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Rogier de Pijper  en Liesbeth van Veldhoven  gaan  'Todi's Gamuts' uitvoeren  op 29 juni in de Waalse kerk in Breda (fluit en piano)

Album 23  is net uitgekomen : 'Descending to Avalon' opgedragen aan Maya Fridman. Op 22 april speelt  Maya het  en deze keer in  in Sint Michielsgestel. Dus thuiswedstrijd.

Kaiyi Min (sopraan) gaat 'Phenomenal Woman' instuderen, indien een mogelijkheid uitvoeren. Haar koor is 'De koekoek op de toren zat' aan het instuderen een zeer vrijebewerking van een middeleeuws lied.

Mijn viool /cello compositie "Cosmic Butterfly" is afgerond, het is een spannend stuk geworden, er is meer dan een half jaar aan gewerkt en ik hoop spoedig uitvoerenden te vinden.

Ik heb mijn nieuwe compositie voor Contrabass solo naar James Oesi opgezonden en hij gaat hem het weekend van 25 maart doorspelen dus zeer spannend of het bij hem past. De compositie gaat over Afrika en de titel is Foli: wat betekent er is geen beweging zonder ritme.

Annemieke Breunesse gaat 'Lost in a winterworld' voor harp  uitvoeren als ze een solo recital heeft, maar dat wordt wel volgende winter, zo ook Renske de Leuw.

Marieke Vos en Maya Fridman gaan nog een paar clarinet cello stukken van me bekijken en indien gelegenheid uitvoeren.

Het Haarlem trio wil 'Schicksal' gaan uitvoeren (indien uitvoerings mogelijkheid), in de Azijnfabriek in 's-Hertogenbosch,  Isabel Vaz, Daan Treur en een violist. De afspraken zijn gepland, alleen is de violist gestopt bij het trio dus het is zoeken naar een nieuwe violist. Het is denk ik mijn 'Schicksal' want het is nu al de tweede keer dat een trio problemen heeft.

Rien Donkersloot gaat Mécanique Céleste voor carillon in 2018 uitvoeren

Jo Hennen en Tom van Aarle  voor saxofoon en accordeon , 'Waves (sax) en 'Mystery'  (sax-accordeon) uitvoeren, krijg nog bericht wanneer.

I worked on an album for  Clarinet Bb for intermediate level.

Irene Brouwer was helping me to get the exact level for intermediate students and I am very grateful to her.

There will be 10 little pieces even as in Laugh with Bach for piano, but because a clarinet is a totally different instrument, the pieces are 

also different but mostly with the same starting point, (title). Album 22 is published july 2017

https://youtu.be/6ywGRk8CbDA

The 25th july 19:00 Janno den Engelsman will perform Mécanique Céleste for carillon again on the Lange Jan in Middelburg.

I like it when my composition are performed more times.

You can buy the score also by the Beiaard Centrum Nederland

Thereminimal is a minimal music composition for theremin and harp and looping station, with voices and text. Thorwald Jorgensen en Renske de Leuw will perform it on 9th april 2017 in Sint Michielsgestel.

It is a new sound for the theremin and harp for there it will be accompagnied by the looping with theremin sound and voices. 

It had a very good review in the newspaper and there was a much media attention for me on TV and in 4 newspapers. (see reviews)

I was asked to write a composition for cello solo, by Maya Fridman.

The title is 'Descending to Avalon', it is a very mystical piece.

we will had a rehearsal and will be another in august

She is playing the premier during the International Cello Festival in Zutphen 

and during the Gaudeamus music week and several times more. See performances.

I received my 19th album 'Mystery of Mellon Udridgle for alt sax and accordion. It is already performed by Marijke Schröer and Ellen Zijm a year ago. And it will be performed again by Jo Hennen and Tom van Aarle.

The 'Haarlem trio' will perform 'Schicksal' for piano trio, next season.

Daan Treur - piano, Eduardo Paredes Crespo - viool, Isabel Vaz - cello

It is 100 years this year, 2016. Since the artist Franz Marc died at the age of 36 in the First World War and I have written this composition to commemorate his death.

The  piece  is based on the theme of a 1914 painting by Franz Marc  ‘Tierschicksale’  (the fate of the animals), wich shows desperate animals caught in a forest fire.  - He was the first artist to show the fate of animals in this way –

For a look in the score, see below:

 Kein zweiter Maler hat Schönheit und Würde der Tiere.pdf (281,2 kB)

Schicksal for pianotrio text.docx (16,7 kB)

pianotrio final version 1-5.pdf (41866)

 'Aurora Borealis' for  harp and theremin for  duo Renske de Leuw and Thorwald Jorgensen. 

 With the modi of Messiaen and the colors are chosen by Jo Ivens,  is a beautiful esotheric piece.

Premièred  september 24th in Amsterdam Ostade Theater

It was a nice atmospheric première and beautiful performed by Renske de Leuw and Thorwald Jorgensen, just something else and new by the singing  of Thorwald together with the theremin, but an other melody than th theremin

November 4th 2016 they performed it in Oirschot.

March 12th 2017 Kruisherenkapel Uden

April 9th 2017 Concert by Natalia, Sint Michielsgestel

Mai 28th and October 9th,  Beau4 performs  4 constellations of the composition Zodiac.

Aries, Taurus, Twins en Cancer.

The performance of  Mai 28  was very successful and Rogier de Pijper had a very nice introduction  of any constellation

There are of course 12 constellations

see performances

Alvissmál

For  Renske de Leuw en Thorwald Jorgensen (harp and theremin)

The theme of the composition is from the  poëtic Edda and is about a conversation between Thor and  Alvíss the dwarf who wants to marry the daughter of Thor.

It is question and answer,  in the form of poems, with a improvisation played under it and alternated by dances.

Thorwald plays Thor and Renske plays Alvìss.

The whole composition is in a norwegian style, a kind of ballad and I have edited middle aged folksongs. It is like a painting exhibition you walk from one to the other.

Renske en Thorwald are going to use the composition for children's performances 

Mai 10th  Aïnte is performed by Quirine van Hoek (violin) and Ellen Zijm (accordion) in the Jeroenskerk in Noordwijk.

It was a perfect performance with a 100 people  public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8CZ9CSRaNk

This composition is  allready published. (album 18)

it is performed again in the  'Azijnfabriek'  in 's-Hertogenbosch march 9th 2017 they have it in one of there programs

See Compositions -> Reviews -> Verslag over de uitvoering van Mystery of Mellon Udridgle

I am waiting for a good recording.

To day album 17 published. Mécanique Céleste for carillon.

Is performed by  Janno den Engelsman in Bergen op Zoom in 2014. Carillon of the Peperbus

In 2006 I have written a piece for  flute and piano or for flute and violin and  cello. It is now published.

It is my 16th album.

The 15th album is just publishedt 'Todi's Gamuts'. 

Hans Hemerijck my publisher (DMP/Metropolis) sent this  composition for flute and piano 'Todi's Gamuts' to the  CMF in France to participate in the election for "plichtstuk 2016" 

Unfortunately I had no price but the piece is included in the library of the CMF and according the publisher it is always very good.

Dasha Beltiukova and Vital Stahiveitch will perform it in  2017