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Andries van Rossem (born 20 december 1957 Leerdam) is a dutch composer, pianist and organ player

Education

He studied organ with Johan van Dommele at the Arnhem Conservatory and took composition lessons with Klaas de Vries and Peter Jan Wagemans at the Rotterdam Conservatory. In 1990 the Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Culture awarded him a scholarship to study with Franco Donatoni at Milan. Additionally, he took summer courses with, among others, Morton Feldman.

Professional experience

Van Rossem taught contemporary music and music theater at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, as well as organ and harpsichord at the Markant cultural center at Apeldoorn. During the academic year 1992-93, when he was ‘composer in residence’ at ArtEZ, his work was the focus of concerts, lectures and workshops. He is one of the founders of the music theater company ‘De Plaats’, for which he co-created around twenty music theater productions. In 2012 the Orgelpark at Amsterdam presented a composer’s portrait of his recent work. In the same year he gave a masterclass at the Conservatorio di Musica at Sassari. In co-operation with the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Orgelpark, he has developed three music projects in the past five years.

Compositions

Van Rossem’s works have been performed by, among others, the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, the Gelders Orkest (Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra), the Radio Chamber Orchestra, The Metropole Orchestra and the European Youth Orchestra, led by conductors such as Ed Spanjaard, Richard Dufallo, Lev Markiz, Jacques van Steen, Lucas Vis, Roy Goodman and Peter Eötvös. The Gelders Orkest commissioned him to write four orchestral works, one of which, a part from the cycle Pier and Ocean, inspired by the homonymous painting by Piet Mondriaan, was presented during a Composer’s portrait in 1993.

He also composed numerous works commissioned by various Dutch ensembles. among which the Asko/Schönberg (Concerto), the New Ensemble (Walthamstow), Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Strings & harpsichord), De Ereprijs (Piano, percussion, guitars & winds), the Netherlands Wind Ensemble (Pier & ocean), and various international ensembles, among which Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg), the Composers Ensemble (London), Ensemble Nuove Sincronie (Milan), Caput Ensemble (Iceland), Talking Drums (New York) and the Kronos Quartet (San Francisco). His work was performed at the Netherlands Music Days in 1994 and 1996, the Holland Festival of 1996 and the Warsaw Autumn Festivals of 1990 and 2000.

The Foundation Intro/in situ commissioned him to write music for five location projects, one of which was the Spotting project in 2006, a composition based on Messiaen’s transscriptions of birdsong, realised in co-operation with Ralph van Raat.

A full-length work on the Via Crucis premiered recently and, for the 2016-17 season, nine works are scheduled in the context of “Composer in Residence Musis Sacrum”, one of which the premiere of a piano concerto.

Competitions

Paul Hofhaimer-Wettbewerb (Paul Hofhaimer Competition) Innsbruck, 1979 (finalist)

International Organ Contest Toledo Cathedral, 1980 (finalist)

Prizes

Conservatory competition prize, 1986

Aanmoedigingsprijs Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten (Incentive prize of the Amsterdam Fund for the arts), 1988 Categorie:Componist naar nationaliteit Categorie:Componist naar eeuw