DCV 543 – Leo Smit: Suite for Orchestra

Reawakening Suppressed Music is a three-year project dedicated to recording and sharing some of the “forgotten” symphonic works written by persecuted composers who suffered under the Nazis, as well as bringing to the public awareness other banned musical treasures that otherwise will be lost forever.

DCV 544 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman Epiloog for Orchestra Shelly Katz and Symphonova

DCV 545 Hans Krieg Jiskor (In Memoriam) Adaya Peled and Shelley Katz with Symphonova

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.

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.

"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