10.00-18.00 FvV hall, Utrechts Conservatorium | free admission
Competition: Second Quarter-Final Round
with quarter-finalists of the Dutch Harp Competition 2012
The second half of the quarter-finalists will play works by C.Ph.E. Bach, M. Flothuis and P Patterson. The audience can see the contestants, but the jury is seated behind a screen.
11.00-12.00 Private
Children’s concert: The Girl and the Minotaur
Concert for schoolchildren based on The Crown of Ariadne by R. Murray Schafer. With Liesbeth Vreeburg, harp and Susanne Roos, director/performance.
19.30-20.00 Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh | free admission
Meet & Greet: Warming-up for the evening
Meet & Greet allows the audience to get to know the evening’s artists/musicians during a leisurely interview with the performers. The composers of the three winning compositions will explain about their new works. Additionally, the results of the quarter-final round of the Dutch Harp Competition will be announced. Your host this evening is Floris Don, music researcher, historian and critic, writing for the NRC newspaper.
20.15-22.15 Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh
Composition Contest – The Final Round 
with Sabien Canton harp, Miriam Overlach harp, Godelieve Schrama harp and Gwyneth Wentink harp
It is sometimes said that the harp is ‘a composer’s dream’, with no limitations. Well, the Dutch Harp Festival certainly found that out! No less than one hundred new compositions were submitted from all corners of the world. Tonight you are going to hear the three best compositions, combined with a number of the most important contemporary works in the repertoire for the harp. At the end, the jury will announce the winner, but the audience itself will choose which work definitely has to be added to the harp repertoire.
Programme
W. Jeths: Vertooning
Three winning compositions
K. Saariaho: Fall
G. Aperghis: Fidélité pour harpiste seule regardée par un homme