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Joey Roukens: What Remains

Saturday, 27 June 2026   |   19:30 - 20:30

Joey Roukens: What Remains

(R)evolution is a concert by Pi Quartet featuring music by Joey Roukens, Caroline Shaw, and Gabriella Smith. This environmentally focused, fully vegetarian program conjures strong imagery of a carrot revolution, the scents of a garden in bloom, and ghostly ruins of the earth’s past.

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

    What Remains
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Pi Quartet
Date
Jun 27 2026
Time
19:30 - 20:30
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Location
Den Haag, SoundHouse
De Constant Rebecqueplein 20B, 2518 RA Den Haag
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What Remains

String quartet in two movements
Joey Roukens
Year of composition:
2019
Duration:
00:24:00
Publisher's Number: 16910
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What Remains

String quartet in two movements
Joey Roukens
Year of composition:
2019
Duration:
00:24:00
Publisher's Number: 16910
Buy score
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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Website https://flint.nl

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Website https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl

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