Collaborations
Buma Cultuur collaborates with several renowned festivals that provide structural support for new Dutch music in vulnerable genres, including the Amsterdam Kleinkunst Festival, Gaudeamus Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and November Music.
Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival
The Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival is an annual Dutch cabaret festival, established in 1988. The Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival focuses on talent development and theatrical song. The Annie M.G. Schmidt Award is awarded annually during the Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival in collaboration with Buma Cultuur.
Gaudeamus Festival
The Gaudeamus Festival presents itself as a festival for curious ears. Since 1945, Gaudeamus presents the (composed) music of tomorrow: unprecedented combinations of genres, fresh perspectives on concert practice, and radical new inventions in sound and stage art, without boundaries or earmuffs. The Gaudeamus Festival annually hosts the speech ‘The State of Dutch New Music.’ This speech is supported by Buma Cultuur.
North Sea Jazz Festival
Since its inaugural edition in 1976, the NN North Sea Jazz Festival has developed into a major international event with fifteen stages, approximately thirteen hundred musicians, and an annual audience of between eighty-five and ninety thousand. Besides major international acts, the North Sea Jazz program also features prominent Dutch talent and established artists. The Dutch segment of the North Sea Jazz program is co-supported by Buma Cultuur.
Orange Jazz Days
Orange Jazz Days is a brand-new festival at TivoliVredenburg, showcasing Dutch jazz in all its facets, its innovative and rich tradition. InJazz has been a partner in this festival from the start, featuring only Dutch jazz. With exclusive premieres, commissioned compositions, and special collaborations, Orange Jazz Days showcases the most adventurous side of Dutch jazz.
November Music
November Music is an annual international festival of contemporary music held at various locations in s-Hertogenbosch under the motto “music of today by the makers of today”. Every year, several premieres by contemporary Dutch composers take place. The Dutch section of the November Music music programme is co-supported by Buma Cultuur. In addition, the New Music Conference takes place every Thursday of this 10-day festival.
Buma Blaasmuziek Awards
The Buma Wind Music Awards are an annual prize from Buma Cultuur presented to individuals who have made a significant and positive contribution to wind music in the Netherlands and internationally, through compositions and/or conducting. The prize is awarded to composers and conductors, with recent winners including Johan de Meij and Otto M. Schwarz (2022), and Peter Kleine Schaars and Ray Farr (2023).