 Also that year, he released the album "The Hilversum Sessions", which paired his Trio with three Dutch classical string players on violin, viola, and cello.In September 2015, he curated the first Fiddles on Fire Festival in De Doelen Concert Hall, Rotterdam, an all-string collaboration with the Codarts Conservatoire orchestra, Irish fiddler Frankie Gavin and Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Gjermund Larsen; the festival was held in 2017 again together with Nordic Fiddlers Bloc and jazz violinist Fiona Monbet.In 2016, Kliphuis signed a 3-record deal with Sony Classical Netherlands, of which the first album "Reflecting the Seasons", recorded by his Trio and the Stellenbosch University Camerata, was released in October 2016.