About Akoesticum
Our vision and mission
We are Akoesticum, the first and only training center for music, dance, and theatre in the Netherlands. Since opening in January 2015, guests and visitors from both the Netherlands and abroad have come to us to practice, train, eat, and stay overnight. Several special groups have since made us their permanent training location, including the Concertgebouw Orchestra Young and the Australian Youth Orchestra.
Vision
At Akoesticum, we believe that art is essential for personal development and for fostering connections within society. Art stimulates creativity and imagination, bringing people together. With this vision, our foundation aims to contribute to a better society through the performing arts.
Mission statement
Akoesticum wants to be a sanctuary for performing artists to gather, rehearse, learn, create, experiment, innovate, and inspire one another. It is a place that provides tranquility and space, where the growth and development of performing artists are central, and where creative collaborative processes thrive beyond everyday concerns. It serves as an open house and meeting place for artists and audiences of all ages and cultures—a breeding ground where inspiring encounters and artistic exchanges lead to surprising art forms and performances.
Our team
Ambassadors
Our ambassadors are known for their commitment to bringing Akoesticum to the attention of people in the Netherlands and far beyond.
Working at Akoesticum
Would you like to become part of our team? Check out the available vacancies below, sign up as a volunteer or do an internship!
Projects
Stichting Bigbands Forever
Since 2021 Stichting Bigbands Forever is a permanent player within Akoesticum. As a branch organisation, the Bigbands Forever Foundation works closely with the KNMO (Royal Dutch Music Organisation), a national umbrella, interest, service, knowledge and volunteer organisation.
Windows of Opportunity
Windows of Opportunity offers young, professional musicians up to 30 years of age the opportunity to create a short performance. Not an 'ordinary' concert, but a performance that can be flexibly adapted to changing environments and situations. The core of Windows remains the residency week in Akoesticum; the artistic and business support is extended to a coaching trajectory of several months. The new performances will be performed four times before an audience during the programme.
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ANBI-status
As a national training centre for music, dance and theatre, Akoesticum is committed to offering performing artists from all over the world an affordable and professional workplace.
Akoesticum is a non-profit organisation with cultural ANBI status (Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling). Donations and gifts to Akoesticum are therefore tax deductible. Donors to cultural ANBIs also have an additional tax advantage as an additional gift deduction applies to them.
Articles of association, policy plan and reportsBusiness data
Name of the organisation: Stichting Akoesticum
Chamber of Commerce: 50.28.44.28
RSIN: 8226577 40
IBAN–number: NL71 RABO 0129 1294 45
BIC: RABONL2U
Monumentnumber: 523488
Purpose: To promote all types of performing arts by bringing the performing arts to the attention of the public, creating opportunities to train people, providing facilities for practising the performing arts, offering opportunities to perform, promoting the performing arts, providing musical instruments and everything else that can, in a spatial sense, be conducive to the purpose.
Supervisory Board: Erik Heinrich, Miranda van Drie, Leonie van der Kruk, Joop van Deuren en Sylvia Kortenraij.