After nine years, Jacob ter Veldhuis and Paul Dijkema stepped down from the board of the Donemus Foundation. From the very beginning of Donemus restart in 2013, with their visions and experiences they gave a valuable contribution to the board’s many decisions. The board is very grateful for all their efforts during these years. Marja Molewijk and Oscar van Dillen are the new members to support the foundation.
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Marja Molewijk brings around 40 years of experience in policy making, financing and organisation of performing arts (music, dance, theatre). During the first 20 years of her career she worked as producer and/or business manager in the cultural field for several organisation such as the Holland Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival and the Ebony Band. The second half of her career she worked as senior policy advisor arts and culture for the City of The Hague, with main focus on all matters concerning the performing arts. She now wishes to continue her involvement in the cultural field as advisor and/or board member of professional cultural organisations.
Oscar van Dillen is composer and visual artist. A generalist rather than a specialist, next to his music studies in Indian classical music, Jazz, European medieval and renaissance music, and contemporary composition and music theory, he also studied architecture and mathematics. He was a founding member of the Rotterdam School of Composers, having written its manifesto in 1997. His works span a wide variety of styles and genres, encompassing full score compositions for classical musicians ranging from solo pieces to full orchestras, style-specific scores for ensembles of jazz and world music musicians, as well as electronic works, and electro-acoustic compositions. In a more advisory role, he has been part of cultural advisory boards and competition juries, as well as on the board of Wikimedia International, having founded the Wikimedia organizations in the Netherlands as chairman. He teaches music theory, music history, composition, and improvisation at Codarts Rotterdam Conservatory.
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