DCV 264 – Kees Arntzen: Lieder und Balladen zu Texten von Kurt Tucholsky

Composer Kees Arntzen celebrates his 65th birtday with a concert on October 2nd in the Willem de Zwijgerkerk in Amsterdam.

Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych in focus of ‘Ukraine & Beyond’ project which was launched since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression to set an example and focus on Ukraine’s rich culture. In that series were so far portrayed the two Ukrainian composers: Valentin Silvestrov and Borys Lyatoshynsky.

for bariton and piano Dutch premiere by Fernando Linares – Correa (bariton) and Monique Copper (piano)

DCV 446 Kees Arntzen Chuva de Época Marcel Beekman, Eleonore Pameijer and Kees Arntzen

’20 years of Music and Graphics’ New solo work for guitar by Daan Manneke and premiere of two graphic ‘Gia Sena’ – compositions by Kees Arntzen for pan flute and horn

Concert as a part of the exhibition ‘Gia Sena’ devoted to 100 years of 12-tone music in Villa Wertheimstein, Vienna.

"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.