International Young Artist’s Presentation (IYAP)
Promising young musicians with original ideas and a bright artistic career ahead present their work to the public after intensive coaching by international early music specialists. Discover the very best work of the selected IYAP ensembles in short showcases during this day of concerts at AMUZ. Cheer for your favourites after a brilliant performance and discover the stars of tomorrow in avant-première!
In collaboration with AMUZ – Flanders Festival Antwerp
The line-up of the six selected ensembles, 2025 edition:
10:00 Café 1830
11:00 Aurora’s Mestizas
12:00 Les Trouveurs
14:00 Fortepiano Atelier
15:00 Pont Baroque
16:00 [H]Éros Ensemble
Café 1830
Café 1830, founded in 2023, is a clarinet and guitar duo dedicated to exploring the repertoire and artistic world of 1830s salon culture, performed on historical instruments. Making music in domestic settings or inviting musicians to perform in the context of a bourgeois salon for an audience was a very common way of experiencing music, with arrangements of popular pieces for smaller ensembles being entirely natural.
Program: Sonata Concertata by Niccolò Paganini | Waltzes, Op. 69 by Frédéric Chopin | Schwanenlied, Op. 1 No. 1 by Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn | Sérénade by Iwan Müller
Performers: Marguerite Neves, 19th-century clarinet | Elodie Bruzstowski, 19th-century guitar
Aurora’s Mestizas
Aurora’s Mestizas is an ensemble brought to life in Belgium witht the aim of working on XVIII century instrumental and vocal music. Founded by both Peruvian musicians José Huamani and Edilsa Samanez, it now
is composed of 6 members.
So much about the sea frightens us: its immensity, its unstoppable force—yet we dive into it despite our vulnerability, discovering both new and ancient worlds, and still nourishing ourselves from it. Oceanus is a source of life and death, of love and sorrow, and symbolizes the inevitability of nature in human life.
Program: Love, against divine tempests
Ensemble Auroras Mestizas presents a collection of works by 18th-century European and Latin American composers, reflecting resilience in the face of life’s dangers—a dramatic tale of both fragility and courage. Featuring music by Nicola Porpora, Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Roque Ceruti, and José de Orejón y Aparicio.
Performers: Edilsa Samanez, soprano | Sophie Paeshuyse, violin | Maria Florencia Romero, violin | Jose Huamani, viola da gamba | Giorgios Kakitsis, theorbo | Vasco da Silva Pereira, harpsichord
Les Trouveurs
The French duo Les Trouveurs focuses on medieval music. The ensemble has trained at, among other places, the Centre de musique médiévale de Paris under the direction of Brigitte Lesne. At the same time, the duo aims to champion the a cappella vocal duo format. Since the vast majority of medieval repertoire is vocal, Les Trouveurs seeks to bring this music back to the stage: both sacred music and the secular songs of troubadours and trouvères. In this programme, love songs by the 13th-century troubadour Adam de la Halle take centre stage.
Program: On demande mout souvent qu’est amours
Performers: Mathias Lunghi, voice | Camile Macinenti, voice & percussion
Fortepiano Atelier
Fortepiano Atelier, based in Krakow, Poland, is a group of musicians passionate about 19th-century chamber music, historical instruments, and historically informed performance. They aim to share this passion with their audience, reviving both well-known and forgotten 19th-century chamber music works, and bringing them to life as they would have sounded in their own time. A key aspect of this is the unique timbral richness of historical pianos.
Program: Stanislaw Moniuszko: String Quartet No. 1 (selection) | Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
Performers: Szymon Strzelczyk, violin | Bartlomiej Fras, violin | Natalia Reichert, viola | Matylda Adamus, cello | Eliza Pawlowska, fortepiano
Pont Baroque
Pont Baroque is an early music ensemble founded in 2023, directed by cellist Osian Jones. Their name “Pont” (the
Welsh word for “bridge”) reflects their mission to connect different nationalities, cultures, and musical styles
from various historical periods to the audience, aiming to create a diverse musical experience that resonates with
people from all walks of life. Pont Baroque presents a programme of 18th-century Baroque music focused on two
major Italian music centres: Naples, the epicentre of vocal art, and Rome, renowned for its instrumental music.
Program: A chamber music evening between Rome and Naples
Performers: Alison Lau, soprano | Aysha Willis, traverso | Riccardo Casamichiela, harpsichord | Osian Jones, cello & artistic direction
[H]Éros Ensemble
The [H]Éros Ensemble was founded in 2022 by students from the conservatories of Amsterdam and The Hague. In this programme, the ensemble recreates a musical ‘ballet de cour’ centred around the figure of Cupid. Through 17th-century multi-voiced ‘airs de cour’ by composers such as Etienne Moulinié, Jean Boyer, and Antoine de Boësset, [H]Éros tells the story of two lovers. But does a love between a god and a mortal have a future?
