Rules & Regulations

Fringe Ensemble Competition

Apply from 11 February 2026

ORDA-2026 presents an exciting new part of the festival programme: the Fringe Ensemble Competition. The Fringe Ensemble Competition is open to (pre-)professional ensembles including at least one recorder player and consisting of at least two or more players. The competition is open to recorder consorts and broken consorts (including singers), consisting of students pursuing a professional degree on recorder and young professional players under the average age of 35. The instrumentation of the ensembles must be based on equal voices, i.e. basso continuo is not permitted.

Following a pre-selection by video, for which applicants are requested to submit a single unedited/live video recording of a maximum duration of 15 minutes, a maximum of four ensembles are invited to perform at the Fringe Ensemble Competiton Finals on Sunday 12 July at 14:00 at Rode Hoed, Amsterdam. Each ensemble will perform a programme of 15 minutes. The final concert is included in the official festival programme, and admission is free.

Application deadline: 15 April 2026
The outcome of the pre-selection will be communicated by 1 May 2026.

Jury (final):

The Jury may award monetary prizes to participating ensembles, next to which a separate performance prize (paid concert engagements in professional concert series in the Netherlands) may be awarded.