DCV 035 – Theo Loevendie: Gassir, the Hero

General Theo Loevendie was born on September 17th, 1930 in Amsterdam. Education He studied composition and clarinet at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Career Up to 1968 he dedicated himself almost exclusively to jazz and he performed with his own ensemble at the main European jazz festivals: Montreux, Juan-les-Pins, Nîmes, Warsaw, Molde (Norway) and Laren (Holland).

ATT 2018155 Theo Loevendie The Rise of Spinoza Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Markus Stenz, Groot Omroepkoor and Gijs Leenaars  

During New Music Conference, the Buma Classical Lifetime Achievement Award was presented for the first time to a Dutch composer who has left a significant mark on contemporary classical music: Theo Loevendie (1930).

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin