ATT 200295 – Polo de Haas and Harry Sparnaay: Fusion Moderne

“Pianist and composer Polo de Haas is an all-round musician who moves with ease from one genre to the next, be it new music, classical music or jazz” (De Gooi en Eemlander, 2000). He is an advocate of contemporary music and a “musical chameleon” (de Volkskrant, 2005). Many composers have dedicated works to him.

ATT 199054 Iannis Xenakis Live 1 Asko Ensemble, David Porcelijn, Harry Sparnaay and Aki Takahashi  

ATT 2014139 Ladder of Escape 1 Harry Sparnaay  

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.

"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