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Joey Roukens: Con Spirito

Saturday, 7 December 2024   |   14:15 - 16:30

Joey Roukens: Con Spirito

From the New World

Joey Roukens, Friedrich Gulda and Antonín Dvořák, three composers who were inspired by music from the new world. Roukens through pop, Gulda through jazz and Dvořák through spirituals.

Programme

Joey Roukens – Con Spirito (world premiere)
Friedrich Gulda – Concert
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 in e minor, op. 95 ‘From the New World’

This concert is a part of the NTR ZaterdagMatinee series in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

  • Composer(s) Joey Roukens
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    New work for orchestra
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Lahav Shani - conductor

Date

Dec 07 2024
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Time

14:15 - 16:30

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Location

Amsterdam, Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Website
http://concertgebouw.nl

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Con Spirito

Overture for orchestra
Joey Roukens
Year of composition:
2024
Duration:
00:12:00
Publisher's Number: 22642
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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. He studied composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatory and psychology at Leiden University. Roukens also studied piano privately with Ton Hartsuiker.
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DCV 500 Joey Roukens Symphony No.
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Con Spirito is an overture for orchestra in which Joey Roukens showcases his most joyful and exuberant side. Although this aspect is not new to listeners familiar with his work—such as the first part of his double piano concerto In Unison or the first part of Boundless—he has never presented this side as extensively before.
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