House of Mirrors available

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:17:07 +0100

Since a few days the new CD House of Mirrors is available at Zefir Records. Visit this site for background information and audio-clips. The international release will follow in february. The new CD consists of five new pieces and a reworking of Cloud Atlas. The new tracks were performed by the magnificent Italian ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi.

Piccola Accademia degli Specchi is:  Giovanni Rossati & Assunta Cavallari, piano,
Alessandra Amorino, flute,
Claudia di Pietro, sax,
Giuliano Cavaliere, violin,
Kyung Mi Lee, cello  Matteo Sommacal, artistic leader

Here's a link to a video made by Omroep Zeeland during the recording-sessions of House of Mirrors, with snippets of the pieces La Music del Giorno and Motion.   And this is a very, very short video-interview made by Z2-Video-Journal.

The PZC wrote the first article about the new CD. The original article isn't published online. You can read the full the full text (Dutch) in the blog by Jan van Damme.

Be a part of my next CD!

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:23:44 +0200

My new collection of compositions will be recorded and released as a CD entitled House of Mirrors. It consists of five new pieces and a reworking of Cloud Atlas. The new tracks were inspired by the magnificent Italian ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi with whom I’m going to record the music. You can be part of making this CD possible!! Go here and get rare and unreleased tracks...

English premiere of Theme from Wiek

Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:09:26 +0200

Piano duo Jeroen & Sandra van Veen will play the English premiere of Theme for Wiek (two-piano-version) during the coming Vale of Glamorgan Festival of Music. The concert on September 10th is the finale of a series of five concerts. You can find the full program here. From the site of the festival : "The beautiful Ewenny Priory Church provides the backdrop for an atmospheric candle-lit evening of sublime and exhilarating music in a programme of stunning new arrangements for four hands by Sandra & Jeroen van Veen".

New site for Zefir Records

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:05:19 +0200

CD-Label Zefir Records that released most of my cd’s, has a brand new website! De site was build by Frisbee, based on a design by Patrick Schippers. De site is filled with background-information, extra photo’s and video, reviews and soundclips. Visit the site and be surprised by refreshing view of classical and contemporary music. Zefir, A cooling breeze from the sea. Go here....

To a new CD - I - Starting Point

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:17:56 +0200

Within a few months I’m going to record a new cd with the Italian ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi. Next months I’ll write on this spot about this project: the music, the rehearsals, the recording.

The Rome-based Piccola Accademia degli Specchi (PADS) is a so-called Pierrot Ensemble with piano4hands, cello, violin, sax & flute as line-up. Artistic director of this wonderful ensemble is the Italian composer Matteo Sommacal, the musical leader and one of the pianists is Giovanni Rosati. The other members are Assunta Cavallari, piano, Kyung Mi Lee, cello, Giuliano Cavaliere, violin, Claudia Di Pietro, sax, and Alessandra Amorino, flute. During the last couple of years the ensemble increased its reputation in Italy and US and started several collaborations with composers from all over the world, like Matthias Kadar, William Susman, Irma Ravinale and Demetrius Spaneas.

Here's a clip of PADS on a Philip Glass piece.

In 2008 I found Matteo Sommacal on MySpace, discovering that our music shared some musical DNA. He quickly replied to my add: “Thanks for the add. Fantastic music. Actually, it seems that's true we share a close musical taste. Have you ever written anything for ensemble? It'd be a grand pleasure to play your music in Italy”.

Matteo Sommacal

That was some kind of starting point. A few years nothing happened. Until, in the summer of 2010, Matteo mailed me: We were wondering if there is a piece of yours that fits (or could be recasted for) our line-up. We would be honored and glad to have a piece of yours in our repertoire”.

We decided to do a reworking of Cloud Atlas and Daily Music. I will tell some more about this pieces (and the others) on coming blogs. While working on those two pieces I discovered that this particular combination of instruments fitted very well to my music. After a few more mails and skype-sessions we agreed to extend our collaboration….

At this moment I wrote about an hour of music for PADS, that we are going to record in October. I’m very exited about this new cd-project. Stay tuned to this site to read all the news.