First Date Dinner Concert | Martin Rombouts & Merel Junge

What is love without dating and food? When you choose the theme "Out of Love" as a festival, of course you have to create the ultimate conditions for love to flourish.

While enjoying a vegan two-course dinner (including 1 drink) at theater kitchen and café TREK, you will witness the First Date of writer and Smartest Man Martin Rombouts and violinist Merel Junge.

Does it click? Does it chafe? Does it sizzle? Does something flare up?

Menu

• for: salad of celeriac, green apple, chicory and plum
• main: moussaka with eggplant, red curry sauce, salad of fennel and radish

Credits
recital Martin Rombouts
violin Merel Junge

Photo: Martin Aisha Zeijpveld

MARTIN ROMBOUTS
Martin Rombouts (Rotterdam, 1992) is a poet, director and theater maker. Martin's work is an investigation into the now, into the stories and forces that shape our lives. He has a particular interest in economics, power, love, the Internet, mourning and artificial intelligence. He created the podcast And They Called Me.... Dientje (BNNVARA) and won De Slimste Mens. His debut will appear with publisher Das Mag.

MEREL JUNGE
Merel Junge studied violin with Coosje Wijzenbeek and Vera Beths, was winner of the Davina van Wely Vioolconcours in 2001 and received her Master's degree at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2007. After her studies Merel went abroad,where she played in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as in the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. As a soloist Merel performed with, among others, the First Violin Concerto by Max Bruch and the Concert for Violin and Wind Ensemble by Kurt Weill. Currently Merel plays in various ensembles and orchestras at home and abroad, including Nieuw Amsterdams Peil. She is also a regular member of the Eef van Breen Group.