Hadewych van Gent is a cellist. She will provide the musical accompaniment during New Beginnings x Spoken Word at OFF 2022. She studied at the young talent department of the Conservatory of Amsterdam and played in the prestigious ensemble The Fancy Fiddlers, directed by Coosje Wijzenbeek. With them she gave many concerts at home and abroad. In 2018 she played at a festival in Italy with big names such as Friedmann Echhorn, Gernot Süssmuth and Rumen Cvetkov. Hadewych has played at The Concertgebouw several times, both solo and with great musicians such as Janine Jansen and Menahim Pressler. 

During the Opera Forward 2022 Festival Hadewych will perform the musical accompaniment during Spoken Word x New Beginnings.