DCO 003 – Chiel Meijering: Whacked

Flûte Pastourell Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Suite in Es-Dur, für Flûte pastourelle [Panflöte], Streicher & Continuo (TWV 55: Es2) Ouverture – Menuet I/II – Sarabande – Passepied I/II – Gavotte – Gigue  Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1708-1763) Polnische Sackpfeiffen, für  zwei Violinen und Continuo Chiel Meijering (*1954)                                                                                                                           Contemplating Final Farewells, für Panflöte, Oboe, Cembalo, Theorbe und […]

Soprano’s Lament by Chiel Meijering will be performed by the ensemble of the UdK Berlin as a final examination.

The Dutch Youth String Orchestra has won first prize at the Summa Cum Laude (SCL) Competition in Vienna in summer 2023! The competition is part of the SCM International Youth Music Festival, a global youth music festival.

Galway Music Residency continues its exploration of the Celtic Calendar through music this May. ConTempo Quartet will perform a specially curated programme in honour of Bealtaine on Tuesday 7 May at 1:10pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church as part of Lunchtimes with ConTempo.

This August and September, Holland Opera will perform Chiel Meijering’s opera ‘Bluebeard’ in the ‘Werkspoorkathedraal’ in Utrecht. Bluebeard is the blood-curdling opera about a wealthy, mysterious man. He is both attractive and dangerous and harbors a dark secret. Young Judith is looking for a deep experience, for intensity. Bluebeard piques her curiosity.

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.

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