Associated with the Réseau Varèse since 2008

Created in 1947 to reinvigorate cultural life after the war, the Holland Festival is the largest and oldest live performance festival in the Netherlands (music, theatre, dance, opera, and plastic arts). Every year, for three weeks in June, the festival offers a programme of a hundred international works interpreted by well-known or upcoming artists, with a preference for contemporary works. The festival gives considerable weight to commissioned works.

Jochem Valkenburg

Music and Music Theatre Programmer

Jochem Valkenburg worked as a music journalist at the national Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad (2004-2011), as a PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Leuven (2005-2010), and as classical music editor at the Dutch talk show De Wereld Draait Door (2009-2011). In 2011, he became music and music theatre programme manager at the Holland Festival.

Jochem Valkenburg is a member of the Réseau Varèse since 2011.