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Piet-Jan van Rossum: aardhand

Saturday, 22 April 2023   |   15:00 - 17:00

Piet-Jan van Rossum: aardhand

Concert series ‘Aardlek: urgent matters’ brings today’s music to Apeldoorn and Arnhem

With music by Piet-Jan van Rossum and poet Mischa Andriessen as a special guest

Aardlek connects current themes with new compositions, commissioned for the Ereprijs. Guests from different disciplines (including philosophy, design, literature, poetry, science) share their ideas and questions with the audience and with the composers present in an informal setting. The concerts take place in ACEC in Apeldoorn and Museum Arnhem. Each series of concerts has a specific theme that is processed into a composition by different composers from their own perspective. The composers come from different generations and have different cultural backgrounds. The theme for the 2023 concert season is ‘Somethingism’.

Program
Annija Zarina| Say only a word

Piet Jan van Rossum |aardhand

Michael Smetanin |the power of everyday things

  • Composer(s) Piet-Jan van Rossum
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    aardhand
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Orkest De Ereprijs o.l.v. Arne Visser

Date

Apr 22 2023
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Time

15:00 - 17:00

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Location

Apeldoorn, ACEC-cafe
Roggestraat 44 7311 CD Apeldoorn

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Piet-Jan van Rossum (25/01/66) studied composition with Louis Andriessen, Jan Boerman and Dick Raaymakers as well as the organ with Rienk Jiskoot. Van Rossum above all directs his attention to composing and writing. In his own words: “I look upon myself as a storyteller, as a member of an ancient tribe of shy, wild people who, through stories, sometimes succeed to create another way of experiencing time. My work comprises life as I live it: a piece of wood full of splinters, chunks of beauty and the fracturing or lack of it: lots of waiting, silences. This explains my fascination with scratched movies, lazy eyes, a broken voice, old ramophone-records.
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