ATT 28115 – Louis Andriessen: Letter From Cathy

Louis Andriessen was born in Utrecht on June 6, 1939. After an early training in composition with his father, composer Hendrik Andriessen, he continued his studies with Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

DCV 277 Louis Andriessen De goddelijke routine Gonny van der Maten

ATT 2014141 Louis Andriessen Solos for Virtuosi Various Artists  

ATT 2005100 Louis Andriessen De Tijd Asko Schönberg and Reinbert de Leeuw  

ATT 199267 Louis Andriessen Melodie │ Symphonie voor losse snaren Frans Brüggen, Louis Andriessen, Caecilia Consort and Ed Spanjaard

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

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.