Hagar (2025)
A bold and creative partnership between composer Jan-Peter de Graaff and librettist Eleanor Barlow, Hagar is a daring, modern and fiercely human reimagining of the ancient tale that explores resilience, scandal, and consequence.
Lock, Stock and Barrel (2024)
Lock, stock, and barrel is a two-episode suite for solo piano, commissioned by the YPF Piano competition as compulsory work for participants of the competition.
Effugium (2024)
Effugium is a requiem based on texts by Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos and the liturgical Dies Irae. The piece was performed by chamber choir Ad Parnassum and The Brabant Chamber Orchestra.
Concerto No. 6 “Métropolitain” (2023)
Concerto no.6 “Metropolitain” is a concerto in two contrasting movements describing the feeling of living in an urban environment, where everything seems to be built to guide and transport humanity with maximum efficiency in such a way that there is no real distinction between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ anymore.
Concerto No. 7 (2024)
In four movements this piece demonstrates the different sound worlds that the Luthéal can create in a heated dialogue with the Orchestra and explores the unknown grounds between beauty and corruption, or even the beauty of corruption, as not only the sounds of the piano are manipulated, but also the different musical styles this concerto is referring to.
Stalagmieten Samba (2023)
Neo-Fanfare 9x13 toured with ‘Stalagmieten Samba’ as part of their music theatre show ‘Nieuw Babylon’ about the relationship between humanity and toxic work environments.
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Hagar (2025)
- Music Theatre
A bold and creative partnership between composer Jan-Peter de Graaff and librettist Eleanor Barlow, Hagar is a daring, modern and fiercely human reimagining of the ancient tale that explores resilience, scandal, and consequence....
Lock, Stock and Barrel (2024)
- Solo
Lock, stock, and barrel is a two-episode suite for solo piano, commissioned by the YPF Piano competition as compulsory work for participants of the competition....
Effugium (2024)
- Choral
Effugium is a requiem based on texts by Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos and the liturgical Dies Irae. The piece was performed by chamber choir Ad Parnassum and The Brabant Chamber Orchestra....
Concerto No. 6 “Métropolitain” (2023)
- Orchestral
Concerto no.6 “Metropolitain” is a concerto in two contrasting movements describing the feeling of living in an urban environment, where everything seems to be built to guide and transport humanity with maximum efficiency in such...
Concerto No. 7 (2024)
- Orchestral
In four movements this piece demonstrates the different sound worlds that the Luthéal can create in a heated dialogue with the Orchestra and explores the unknown grounds between beauty and corruption, or even the beauty...
Stalagmieten Samba (2023)
- Ensemble
Neo-Fanfare 9x13 toured with ‘Stalagmieten Samba’ as part of their music theatre show ‘Nieuw Babylon’ about the relationship between humanity and toxic work environments....
Enivrez-Vous! (2022)
- Chamber
Enivrez-Vous ! (Get drunk!) leans its title from the poem with the same name by Charles Baudelaire. In four movements this piece describes different forms of being drunk, both in metaphorical as in literal sense....
Het Gouden Kalf (2022)
- Choral
Het Gouden Kalf is inspired by the epic exodus of a people in search of a new future. Timeless matter that is powerfully reflected in our time....
Fanfarelle (2022)
- Chamber
The Ruysdael Quartet commissioned 25 composers, offering them a carte blanche to explore various themes, including Ruysdael and motifs like space and stars. The resulting works represent a broad spectrum of styles, ranging from minimal...
Parallax (2021)
- Music Theatre
"Whose opinion really counts?" Parallax is a song cycle/monodrama for soprano and ensemble, based on a libretto by Yuri Robbers and Eleanor Barlow. In 14 songs a presentation is given by someone who believes the...
Event-Horizon (2021)
- Orchestral
Event-Horizon is a symphonic suite, (one could even say a ‘symphony’) in 4 movements. The piece describes the transformation of particles near the gravity of a black hole....
Hammer und Tanz (2021)
- Chamber
Hammer und Tanz was composed in 2022 as part of the ‘Toonzetters’ project of Primo-Ish-Hurwitz, performed by Agostinho Sequiera, Shane van Neerden, Arjan Jongsma and Ramon van Engelenhoven...
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