LES SACRES 2026

LES SACRES – Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” as live performance art – saw its Dutch premiere on 26th April at Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam.
Pianist Reinis Zariņš
Painter Maryleen Schiltkamp

Les Sacres: a ritual of music, color and primal force…

Looking back on a tremendous performance!!
A radical reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre by pianist Reinis Zariņš and visual artist Maryleen Schiltkamp.

A compelling, raw, and powerful artistic ritual!

This groundbreaking performance shows the audience what art can do: shock, challenge, and disrupt—and that’s still necessary today!—but it also states a unifying power. In our current era, rituals are disappearing. Projects like LES SACRES can be a bridge to rediscovering a magical reality – our humanity within a larger whole.

Music program

George Crumb — Makrokosmos I: I – Primeval Sounds (Genesis)
Richard Wagner — Tristan und Isolde: Prelude
Frederic Rzewski — Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Igor Stravinsky — Le Sacre du Printemps (live performance art*

*Duo musicpaintingLIVE: Reinis Zariņš & Maryleen Schiltkamp

 

Reactions of the audience: “The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky like you’ve NEVER seen it before…” “Pure, raw, LIVE creation!!! 🔥” ” This was NEXT LEVEL: AWESOME!!! Absolutely INSANE energy 🔥🔥”

 

Reinis during the three solo piano pieces leading to Le Sacre…
Photo’s by audience – many thanks!
Poster Les Sacres

Podium Mozaiek view…

TRAILER 2023

Press release: EN Press release LES SACRES 2026

Persbericht pdf: LES SACRES Persbericht NL
Persbericht word: Persbericht-Les-Sacres-NL-.docx

Beluister het interview met Maryleen over LES SACRES: Concertzender Aktueel
vanaf minuut 00:18:12 – 00:28:34!

 

ABOUT

PIANIST REINIS ZARIŅŠ

Latvian concertpianist Reinis Zariņš seeks to “give voice” to the mystery of life through the music he studies and shares. His performances have taken him to leading venues such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and New York’s Carnegie Hall, and to collaborations with major orchestras, festivals, and BBC live broadcasts.
After studies at Yale University and the Royal Academy of Music in London, he returned to Latvia, where he now lives and works. Reinis has performed with artists including Gidon Kremer, Viktoria Mullova, and conductors Pierre Boulez and Andris Poga, and also creates interdisciplinary projects with dance and visual art. For his outstanding contribution to Latvian culture, he has received the Order of the Three Stars and won the Latvian Grand Music Award five times.
@pianist_zarins
MARYLEEN SCHILTKAMP
Visual artist Maryleen Schiltkamp studied painting at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and has exhibited her oil on canvas paintings worldwide in galeries and museums, including New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Prague and St.Petersburg. She has also performed at international music festivals and European venues with LiveART, a performance art of live painting during concerts, synchronised with (classical) music, in collaboration with musicians. A striking project was her live performance art of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps in artistic partnership with Latvian pianist Reinis Zariņš at Hanzas Perons, Riga (2023), which will see its Dutch premiere in the program LES SACRES in April 2026 in Amsterdam.
Since 2022, Schiltkamp has been the founder and chair of the LiveART Foundation.
Photo: 2024 (C) Saskia Bakker
@maryleenschiltkamp