“A cultural institution that dares to call itself ‘Music centre’ should be brimming with musical activity and energy. A good concert hall brings artists and audiences – the two reasons for our existence – together. Many of those meetings are inspiring, enriching, fascinating, instructive, touching, relaxing, enlightening or confusing and even confrontational. Often they are also ephemeral and unique, because a concert hall wants to bring musicians into contact with as large an audience as possible, to the extent possible. (...) Other artistic relationships are enduring and intense. If it clicks, there are plenty of advantages. Production and presentation suddenly come effortlessly together. Performers are no longer guests, but come ‘home’.”
- Geert Riem, General director of De Bijloke Music Centre.
