DCV 321 – Robert Nasveld: Open Mind

As a pianist, Robert Nasveld specialised in twentieth-century repertoire with a preference for Dutch, Russian and American music. For example, Nasveld thoroughly immersed himself in the piano works of the American composer George Crumb.

As a pianist, Robert Nasveld is best known as a performer of the work of Georg Crumb. Nasveld also wrote an oeuvre for various formations; he selected a number of works from his for tonight. The reason for Robert Nasveld’s composer portrait in the Orgelpark is the rarely performed composition Organ Talk.

ATT 210123 Robert Nasveld Hanging Around Various Artists  

"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

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.