I am a composer, guitarist (electric and
classical), flutist (1/4 tone flute and baroque transverse flute) with a broad
interest. You can notice influences from all kinds of music in my work.
In fact I try to find a balance between physical music, related to dance and
direct expression like in jazz, flamenco, tango, rock-pop and the more spiritual
and intellectuel music related to world of renaissance and barroque
counterpoint, avantgarde composition techniques, Indian classical music and
ofcourse also the pure structural sound world. Also I find much inspiration in
literature, painting, nature, politics and the personality of the musicians I
work with.
I composed for my own ensembles and for Orkest De
Volharding, Duo Daniel Ahlert & Birgit Schwab, Grupo Circulo, Banda Municipal de
Barcelona, Duo Matthijs Koene & Stefan Gerritsen, Duo Wiek Hijmans & Anna
McMichael, Barcelona Percussion Group, Harry Sparnaay, Marcel Worms, Sound of
Colors Ensemble +Beatrice Voellmy, Ensemble BB, Grup XXI, Kaida, Ralph van Raat,
Ensamble Rosario and Ensemble Areté
Now I am or in the next future I will be
working on pieces for Duo Erik Bosgraaf & Izhar Elias (Netherlands), a new tango
project for various ensembles, a quartet (violin, electric guitar, trumpet and
violoncello), for Globus Ensemble (Netherlands, a new project based on Chinese
fairytailes including pipaplayer Liu Fang) a piece and flamenco - jazz project
for EBNM, collaborating with Jeronimo Maya (Spain), a guitarquartet for Quartet
Galiu and a piece for guitar and saxophone for Duo Otani-Gascon, a piece for
Ensemble Sizle (Netherlands) a tango for the group Astorpia, a piece for Amstel Quartet (4 sax + tablas), a suite of 19 miniaturas for piano solo for my daughter Aitana.
I played with: Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman, Jorrit Dijkstra, Riccardo
Massari, Michael Svoboda, Luc Houtkamp, Frances Marie Uitti, Wiek Hijmans, J. Mª
Balanyà, Ananda Sukarlan, Robert Dick, Harry Sparnaay, Garth Knox, Oene van Geel,
Eric Vloeimans, Ere Lievonen, theatre company "Sheer Madness" and many other
fine artists.
I founded Ensemble Barcelona Nova Música in
Barcelona and organize there a contemporary music series called "Projecte
International d'Influencies Musicals (see top friends) , where I combine very
different kinds of contemporary music. In Holland I founded a new
intercultural ensemble called "Globus Ensemble" and started to organize concerts
for the moment being in Weesp (Gooi
en Vecht Concerten)
Thanks for visiting this myspace, reading,
listening and eventuel comments or notes, please don't send me big
advertisements. I am always interested in collaborations with interesting
ensembles and musicians, dance companies, film makers and thetre companies
as a composer, flutist, guitarist or/and organizer.
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