Kees Arntzen turning 65

De Uren (Hours) for violin and organ; Hours; world Premiere and other works by Kees Arntzen Jo van Beusekom – Organ, en Arwen Bouw – Violin  

Education and Objectives After his studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Kees Arntzen studied theory and composition for three years in the 1980s at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna: music theory with Paul Kont, instrumentation with Johannes Dürr, and composition with Friedrich Cerha. He also took several lessons with Boguslaw Schäffer in Salzburg.

DCV 264 Kees Arntzen Lieder und Balladen zu Texten von Kurt Tucholsky Henriette Schenk and Paul Prenen

DMV  027 Kees Arntzen (arr.) Arie Antiche A. Wittchen, H. Schenk, M. Koster, M. Kalse, M. Beekman and K.

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.