verweven herinneringen en genegenheid
– Aansteken – Dorsvloer in de herfst – Steeneik in de stilte – Zwingelen – Hekelen – Spinnen – Vlas – Weefgetouw-Weven – Op het vuur – Acacia met nesten – Luik – Kersen /brood – Kurkeik
Constança Capdeville – Visioenen uit de kindertijd
F. Lopes-Graça
– Nocturne Nº3
– Nocturne Nº5
– Variaties op een Portugees traditioneel thema
Inês Filipe heeft talrijke prijzen gewonnen bij nationale en internationale pianoconcoursen. Daarvan noemen we in het bijzonder de “Prémio Antena2” van het 17e SIPO Internationale Piano Festival, onder de aandachtige blik van een prestigieuze jury die bestond uit Boris Berman, Luiz de Moura Castro, Josep Colom en Paul Badura-skoda.
Inês is regelmatig als soliste te horen in recitals, en heeft al optredens verzorgd in talrijke landen waaronder Spanje, Engeland, Frankrijk, Italië, België, Duitsland, Thailand, Panama, Costa Rica, Maleisië, Japan en Zuid-Korea. Ze is erg veelzijdig wat betreft de keuze en uitvoering van het pianorepertoire. Daaronder vallen ook concertstukken van Bach tot hedendaagse muziek.
Door de belangstelling voor de moderne en hedendaagse Portugese muziek vervult ze eveneens een actieve rol bij de verspreiding daarvan. Ze heeft al enkele premières van werken van Portugese componisten uitgevoerd.
Op haar curriculum staat voorts een cd opgenomen voor de befaamde uitgeverij DaVinci-Classics met solowerken voor piano van Claude Debussy, en een cd gewijd aan werken van Portugese componisten voor uitgeverij Musicamera-Produções.
Inês Filipe heeft de CMACG bezocht bij docente Patrícia Sousa. Ze is afgestudeerd in piano performance aan het Stanislao Giacomantonio Conservatorium in Italië, Conservatori Superior del Liceu in Barcelona, Universiteit van Aveiro en Piano-Onderwijs aan de Universidade do Minho, ze heeft gestudeerd bij Rodolfo Rubino, Josep Colom, Fausto Neves en Luís Pipa.
Momenteel werkt ze aan een promotie in Cultuurwetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Minho, in samenwerking met de FCSH van de Universidade Nova in Lissabon.
TICKETS: € 26 Via: https://q-art.stager.co/shop/default
€ 23 (early bird, to 13 August)
€ 17 (stadspas, to be shown at the door)
€ 13 (studentenpas, to be shown at the door)
€ 7 (children through 12 year)
€ 45 (strippenkaart 2 concerts for 1 person)
€ 67 (strippenkaart 3 concerts voor 1 person)
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Concert - Ex Silentio
Ex Silentio
FINIS - Medieval and Mediterranean traditions
Works by R. De Vaqueiras, G. de Machaut, oral tradition from the Mediterranean
Irini Bilini - voice, medieval fiddle, percussion
Dimitris Kountouras - recorder, medieval traverso, double flute
Ex Silentio, here in a small formation, performs music of the medieval secular repertoire together with traditional music from the rich Mediterranean musical culture. Finis (Lat.: limit or frontier) applies to the frontiers, East to West, and North to South promoting the affinities of diverse European cultures. A program diverse in terms of forms, languages, countries. Ex Silentio performs regularly in venues and festivals in many European countries, in Asia and in Latin America and recorded 6 CD Albums for Carpe Diem Records Berlin, Talanton and Nefeli.
Ex Silentio – www.exsilentio.org
Tickets: 15 euro / 7 euro
For tickets and reservations please mail to: exsilentio@hotmail.de
Concert - Kamerkoor Bourmont
Rakastava
Kamerkoor Bourmont
o.l.v. Ilari Anemaet
Kamerkoor Bourmont is opgericht door Tycho Tax om jaarlijks een cultureel evenement te verzorgen in het Franse dorpje Bourmont, en bestaat uit circa 30 zangers uit de Nederlandse koorwereld. In deze eerste editie zingt het koor onder leiding van dirigent Ilari Anemaet het programma ‘Rakastava’, wat ‘liefhebbende’ betekent in het Fins. De titel is ontleend aan het gelijknamige werk van Jean Sibelius voor strijkorkest, dat nu voor het eerst in arrangement voor gemengd koor met solisten wordt opgevoerd. Ook klinkt het indrukwekkende motet voor dubbelkoor van J.S. Bach, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, naast werken van o.a. Johannes Brahms, Philippe Verdelot en Camille Saint-Saëns. Het concert sluit af met de bekende woorden van de dichter Edmond Haraucourt, geboren in Bourmont: partir, c’est mourir un peu.
Programma:
Lieder & Romanzen, op. 93a, Johannes Brahms
Rakastava, op. 14, Jean Sibelius
Arrangement van Ilari Anemaet van strijkorkest naar gemengd koor met solisten
Madrigalen van Philippe Verdelot, Juan Vasquez & Juan del Encina onder luitbegeleiding van Boris Post
pauze
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225, Johann Sebastian Bach
Saltarelle, op. 75, Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. Ilari Anemaet
Chanson de l’Adieu, Francesco Paolo Tosti, arr. Ilari Anemaet & Tycho Tax
Opnames:
Saltarelle, op. 75, Camille Saint-Saëns: [link]
Fahr wohl, op. 93a nr 4, Johannes Brahms: [link]
TICKETS: €12,50 / €7,50 (aan de deur)
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Bible Study
Bible Study
All are very welcome to join our ERC Bible study, this month led by locum minister Andreas Wöhle.
This will be a hybrid meeting; you can join at the Manse or via zoom.
For details please contact Geesje Hofstra to receive the relevant materials and link to participate.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Concert - Anne Kaasa & Natasa Sibalic
Q.Festival-Portuguese Music
Contemporary Portuguese en Dutch Classical Music
Anne Kaasa - piano
Natasa Sibalic - voice
De Noorse pianiste Anne Kaasa, sedert 1990 in Portugal wonende, is heel bekend bij het Portugese publiek. Ze heeft opgetreden met enkele van de meest bekende Portugese musici, zoals onder andere, de violisten Aníbal Lima en Luís Pacheco Cunha, de celliste Maria José Falcão, de klarinettist en orkestleider António Saiote en de fluitist Antóno Carrilho.
Enkele van de grootste Portugese componisten hebben de wereldpremières van hun werken aan haar te danken, zoals António Victorino d’Almeida, António Pinho Vargas, Amílcar Vasques-Dias, Clotilde Rosa, Sérgio Azevedo en Pedro Faria Gomes. Zij is in Portugal ook als docente werkzaam.
Nataša Šibalić is geboren in Belgrado (Servië) en tot Portugese genaturaliseerd. Ze wordt beschreven als “een sopraan met grote interpretatieve intelligentie en verfijnde frasering" (Manuel Pedro Ferreira, in het Portugese dagblad Público). Ze geeft regelmatig concerten, ze treedt op in continentaal Portugal, Madeira en op de Azoren, Nederland, Servië, Frankrijk, Kroatië, Brazilië, Argentinië en Uruguay. Ze richt zich in het bijzonder op kamermuziek en de hedendaagse opera.
Ze heeft absolute premières vertolkt van de werken van Gonçalo Gato, Vasco Mendonça, Alejandro Erlich Oliva, Diego Kovadloff, Amílcar Vasques Dias en César Viena. Ze heeft samengewerkt met Amílcar Vasques Dias, onder meer bij twee opera’s waarin ze de hoofdrol had – “Soror Mariana Alcoforado” en “Geraldo e Samira”.
Natasa heeft meegewerkt aan de cd “De ouvido e coração”, een originele schepping van de componist Amílcar Vasques-Dias, gebaseerd op het werk van José Afonso.
Met pianiste Anne Kaasa heeft ze het album met zangkunst opgenomen “In the silent of the secret night”.
TICKETS: € 26 Via: https://q-art.stager.co/shop/default
€ 23 (early bird, to 25 September)
€ 17 (stadspas, to be shown at the door)
€ 13 (studentenpas, to be shown at the door)
€ 7 (children through 12 year)
€ 45 (strippenkaart 2 concerts for 1 person)
Free Lunch Concert - Choir of Ely Cathedral
The Girls’ Choir of Ely Cathedral
Sarah MacDonald, conductor
FREE entry
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Concert - Collegium Musicum Amsterdam
Collegium Musicum Amsterdam
o.l.v. Anthony Zielhorst
Een programma met werken van Pierre de la Rue (uit het Mechels Koorboek van Margaretha), aangevuld met enkele motetten van de la Rue, Pipelare en Josquin.
GRATIS toegang. Vrijwillige bijdrage
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Concert - João Costa Ferreira
Q.Festival-Portuguese Music
Contemporary Portuguese en Dutch Classical Music
João Costa Ferreira - piano
De directeur van het Casa de Portugal van de Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, João Costa Ferreira, is een Portugese pianist en onderzoeker. Hij heeft het Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution van de École Normale de Musique de Paris behaald en is aan de Sorbonne gepromoveerd in Muziek en Musicologie.
Op zijn elfde is hij piano gaan studeren aan het Conservatorium van de vereniging Orfeão in Leiria bij docent Luís Batalha. Op zijn negentiende is hij naar Parijs gegaan waar hij heeft gestudeerd bij Marian Rybicki en Guiglia Katsarava. Hij was daar leerling en assistent van pianist Jean Martin. Eveneens in Parijs heeft hij een wetenschappelijke studie gevolgd. Als beursstudent van de Stichting voor Wetenschap en Technologie is hij gepromoveerd bij de filosofe en musicologe Danielle Cohen-Levinas.
Hoewel zijn repertoire alle stijlen vanaf de Barok omvat, heeft João Costa Ferreira zich gespecialiseerd in de muziek van de 19e eeuw en de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw. Bij zijn solo- en kamermuziekprojecten interesseert hij zich zowel voor de vertolking van het grote klassieke repertoire als voor de ontdekking van componisten die in de vergetelheid zijn geraakt of opdrachten van hedendaagse componisten. Hij is opgetreden in Portugal, Frankrijk, België, Spanje en Nederland, met name bij de Calouste Gulbenkian Stichting (Lissabon), het Cultureel Centrum van Belém (Portugal), het nationale San Carlos theater (Lissabon), het Casa da Música (Porto), het Teatro Rivoli (Porto), in het Palais d’Iéna (Parijs), de Salle Cortot (Paris), de Gotische zaal van het Stadhuis van Brussel. Veel van zijn concerten en platen worden uitgezonden door de RTP-Antena 2, France Musique en verschillende Europese radiostations.
João Costa Ferreira speelt een actieve rol bij de rehabilitatie en waardering van het Portugese muzikale erfgoed door middel van de publicatie en opnames van werken van José Vianna da Motta. Sedert 2015 heeft hij in samenwerking met uitgeverij AvA Musical Editions meer dan dertig ongepubliceerde werken gepubliceerd en een groot gedeelte ervan opgenomen bij de uitgeverijen Grand Piano Records (onder het label Naxos), MPMP Movimento Patrimonial Vivo en Coriolan / Inventive Art Music.
Buiten de verschillende prijzen die hij kreeg bij piano concoursen, waarbij hij gelauwerd werd bij het 15e Internationale Pianoconcours Maria Campina en het 8e concours voor jonge solisten van de Sorbonne, heeft João Costa Ferreira onderscheidingen ontvangen van verschillende culturele instellingen. In 2015 werd hij door de Cap Magellan Vereniging beschouwd als de “Beste Artistieke Revelatie”; in 2019 werd hem de “Prémio Cultura – Música” van INATEL Leiria toegekend; in 2024 ontving hij de Gemeentelijke Medaille van Verdienste van de gemeente Leiria.
João Costa Ferreira is lid geweest van verschillende jury’s bij internationale pianoconcoursen, zoals het Internationale Concours voor Piano van Troisdorf (Duitsland), het Internationale Concours voor Jonge Musici Meliton Balanchivadze (Georgië), het Concours international de piano van Lyon (Frankrijk) en het Internationale Santa Cecília Pianoconcours (Portugal).
TICKETS: € 26 Via: https://q-art.stager.co/shop/default
€ 23 (early bird, to 22 September)
€ 17 (stadspas, to be shown at the door)
€ 13 (studentenpas, to be shown at the door)
€ 7 (children through 12 year)
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Worship service
Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.
For those wishing to join the service online, the link to the live stream will follow.
Liturgy sheet will also follow.
- - - -
The transcripts of sermons are available here.
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Concert - Grachtenfestival - Rosin Octet
Rosin Octet
Het Grachtenfestival
Stroll through the oldest garden in the city to a special concert!
The Rosin Octet will play a program with two major works for string octet: the Octet in D, op. 5 by Reinhold Glière, and the Octet in E-flat, op. 20 by Felix Mendelssohn. The work by Glière has as simple construction with lyric lines and a clear, four-part form. Mendelssohn’s octet requires speed and precision, with thick textures and a finale in which material from the earlier movements returns.
The Rosin Octet was founded in 2021 and consists of string players from seven countries, all now based in the Netherlands. The ensemble concentrates on the standard repertoire for string octet, but also works together with contemporary composers on new works for this genre. They have performed in concert halls throughout Europe and among the prizes they have won are awards in the Fontys Willem Twee Chamber Music Competitions and the Toonzaal Talent Prize.
The Players:
Denis Dias - violin
Cláudia Carvalho - violin
Gabriela Torres - violin
Inês Correia Meneses - violin
Kevin Morales Rey - viola
Adriana Fornariz García - viola
Ade Nicolas - cello
Carlotta Rall - cello
TICKETS: €24,50 via Grachtenfestival
Concert - Kwartet aan 't IJ
Kwartet aan 't IJ
Kwartet aan 't IJ will present their exploration and interpretation of Fanny Mendelssohn's beautiful String Quartet in Eb Major, alongside her brother Felix's String Quartet in F Minor.
Two siblings, two intertwined voices. In these string quartets, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn share their musical voices shaped by family, mutual inspiration but also their unique places in society and its expectations. Where Felix’s legacy flourished, Fanny’s was long overlooked. This program invites listeners to hear them side by side, as the unique voices of the Mendelssohn siblings.
Julie Chen, violin
Amande Tse, violin
Kata Balogh, viola
Clym Stock-Williams, cello
Programme:
Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn): String Quartet H277 in Eb major (1834)
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet no.6 Op.80 in F minor (1847)
TICKETS: €15/€8 at the door or in advance: Kwartet aan ‘t IJ
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Concert - OUT Ensemble
OUT Ensemble at the Strathmore Music Center (photo courtesy of Da Ping Luo)
OUT Ensemble
Alan Cook, flute
Abigail Bracken, oboe
Sophia Bracken, clarinet
Jenna Stokes, French horn
David Michael, bassoon
OUT Ensemble, based in the United States, is a wind quintet of LGBTQ+ musicians performing and commissioning the works of queer composers. By increasing representation of the queer community in classical music, the quintet hopes to inspire audiences to embrace their authentic identities and bring classical music into communities across the globe. Alongside uplifting queer composers of the past, OUT highlights works by contemporary queer composers.
Enjoy a program exploring the breadth of wind quintet colors, ranging from the sultry sounds of jazz to the exuberant joy of celebration. OUT Ensemble is excited to premiere a new transcription of Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans' String Quartet, transcribed by oboist Abigail Bracken. The program also features the international premieres of two new commissions by Nora Farley and Mattie Levy.
- Billy Strayhorn/Avi Randall - Lush Life (1933/2024)
- Nora Farley - I cannot meet the Spring unmoved (2025)
- Henriëtte Bosmans/Abigail Bracken - String Quartet (1927/2026) World premiere
- Samuel Barber - Summer Music (1956)
- Mattie Levy - A Winter Wind (2026)
This concert is part of the 2026 WorldPride festival in Amsterdam.
FREE entry
Worship service
Bible Study
Bible Study
All are very welcome to join our ERC Bible study, this month led by locum minister Andreas Wöhle.
This will be an online meeting only. You can join via zoom.
For details please contact Peggy Krol to receive the relevant materials and link to participate.
Worship service
Worship service
Worship service
Concert - Gaiea Sanskrit and The Cosmic Choir
Op zaterdag 11 juli 2026 klinkt in de English Reformed Church op het Begijnhof een internationaal mantra-concert van de Britse zangeres en componist Gaiea Sanskrit en haar Cosmic Choir. Zangers uit meer dan tien landen komen naar Amsterdam voor een gezamenlijke retraite en een openbaar concert.
Het repertoire van 2026 staat in het teken van Liefde, licht en eenheid – in het Sanskriet: Prema, Jyotih en Advaita. Tijdens het concert wordt het publiek uitgenodigd om mee te zingen in de toegankelijke vorm van call-and-response.
Gaiea Sanskrit leerde al op jonge leeftijd Sanskriet, de oude Indo-Europese taal die in het Westen vooral bekend is via yoga en mantra’s. Later studeerde zij muziek en Sanskriet aan de Universiteit van Oxford. In 2021 richtte zij het internationale Cosmic Choir op. Elk jaar ontwikkelt zij een nieuw programma met traditionele Sanskrietmantra’s en eigen Engelstalige composities.
Volgens Gaiea heeft zang een directere werking dan het gesproken woord: “Wanneer je iets zegt, dringt het niet altijd door, maar als je het zingt, gaat het rechtstreeks naar het hart.”
Kaarten: €25
Bible Study
Bible Study
All are very welcome to join our ERC Bible study, this month led by locum minister Andreas Wöhle.
This will be an online meeting only. You can join via zoom.
For details please contact Peggy Krol to receive the relevant materials and link to participate.
Worship service
Free Lunch Concert - Carmem Di Novic - guitar
Carmem Di Novic - classical guitar & voice / Vanessa Jacques - violin
Trajectories Concert - 30 Years of Music, Faith, and Inspiration
Trajectories Concert by Carmem Di Novic brings to the stage the beauty, depth, and expressive richness of the classical guitar. Through a carefully curated repertoire, Carmem Di Novic invites the audience on a musical journey that combines technical mastery with emotional storytelling about remarkable compositions.
The concert also features original works by Carmem Di Novic, where voice and guitar intertwine with the expressive sound of the violin, performed by special guest Vanessa Jacques.
More than a concert, Trajectories is a musical reflection on memory, identity, resilience, and beauty.
PROGRAM
PART l
1. Abyss of Roses – Guitar ...................... . Canhoto (Brazil)
2. Fascination – Guitar ......................D. Marchetti (France)
3. Prelude No. 3 – Guitar .......... Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil)
4. If She Asks – Guitar ..................Dilermando Reis (Brazil)
5. Lia Rejane (Waltz) – Guitar.... .Carmem Di Novic (Brazil)
6.Sonatina (Allegro )-.Guitar...............U.Larangeira (Brazil)
7. Cíntia (Vibrant Waltz) – Guitar & Violin U. Larangeira (Brazil)
8. Prelude of Ave Maria – Guitar & Violin.... J.S. Bach / Gounod
9. Sons de Carrilhões (Choro)..Guitar..João Pernambuco (Brazil)
10. Una Lágrima – Guitar — Gaspar Sagreras (Argentina)
11. Mozart Minuet – Guitar — Transcription by Urany Laranjeira
PART II
12. A New Emotion – Voice, Guitar & Violin — Carmem Di Novic
13. Calm – Voice, Guitar & Violin — Carme Di Novic
14-. Meu Sertão (Toada) – Voice, Guitar & Violin — Carmem Di Novic
15. Paraguayan Dance (Polka) – Guitar — Paulo Gallo (Paraguay)
ABOUT CARMEM DI NOVIC
Carmem Di Novic is a Brazilian classical guitarist, composer, music therapist, author, and cultural producer. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Guitar and postgraduate specialization in Music Therapy. She is the founder and director of the Carmem Di Novic Music Conservatory and Music Therapy Clinic in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
With six albums recorded and international awards, her career combines art, education, and sensitivity.
She is a best-selling author with the book “Musical Journeys -Melodies and Songs as Motivation and Meaning in Life."
Carmem Di Novic www.carmemdinovic.com
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Free Lunch Concert - Seattle Girls Choir
Founded in 1982 by Dr. Jerome L. Wright, and currently led by Artistic Director Sarra S. Doyle, the Seattle Girls Choir provides a comprehensive choral education with an emphasis on vocal technique, musical literacy, and ensemble performance. We currently serve around 250 choristers from Seattle and the greater King County region. Choristers attend over 90 different schools. We have levels of instruction for choristers in kindergarten through high school, in addition to a training choir for older beginning singers and a contemporary choir for teens.
Each season’s rehearsals run September through June. Instruction includes music theory, sight-singing, ear-training, vocal training, and performance skills. In the summer months, we run day camps (which serve as many choristers’ introduction to SGC), as well as an Overnight Camp for older choristers. Additionally, we have a longstanding tradition of travel, which includes workshops, festivals, conventions, competitions, and domestic and international performance
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Worship service
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Prayers of Intercession Workshop
Prayers of Intercession Workshop: Part 2
After a successful first round of discussions about intercessory prayers, we decided to hold a follow-up discussion. The second part of our workshop will take place on Wednesday 24 June from 19:00 to 21:00. Please join us if you attended the first round. These workshops will also be repeated in the second half of the year for people who missed the first round.
Please let us know if you would like to join by sending an email to minister@erc.amsterdam.
Concert - Plantagekoor - Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle
Plantagekoor zingt Le Petite Messe Solennelle van Rossini
Het Plantagekoor geeft een bijzonder zomerconcert in de Engelse Kerk op het Begijnhof in hartje Amsterdam. Op het programma staat Le Petite Messe Solennelle van Rossini (1792-1868), gezongen door het Plantagekoor en solisten. Ondanks de naam (“kleine plechtige mis”) is het een dramatisch en imposant werk. Het opera-achtige karakter was hoogst ongebruikelijk voor kerkelijke muziek, maar niet voor Rossini, die eerder al wereldberoemd werd met zijn opera’s, waaronder Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Zijn werk gold als het hoogtepunt van het ‘bel-canto’ zingen met versieringen, waarbij de tekst ondergeschikt was aan de muziek. Hij schreef deze mis pas op zijn 71ste, toen hij al ruim 30 jaar resoluut gestopt was met het componeren van opera’s. De Bourgondisch ingestelde componist, naar wie ook het gerecht Tournedos Rossini vernoemd werd, noemde Le Petite Messe Solennelle zelf met humor “de laatste van mijn zonden”.
Solisten:
Patricia Gonçalves - sopraan
David Cohen - alt
Joeri de Mol - tenor
Florian Just - bas
Rocus van den Heuvel - piano
Erik Jan Eradus - harmonium
Bert ’t Hart - dirigent
Kaarten: €25 voorverkoop / €30 aan de deur
Informatie en kaartverkoop: www.plantagekoor.nl / info@plantagekoor.nl
Worship service
Church Potluck Picnic
Church Potluck Picnic
We warmly invite everyone to join the picnic. If you can, it would be great if you bring some food or drink to share together in fellowship.
The Church Potluck Picnic will be held at Amsterdamse Bos (Klein Kinderbad area).
Click here for information regarding public transport and a map to the location.
Concert - Zhemaitis/Feruleva
Liebestod
The theme of love and death is one of the most enchanting themes in art. Two concepts that seem, at first glance, to be polar opposites exist very close to one another, intertwine, merge into one, and at times become inseparable — as in the opera Tristan und Isolde. In this programme, we will travel from the earliest Romantic music of Schubert, through the late work of Schumann, in whose artistic legacy and fate love and death were inseparably present, to the uncompromising duet of Galina Ustvolskaya and the beautiful and terrifying sonata of Benjamin Britten, ending in a kind of “dance of death.”
Programme:
Schubert Sonata “Arpeggione” D.821
Ustvolskaya Grand Duet for Piano and Cello
Schumann Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano, Op. 70
Britten Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65
Ekaterina Zhemaitis
Born in Moscow and currently based in Amsterdam, Ekaterina Zhemaitis is a pianist whose performances are marked by emotional depth and a strong sense of musical storytelling. She graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Professors Elena Kuznetsova and Alexander Bonduryansky, and later continued her education at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany under Professor Evgeni Sinaisky.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Ekaterina has performed across Europe and the United States, appearing in major venues such as the Great and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, as well as concert halls in Poland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and the USA.
Ekaterina is a laureate of numerous international competitions. Together with pianist Polina Kulikova, she won the 1st Prize and five special prizes at the 6th International Piano Duo Competition in Białystok, Poland, and the 1st prize at the 5th Taneyev International Chamber Music Competition in Kaluga, Russia.
She has collaborated with distinguished artists including Liza Ferschtman, Ivan Karizna, Pyotr Kondrashin, Maryana Osipova, Oxana Shevchenko, and Matthias Balzat.
Until 2022, Ekaterina was teaching at the Chopin School and College of Music in Moscow, and served as founder and artistic director of the piano festival Children’s Games, dedicated to fostering creativity and inspiration among young musicians.
Anastasia Feruleva
The cellist Anastasia Feruleva inspires audiences all over Europe with her captivating expressiveness and authentic personality. She is praised by critics for her “convincing, passionate and captivating interpretations” and “organic phrasing and lively intensity down to the last note” (Frankfurter Zeitung).
Born in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Anastasia Feruleva started playing the cello at the age of five. She has performed extensively in her native country from early childhood on, and her concert engagements have taken her throughout the whole of Europe including the Netherlands, where she has obtained her bachelor with Larissa Groeneveld at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with the highest distinction. Under the guidance of Prof. Troels Svane she has finished her master studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and her Konzertexamen in Lübeck with the highest mark. Recently Anastasia has completed her postgraduate education with Professor Ivan Monighetti at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid.
Anastasia has performed in world-renowned halls including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Leidse Stadsgehoorzaal, Tivoli Vredenburg, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Salle Cortot Paris, Atheneum Bucharest, Liszt Academy Budapest, Euskalduna Concert Hall Bilbao.
As a soloist she has appeared in a large range of concertos collaborating with orchestras like the Württembergische Philharmonie, the Noord Nederlands Orchestra, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest/Nederlands Kamerorkest.
Anastasia has received prizes in various competitions from a very early age on. She has been awarded the second prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the Cello Biennale competition 2016 in Amsterdam.
She plays a cello by Rombouts (1710).
TICKETS: €15/€25 Availabe at the door or via: https://zhemaitis.stager.co/shop/default/events/111653590
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Early Friday Morning Prayers
Join us for informal contemplative prayer mornings led by our minister Marius Louw, every Friday, in the church.
These sessions are open to anyone seeking a quiet environment for prayer and reflection.
We encourage you to come as you are. We look forward to welcoming you!
Worship service
Cooking at the Kloof
Cooking at the Kloof
With a small group of volunteers we will be cooking lunch for 45-80 homeless people in the city centre of Amsterdam.
Would you like to take part in this creative, culinary experience and get to know, or catch up with, other volunteers?
Please send an e-mail to Andrea Parks for more information.
Free Lunch Concert - D Monrads
D Monrads
Named after a semi-famous composer from their home town, Mosjøen. D Monrads consists of 11 men who predominantly perform popular music from the last few decades. They regularly do concerts in Norway, and try to travel abroad every other year for inspiration and concerts. Right now they are rehearsing for a Billy Joel-themed concert, and will be performing some of that material in June in Amsterdam. In addition they will be singing some Norwegian songs, a Beatles-classics and a Pentatonix-original.
PROGRAM:
She’s Always a Woman - Billy Joel (a cappella)
Lullabye - Billy Joel (a cappella)
And So it Goes - Billy Joel (a cappella)
The Longest Time - Billy Joel (a cappella)
Turn the Lights Back On- Billy Joel (with piano)
Run to You - Pentatonix (a cappella) Har du fyr? - Ola Bremnes (with piano)
Because - The Beatles (with piano)
Gressholmen - Kristian Kristensen (a capella)
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