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Joey Roukens: Roaming Empty Streets

Wednesday, 10 September 2025   |   24:30 - 13:00

Joey Roukens: Roaming Empty Streets

Performance of ‘Roaming Empty Streets’ by pianist Thijs Willers. Free lunch concert (as part of Muze van Zuid Festival) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

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

    Roaming Empty Streets
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Thijs Willers

Date

Sep 10 2025
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Time

12:30 - 13:00

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Location

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

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Forgotten Dutch Melodies

String Quartet Nº 5
Joey Roukens
Year of composition:
2023
Duration:
00:18:00
Publisher's Number: 22568
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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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