Author Archives: Maryleen Schiltkamp

LiveART Foundation 2025

The LiveART Foundation launched it’s first promotional folder of 2025!

In September 2022, the acclaimed artist Maryleen Schiltkamp founded the LiveART Foundation to be a frame for her current artistic projects, and to preserve and promote the total of her artworks as a legacy. Based in Amsterdam, the Foundation supports art and its creators through exhibitions, film screenings and panel discussions, through live music-painting performances, and through the use of videos and other multimedia content centered around these collaborations.

The Foundation’s initial goal was to operate as a legal entity for the acquisition of music and image rights for Maryleen Schiltkamp’s live performance art projects. Subsequently, it became part of an over-arching vision which secures the entirety of Schiltkamp’s artworks as a legacy within the Foundation, for future generations.

Atlantis & Other Utopias

1 december 2024

Atlantis & Other Utopias 

De Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam; 1 december, 19:30

Stichting LiveART initieerde het avondvullende programma “Atlantis and Other Utopias”, een interdisciplinair project gebaseerd op de serie ‘Atlantis’ en ‘From the New World’ schilderijen door beeldend kunstenaar Maryleen Schiltkamp met speciaal hiervoor gecomponeerde muziek van componist/pianist Marion von Tilzer in combinatie met videoprojecties door Studio de Maan, die muziek en beeld als artistieke eenheid verbindt.
Von Tilzer’s nieuwe compositie en enkele andere stukken werden uitgevoerd door het Amstel Saxofoon Quartet, percussionist Jacobus Thiele en de componiste zelf op de piano. Schiltkamp’s schilderijen, die het uitgangspunt voor het project vormden, zijn tijdens het evenement ten toon gesteld in de Posthoornkerk; de expositie was daar te zien t/m woensdag 4 december, 12:00 – 16:00.

Foto’s Arkady Mitnik

‘Atlantis & Other Utopias’ concert & video performance 1 december in de Posthoornkerk

Maryleen Schiltkamp, Marion von Tilzer (componiste/pianiste) en Bas van Abswoude (Amstel Saxofoon Kwartet) tijdens het eind applaus…

De Posthoornkerk in het blauwe Atlantis licht…

Maryleen Schiltkamp

Percussionist Jacobus Thiele met de oceanharp (waterphone) speciaal ontworpen voor de ‘Atlantis & Other Utopias’ performance.

AI foto van de video performance ‘Atlantis & Other Utopias’ en teaser clip door Studio de Maan

Programma:

1. Atlantica – Ian Wilson, saxofoonkwartet
2. Les courants polyphoniques d’après Klee – Hugues Dufourt, saxofoonkwartet
3. Nachtfalter – Marion von Tilzer, piano solo
4. Tante Lotte – Marion von Tilzer, duo piano + percussie
5. Atlantis and other Utopias – saxofoonkwartet, piano, percussie; wereldpremière

Artiesten/ Websites:

Marion von Tilzer – componiste/ pianiste
Amstel Quartet – saxofoon kwartet
Jacobus Thiele – percussionist
Studio de Maan: Anne Gentenaar & Martin Boverhof – videoprojectie
Maryleen Schiltkamp – beeldend kunstenaar: 

Tickets à € 32 voor de 2 rijen vooraan
Tickets á € 27,50 overige plaatsen
via Stadsherstel online kaartverkoop
Locatie: De Posthoornkerk
Haarlemmerstraat 124-126, 1013 EX Amsterdam

Contact: info@maryleenschiltkamp.com

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EXCURSIONS!

16 October 2024

LiveART performance concert EXCURSIONS! in collaboration with pianist Alexander Kraft van Ermel

Podium Mozaiek Theater, Amsterdam

 

EX C U R S I O N S !

Podium Mozaïek, Amsterdam 16 oktober, 20:00

Programma:
Rachmaninov – Etude Tableaux Op. 33 no.2,3 & 4
Barber – Excursions
Prokofiev – Transcriptions from the Cinderella Ballet
Prokofiev – Sonata no. 7 op. 83 “Stalingrad”

Beeldend kunstenaar – Maryleen Schiltkamp
Pianist – Alexander Kraft van Ermel

LiveART performance door beeldend kunstenaar Maryleen Schiltkamp in samenwerking met pianist Alexander Kraft van Ermel in werken van Prokofiev, Barber en Rachmaninov.

In “EXCURSIONS!” nemen beide kunstenaars je mee op een muzikale reis waarbij de klankkleuren worden vertaald naar een creatie op het doek. Een uniek samenspel van muziek en schilderkunst die op het podium de strijd aangaan met de spanning van oorlog, en het krachtenveld van de liefde.

Zo behoort Prokofiev’s Piano Sonate No.7 tot de ‘War Sonatas’; Alexander Kraft van Ermel brengt een combinatie van vernietiging en levenskracht ten gehore, waarbij Maryleen Schiltkamp expressieve abstracte beelden schildert. De muziek is universeel, maar in deze tijd van de Russische oorlog tegen Ukraine, en de Israëlische aanvallen in Gaza is de actuele dimensie ook iets dat impact heeft. Voorafgegaan door enkele delen van het prachtige ballet, Cinderella, oa. de Grand Waltz, een transcriptie voor piano, waarin de vervoering en de weerstand van de liefde aan de orde komt. In Barber’s ‘Excursions’ vinden we een mozaïek van korte stukjes met Amerikaans country- en blues idioom, maar in een klassieke zetting die de lat hoog legt voor de pianist en de schilder. Het programma wordt geopend door een keuze uit Rachmaninov’s ‘Etude Tableaux’; schilderachtige muziek die Alexander Kraft van Ermel als solo recital zal uitvoeren.

Tickets Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/4utsb94w
Podium Mozaïek event page + tickets: https://www.podiummozaiek.nl/programma/details/2851/excursions-maryleen-schiltkamp-alexander-kraft-van-ermel

Voor meer informatie en interview verzoeken kunt u contact opnemen met: contact@live-art-foundation.com

 

FROM THE NEW WORLD

MARYLEEN SCHILTKAMP

FROM THE NEW WORLD 1-7 September 2024

FROM THE NEW WORLD exhibition of paintings related to the
Ninth Symphony “Novosvětská” by Antonín Dvořák

1– 7 September 2024
Location: “White Box“, Roelof Hartstraat 7, Amsterdam
Opening reception Sunday, 1 September, 15:30
Open: Mon – Sat, 12:00-19:00, and by appointment with Maryleen

Related to Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, the series of paintings
“From the New World” by Maryleen Schiltkamp are a reflection on the cathartic impact of the symphony and the utopian notion of a
New World.
A world not on any map, but rather as an otherworldly experience which can be sensed through images of a fractured light shining from behind the pictorial scene. Themes from nature are painted in a process of abstraction, in various sketches leading to oil on canvas paintings. During the creation of this series “From the New World”, Maryleen was living in Prague and encountering new influences, such as artworks by František Kupka and Czech Cubism, which she studied with great interest to find new ways of expression.

Shostakovich Viola Sonata Op.147

16 September 2023 – LiveART performance of Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata Op.147 by Maryleen Schiltkamp in collaboration with the Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel, during the Shostakovich/ Beethoven festival “Rencontres Musicales Internationales d’Aigues-Vives”, (Gard) France. Organised by Mouvement Chostakovitch and Association Aigues-Vives en Musique.

Shostakovich Viola Sonata; live musicpainting (detail) 2023

Portrait of Dmitri Shostakovich, 2018

 

 

 

 

Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, 2023

 

LiveART performance of Shostakovich Viola Sonata, Op.147, 16 September 2023, Salle Marius École, Aigues-Vives

The three canvasses of the LiveART performance of Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata, Op.147, 16 September 2023

Altermidi Article on Maryleen

Video clip 

NEWS AIGUES-VIVES – LE JOURNAL December 2023

English translation

Donation to the community
A live creation

During the International festival of classical music last September, Dutch painter Maryleen Schiltkamp created an incredible live pictorial work, based on Shostakovich’s Sonata for Viola and Piano played by the duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel. The artist, and the LiveArt Foundation donated this triptych to the commune of Aigues-Vives. The town council was very moved by this gift and thanked Maryleen Schiltkamp for her generosity. Our heritage has thus been enriched by some fine works of art. You can admire the paintings in the Marius École and La Garette rooms, where they have been hung. This artist has exhibited in galleries all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. She has performed live music-painting in venues and festivals in London, Amsterdam, and Prague, and most recently in Aigues-Vives.

by Myriam Angevin

News ‘Le Journal’: “Une création en direct”, December 2023

NEWS AIGUES-VIVES – LE JOURNAL December 2023

English translation:

“Rencontres musicales internationales”: “Art breaks the silence!”

Last September, Aigues-Vives en Musiques organised its festival on the theme “Art breaks the Silence!”, with the Association Mouvement Chostakovitch. The festival kicked off with a masterful performance of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata for violin and piano by the Ingolfsson-Stoupel Duo. For the 2nd event, the stage was the theatre of artistic fusion, where music and painting were intertwined in the LiveArt performance: Dutch painter Maryleen Schiltkamp created an incomparable pictorial work on three canvases, reacting live to the pulsations and emotions of Shostakovich’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, performed by the Ingolfsson-Stoupel Duo. The audience was treated to an incredible sensory experience, witnessing a unique creative process underpinned by the complicity of the three artists. These works were generously donated by the painter to the municipality.

The following day, the Swiss Piano Trio gave a wonderful and unforgettable performance.

Another highlight was the screening of the Russian film “Family Album”, about the life of Shostakovich. A second film. “Alone” (USSR,1931), offered spectators the chance to see a extraordinary cinematographic work, with a score by Shostakovich. Alan Mercer, president of the Association Mouvement Chostakovitch, gave a commentary on the films before the festival. The festival created a bridge between generations and cultures, uniting classical music lovers in a shared celebration of art. Many thanks to all those who worked to make this festival a success! �Association Aigues-Vives en musiques

Maryleen Schiltkamp – music painter

Alan Mercer gave an introduction to Maryleen’s LiveART performance, by talking about synesthesia and Kandinsky’s theory of color relating to music; Salle Marius École, 16 September 2023.

CINEMA: During the festival, the film “Album de Famille” was shown about Dmitri Shostakovich’s family life. Film screening was organised by Alan Mercer.

The silent movie ‘Odna’ with film-music composed by Shostakovich (1931) Cinema organised by Alan Mercer.

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15 – 17 September: An exhibition of topics on Shostakovich & Beethoven; documentation and installation by Alan Mercer, Salle Marius École, Aigues-Vives.

LiveART panel with examples of Maryleen’s preparations for the live musicpainting performance of Shostakovich Viola Sonata OP.147

 

Stravinsky’s RITE OF SPRING – musicpaintingLIVE

2023 Stravinsky’s RITE OF SPRING in Riga

by pianist Reinis Zariņš & painter Maryleen Schiltkamp

Reinis Zariņš & Maryleen Schiltkamp, “Atmošanās”, Hanzas perons, 17 June 2023. Photo: Jānis Porietis

On 17 June, a musicpaintingLIVE performance with a striking concept of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring took place, as part of a program ‘AWAKENING’ by pianist Reinis Zariņš, 17 June, Hanzas Perons, Riga. As a music painter, Maryleen Schiltkamp has collaborated with various musicians internationally, but the core of her live painting performance art was created in artistic partnership with the Latvian pianist Reinis Zariņš. In this collaboration – musicpaintingLIVE – the pianist and the painter co-author visual creations that combine live music with painting on canvas, following the musical movement and the colour of sound directly on stage during a concert. Reinis Zariņš and Maryleen Schiltkamp are known for their unusual programs, with a repertoire including Bach/Busoni, Chopin, Franck, Ravel, Messiaen, Medtner, Gubaidulina and Shostakovich. They have performed at festivals including in London (Baltic Art Form), Amsterdam (Winteravonden aan de Amstel – Hermitage) and CĒSIS Concert hall in Latvia.

The concept:

From its inception, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was meant to be expressed
and visualised by dance — the ancient rituals represented on stage were originally dance- like games, mystic circles and sacred lines drawn by dancing tribes, ending in a horrific and earth-shattering sacrificial dance. For pianist Reinis Zarins and painter Maryleen Schiltkamp, the intensity of experiencing The Rite calls for a style of performance that most directly involves both the artists and their audiences. It is like a visceral dance, stretching their limits, the music inexorably pulling towards its end. This is a unique interaction between a pianist who tackles Stravinsky’s massive orchestral score with his two bare hands, and a painter who ‘dances’ through The Rite, in a choreography of paint and brushes on a large-sized canvas. The resulting synergy is striking and powerful.

In The Rite of Spring, there is awakening of people and nature, there is something prehistoric and foundational in its music, there are shackles to be thrown off, and there is the fateful inevitability of sacrificial death from the very first to the last note.

The Video-project of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was sponsored by the LiveART Foundation

Concert-video, 17 June @Hanzas Perons, Riga

View article – View interview

The Rite, Part 1, Dance of the Earth.   photo’s Jānis Porietis

Part 2 Sacrificial Dance – musicpaintingLIVE (detail of large canvas)

With our editor, Edmunds Mickus, and camera team, oa. Jānis Porietis, we have been working on a video-project of Stravinsky’ RITE OF SPRING. The good news is: we have finished the production stage of this huge project and are now actively looking for ways to place it on streaming platforms,

Trailer of the Video project The RITE!

 

Reinis Zariņš & Maryleen Schiltkamp; the musicpaintingLIVE team!

Double portraits Reinis & Maryleen by Saskia Bakker

Live musicpainting (detail)

 

Reinis during our studio rehearsals! Amsterdam, January 2023

Postcards of The RITE!

Homeconcerts

Homeconcert, 21 May 2023

TOBIAS BORSBOOM: JAVA SUITE – GODOVSKY

GAMELAN demonstration; Widosari group

Video Clip

Pianist Tobias Borsboom, acclaimed in the press for his ‘velvet toucher’ and excellence,  presented an integral performance of Godovsky’s Java Suite on Sunday afternoon, May 21.
The Java Suite, composed in 1925 by the Lithuanian/American composer Leopold Godovsky (1870-1938) is a cycle of musical travelogues – “Phonoramas” – colorful impressions and emotions, adventures and picturesque scenes Godovsky experienced during his journey through Java, Indonesia.
The Java Suite consists of twelve parts and is influenced by Javanese gamelan music with pentatonic harmonies.
Book 1
I Gamelan
II. Wayang-Purwa, Puppet Shadow Plays
III. Hari Besaar, The Great Day
Book 2
IV. Chattering Monkeys at the Sacred Lake of Wendit
V. Boro Budur in Moonlight
VI. Bromo Volcano and the Sand Sea at Daybreak
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Book 3
VII. 3 Javanese Dances
VIII. The Gardens of Buitenzorg
IX. In the Streets of old Batavia
Book 4
X. In the Kraton
XI. The Ruined Water Castle at Djokja
XII. A Court Pageant in Solo

As a wonderful addition to Tobias’ concert, the Java Suite was followed by a live gamelan demonstration, so we could hear the source of musical influence and further enhance the Javanese atmosphere. Michiel Niemantsverdriet, gamelan teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory, gave an introduction on some gamelan instruments, together with Yukari Uekawa and Paul Schauenburg – ao. the saron, slenthem, gambang, gendèr, bamboo flute and small gong. Michiel, Yukari and Paul are connected with the Gamelanhuis, Amsterdam, and belong to the gamelan group ‘Widosari‘, with whom they often perform.
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Homeconcert 26 March 2023
Ursula Schoch (violin) & Marcel Worms (piano): Five Dutch Women Composers (20th century)
Majoie Hajarie
 Rosy Wertheim                                       Agnes Jama                                                                                
    

Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman

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Henriëtte Bosmans

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PROGRAMMA

Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman – Sonate voor viool en piano (1923)

Henriëtte Bosmans – Sonate voor viool en piano (1918)

Majoie Hajarie – Serenade en Tango

P A U Z E

Agnes Jama – Suite voor viool en piano (1952)

Rosy Wertheim – Sonate voor viool en piano (1931)

Ursula Schoch & Marcel Worms
  @ Nicolaas Witsenkade 14a , Amsterdam                                                                                                                                                                               
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Homeconcert New Year’s Eve 2022/23
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Theatrical Storytelling Performance by Roland Colastica, 16 October, 2022
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Homeconcert 15 May, 2022
Marcel Worms – Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (Book2)

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J.S. Bach’s Wohltemperierte Klavier

Het Vredeskerkje te Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands; 7 April 2023

J.S.Bach’s ‘Das Wohltemperierte Klavier’ (Book2) by pianist Marcel Worms, with musicpaintings inspired on WTK 2 by Maryleen. Media

J.S. Bach – WTK (1&2); diptych in oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm (2x), 2022

In this diptych I have depicted 2 x 24 Preludes and Fugues according to the color of the Affects evoked by the successive keys and what happens in terms of musical expression.

J.S. Bach: WTK 2 No.12 Fugue in F Minor – oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, 2021

Here I followed the rhythm and accents in the movement of this Fugue, live in synchronicity with the music.

J.S. Bach – WTK 2 No.13 Fugue in Fis Major – oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, 2021

The counterpoint of polyphonic voices within a canvas frame…

Stage view from the piano …

Het Vredeskerkje: Marcel Worms prior to the concert; 7 April 2023

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Salviuskerkje, Limbricht; 13 maart 2022

Musicpainting collaboration with pianist Marcel Worms on Johan Sebastiaan Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 1. Concert 13 March, Salviuskerkje, Limbricht, Netherlands;  1 pm introduction at Limbricht Castle, 3 pm concert.

Trailer

Salviuskerkje Website

Press release Sittard – Geleen Nieuws

Musicpainting detail of WTK 2 (preludes & fugues 1- 6)

Salviuskerkje, Limbricht

Introduction on Bach’s Wohltemperierte Klavier by Marcel Worms, with small exhibition of musicpaintings at Limbricht Castle prior to the concert:

 

 

Pan’s universe in colorful tones

Pan’s universe in colorful tones …

The tone poem “Pan”, op. 43 by the Czech composer Vítězslav Novák, is an evocation of the mythical forest god, Pan, in five parts: Prologue, Mountains, Sea, Forest and Woman. Forces of nature are recalled musically, from overwhelming and majestic, to subtle and sensual, to serene tranquility; a masterpiece of neo-romantic style and modernist harmonies. All in great thematic unity, as the word “pan” also means.
In addition to Beethoven’s 250th – , the year 2020 is also the 150th birth year of Vítězslav Novák. At the initiative of pianist Tobias Borsboom, Novák’s ‘Pan’ will be performed at various locations in the Netherlands during 2020. Tobias Borsboom, one of the Netherlands’ most famous young pianists for his poetic, colorful interpretations, is for these concerts in collaboration with the artist Maryleen Schiltkamp, ​​who interprets this piano piece in her own unique way, from her discipline as a painter. Schiltkamp, ​​who lived and worked in Prague for many years, has made oil paintings for the five parts of Novák’s Pan. These  “Pan” paintings will take part in the concerts. For the event at the Haagse Kunstkring in The Hague, she will also paint live simultaneously with the music as performance art, creating the artwork ‘live’, following the structure of the music composition.

Tobias Borsboom – pianist     Maryleen Schiltkamp – music painter

 

 

Tobias Borsboom ‘Pan’ video Vlissingen

Pan’s Prologue (Prolog) – part 1 of  Vítězslav Novák ‘s  tone poem ‘Pan’; oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2019

 

Mountains (Hory) – part 2 of  Vítězslav Novák ‘s  tone poem ‘Pan’; oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, 2019

 

Sea (Moře) – part 3 of  Vítězslav Novák ‘s  tone poem ‘Pan’; oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, 2019

 

Forest (Les) – part 4 of  Vítězslav Novák ‘s  tone poem ‘Pan’; oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, 2019

 

Woman (Žena) – part 5 of  Vítězslav Novák ‘s  tone poem ‘Pan’; oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2019

 

 

 

 

De Klankvijver – Voorschoten  19.01 202

RondoM Concerten – Wilhelminaoord 11.01 2020

Haagse Kunstkring – The Hague 27.02 2020