Festival

Kerk van de Evangelische Broedergemeente in Zeist ©FoppeSchut

Zeist Music Days is an international two-week chamber music festival taking place in Zeist (The Netherlands), that’s being organised every year in August, in 2025 from the 16th until the 31th of August.

It’s an inspiring course full of masterclasses and concerts by internationally renowned musicians. The festival has become a major international event that has received rave reactions from the press and enthusiastic responses from the audience. It is a meeting place for professionals, students, and the public. Since 2009, Zeist Music Days festival has been under the inspiring artistic leadership of Alexander Pavlovsky, first violinist of the Jerusalem Quartet.

The festival offers a series of concerts by world-famous string quartets and soloists, and cross-over concerts at the Moravian Church in the historic surroundings of Zeist Castle. Simultaneously an extensive young talent development program takes place, with daily masterclasses given by renowned musicians, who also perform at the festival concerts. The masterclass program includes a concert tour for the masterclass participants to Utrecht, Odijk and Amerongen. The masterclasses take place at Kontakt der Kontinenten, a conference hotel in the beautiful wooded scenery of Soesterberg, close to Zeist and the city of Utrecht.

Since 2019 Zeist Music Days is an international partner of Musethica, an education method for exceptionally gifted young musicians.

The Zeist Music Days festival is organized by Stichting Zeister Muziekdagen, the Netherlands.

Zeister Music days is backed by

FPK Subsidie
Elise Mathilde Fonds