Composers ~ L LEES, Benjamine (8 JAN )Am; leeuw, reinbert de (1938-); leeuw, and a list of compositions authored by the Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist. http://members.tripod.com/musiclassical/compl.html
Koos De Wilt Concept & Realisatie » Boeken » Reinbert De Leeuw niet een kwestie van goede smaak reinbert de leeuw, dirigent, pianist en componist reinbert de leeuw is op 8 september 1938 geboren in Amsterdam. http://www.koosdewiltconcept.nl/boeken/reinbertdeleeuw.php
Extractions: home boeken passie voor kunst Bach is niet een kwestie van goede smaak Reinbert de Leeuw, dirigent, pianist en componist Ik kom niet uit een familie van musici of kunstenaars, maar begon met pianoles omdat het bij mijn opvoeding hoorde. Dat was op mijn vijfde en sindsdien hebben al mijn primaire, secundaire en tertiaire behoeftes in het leven met muziek te maken. Daar heb ik nooit aan getwijfeld, dat was gewoon zo. Mensen die geen muziek om zich heen hebben, vind ik ook armoedig. Ik had altijd muziek om mij heen, als kind al. Mijn ouders hadden abonnementen op concertseries, maar konden zelden, omdat ze beiden als psychiater een druk bestaan hadden. Zo kon het gebeuren dat ik als jongetje zon drie keer per week in het Concertgebouw kwam om hun plaats in te nemen. Herinneringen van vóór de piano heb ik niet. Toen ik begon te spelen, begon ik ook direct te componeren en over muziek te schrijven. Ik heb daarin niks gepland en me nooit iets voorgenomen. Ik had slechts één ambitie en dat was geen pianoleraar worden. Als er iets nieuws op mijn pad kwam, ging dat ook vaak met een schok van herkenning, in de trant van: Natuurlijk, logisch dat het zo moest lopen! Dan hoor of lees ik iets dat ik heel graag wil uitvoeren. Ik had dat bijvoorbeeld met de muziek van de Canadees Claude de Vivier, een componist die op 35-jarige leeftijd is vermoord en daardoor slechts een klein, maar adembenemend oeuvre achterliet. Een volstrekt unieke kunstenaar, een eenling. Als jongetje had ik een heel romantisch beeld van muziek. Ik schreef zelfs een boek over componisten en over hun treurige lot. De componist die dat gevoel helemaal vertegenwoordigde was Chopin, de romantische, virtuoze kunstenaar die leed aan tuberculose en daar uiteindelijk aan stierf. Hij was de componist die onder de tonen van zijn eigen treurmars begraven was, zo schreef ik in mijn boek. Ik componeerde ook mijn eigen treurmarsen en dacht dat ik minstens zo goed was als hij. Maar al snel merkte ik hoe complex zijn taal was en dat ik die nog lang niet kon spreken.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Ustvolskaya with the commanding Dutch avantgardist reinbert de leeuw at the piano (6115; These performances by the pianist Oleg Malov and the St. Petersurg http://www.therestisnoise.com/2005/02/ustvolskaya.html
Extractions: And who, pray tell, is Ustvolskaya? A public that has embraced Prokofiev and Shostakovich, acknowledged Alfred Schnittke, taken note of Sofia Gubaidulina and eyed Giya Kancheli might well grow weary at the prospect of greeting yet another figure in the endless procession of Russian and former-Soviet composers. All the same, here she is. The collected works of Galina Ustvolskaya, utterly unknown a decade ago, have suddenly burst into view: performances have dotted several continents, nearly a dozen recordings have seeped into the record stores. An imposing figure in 20th-century musical history has stepped out of the mist. Actually, there is not much to tell, at least by way of biography. She lives alone in St. Petersburg and declines all requests for photographs or interviews. In the one photograph supplied by her publisher, she bears a confusing resemblance to Gubaidulina. Scant material appears under her name in the standard reference works: born 1919; studied with Shostakovich; wrote works with titles like "Dawn over the Fatherland" and "Young Pioneers" during the Stalinist years. In 1958 her formidable Violin Sonata perplexed a delegation of American composers. Roy Harris called it "kind of ugly."
Lisa Moore Piano : Home Welcome to the website of pianist Lisa Moore. reinbert de leeuw conducting! soloist Lisa Moore displayed pianism of the highest order in this premiere http://www.lisamoore.org/home_page.htm
Extractions: Strad magazine described her playing as "flawless", while the Village Voice called her '"the phenomenal pianist". It was also bursting with ideas and sounds from the very first bars: whalelike growls produced by the pianist, Lisa Moore, playing the strings of her piano by pulling other strings across them in an act that evoked everything from the birth of cable to evisceration
Barbara Hannigan ::: Soprano January 29, Solo recital of 20th century vocal music with pianist Linda Ippolito for the Asko and Schönberg Ensembles, conducted by reinbert de leeuw. http://www.barbarahannigan.com/eng.htm
Extractions: January 7 Oliver Knussen's Hums and Songs of Winnie the Pooh and Jonathan Harvey's Chu with the Asko Ensemble at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw January 29 and Ives) February 21 Dutilleux' Correspondances with the Radio Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw. Concertgebouw, Amsterdam February 22-25 World premiere of Fabio Nieder's De Stem with the Nieuw Ensemble in Amsterdam, the Hague and Groningen March 4-6 Hasse's comic opera La Fantesca (title role) in Amsterdam, Den Haag and Zwolle with i piccoli holandesi March 27, 28 Rinaldo with Opera in Concert. Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto
Louis Andriessen 1981), nephew of the composer and pianist Willem Andriessen (b. reinbert de leeuw/Nederlands Kamerkoor, Slagwerkgroep den Haag, Schönberg Ensemble http://composers21.com/compdocs/andriesl.htm
Extractions: T he Living Composers Project Andriessen Louis (b. June 6, 1939, Utrecht). Renowned Dutch composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world. Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin from 1962-64 and assisted him with the scoring of Passaggio His honors include the selected work at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1977, for De Staat ), the Matthijs Vermeulen Prijs (1977, for De Staat ; 1992, for De Materie ), the 3M Music Award (1993), and the Edison Award (1993, for the recording of De Tijd ). Retrospectives of his music have been given recently in London (2002) and New York City (2004). He is also active in other positions. He founded the wind ensemble Orkest de Volharding in Amsterdam in 1972, with which he remains associated, and later founded the amplified ensemble Hoketus in Amsterdam in 1976, which disbanded in 1987. He has written numerous articles, most of which appear in The Art of Stealing Time Het Apollinisch Uurwerk (1982, translated by
ELECTRA an intimate evening offering a rare appearance of Andriessen the pianist as reinbert de leeuw, who conducted the world premiere of the opera at the http://www.electranewmusic.com/news2.html
Boosey And Hawkes: The Home Of Contemporary Music His uncle Willem is a composer and pianist, and his older brother Jurriaan a composer. Collaborative musicopolitical projects with reinbert de leeuw, http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/timeline.asp?composerid=2690&langid=1
Radio National - The Music Show 09/07/2005 Guests include Dutch conductor reinbert de leeuw, who will be conducting all pianist Michael Kieran Harvey and percussionist Rebecca Lagos who are part http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/mshow/s1407817.htm
Extractions: The Space 9th July, 2005 This Saturday The Music Show is broadcasting live from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as part of the Sydney Symphony's 2005 Contemporary Music Festival. Guests include Dutch conductor Reinbert de Leeuw, who will be conducting all the Sydney Symphony performances during the Festival; pianist Michael Kieran Harvey and percussionist Rebecca Lagos who are part of one of the major performances of the Festival :'From the Canyons to the Stars' by Messiaen; and composers Gordon Kerry and Matthew Hindson. Live music from Fellows Ensemble and Paul Cutlan and his 'Birth of the Cool' band. Program Details:
'Classic Highlights' 07/07/2005 Acclaimed young British pianist Paul Lewis, currently in the midst of a world tour will be conducted by contemporary music specialist reinbert de leeuw. http://www.abc.net.au/classic/highlights/s1413001.htm
Extractions: Tickets for next Monday's Keys to Music Concert are selling well but the Festival Theatre had told me they still have tickets left, so it's not too late to get yours. Graham will be appearing with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as they explore the first movement of Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat. For more details click here: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/keys/ Five years in the making. a backstage crew of 75, 40 semi-trailer loads of scenery and special effects, a budget of over 15 million dollars, around 16 hours of music, four separate, but related operas and a cast of 144 and an orchestra of 130 players. It's not hard to imagine why this was Australia's largest theatrical production, ever. The State Opera of South Australia is only the fourth company since "The Ring" premiered in 1876, to stage a brand new production of the entire cycle in just one season.
La Folia -- A Wake For Montaigne? reinbert de leeuw, Ensemble Recherche, and Ensemble Modern, etc., Stefan Litwin is the pianist with the deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin. http://www.lafolia.com/archive/covell/covell200104montaigne.html
Extractions: Online Music Review La Folia Home] [Archives by Contributor] [Archives by Date] ... Page] A Wake for Montaigne? Grant Chu Covell [April 2001. Orginally appeared in La Folia I have over 50 separate Montaigne releases in my collection. I pick up releases on Montaigne without question, even if composers and performers are totally unknown to me. Others here at La Folia have written about Montaigne Montaigne has documented some of the best contemporary European composers and performers such as the Arditti String Quartet, Reinbert de Leeuw, Ensemble Recherche, and Ensemble Modern, etc., and the recordings sound terrific. Here I go delving into some of the remote releases that have come out on Montaigne . Some are remaindered and briefly carried by folks such as the Berkshire Record Outlet http://www.broinc.com/) Back issues at La Folia contain discussions of MO 782110 Inner Time MO 782030 ), and Helicopter String Quartet MO 782097 A mature and direct Concerto for Piano and Orchestra opens the disc given over to three works by MO 782093 String Trio and Die innere Grenze for string sextet. The trio is a short sparkling work performed by members of the Ensemble InterContemporain, and it plays with serialism in an inventive way that will get you all caught up in its colors and not on its structure.
Classical Net - Composers - Antheil advocate of his music, and the Dutch conductorpianist reinbert de leeuw also energetically championed Antheil s cause with an Antheil Festival in 1981. http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/antheil.html
Extractions: George Antheil There are few more remarkable stories than that of George Antheil's brief period in the spot-lit center of the Parisian stage during the 1920s. Subsequent history has much diminished Antheil's significance, reducing him to little more than a footnote in most accounts of the post Great War avant-garde, but in recent years a steady stream of recordings has strengthened his reputation as a resourceful and versatile composer, well worth exhumation. Born in 1900, the son of a Trenton, New Jersey cobbler, Antheil studied composition with Sternberg and Bloch in the US before the patronage of Mrs. Curtis Bok transported Antheil to Europe and into the fatally attractive orbit of Stravinsky. That inveterate trend-spotter Ezra Pound latched onto Antheil's futuristic works, calling him "possibly the first American-born musician to be taken seriously" in 1924. Even Aaron Copland recalled "when I arrived [in Europe] George had all Paris by the ear". It was with a remarkable series of works that George made his debut: Airplane Sonata (1921): Symphony for 5 Instruments (1922): Sonata Sauvage and an attempt at 'musical cubism', the Jazz Sonata (1923). He also wrote two sonatas for Violin and Piano for Pound's companion and, later, Vivaldi scholar Olga Rudge, one of which included a drum part for Pound himself. However Antheil's principal calling card from this period is his To achieve this the bulging wallet of Mrs. Bok was once again flattened in order to commission the direct punching of the piano rolls so as to achieve superhuman chords and rhythms, in a way that anticipated Conlon Nancarrow. Antheil orchestrated the music in 1952, but the raw energy of the earlier version speaks far louder.
WGUC 90.9 FM | Essential Satie In III, Satie tells the pianist, Invite yourself. Don t eat too much. The Early Piano Works reinbert de leeuw, piano The Early Piano Works http://www.wguc.org/content/display.asp?id=25
Walt Disney Concert Hall - LA Philharmonic Fridays Series On this series you ll hear the great pianistconductor András Schiff, rightly known Artists reinbert de leeuw, conductor; Cristina Zavalloni, soprano http://wdch.laphil.com/tix/series_laphil_fr_2005.cfm
Extractions: First Nights Designed for newcomers to the world of symphonic music, this unique series takes the listener back to Mozart's Vienna or inside the melodic genius of Rachmaninoff or behind the political tensions that surrounded Shostakovich, through a variety of creative encounters including theatrical presentations and musical performances. As always, the series culminates with the premiere of a brand new work, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Four Friday Evenings Casual Fridays (FRC) For this popular "come as you are" series, everyone from the front of the stage to the back of the balcony wears their comfortable clothes. And Casual Friday subscribers are always invited to meet the musicians at a post-concert reception. It's a great icebreaker for those just getting into classical music because stuffed shirts are not allowed. Four Friday Evenings Friday Midday Series (FRM) One of the most celebrated and beloved of American sopranos, Dawn Upshaw, lends her voice to John Adams' touchingly beautiful oratorio of the Nativity
Article Title The early concert, a recital by pianist Mikhail Doubov, included Alexander Scriabins Performed by the Schönberg Ensemble, reinbert de leeuw, conductor http://www.newmusicon.org/v11n3/dacapo_russia.html
George Antheil's Music: From The Avant-Garde To Hollywood mp3 Sonate Sauvage, Guy Livingston, pianist, from the new CD Subsequent concerts in the Netherlands by reinbert de leeuw and the Netherlands Wind http://www.paristransatlantic.com/antheil/mainpage/music.html
The Osiris Trio pianist Ellen Corver, cellist Larissa Groeneveld and violinist Peter Brunt, such as Herman Krebbers and reinbert de leeuw, and has made several tours http://www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/OsirisTrio_June_23.html
Extractions: Larissa Groeneveld studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Dimitri Ferschtman, where she graduated with the highest distinction. She continued her studies with Natalia Gutman at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany, and followed masterclasses with Mstislav Rostropovich and Yo Yo Ma. In 1984 Larissa Groeneveld won the First Prize at the Luis Coleman International Competition in Spain, in 1991 she won the Grand Prix for cello in Bourg-Madame, France. She has also performed together with various musicians, such as Herman Krebbers and Reinbert de Leeuw, and has made several tours through Europe. Groeneveld has performed as a soloist with mayor orchestras including the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. Peter Brunt studied with Davina van Wely and Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam, with Dorothy Delay in the Juilliard School in New York and with Sandor Végh in Salzburg. He won first prize in the National Dutch Violin Competition and was awarded several other national and international prizes. As a soloist, he has appeared with all major Dutch orchestras, in repertoire reaching from Mozart to Schnittke. Further engagements brought him to South Africa and throughout Europe. The composer Willem Jeths wrote a concerto for him, which he performed and recorded with New Sinfonietta Amsterdam, conducted by Lev Markiz. For several years Peter Brunt was leader of the second violins in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, presently he works as a gueast-leader with several orchestras, including Rotterdam Philharmonic and New Sinfonietta Amsterdam. Peter Brunt is a violin professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Miami Piano Festival > Press Releases 2003 Ukrainian pianist Konstantin Lifschitz will offer an intensely demanding reinbert de leeuw will conduct a fascinating program pairing Hungary s two http://www.miamipianofest.com/press/pr2004_3_05_04.htm
Extractions: Festivals from piano ivory to Baroque steel March madness is upon us with several worthy and intriguing events in the next two weeks from a variety of organizations and local presenters. Musical worlds will collide with a triumvirate of overlapping festivals offering everything from Bach to duo-piano recitals and avant-garde performance art. The Miami International Piano Festival will open the first installment of its seventh season with the Master Series at the Broward Center's Amaturo Theater running Thursday through March 14. In addition to lectures and screenings of films by Bruno Monsaingeon, there will be keyboard performances by several esteemed artists, many of whom are returning from previous seasons. The festival will open Thursday at 8:15 p.m. with a chamber concert featuring violinist Gilles Apap, pianist Eric Ferrand N'Kaoua and violist Monsaingeon in music of Brahms, Ravel, de Falla, Shostakovich and Enescu.
