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Andreas Kunstein / Oscar van Dillen / Joey Roukens

Saturday, 21 June 2025   |   20:00 - 21:30

Andreas Kunstein / Oscar van Dillen / Joey Roukens

Pianist and composer Laurens de Boer will perform piano works by various Rotterdam composers in the Wijkpaleis. Expect pieces by Paul van Brugge, Oscar van Dillen, Sofie Hanekroot, Andreas Kunstein, Joey Roukens, and Laurens de Boer himself.

 

Program:

Laurens de Boer
Three Preludes (2023/24)

  • Prelude 24/11
  • Prelude 15/3
  • Prelude 24/5

For Sophie (2025), (premiere)

Joey Roukens
Summer Preludes (2020) – nos. 1, 4, 7 & 8

  • No. 1: Summer Nostalgia
  • No. 4: The Weather Has Changed
  • No. 7: Raindrops
  • No. 8: After the Rain (Little Meditation II)

Andreas Kunstein & Sofie Hanekroot
7.5 + 0.5 Little Blues (2022), (premiere)

Oscar van Dillen
Eludes (2020) – nos. 7, 4 & 6

Paul M. van Brugge
Again I Tried Everything I Possibly Could But I Still Can’t Get My Damn’ Car Started Blues (2010)

  • Composer(s) Andreas Kunstein / Oscar van Dillen / Joey Roukens
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    piano works
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Laurens de Boer piano
Date
Jun 21 2025
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Time
20:00 - 21:30
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Location
Rotterdam, Het Wijkpaleis
Rotterdam, Het Wijkpaleis
Claes de Vrieselaan 72, Rotterdam
Website https://www.wijkpaleis.nl
Composer

Andreas Kunstein

Andreas Kunstein (Brühl, 25 June 1967) is a Dutch composer of German origin. In his youth he received an in-depth piano education, and already wrote his first compositions.
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Composer

Oscar van Dillen

personal website at https://www.oscarvandillen.com
label website with albums at https://www.oij-records.com/

Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (‘s-Hertogenbosch 1958) is composer and performer of music, professor of music at Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam, as well as visual artist.
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Composer

Joey Roukens

His output includes orchestral works, ensemble works, chamber music, solo instrumental works and an opera. In his music Roukens strives to move away from modernist ways of thinking in search for a more eclectic and more direct idiom, without reverting to some naive neo-style. In doing so, the composer doesn’t shy away from the use of triads, tonal or diatonic harmonies, a regular rhythmic pulse, directness of expression, simplicity, references to popular music and vernacular culture, ‘stealing’ from the musical heritage of the past and the odd trivial turn.

Joey Roukens was born in Schiedam, the Netherlands, in 1982.
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Dintelstraat 134, 1078 VS Amsterdam
Website https://www.diaconie.com/projecten/onze-projecten/maarten-luther-kerk

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Willem Jeths’ Monument to a Universal Marriage in new ballet ‘Legacies’ by the Dutch National Ballet. Premiere on 10 September 2026, this production runs for eight performances through 27 September. ‘Legacies’ opens with Symphony in C by George Balanchine, the most influential choreographer of the twentieth century.
Location
Amsterdam, Nationale Opera & Ballet
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