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SOLO

Jutters (2018)

for violin

  • 10 min
  • Donemus Publishing
  • March, 2019

JUTTERS received its premiere during Pieter van Loenen’s Dutch Classical Talent Tour in 2019. The composition is based on two folk songs from the isle of Terschelling, where Jan-Peter was raised. In the piece, the two folk songs slowly emerge and dissolve again in a dense ‘seashore’-like texture, like pieces of wood drifting ashore. The title is derived from the plural of the Dutch word ‘Jutter’, meaning ‘Beachcomber’.

First performance

Violin Pieter van Loenen

General information

Instrumentation Violin solo
Commissioned by Stichting De Suite for Dutch Classical Talent 2019
Composed for Pieter van Loenen

“If someone predicted me that in a programme featuring Bach, Bartók and Jan-Peter de Graaff the composition of the latter would interest me the most, I would not have believed that person. Still it was the case. Pieter performed the piece with great dedication […] De Graaff’s new work was bursting with (literal) freshness, it was ‘playing’ in the double sense of the word […] How De Graaff ended up at Folk Tunes from Terschelling […], via beautiful outflanking pathways, full of structure while being unpredictable, was a captivating experience for the listener.”

FRIESCH DAGBLAD
Dingeman van Wijnen

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