Krashna Musika    links: http://www.krashna.nl/    Krashna photo gallery   

 

Krashna Musika is the music society of students at the TUD, the Technical University of Delft. Membership is also possible for non-students.
To the society belongs a choir (50-90) which since 2008 is conducted by Chris Pouw. Daan Admiraal leads the symphony-orchestra (70-100).
 
   
                       Daan Admiraal conducts the Krashna Orchestra in Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony (2008).  

Last years an increasing population of TUD-students from abroad has joined the choir for singing and for playing in the orchestra. In that aspect Krashna Musika is a peacefull global village of young people of many nationalities and the whole range of skin colours who share a passion for classical music.

Normally 2 or 3 programs are rehearsed and performed in a season. In the majority of the concert programs the choir and the orchestra cooperate but incidentally there are also separate productions, like the St. Matthew-Passion or Mahler's hughe Symphony nr.3. Krashna Musika rehearsals find place in the attractive recently-build cultural centre of the TUD, Mekelweg 10, which has its own music hall. Orchestral rehearsals are at Monday night, 19.30-22.30. Choral rehearsals are at Wednesday night, 19.30-22.00. You are welcome! One rehearsal-day (a Saturday or a Sunday) and a rehearsal weekend belong to the standard preparation for each program.
 
   
          The Cultureel Centrum Mekelweg 10 designed by architect Vera Yanovshtchinsky (1995).   
More information about the choir: visit the website of Krashna Musika:  http://www.krashna.nl/
 
More information about the the orchestra.
The big symphony-orchestra has an unique position in the province of South-Holland. It plays the glories of the late-romantic and the modern symphonic repertoire: Brahms, Dvorak, Strauß, Mahler, Stravinsky (the complete ballet-trilogy The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring was played), Bartók (The Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto for Orchestra) etcetera, but also lesser known works: Copland, Symphony nr.3, Daan Manneke, Ruimten, Berlioz, Messe Solennelle.
An unfgorfettable highlight in the last seasons was the performance of Benjamin Brittens War Requiem in the historic Nieuwe Kerk in Delft
The orchestral season of Krashna starts in September. Normally there are 2 programs. In a standard season the concerts are given in December/January and in May/June. The majority of the programs is a combination of symphonic and choral works. When the instrumental forces needed for the accompaniment of the choir are smaller than the full symphonic band a chamber-orchestra or an ensemble is formed.
Membership of the orchestra is only aquired after a short audition: krashna-auditions
 
Delft has a serious cultural problem: there is no good concert-hall. For that reason the Krashna concerts in Delft often are given in churches or in the TU-Aula. A second concert  is mostly Rotterdam or The Hague, if possible under better acoustical conditions. In recent years the orchestra played in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Mahler-3), in De Doelen, Rotterdam (Also sprach Zarathustra) and the Anton Philips Zaal, The Hague (Mahler-6).
Concert tours to Italy, France-Germany and Germany-Sweden-Denmark were made in recent years.

 The T.U. Delft, Aula Congrescentrum, Mekelweg 5 in Delft.

 

 

The Maria van Jessekerk (1875-1882, Evert Margry) in the historic centre of Delft is a neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church. 

 
 
                                    
De Vredeskerk or Sacramentskerk (1940) in Delft.