SoundWave Collective is a new Hague ensemble founded to create performance opportunities for young instrumentalists, singers and dancers.
Building bridges between cultures and continents
Founder and artistic director Libia Hernández wants to offer young players, composers and other creators the opportunity to gain professional experience and collaborations with various disciplines. SoundWave Collective wants to be a connecting link between different musical movements and genres where experiments with cross-fertilization programming form intriguing combinations of musical styles. We want to find creative ways to attract and convince a diverse and as wide an audience as possible that classical music is something of our time and an enduring force that builds bridges between cultures and continents.
A strong and powerful future for classical music
The SoundWave Collective stands for a strong and powerful future for classical music. The collective contributes to forging bonds between young colleagues in order to share knowledge, traditions and experiences and to seek new ideas and solutions to ensure classical music’s place in the future.
Finding creative ways to attract and convince diverse and widest possible audiences that classical music is also something of our time is not only necessary, indispensable and irreplaceable, but also an enduring force that builds bridges between cultures and continents.
- SoundWave Collective aspires to create and nurture a cultural ecosystem in which classical music and musicians can thrive. An important part of this is a so-called musical laboratory in which young players, composers and other creators are given the opportunity to gain professional experience, enter into collaborations and connect with various disciplines. Unique concerts and performances, with unique programming and at unique venues are central to this.
- SoundWave Collective is an ensemble with the ambition to perform classical music as well as other genres of music at a high level and present them in unique venues.
- SoundWave Collective aims to become a dynamic and virtuoso company with projects that can connect diverse cultural expressions and art forms.
- SoundWave Collective aims to perform concerts at unusual and less common locations, which are transformed into theater venues on the spot.
- SoundWave Collective stands for classical music with a fresh, modern outlook that sheds a different light on mutual perspective and understanding through a new approach.
- SoundWave Collective wants to fill in the concert experience in a new way through “cross-pollination” programming, taking into account the new times and the new “feel” in concert situations. The collective thereby reaches out to the audience and can once again connect the audience to the music and to each other.
- SoundWave Collective aims to become an integral part of The Hague’s music scene.
Libia Hernández
Cuban-born conductor Libia Hernández fell under the spell of classical music after attending a recital by double bass virtuoso (and later her teacher) Gary Karr. She exchanged her engineering studies at the City College of New York for a life in music and received her Masters of Music from the University of Hartford.
She was a member of both the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Amsterdam Bach Soloist and performed under the direction of conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Richard Egarr, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Simon Rattle and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Libia Hernández studied orchestral conducting with Jac van Steen and Kenneth Montgommery at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague and in Moscow with renowned conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.
She participated in prestigious conducting masterclasses and workshops with Neeme Järvi, Riccardo Muti, Michel Tabachnik and Ilan Volkov.
Libia Hernandez has conducted the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Hague Philharmonic, the North Netherlands Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the Brabant’s Symphony Orchestra and Miami Lyric Opera. She has also regularly served as Assistant Conductor of the Dutch National Opera (DNO), Staatskappelle Weimar and was assistant conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in the United States for 3 seasons, under chief conductor Xian Zhang.
Libia Hernandez has a special affinity for working with and nurturing young musicians and singers. She was Principal Conductor of the University of Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, “Sweelinckorkest,” has conducted the Dutch National Youth Orchestra (NJO) and conducted and coached talented young musicians from all over the world at the Bayreuth Festival of Young Artists. She led the European Opera Academy’s groundbreaking production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Brigands”, featuring young singers from all over Europe, each singing and speaking in their native language ranging from Dutch, English and French to German, Hungarian, Italian, Serbian and Spanish.
Libia Hernandez is permanent guest conductor of the Lyceum Mozartiano Institute in Havana, Cuba. She has worked and performed with young musicians from the Paulita Concepción Music School, Amadeo Roldán Conservatory and Instituto Superior de Arte in the last five editions of the Mozart Havana Festival. In 2022 she made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba and will return in season 2025.
Libia Hernandez is a passionate advocate for young musicians, singers, dancers and composers. She is founder, artistic director and conductor of SoundWave Collective, a new group for musicians, singers and dancers, launched to create performance opportunities for young professionals to help them develop their passion while acquiring experience needed to advance their careers.
Her innovative new “cross-pollination” programming creates opportunities for young “makers” to meet and inspire one another, expanding on the group’s creative mission of broadening the artistic landscape for classical music in the 21st century.
Team
Below you can see Soundwave Collective's staff team, from we organize (almost) everything for our concerts ourselves.
Libia Hernandez:
founder and artistic director
business leader:
Eline Veldman
artistic team:
Elias Zaabi Saez, Simone van Hoof
sound engineering:
João Lucas, Simon Kalker
social media:
Zoe Gonzalez Valbuena
web design:
Hans van der Woerd
General information
SoundWave Collective
1e Sweelinckstraat 8
2517GC 's-Gravenhage
soundwavecollective70@gmail.com
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 80839290
RSIN/Fiscal Number: 861820356
Artistic Director
Libia Hernandez
Bookings
Dominique Citroen Management
info@dominiquecitroen.com
+31 (0)6 2959 6067
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Board
By statute, the SoundWave collective foundation has a board of directors. The board is responsible for the foundation's policy, its implementation and control. As such, the board members receive no remuneration for their activities. The board may decide to reimburse board members for travel and accommodation expenses.
President
Ernestine Stoop
Secretary/Treasurer
Annoes Hendriks-van der Zande
General board member
Henk van der Meulen
Committee of Recommendation
Jan Pronk
Sneska Quadvlieg-Mihailovic
Heba El-Kholy
Eva-Maria Westbroek
