DCV 469 – Annette Kruisbrink: Piano Works

Annette Kruisbrink has composed over 400 compositions which have been published by Les Productions d’OZ, Canada and Digital Music Print, Belgium and various other European publishing houses. She has won international prizes and awards for her compositions. Annette gives recitals and masterclasses in guitar/composition all over the world.

DCV 478 Annette Kruisbrink LAIS, a song cycle Het LAIS Kwartet

DCV 493 Annette Kruisbrink Dichter bij Muziek Annette Kruisbrink and Franka van Essen

DCV 483 Annette Kruisbrink De Japanse Steenhouwer Annette Kruisbrink, Arlette Ruelens and Wieteke van Dort  

A full evening concert in the Academiehuis de Grote Kerk will conclude the Day of the Composer in Zwolle in a festive manner. The evening concert opens with a work by graduating ArtEZ student Inge Ettema.

Guitarist Serhat Bulut recently released a CD with a selection from the extensive guitar repertoire of the Zwolle composer Annette Kruisbrink. Serhat plays a number of these works, the composer gives a brief explanation of the creation process. Afterwards you can purchase the CD and have it signed.

"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

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.

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.