Andrea Voets (1989) is the world’s only musical journalist. As the artistic director of Resonate Productions,she combines in-depth, social journalism with tailor-made music: into podcasts & documentary-concerts. With her musical journalism, she brings to light emotional blind spots in society and offers ways out of the complex problems they bring about. Since 2018, she works from De Balie in Amsterdam: the Dutch house for debate. This resulted in the documentary-concerts Wings & Roots (2018) and While We Live (2020). The Dutch quality-newspaper NRC listed this show as best of classical music in 2020, calling it a “fascinating new genre”.That same year, the Berliner Festspiele commissioned a piece of musical journalism, based on the writings of Bruno Latour.
2022 brings the launch of the podcast Millennial History. (in partnership with AreWeEurope , created with composer Luke Deane) and the start of her worldwide search into the question ‘how to feel safe’, funded by the prestigious FastForward-grant of the Dutch Fund for the Performing Arts (FPK).
Andrea obtained her BA of harp and philosophy in Amsterdam and her MA of harp at the Hanns Eisler conservatory in Berlin, where she has been teaching her own course of practical music philosophy since 2014. She developed the concept of 'musical journalism' after the creation of XENITIA (2016): her first documentary-concert, based on the testimonies of eighteen Greeks who left their country because of the crisis. After a presentation at ClassicalNEXT, the head of music of the British Council called this production “the sort of show we need after Trump and Brexit.”
Because of her international activities, Andrea speaks six languages fluently, including New-Greek and Farsi. She is a fellow of the European Music Council and a guest lecturer at art universities throughout Europe. Andrea divides her time between the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Greece.
