Auletes

Auletes is a sub-society of the Eindhoven Student Music Society Quadrivium. Quadrivium was founded in 1964 and consists of a mixed choir, a chamber orchestra, a recorder ensemble and a wind orchestra. Besides, the association has members who only use the rehearsal rooms and pianos, the so-called 'piano members'. Quadrivium is the Latin word for 'crossroads' and refers to the medieval academic education, which consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The wind orchestra Auletes is the largest sub-society of ESMG Quadrivium. Approximately once every year, Auletes engages in a large project with a full-evening concert. Recent successes are performances of Orff's Carmina Burana and The Queen Symphony by Kashif.

Since October 2008, wind orchestra Auletes of ESMG Quadrivium is conducted by Jos Schroevers.
Jos studied percussion at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatoire and the Brabant Conservatoire in Tilburg. Besides, he studied brass ensemble conducting, which he successfully finished in 2001. In 2005, Jos started his second phase studies in brass ensemble conducting at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, which he finished in 2008. In the meantime, Jos participated in several master classes and private lessons with a.o. Maurice Hamers, Valery Gergiev, Alex Schillings, Heinz Friesen, Norbert Nozy, Hans Leenders and Jan Cober. As a conductor, Jos currently is working with several 1st and 2nd division orchestras. Besides, Jos was the artistic leader of the 'Zomer Orkest Nederland' in 2007 and 2008, and is assistant conductor at 'Sophia's Vereeniging' in Loon op Zand. In april 2005, Jos reached the semi-finals of the European conductor's competition in Groningen. In 2009, he ranked 4th during the international conductor's competition of the WMC in Kerkrade.