Orkest De Ereprijs

For 45 years, Orkest De Ereprijs is the ensemble for newly composed music in the east of the Netherlands. As an ‘instrument for living composers’, Orkest De Ereprijs commissions composers for compositions that the orchestra performs itself. The collective also initiates innovative, interdisciplinary projects, which it realises in collaboration with partners, with a special interest in poetry. This approach has earned De Ereprijs its own place in the world of newly composed music. The orchestra has a permanent line-up of 14 musicians with two flutes, clarinet/bass clarinet, two saxophones, trumpet, two trombones, horn, tuba, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano and percussion (classical, modern, drums). In the Writers Unlimited Festival 2025, the orchestra, led by conductor Mikel Fernández, performs Tale of Two Continents, featuring new works by young Indonesian composers who were inspired by poetry by Sitor Situmorang.