New lyrical music in an old Amsterdam synagogue
januari 2010 - In the FD-Magazine of January Jurjen Vis wrote about the Uilenburger Concerts interviewed Vanessa Lann, Joost Kleppe me…
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Premičre piano trio ‘De tout mon coeur’ by the Atlantic Trio.
december 2009 - On December 13, 2009 the Atlantic Trio played the first performance of my new piano trio in a fine programme that featured Beethoven op.1:1 en Mendelssohn’s 2nd trio…
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Trio Amare previews Bergidylle in idyllic surroundings
november 2009 - A bit of a first night in idyllic Geldrop Castle: Trio Amare played the first movement of my setting of Heine’s Bergidylle
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Featured composer at the Atlantic Chamber Music Festival
august 2009 - I was featured composer at the Atlantic Chamber Music Festival - and witnessed an impressive first performance of my new (and first) piano trio. read more / comment
Score of The Lamb & The Tyger (chamber choir SATB) now published
My short but very intense setting of William Blake’s famous poems has finally been published by Ascolta…
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Utrecht String Quartet & Tom Kerstens play Over the Water
After the successful London premiere my quintet for guitar and strings Over the Water will be played in the Netherlands in the 2009-2010 season: guitarist Tom Kerstens will perform it with the internationally acclaimed Utrecht String Quartet…
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New music of all ages – La Fontegara on Tour Again
januari 2009 - ‘Early music’? Bollocks, new music of all ages… read more / comment
Lisa Jacobs and The Amsterdam Soloist play my new Due Scherzi
octobre 2008 Lisa Jacobs and the Amsterdam Soloist bring a programme of two well known string quintets (by Mozart and Brahms) that also includes my new one…. read more / comment
Tom Kerstens and the G+ Ensemble play premiere of Over the Water in London
octobre 2008 In the new Kings Place guitarist Tom Kerstens and the G+ ensemble played the premiere of my new piece Over the Water for guitar and string quartet… read more / comment
A piece for carillon and recorder for the Utrecht Carillon Society
may 2008 - The Utrecht Carillon Society commissioned a piece for the Utrecht Domtower carillon and recorder, or to be more precise, for two master musicians on these beautiful instruments: Arie Abbenes, Utrecht’s city carillonneur, and Saskia Coolen, master recorder player.
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Over the Water for guitar and string quartet
I just finished Over the Water, a piece that took me a year to write….. read more / comment
New recorder piece, with German publisher Edition Tre Fontane
Recorders without borders will be published by Tre Fontane… read more / comment
Blake Settings now also SATB
The choral diptych The Lamb & The Tyger was recently performed in a new SATB version. read more / comment
Things that went, things that keep coming…
In the year this website is in existence, I made quite some music, but much more is to come… read more / comment
Praise for Vintage Brisk
The Netherland’s one and only classical cd-glossy Luister awarded Vintage Brisk its highest recommendation… read more / comment
Orpheus sings: Dutch composers
A new cd of Dutch choral music includes my The Lamb & The Tyger….
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Vintage Brisk: all new, yet old, music
Globe Records just released the cd ‘Vintage Brisk: a selection of the new music the ensemble commissioned from Dutch composers in the past 20 years, including two pieces of mine…
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Vintage Brisk: a birthday party
Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam
celebrated it’s 20th anniversary with a cd of contemporary music for recorder quartet and a special programme, including my music, in the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw….
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Two Little New Bits of Music…
Two small new pieces, both presents, and both ruled by the number FOUR…. read more / comment
Music score for ‘The Birdwatcher’
In the Netherlands Film Festival, October 3: first night of the short teleplay ‘The Birdwatcher’ by director Ellen Blom. To be seen on Dutch television (net 2) October 13. read more / comment
A Movie Recital
My recorder Quartet’s third movement is now touring in a cinematographic concert, or perhaps ‘movierecital’, staged by Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam: BLIK — a title not easy to translate…
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First performance of violin-piano duo in the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
31 maart 2006
My latest piece, Three Dance Capriccios for violin and piano, has been written especially for young musicians Rosanne Philippens and Yuri van Nieuwkerk. 
at the request of violin pedagogue Coosje Wijzenbeek, with kind support by the Dutch Fund for Creative Music Writing. The first performance, in a concert by Coosjes young Fancy Fiddlers, has been at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam during their exquisite Rembrandt-Caravaggio exhibition at one of the special ‘Friday Night’ programs offered by the museum. For the occasion, the Fiddlers’ programme consisted of ‘Dutch Masters’, featuring Hendrik Andriessen and Ton de Leeuw, whose beautiful Sonatina is played by Rosanne and Yuri along with my new piece.
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Summery School of Music Philosophy
Books: to be read, then discussed at large lengths.
At the International School for Philosophy (from August 7 - 11) I will help to discuss the question ‘What is the language of music’, a seminar…
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75 Years of Musicology and 74 Musicologists, and me
November 19, 2005 - was presented: Een 75 Musicologen Boek (A Book of 75 Musicologists), to celebrate 75 years of musicolgy at the University of Utrecht. To my surprise, editors Jan Nuchelmans and Emile Wennekes included me…. read more / comment
New Piece for the Bartók Trio
november 7 2004 - The Bartók Trio played the world premiere of my brand new Trio for violin, clarinet and piano in the beautiful acoustics of Bunnik’s Old Reformed Church, with the Concertzender recording…… read more / comment
Polder Winds Blowing
‘Polder Winds Blowing’ is a small series of small pieces for variable winds. Several music schools tried their hands on them last season. And the Dutch ‘Concertzender’ was there to broadcast some…. read more / comment
Christina Competition Laureates play ‘Kalenda Maya’
May 2004 - For the young Gioconde Quartet (average age: 15) I wrote Kalenda Maya, a compact contemporary divertissement based on historical melodies. They played it, very aptly, on a ‘Spring Concert’ in the beautiful historical town of Blokzijl, that was later broadcast by the Concertzender…. read more / comment