Con Spirito - 2024
Overture for Orchestra
A lively, mostly cheerful and exuberant orchestral overture.
Duration: 13'
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Violin Concerto ‘Out of the Deep’ - 2024
Concerto for solo violin and orchestra in one continuous movement.
Duration: 28'
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Night Flight - 2021
For orchestra
Scherzo from Symphony No.1. It can be performed as a stand-alone piece. As such, it was the compulsory work for the finalists of the International Conducting Competition Rotterdam 2022.
Duration: 8'
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Distorted Fantasia - 2021
After J.P. Sweelinck
For orchestra
Commissioned by Stichting Sweelinck 2021.
Written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Dutch composer J.P. Sweelinck (1562-1621).
Duration: 14'30
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Symphony No. 1 ‘Kaleidoscopic’ - 2021
For orchestra
I. Always with forward motion
II. Ayre
III. Scherzo: Night Flight
IV. Landscape
Commissioned by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Duration: 42'
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In Unison - 2017
For two pianos and orchestra
I. Neon Toccata
II. What if
III. Dark Ride.
Double piano concerto written for Lucas & Arthur Jussen and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. Commissioned by NTR ZaterdagMatinee.
Duration: 32'
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Morphic Waves - 2016
For orchestra
A kind of symphony in one big movement written for the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra as part of my residency with this orchestra during the 2015-16 concert season.
Duration: 23'
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Chase - 2013
For orchestra
Written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Duration: 4'
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Concerto Hypnagogique - 2011
For piano and orchestra
I. Prelude: Strange Glowing Forms
II. Running Through Lucid Dreams
III. Chorale and Landscape
IV. Finale
Written for Ralph van Raat and the Radio Kamer Philharmonie. Commissioned by NTR ZaterdagMatinee.
Duration: c. 36'
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Out of Control - 2010
For orchestra
Written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Duration: 16'
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Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra - 2008
For orchestra
A three-movement saxophone concerto written for Arno Bornkamp and the Noord Nederlands Orkest.
Duration: 26'
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From Funeral to Funfair (and back..) - 2007
For orchestra
Duration: 12'30"
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365 - 2006
For orchestra
Duration: 16'
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Running from Silence - 2005
For alto saxophone and orchestra
Duration: c. 18'
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Boundless (Homage to L.B.) - 2016
For string orchestra, harp, keyboards and percussion
I. Manically
II. Glacially
III. Propulsively
Commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, written for the centennial of Leonard Bernstein's birth.
Duration: 16'
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Visions at Sea - 2016
Version for string orchestra
For string orchestra
This is a version for string orchestra of my third string quartet ' Visions at Sea' I made for Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Duration: 16'
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Roads to Everywhere - 2015
For solo violin and large ensemble
I. (Im)Pulses
II. Across the Fields
Written for violinist Joseph Puglia and Asko|Schönberg.
Duration: 24'
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Percussion Concerto - 2011
For solo percussion and large ensemble
I. Lines and colors
II. I remember this place
III. Protean grooves
IV. It’s over, my friend
Written for Colin Currie.
Duration: c. 30'
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Scenes from an old memory box - 2010
For large ensemble
I. At Muller's Bar & Dance Hall
II. In a Sunday Morning Haze
III. Mad Carousel
Written for the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble.
Duration: 18'
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Fast Movement and Epilogue - 2009
For ensemble
Written for Tokyo Sinfonietta.
Duration: c. 14'
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From an illustrious hand - 2007
For ensemble
Duration: 7'
Catching Proteus - 2005
For ensemble
Written for the Nieuw Ensemble.
Duration: 9'
Two Sides - 2025
For alto saxophone, cello and piano
1. Reverberate
2. Scintillate
Duration: 8'
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Juncture - 2025
For reed quintet
Oboe, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and bassoon
Written for ensemble Calefax.
Duration: 10'
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Forgotten Dutch Melodies - 2023
String Quartet No. 5
String Quartet
I. From a 17th-Century Songbook
II. Deianira, Ick Kent
III. A Tune from the North
IV. Country Dance
Duration: 19'
Awaken - 2022
For 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass and percussion
Written for the ensemble Fuse for their album 'Mikrokosmos'.
(Currently unavailable)
Duration: 7'
Riffs - 2021
For violin and piano
Commissioned by the Nationaal Vioolconcours (Davina van Wely Prize).
Duration: 5'
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Unleashed - 2020
For 5 string players and percussion
Written for the ensemble FUSE.
Duration: 4'
Three Rameau Pieces and Epilogue - 2019
after harpsichord pieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau
For string quartet
I. Les Trois Mains
II. Les Soupirs
III. La Joyeuse
Epilogue: On Harmony
Commissioned by the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.
Duration: 14'30
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What Remains - 2019
String Quartet no. 4
I. Strange Oscillations
II. Motectum
Written for the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. Commisioned by the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.
Duration: 26'
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Sarasvati - 2018
For violin and piano
Written for Noa Wildschut and Elisabeth Brauß. by Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the European Concert Hall Organisation in the framework of ECHO Rising Stars.
Duration: 12'30"
In Transit - 2014
For string quartet and percussion
Duration: 17'
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Lost in a Surreal Trip - 2014
For violin, cello, percussion and piano
Commissioned for the At Lunch series by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall London.
Duration: 13'
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Visions at Sea - 2011
String Quartet No. 3
Written for the Rubens Quartet, commissioned by the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam.
Duration: 17'
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Piano Trio ‘Shadows and Bells - 2009
For piano
Written for the Storioni Trio, commissioned by Dutch Radio 4 for the Storioni Festival 2010
Duration: 15'
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Forms in Dark and White, Moving - 2008
For violin (also electric violin), percussion and piano
I. Interrupted Swell
II. Stuttering Machine
III. Pensive Song
IV. Unisono Toccata
V. White Material
Suite in Five Movements, to be performed with image work by visual artist Matthijs van Zessen.
Duration: c. 19'
Earnest and Game - 2007
String Quartet no. 2
I. Prelude (Memory Fragments)
II. Ecstasy
III. Longing
Written for the Rubens Quartet. Commissioned by the Kamermuziekvereeniging Rotterdam.
Duration: 24'
Floating Shapes with Changing Light - 2005
For flute, violin, percussion, celesta and piano
Duration: 15'
Quodlibet - 2004
For saxophone quartet
Duration: 10'30"
String Quartet No. 1 - 2003
Duration: c. 15'
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Iter Arcanum - 2025
For organ solo
I. Porta
II. Meditatio
III. Labyrinthus
IV. Transitus
Duration: 26'
Two Intermezzi - 2024
(Echoes of Liszt)
I. Mater Misericordiae, for the left hand alone
II. Glimpses of Liszt and Weber (in a dream)
Commissioned by Liszt Utrecht.
Duration: 7'30"
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Piano Sonata No.1 - 2023
Duration: 17'
Christmas Sonatina - 2022
For solo piano
A three-movement sonatina I wrote in december 2022, each of the movements is freely based on old Christmas melodies.
Duration: 8'
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Roaming Empty Streets - 2020
For solo piano
Written for Ralph van Raat.
Duration: 4'40"
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Summer Preludes - 2020
For solo piano
1. Summer Nostalgia
2. Flowing
3. Quiet Summer Night
4. The weather has changed
5. Little Meditation I
6. Gray July Days
7. Raindrops
8. After the Rain (Little Meditation II)
9. Autumn in Summer
10. Heatwave (Little Meditation III)
11. Tropical Days
12. An August Morning
13. Epilogue - End of Summer
Duration: 28'
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Autumn Prayer - 2016
For solo piano
Duration: 6'
We once lived here - 2016
Five Pieces for Piano
For solo piano
1. Dark Highway
2. Floating Away
3. Clouds and Swells
4. That Familiar Lonely Place
5. Here at last
A cycle of 5 piano pieces, compiled in 2016 but composed over several years (during the 2010s).
Duration: c. 20'
Beat Mutations - 2012
For solo timpani
Duration: 6'
Lounge Pieces - 2010
For solo piano
1. That Familiar Lonely Place
2. Anthemic Swells
3. Omega Nebula
4. Strange Premonition
5. Postlude
Duration: 20'
Five Preludes - 2009
For solo piano
I. Homage to Sweelinck
II. …intimately...
III. Gloomy, quasi corale
IV. Molto tranquillo, vague and dreamlike
V. Agnus Dei
Duration: 12'
Snow Piece - 2009
For solo piano
Duration: c. 7'
Of Unremembered Skies and Snows - 2007
For solo piano
Duration: c. 15'
Blues on a bright background - 2007
For solo piano
Written for Marcel Worms.
Duration: 7'
From the Box in the Attic - 2004
5 pieces for piano four hands
I. Pianola bar (Homage to Nancarrow)
II. Harmonica, fiddle and celesta
III. Carillon bells
IV. Remembering an old folk melody
V. Song of goodbye ... Procession
Currently unavailable for performance.
Duration: c. 16'
12 Preludes - 2000
For solo piano
Duration: 24'
Un Cuadro de Yucatan (a violin caprice) - 1999
For solo violin
Duration: 5'
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Requiem - 2022
For SATB chorus, percussion and string orchestra
Part One
1. Invocatio
2. Introitus
3. Graduale: Si ambulem
4. Dies
5. Oro supplex - Lacrimosa
Part Two
6a. Praeludium
6b. Interludium I (Under the wide and starry sky)
7a. Invocatio
7b. In Paradisum
8. Interludium II (I am not there)
9. Offertorium
10. Agnus Dei
11. Postludium (Good night)
Commissioned by November Music (written for their Bosch Requiem series) and Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. First performance on 3 November 2022 by Nederlands Kamerkoor & Amsterdam Sinfonietta conducted by Sofi Jeannin.
Duration: 60'
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Angeli - 2018
Version 1 for female voices and 8 celli
For 5 female voices and 8 celli (also version for 5 female voices and organ)
Written for vocal ensemble Wishful Singing and Cello Octet Amsterdam. Commissioned by the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam.
Duration: 20'
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Angeli - 2018
Version 2 for female voices and organ
Version for 5 female voices and organ
Duration: 20'
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Herbstlieder - 2016
3 Lieder for alto or mezzo-soprano and piano
1. Der Herbst des Einsamen (Trakl)
2. Herbst (Morgenstern)
3. Im Blätterfallen (Bierbaum)
Duration: 10'30"
Frühlingslieder - 2015
4 Lieder for high voice and piano
I. Der Frühling (Hölderlin).
II. Vorfrühling (Rilke)
III. Frühlingsgruss (Heine)
IV. Im Frühling (Trakl)
A set of four songs based on poems about springtime by various German-language poets. It is also a homage to the German Lied tradition (Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf, etc.) and the music is full of stylistic allusions to that tradition.
Duration: 12'
Rising Phenix - 2014
For SATB chorus and orchestra.
Part Ia. (Introduction)
Part Ib. Sic mundus creatus est
Part IIa. We are sojourners
Part IIb. In the joy of the light to be
Cantata for chorus and large orchestra, written for the Groot Omroepkoor and Radio Filharmonisch Orkest to celebrate the (re)opening of the renovated concert hall TivoliVredenburg Utrecht.
Text by Henry Newbolt and Hermes Trismegistus.
Duration: 35'
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Als ik schreeuw hoor ik mijn eigen stem (When I scream, I hear my own voice) - 2003
For baritone and orchestra
Duration: 5'
Dorian: Ballet in two acts - 2022
After 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
For orchestra.
Commissioned by the Dutch National Ballet, this two act ballet was written for a collaboration between classical dancers of the Dutch National Ballet (Junior Company) and hiphop dancers of ISH Dance Collective.
Choreography by Ernst Meisner (Dutch National Ballet) and Marco Gerris (ISH).
Duration: c. 75'
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Mr Finney, de Opera - 2012
Opera for children and adults in 12 scenes
Libretto by Carel Alphenaar, adapted from the children’s book 'Mr Finney and the World Turned Upside-down' by Laurentien van Oranje and Sieb Posthuma.
An opera about a fish-like creature called Mr Finney who goes on a journey around the world; as he travels, he is confronted by all kinds of questions and problems related to the environment.
Duration: c. 75'
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